somebear

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Finding startups for work in San Francisco?
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by somebear 15y ago
> Can someone please explain why the rage is not directed at phone manufacturers [...] Because every single statement from phone manufacturers have indicated that it was the carriers that demanded this be put on the handsets (or did it
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by somebear 15y ago
I will be looking very closely at Sparrow mail for iOS when it comes out. At least they have it running on iOS now... http://blog.sparrowmailapp.com/post/12283842323/sparrowios
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by somebear 15y ago
I think the guys at Nokia design will be very happy with that comment. Fortunately most of them are still employed with Nokia and working on exciting stuff. I feel bad for most of the MeeGo devs though. Most of them were laid off or quit in
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by somebear 15y ago
Pretty much nothing. Disclaimer: I work as a software engineer at Nokia. Australia is very much an English speaking country (although we are at the ass-end of the world), and the N9 is getting a lot of active marketing here [1, 2]. I have a
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by somebear 15y ago
Ticks me off, however, that they litter the browser history with a tons of pages, but make it impossible to use them for anything, i.e. pressing the browser back button doesn't do anything (Chrome 14.0.835.202 on Mac OS X).
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by somebear 15y ago
Because the profit comes over a shorter period, i.e. shorting stock from the 3rd to the 5th. If they just bought at the lower price after the announcement they would have to wait for a longer period before they would gain the same profit as
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by somebear 15y ago
But you do have to keep on top of whatever security holes there may be in your own code, and fix whatever bugs pop up. Hopefully before a XSS vulnerability is exploited.
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by somebear 15y ago
The thing that really gets me is when I visit one of these videos, and I can't even find out what the title of the video is.
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by somebear 15y ago
In these situations it's just hard to be sure you are keeping the best employees.
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by somebear 15y ago
There was a long discussion [1], and in the end Gerrit was chosen. I have used Review Board previously, but actually like Gerrit quite a lot now that I'm forced to work with it ;) [1] http://lists.qt-labs.org/public/opengov/2011-February/0
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by somebear 15y ago
At work we have just rolled out Gerrit as the review tool. The setup is simply that you push your commits to Gerrit, then reviewers can comment on and approve (or not) the change in the web tool. Reviewers can also fetch your patch and run
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by somebear 15y ago
You might say it's slimy, but turning it on its head (and without looking at the new APIs, etc.): Apple realised with Camera+ that there was a need for a physical button for taking a picture, the inclusion in iOS5 of this feature means that
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by somebear 15y ago
Note that the numbers stated by rmc2 are not the number of public holidays, but the number of vacation days you, as an employee, has a year. Typically this is on top of public holidays. Of course, most European countries, IIRC, do not shift
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by somebear 15y ago
FTA: > Some of the available energy is lost as heat and in the internal rearrangement of chemical compounds and other changes in entropy. So not all of the difference in efficiency is made up in the form of heat. Unfortunately, I don't
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by somebear 15y ago
I didn't say that it was either, just that it was possible.
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by somebear 15y ago
You should be able to check whether it actually launches safari, e.g. by pressing the home button and the actually launching safari, should look the same as the screen you just left.
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by somebear 15y ago
Yes, the shit sandwich, as one trainer I had called it. If you have someone who uses the sandwich, each time he says something nice you start bracing yourself for the shit that follows. Personally, I believe you should be up-front about cri
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by somebear 15y ago
The times I've had a multi-leg flight (internationally), it's always been the same plane. The airline still makes everyone get off, bring in new clean blankets and pillows, and ensure that no one left anything behind. Feels a bit annoying w
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by somebear 15y ago
Then you will write a very interesting, but somewhat misleading blog post, just like everyone else has written in the past few weeks. The point is that the database on your phone is a subset of the greater (global) database mapping wifi and
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by somebear 15y ago
Just FYI: You are able to play music from your iPhone through iTunes without having any music on your laptop. Just plug it in, but don't sync it (apart from the initial 1-step sync), open the iPhone in the iTunes sidebar, and you should be
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by somebear 16y ago
Very interesting to view the chart of the percentages for different ethnicities: https://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AqDMNINEecZvdEZWOT... Note: this chart includes "Others or Mixed", but not "Foreign Born" which to subset of the ot
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by somebear 16y ago
The galling thing in this, is that much of the innovation that happened on the client side was initiated by 3rd party developers. Applications like Tweetie, Birdhouse, Twitterific, etc. probably wouldn't have sprung up inside Twitter.
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by somebear 16y ago
I would be interesting to see comparison from a well-known game developer focusing more on up front purchase price. Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome that Spacetime Studios is so profitable on Android, but I would like to see how it
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by somebear 16y ago
IF OP had removed all whitespace and used since letter variables he could have squeezed the javascript down to almost nothing too. Personally, I think it's a bigger achievement to write something that other people can look at and actually u
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by somebear 16y ago
That explains it. I was looking at the chart in the article and thought he had missed Angry Birds Seasons. Just makes the EA logo next to Angry Birds seem out of place.
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by somebear 16y ago
I thought jacking up the price was implied in my comment. I know I will check the app store on Christmas day just to see whether it is true. Also, thanks for the heads up about SimCity, had not thought about that.
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by somebear 16y ago
EA simply bought Chillingo, the publisher of Angry Birds (and Cut the Rope, and several other top iOS games) a few weeks ago. I don't know what deals Rovio, Zetptolabs, etc. have with Chillingo, but no, EA does not own Angry Birds as far as
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by somebear 16y ago
What EA is doing is really quite clever. By making such a massive sale just before Christmas, they ensure that the charts are dominated by their apps come Christmas day, when all the people who received gift cards go check it out.
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by somebear 16y ago
I think the point was that threatening is not allowed by the medical board. If you have a legitimate complaint, I guess you are free to report the lawyer.

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