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by storm 16y ago
Completely fubar on my Nexus One - hangs for a half minute on load, then all I see is the categories/account/etc panel.
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by storm 16y ago
You're a "huge Kurzweil critic" one reply back, now you're railing against the sins of his "naysayers"?
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by storm 16y ago
Is there actual case law supporting the notion that I can be party to a contract on the basis of a bunch of legalese buried in a manual I'll never read, for a product I purchased through a third party? I paid for a product, I own it. If Son
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by storm 16y ago
I'd be interested to know why a contrary opinion honestly held and expressed deserves your downvote (or the 2+ it did get), or your pointless comment. There is an HN Two Minutes Hate aspect to the steady march of "MS platforms stagnant /
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by storm 16y ago
You wanted volume licensing, but decided to be clever about it and 'test' the vendor. You inferred from their unwillingness to give John Q Random Customer a single pro version at the basic price that they would be 'inflexible' in an enterpr
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by storm 16y ago
Really guy? Did you read the guidelines and FAQ before you decided to start threadshitting here? Or you just don't care either way?
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by storm 16y ago
Wow, does this unassuming post really constitute an appropriate venue for the old axe-grinding platform snark? Find something better to do with your Sunday afternoon, gents. Marius, we're a small shop with 4 apps on the marketplace, and we'
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by storm 16y ago
How is it even remotely of interest that Apple is capable of producing a phone in a different color, and may in fact be doing so?
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by storm 16y ago
You should be evaluating whether things are worth supporting on their own merits. Why would you trust anyone else to do your thinking for you?
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by storm 16y ago
Schemas are an optional part of Solr. Pretty sure that the default schema.xml has an example of a catch-all field definition, if you use that it will automatically deal with any key you want to throw at it. Of course you need to specify one
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by storm 16y ago
I've been using Solr for some pretty heavy lifting, and it's incredibly impressive. Rock solid, extremely advanced analysis and search capabilities, and the performance is amazing if it's on suitable gear. Time invested in learning it pays
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by storm 16y ago
Most mainstream manufacturers do seem to put Swype on at least some of their models - HTC, Samsung, Motorola at least. No doubt this works out nicely for Swype (strictly volume deals is pretty lucrative, I'd imagine), but it really puts me
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by storm 16y ago
It's too bad that Swype persists with their bizarre OEM-licensing-only model. Would love to try it on my N1, but they can't be bothered to provide it to the unwashed masses as a normal purchased download.
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by storm 16y ago
Many, many young devs are in love with the idea of developing games. Many more than the industry actually needs. It follows that you're less likely to land such a gig, and that you're more likely to get underpaid and be burned out by overwo
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by storm 16y ago
My understanding is that anything that allows the user to choose what specific tracks they want to hear is deemed "interactive" by the industry, and costs an awful lot more than "non-interactive". "Non-interactive" appears to mean streams w
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by storm 16y ago
It's based on IE7, albeit with a few bits from IE8 sprinkled in (some JS and CSS selectors, I think).
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by storm 16y ago
>This isn't about whether Android is open or not; it's about whether the way it is open is at all consistent with the way it's openness is marketed to end consumers. I keep hearing this, but can you demonstrate where Google has represen
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by storm 16y ago
So you're now taking the position that how open Android is can depend upon how they have marketed their openness, and how misleadingly they may have done so? That's nonsense. At the end of the day, "fork it, mod it, build it, deploy it to
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by storm 16y ago
My recollection is that Patti Schmidt ran a more rigidly structured ship: 1 hour of broad and relatively palatable stuff, 1 hour artist profile, and then 2 hours of miscellanea, with the final hour often being the really out-there install
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by storm 16y ago
You seem to be missing that the CBC buys One Big Library (APM), and thus isn't in the business of talking and negotiating with individual artists at all. I'm not going to defend that kind of approach to radio - particularly not taxpayer fun
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by storm 16y ago
10 points and climbing for a reply that essentially says, "Bah, it's Microsoft, there must be something wrong with it"? That's really disappointing, HN. I foresee some serious cognitive dissonance playing out as Microsoft manages to do a wh
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by storm 16y ago
Editing in the suggestion that those who don't share your reactionary and tone-deaf views on this subject are likely not property owners doesn't really do much improve your reply.
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by storm 16y ago
One nice thing about the HN crowd is that it is for the most part pragmatic, able to quite refreshingly discuss C# as a language without immediately descending into these tired talking points casting Microsoft as patent-wielding bogeyman, e
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by storm 16y ago
Indeed. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033
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by storm 16y ago
I've never seen the appeal of Scribd, and I'm no fan of the direction they seem to be stumbling in, but it seems a bit unfair to dismiss invitations to join a user advisory board and/or come visit them as "not much of a response". Even if b
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by storm 16y ago
Brian Holyfield claims to have been doing it for a bit ( http://www.gdssecurity.com/l/b/2010/09/14/automated-padding-... ), although his approach seems to have relied upon default error emissions and is defeated by the common customErrors=o
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by storm 16y ago
You apparently don't need the exception message at all. This was all discussed on the thread 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1687547
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by storm 16y ago
Reporting on this story has so far been pretty crap, and light on details; hopefully a clearer picture will develop after ekoparty. But this is a serious issue. See http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/09/14/aspnet-s... . The ma
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by storm 16y ago
Yes, Google forces OEM to include some of their apps and use some of their service components to carry the Android name. It's an outrage. Not at all open like Apple's dealings with their OE-er, wait Gruber is definitely consigned to the kil
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by storm 16y ago
I am a young(ish) hacker, and I'm proud not to engage in religious nonsense like this at all. Windows, Linux, OSX, who cares? Get on with the coding already.

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