Good luck with "avoiding" it. It's getting harder and harder to use Google without using Google+ (clearly intentional), and it's nearly equally hard to use the internet without using Google.
Yeah there is more than a little bit of selection bias going on here. What percentage of criminals are dumb enough to get noticed and/or caught? Well, we don't know how many don't get noticed, so let's call it zero.…
I'd describe him as someone who has actually been around the block, as the saying goes. Compare that with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486142 Kinda speaks for itself.
> revenue totaling over 9.5 million Bitcoins According to this that's close to the current total supply of all bitcoins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_bitcoins_over_time.p... The graph shows the supply in 2013…
Bluetooth LE is in fact a standard, and is in fact much more widely deployed than NFC. Android already has support for it as of 4.3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#LE_compati...
The segmented control in "Photo Investigator" is completely illegible post-update.
Google+ deserves to wither and die because of the BS they have pulled. When I'm forced to create a Google+ account just to use some of the basic features of the corporate Google Apps account which my company already…
Yo Mama thinks it's a nice way to do it, too!
At least I gave an example. "Many things" are not just easier, but "far" easier? Like what? I've got plenty more examples, but I'd really like to hear about these "many" things which are "far" easier than in iOS.
All this talk about process, but not a word about the quality of the SDK itself. Android is quite frankly still very far behind when it comes to really basic things. Here's just one example: iOS has had easy support for…
Don't worry, they will work it so that there is a very expensive and labyrinthine process for privacy "compliance" for companies operating in the US which will purely by coincidence be so expensive and convoluted that…
I've actually found the opposite to be the case. I'm much more apt to concentrate and strive to build something great when I'm trapped in a run-down, somewhat distraction-free environment. If I'm in a really nice space,…
According to this, the tax lien is not related to the tax break for the Ann Arbor office: http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/googles-31-million-m...
Just to pick one example, ancient people actually had very good teeth: http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/ancestors-had-much...
HBO and the other "premium" cable channels also do this. Not every single time, but much of the time. Try watching any of the Lord of the Rings movies on HBO or Cinemax for example. They're all 16:9, even though they…
Both Mac and Windows may lagged behind the various unixes at the time in terms of WAN technologies (such as TCP/IP), but the Mac had fantastic LAN capabilities in the form of AppleTalk. Auto-discoverability and…
Just like when Steve Ballmer claimed[1] that "Vista has never been delayed" because they changed the name.[2] [1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-09-25/online-extra-... [2]…
Your amazingly succinct description of all that is wrong with today's mobile app stores is bordering on poetry. Nicely put.
> The stores themselves will just roll out their own competing services. Safeway already has their own online ordering & delivery service, however it doesn't allow you to bundle items from other (possibly competing)…
Yeah, somebody hasn't gotten the memo it seems.
It's because our society simply doesn't value the profession, and those engineers who feel guilty have internalized it. There is a strong undercurrent of social programming in western culture which says that working in…
This weekend I spent some time walking around SF and was astounded at how many new apartments are under construction. Even more interesting were the old run-down buildings which were apparently being shuttered in…
In case anyone doubts the reality of this quote: http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
Yeah although a big question is: what will that do to battery life? People who install lots of gimmicky, frequently-updated apps and forget about them after trying them once will suddenly be at a loss as to why their…
Skeuomorphic vs. flat is a red herring. Either one can be tastefully or tastelessly done. Today's iOS 7 unveil was unfortunately the latter. The sad truth is: once Steve Jobs passed on, the quality of designs coming out…
Good luck with "avoiding" it. It's getting harder and harder to use Google without using Google+ (clearly intentional), and it's nearly equally hard to use the internet without using Google.
Yeah there is more than a little bit of selection bias going on here. What percentage of criminals are dumb enough to get noticed and/or caught? Well, we don't know how many don't get noticed, so let's call it zero.…
I'd describe him as someone who has actually been around the block, as the saying goes. Compare that with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486142 Kinda speaks for itself.
> revenue totaling over 9.5 million Bitcoins According to this that's close to the current total supply of all bitcoins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_bitcoins_over_time.p... The graph shows the supply in 2013…
Bluetooth LE is in fact a standard, and is in fact much more widely deployed than NFC. Android already has support for it as of 4.3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#LE_compati...
The segmented control in "Photo Investigator" is completely illegible post-update.
Google+ deserves to wither and die because of the BS they have pulled. When I'm forced to create a Google+ account just to use some of the basic features of the corporate Google Apps account which my company already…
Yo Mama thinks it's a nice way to do it, too!
At least I gave an example. "Many things" are not just easier, but "far" easier? Like what? I've got plenty more examples, but I'd really like to hear about these "many" things which are "far" easier than in iOS.
All this talk about process, but not a word about the quality of the SDK itself. Android is quite frankly still very far behind when it comes to really basic things. Here's just one example: iOS has had easy support for…
Don't worry, they will work it so that there is a very expensive and labyrinthine process for privacy "compliance" for companies operating in the US which will purely by coincidence be so expensive and convoluted that…
I've actually found the opposite to be the case. I'm much more apt to concentrate and strive to build something great when I'm trapped in a run-down, somewhat distraction-free environment. If I'm in a really nice space,…
According to this, the tax lien is not related to the tax break for the Ann Arbor office: http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/googles-31-million-m...
Just to pick one example, ancient people actually had very good teeth: http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/ancestors-had-much...
HBO and the other "premium" cable channels also do this. Not every single time, but much of the time. Try watching any of the Lord of the Rings movies on HBO or Cinemax for example. They're all 16:9, even though they…
Both Mac and Windows may lagged behind the various unixes at the time in terms of WAN technologies (such as TCP/IP), but the Mac had fantastic LAN capabilities in the form of AppleTalk. Auto-discoverability and…
Just like when Steve Ballmer claimed[1] that "Vista has never been delayed" because they changed the name.[2] [1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-09-25/online-extra-... [2]…
Your amazingly succinct description of all that is wrong with today's mobile app stores is bordering on poetry. Nicely put.
> The stores themselves will just roll out their own competing services. Safeway already has their own online ordering & delivery service, however it doesn't allow you to bundle items from other (possibly competing)…
Yeah, somebody hasn't gotten the memo it seems.
It's because our society simply doesn't value the profession, and those engineers who feel guilty have internalized it. There is a strong undercurrent of social programming in western culture which says that working in…
This weekend I spent some time walking around SF and was astounded at how many new apartments are under construction. Even more interesting were the old run-down buildings which were apparently being shuttered in…
In case anyone doubts the reality of this quote: http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
Yeah although a big question is: what will that do to battery life? People who install lots of gimmicky, frequently-updated apps and forget about them after trying them once will suddenly be at a loss as to why their…
Skeuomorphic vs. flat is a red herring. Either one can be tastefully or tastelessly done. Today's iOS 7 unveil was unfortunately the latter. The sad truth is: once Steve Jobs passed on, the quality of designs coming out…