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cached 3 months ago
so you used Dropbox/Growl to still pull him out of his concentration, something he even quit IM to prevent from happening.
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cached 3 months ago
yepp. Works fine for me. No auto deletion going on here.
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cached 3 months ago
This just goes to show how badly suited OAuth is for desktop applications: Basically, what ever you do, you will need to direct your users over to a browser (or embed one) and they'll have to deal with strange "passcodes" or whatever you want to call it.
This is much more difficult for a user to understand ("why can I give twitter my password, but in this client here, I have to do this strange dance? What am I supposed to do now?"). In most of the client apps, the issue of having to enter your password is a non-issue as there's no need for a third-party to know it. In the case of desktop apps, IMHO, OAuth does nothing but makes the lives of both client developers and users harder. |
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cached 3 months ago
For many of the cases I was able to come up with (and express in this horrible, horrible interface), I was able to come up with much more concise and thus readable expressions that match the same thing.
Regexpes are very hard to read anyways, so please let's not use tools that make this even harder. |
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cached 3 months ago
There are two reasons I switched back to my iPhone after three weeks of having fun with the Nexus one:
1) the iphones touch screen. I don't care that much about the smoothness of the scrolling, but I really care about the ability of the touch screen to accurately track my finger position. While the N1 often is /good enough/, sometimes it fails badly and recognizes taps miles away from my finger. This is really bad when trying to type. 2) this might be an issue of my specific device, but sometimes I have a really bad hissing noise in my headphones. I'm constantly listening to Podcasts and Audiobooks and I can't live with that. HTC has some knowledgebase entry about this one and recommends to periodically shut the device down, remove the battery while holding the power-off button, and then reversing the steps. This, of course, isn't something I'm willing to live with. So in the end it's build-quality that kills an otherwise superior phone for me. Too bad. I hope Google rev's the hardware and we get a N2 that fixes these issues. Seing all the trouble with manufacturers not updating the OSes, I'd rather stay with a "Google Experience" phone as that more or less guarantees updates, so no Desire or Droid or whatever for me. |
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cached 3 months ago
ok. I stand corrected.
Still. Phones like the G1 and the N1 seem to have closer ties to Google and seem to be updated more quickly and painlessly, hence my next try with Android is much more likely to be a N2 than any Sense-corrupted HTC thing without update guarantees. |
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cached 2 months ago
well... the video made me feel the urge to replicate the findings. At least to some scale.
So they may have sold an SSD or two. But then again, I'd probably go Intel and not Samsung. Still. They got people talking and the video probably wasn't all to expensive to produce, so they got at least SOME value for their money. |
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cached 2 months ago
Well. We do have quite many users that upgraded to ie7 lately. And a small minority that went to 8, but both browsers are still far away from what you can do with all other browsers currently out there.
But yeah. Google Chrome frame is really interesting once the MSI installation becomes possible or they find a way around requiring admin rights for the installation (unlikely) |
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cached 2 months ago
It is a waste of time because we could do 20% more features in the time we waste to support a now 10 years old and soon unsupported software configuration.
In the end other end users with better browsers suffer in that they cannot get the full amount of theoretically possible features (we are a small company with limited resources) and our customers suffer because the have to pay more and wait longer because their customers (our end users) in turn are stuck in the past. |
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cached 2 months ago
that's a design decision of my designer friend who did the design. If I had to do it, it would look much, much worse.
I'll send him a link to your comment though. Let's hope he can try to accomodate you - I really do believe that the spy is really cute. |