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Re:Fire Me, I Beg You on Friday April 13, 2012 @12:36PM (#3837553)
I'm going through something similar, wish they fire me to be able to apply for employment insurance (http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/sc/ei/index.shtml) and "not work" (develop my own projects) for a while. But no, they love all the whizzy automation that I've created and have saved them month's of work.
Re:Launched my side project: Grade Spotter on Monday April 09, 2012 @10:12AM (#3817011)
On the iPhone the header doesn't take the whole width.
I had a similar experience with Amazon, they refunded me the extra bluray remote for the PS3 and told me to donate it and even said that maybe my local library would want it (???).
Re:Gmail's New Loading Screen on Thursday March 08, 2012 @06:59PM (#3682302)
I'm using the cozy theme/setting and the padding keeps jumping from small to the cozy mode which is annoying. Anyone experiencing this?
Re:IDEs Are Dangerous on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @10:44AM (#3643516)
One of the biggest pluses of an IDE is the contextual access to the API. This helps a lot when learning a new language/framework.

I haven't used many IDEs lately by when I was learning Java, netbeans was my best friend.

Aside from that, maybe the easy access to debugging. Although tests have made debugging less necessary for me.

Re:Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours on Friday February 03, 2012 @05:44PM (#3549429)
A coworker always forgets to un-mute his phone when asked a question. The longest time waiting for an answer has been about 2 minutes xD

He never fails to do it.

Re:Is NTSB call for ban on electronics for drivers realistic? on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @10:00AM (#3352038)
In Alberta a new law was passed that bans all this stuff, including while on a red light.

I guess this is to prevent people from not noticing when the green light goes on. I don't think I've seen any less people talking on their phones while driving though :(

http://blogs.canoe.ca/canoetech/in-the-news/tough-alberta-di...

Re:Ask HN: server I/O spike on Monday November 14, 2011 @10:08AM (#3234223)
That's weird, do you think it's related? Maybe a bot like onur said indexing all sites on that ip range?
Re:Ask HN: server I/O spike on Sunday November 13, 2011 @03:44PM (#3231779)
Thanks, Any tools to help me along?

Ask HN: server I/O spike

I have an app on linode and they sent me an email letting me know of a spike in disk I/o that lasted about 2 hour ad now it's back to normal.What should I look at when diagnosing what happened?Weird things at first glance:1) A spike of incoming network traffic happened at 22:00 2) A spike of outgoing network traffic between 2:00 to 4:00 3)Disk I/O between 6:00 and 8:00

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Re:What Will Google Do With $42.6 Billion War Chest? on Friday October 14, 2011 @12:57PM (#3111920)
Pay taxes?
Re:Profit Profit Profit on Saturday August 27, 2011 @12:55AM (#2930835)
As I understood, thats since the beginning. So basically nothing compared to HP or even Apple
Re:Profit Profit Profit on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @01:44PM (#2917512)
Recently Steve announced 2 billion paid to devs. That makes apple's cut close to .9 billion. Meanwhile in a quarter Apple has profits of 7billion.
http://mylawyergabe.com might help you answer some questions or at least learn a bit.
Yeah, that too. I guess I let my imagination generate a different image :P
This makes sense as an experment, and I don't really doubt Apple wants this eventually. i wonder what will happen first, Apple pulling the trigger on the switch to ARM or ARM matching in speed to current-time intel.

What strikes me as weird is that the source couldn't pinpoint if it was iOS or MacOS, which is cool because it means it looked completely different that both (a good sign that Apple is not settling down).

Re:Apple: Building A YouTube Killer? on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:10AM (#2470892)
Yet another pundit giving an use to the North Carolina data center.

Apple makes awesome software to boost the hardware sales, cheaper software lowers the barrier for people to buy the hardware.

Re:72% of iPad users do not own an iPhone on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:01PM (#2467407)
So you think it's a problem on how specific apps are coded? (please see my comment above).
Re:72% of iPad users do not own an iPhone on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:58PM (#2467391)
I don't kill anything either.

What I meant by my original comment is that for me it doesn't work as I'd like. It may be an issue with the apps I use or iOS's way of doing multi-tasking.

I listen to 5by5 podcasts (atomic web browser) and follow the discussions on irc (Colloquy for iPad).

I someone posts a link on the irc and I follow it when I come back to colloquy I don't get any of the messages sent while I wasn't looking...

When I use the AndChat in my Nexus One I can happily go watch a lolcat and when I get back I can read all of the I can haz messages everyone sent while I was looking at the site.

That use case is the one I consider broken in iOS, maybe Apple doesn't care about people who still use irc or maybe it's Colloquy that's broken.

Re:72% of iPad users do not own an iPhone on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @08:45PM (#2464810)
I agree with this. I have a nexus one and an ipad and if apple gets multitasking correctly when I decide to change phone I'll probably go with an iPhone.
Re:That’s it, we’re quitting on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:43AM (#2372174)
It seems to be down, google cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KY4Mjyl...

Re:BlackBerry Messenger will launch on Android and iOS on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:32AM (#2284373)
My thoughts exactly. They're signing their death sentence.
Re:Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer on Thursday February 17, 2011 @09:42PM (#2233995)
this