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I'm a recent convert to Remember the Milk[0], can't recommend it enough (the apparent stable business model is a plus as well, I recall using them back in the Blackberry era) [0] h…

Be aware, Noir is deprecated: http://blog.raynes.me/blog/2012/12/13/moving-away-from-noir/

I'm led to believe the issues with Clojure (and other JVM languages) on Android are due to Dalvik not being as friendly to other languages as the Sun JVM. I don't blame Google, but…

It's never been a secret that Google crawls your data, and it's not hard to find people up in arms about it. And personally, I'm fine with Google doing so when they're actually doi…

I seem to remember hearing this is based on Quickoffice (which Google acquired)

Office Web actually handles the files server-side, as does Google's own Docs/Drive. This is a purely client-side extension.

The same reasons [0] are why I have a Chromebook. CrOS is limited, sure, but the limits make the thing bloody near invincible (and amazingly productive). [0] Hangouts are luckily t…

I just append ☎ to my signature. (I know it's a rotary phone. But it existed pre-emoji so renders most anywhere, where U+1F4F1 [📱] doesn't.)

A note: if you're on VZW, their (sadly hideous) Messenger app replicates Voice's cross-device SMS(/MMS!) on your VZ number.

APK size takes a small hit, and there's extra work to bring in Java libraries. That's all I've found. I've actually been using their guides when working on ordinary Java-based Andr…

Think how exactly the alerts happen is up to the OEM, beyond 'loud noise'. The iPhone uses something similar to the EBS tone in 1s bursts (it was 1AM when mine fired, so I can't sa…

Most current (~2012) cellphones do in the US, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Mobile_Alert_System (I'm unclear on how these are delivered within the network, seems to b…

I'd argue Excel _is_ a reactive programming environment: just not a conventional one.

They've been known to be using BOSS for a while, see http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...

Taking it out of USD and changing the units around (even though it's just dropping a decimal point) mentally disassociates 'Amazon Coins' from USD. Microsoft goes even further on t…

If I had to guess, the fact that HTTP and JSON are CouchDB's native tongue (removing the need for a middleman in front of the DB) was likely a factor.

Insight Cable (recently acquired by TWC, sigh) has been installing a plain modem + cheap Belkin router for years now. Amusingly, they always set the SSID to 'insight_wifi_XXXX' and…

Dark Ages would imply that progress was set back significantly by some catastrophic event (ie: the fall of Netscape). Renaissance would be a more apt term, given the rapid advances…

Most of these are bound to a language: choose a language first (and my answer to that question is "whichever one you're happiest working in and can get the job done"), then figure …

I'll take the software bloat over the network bloat from the extra requests sending every keystroke over the wire.

Steam doesn't use bare WebKit but Chromium, presuming they stay up to date (my install registers as Chromium 18, so doubtful) and don't switch, they'll be running Blink instead. ht…

You've got this problem (wether this behavior is an actual problem or a benefit to the user is open for debate) no matter what if you rely on being a default Intent in any way. Wha…