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FWIW, the Rdio iOS SDK now avoids linking to the Rdio web site, or even talking about the existence of an Rdio web site :(

Apple has been doing this with other APIs for a while. If your app links to a way of signing up for an account that could be used to pay for something you'll be rejected. If you me…

Is this open source? The source files say All Rights Reserved.

The problem here is that Americans haven't ever experienced a competitive mobile telephony market where all carriers use the same network technology and switching networks is trivi…

Why the fuck are people putting their bitcoins on servers that they don't control? That's just stupid.

The DOJ's copyright takedown page is not handicapped accessible. It's a single image lacking even an ALT tag.

If we had a union for software engineers they'd be lobbying against this.

I worked for Andy for a few years at Danger. He's a great guy. He's got a great mix of technical skills, business savvy and being a generally nice bloke. He's also ridiculously gen…

But node.js doesn't have any concurrency. It's single-process, single-threaded and event driven, so by definition it's not concurrent. It's just not blocking. Also, was someone rea…

This is why Gtk+ implements icons as a set of vector / raster images to be displayed at various sizes. It makes resolution independence really easy. This has been important to Gtk …

Comparing the size of Ubuntu 'main' isn't interesting. A more thoughtful assessment would have examined what packages were installed & used rather than which ones existed. That dat…

Off the top of my head a couple of things that didn't map well were: * search * deleting songs from a playlist (safely) * multidimentional stats queries (eg: http://developer.rdio.…

Jens Alfke suggested PEST - Post Everything STyle: http://jens.mooseyard.com/2011/03/dudes-this-is-so-not-rest/...

Not to brag, but at least the Rdio API doesn't allow non-idempotent calls over GET.

Yep, our API isn't really technically REST in the classical use of the term. We changed some of our wording and made a blog post: http://developer.rdio.com/blog/read/No_REST_for_th…

Hiring managers don't list a salary. If they do they're looking to hire really junior engineers who probably can't write a linked list reversal program anyway. In my 13 years worki…

If there's no source code then it's not open source.