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It's talking about the net productivity to society - now that you have more free time you might start that side project that changes the world :)

GoCatch has moved into ride sharing now - they're relatively big in Sydney and the drivers get a bigger cut so I'm happy using them.

One is a harmless private activity - the other is a large company gaining an unfair advantage by choosing to ignore the law. Even though they are are both about freedom I think it'…

At least with Uber I think Australian governments are getting it right because even after (imo) Uber acted in bad faith by ignoring the law, ride sharing is still being legalised. …

I think in many countries companies like Uber and AirBnB are seen to be a challenge to the democratic will of the people. It should be no surprise that we don't care very much for …

Hmmm, except I can't play YouTube videos outside of YouTube and Play Music doesn't give me access to the raw MP3 files, therefore the second point wouldn't apply. I think the diffe…

Yeah, it should really be open source. For face detection, it's really a closed source replacement for what's been in Android from the start: http://developer.android.com/reference…

I'm using Chromium from the Ubuntu repository, which is good enough for me until they get it sorted out.

WHen the article complains all the time about how it's oh so hard to deal with all those screen sizes I was expecting a terrible app and I was not surprised! * Has tags instead of …

I've wanted a 9-patch resizer for ages now - this is great!

For Linux, Trimage does the same thing as ImageOptim, plus it works on the command line: http://trimage.org/

I can't understand his whining about the removal of the What's New section. Google obviously removed it because it disproportionately helped the spammers. If you released a good ap…

On the Mac I use ImageAlpha to reduce the colours to 256 (it has a preview window so you can see if it's OK), then when saving the file I choose the option to send it to ImageOptim…

"Time zones are an integer number of hours away from UTC" As someone living in +0930, programmers get this wrong way too often - Crittercism gets this wrong, so I don't know when b…

He provides one example - Vienna. Where I live the transport companies are privatised but realise that by providing the data to Google they get more people using their services. Wh…

Maybe they didn't want to take the risk of it being rejected as 'duplicating existing functionality'. I know that some apps have got through nowadays, but has the policy changed to…

Apple could use the same data standard as Google does already: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference I'm sure the transit providers would be happy to provide the sam…

> It makes some sense as it's not likely you'll accidentally delete one of your photos that way. Well the file would go in the Trash, so if you pressed delete accidentally it's not…

My experience: Phonegap: Responsiveness is bearable on iOS but on Android it is very slow - scrolling is choppy and there is a noticeable delay between pressing a button and seeing…

I assume that if you're releasing this for Android, that Clutch for Android is not far away?

Google Maps can display different borders depending on your locale: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ region (optional) defines the appropriate borders to …

There's not enough contrast between the street names and the rest of the map, making readability a problem. It's the kind of design mistake that young people with nice monitors mak…

The biggest mistake here is that it's now impossible to use text to explain what each button means. I'm afraid that with a lot of apps there will be features that do not map to an …

For sure, but like I said, I don't have days to spend making half-baked action bar code work.

Interesting how they make sure to say that you shouldn't use bottom tabs like in iOS. For my project I decided to do exactly that instead of using an Android standard action bar, b…