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shawnwall

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About shawnwall

Software Manager & Builder

Pittsburgh PA

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    Comment #49213161

    I believe we saw that this week - https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-diff...

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    Comment #48978540

    I believe that was an intent/goal of BAT in Brave.

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    Comment #47967798

    lots of canonical/ubuntu down https://status.canonical.com/

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    Comment #47440582

    been in the python game a long time and i've seen so many tools in this space come and go over the years. i still rely on good ol pip and have had no issues. that said, we utilize …

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    Comment #40988303

    Yeah I gotta agree here, I'm not sure I've seen someone so opinionated with python. I tend to try to use things built into python or official recs until I hit an actual problem tha…

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    Comment #8636629

    I'm not saying every choice they made is perfect. One of my qualms is the lack of backgrounds for button selection in areas with 'ok' and 'cancel' - which is one of the most import…

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    Comment #8635824

    Google is making a huge amount of progress in UI and UX; the company has historically been rather mediocre in terms of it's UI and UX, while Apple was always the star. Over the pas…

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    Comment #4395941

    Some big companies do, just not the ones you'd probably care to work at. If they make this choice they simply lose out on a certain set of individuals. Their loss, not yours.

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    Comment #4391520

    Safari on OSX has always had the ability for a user to set their default browser preference (to chrome for example). I wonder if iOS will ever go this route. I find it odd that Mic…

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    Comment #4371350

    I just wanted to throw this out there: you should first read the objective-c primer. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#referencelibrary/Ge... You mentioned the apple docs fe…

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    Comment #4241259

    As a long time Obj-C/iOS dev, web service interaction frameworks and/or best practices have been lacking for some time now. While RestKit works, it's learning curve is a tad steep …

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    Comment #4203828

    If Microsoft could actually release a desktop operating system that is properly designed visually and in terms of user experience, people could actually admire their PC's like they…

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    Comment #4203784

    There _is_ usefulness to it if people would stop using it as a marketing/advertising tool and try to drive real value (which people need to be doing in general with mobile). We nee…

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    Comment #4195663

    I posted and complained about that same skeumorphic podcasts app today. Apple leads so much in the realm of hardware design but is starting to take steps backwards in it's own appl…

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    Comment #3928954

    Ramblings like this are a premier example of what is wrong with engineers today. If you are afraid to learn or use tools outside of ruby, you are not a true engineer. The world doe…

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    Comment #3873162

    That list is now in my .plan

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    Comment #3243300

    I think it takes a bit more deep analysis of what your skills & qualifications are along with what ideas you would have for either an app or game. Are you already an iOS dev?

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    Comment #3204590

    I obviously can't say for sure how it works as I'm just an end user, but I can say you tell the device you are going to sleep and when you wake up. In between, it is obviously sens…

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    Comment #3204582

    From what I have seen thus far there is no export capability for the data. There's an outstanding question on the jawbone forums with no response http://forums.jawbone.com/t5/Produ…

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    Comment #3166559

    another facebook-only login... seriously guys, enough of this.