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I recently started looking for new opportunities in SF, and seemingly by chance began talking to a couple of startups. The idea of helping these companies grow is really exciting, …

> Can someone please explain why the rage is not directed at phone manufacturers [...] Because every single statement from phone manufacturers have indicated that it was the carrie…

I will be looking very closely at Sparrow mail for iOS when it comes out. At least they have it running on iOS now... http://blog.sparrowmailapp.com/post/12283842323/sparrowios

I think the guys at Nokia design will be very happy with that comment. Fortunately most of them are still employed with Nokia and working on exciting stuff. I feel bad for most of …

Pretty much nothing. Disclaimer: I work as a software engineer at Nokia. Australia is very much an English speaking country (although we are at the ass-end of the world), and the N…

Ticks me off, however, that they litter the browser history with a tons of pages, but make it impossible to use them for anything, i.e. pressing the browser back button doesn't do …

Because the profit comes over a shorter period, i.e. shorting stock from the 3rd to the 5th. If they just bought at the lower price after the announcement they would have to wait f…

But you do have to keep on top of whatever security holes there may be in your own code, and fix whatever bugs pop up. Hopefully before a XSS vulnerability is exploited.

The thing that really gets me is when I visit one of these videos, and I can't even find out what the title of the video is.

In these situations it's just hard to be sure you are keeping the best employees.

There was a long discussion [1], and in the end Gerrit was chosen. I have used Review Board previously, but actually like Gerrit quite a lot now that I'm forced to work with it ;) …

At work we have just rolled out Gerrit as the review tool. The setup is simply that you push your commits to Gerrit, then reviewers can comment on and approve (or not) the change i…

You might say it's slimy, but turning it on its head (and without looking at the new APIs, etc.): Apple realised with Camera+ that there was a need for a physical button for taking…

Note that the numbers stated by rmc2 are not the number of public holidays, but the number of vacation days you, as an employee, has a year. Typically this is on top of public holi…

FTA: > Some of the available energy is lost as heat and in the internal rearrangement of chemical compounds and other changes in entropy. So not all of the difference in efficiency…

I didn't say that it was either, just that it was possible.

You should be able to check whether it actually launches safari, e.g. by pressing the home button and the actually launching safari, should look the same as the screen you just lef…

Yes, the shit sandwich, as one trainer I had called it. If you have someone who uses the sandwich, each time he says something nice you start bracing yourself for the shit that fol…

The times I've had a multi-leg flight (internationally), it's always been the same plane. The airline still makes everyone get off, bring in new clean blankets and pillows, and ens…

Then you will write a very interesting, but somewhat misleading blog post, just like everyone else has written in the past few weeks. The point is that the database on your phone i…

Just FYI: You are able to play music from your iPhone through iTunes without having any music on your laptop. Just plug it in, but don't sync it (apart from the initial 1-step sync…

Very interesting to view the chart of the percentages for different ethnicities: https://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AqDMNINEecZvdEZWOT... Note: this chart includes "Others o…

The galling thing in this, is that much of the innovation that happened on the client side was initiated by 3rd party developers. Applications like Tweetie, Birdhouse, Twitterific,…

I would be interesting to see comparison from a well-known game developer focusing more on up front purchase price. Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome that Spacetime Studios …