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Supermighty

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Supermighty··on How do I cite a tweet?
A URL is a poor map for a missing page, but better than nothing when going out looking for it.
Supermighty··on Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software
My guess is that they are only using webkit on iOS devices where they are unable to use their own rendering engine. I can't see them throwing away Presto.
Supermighty··on 3 Weeks already, $0 income – what are we doing wrong?
I disagree. Yes there are a lot of Sudoku apps out there but most of them are ugly. I bought the only one that I think has a decent design. And I would probably buy one that came out with really nice graphics and nice ux.
Supermighty··on Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
These devices have 18 month lead times. Give them some time. The next round of devices from Motorola should be heavily influenced by Google by then.
Supermighty··on Marissa Mayer: Yahoo Products Must Ship In 6 Months, Or Don't Bother
I just got done participating in Startup Weekend. I was scared, but I worked harder and faster than maybe ever. In the end it paid off. We had a MVP to show off and a somewhat shaky business plan. But the fear and the speed help.

I think that's what She's going for.

Supermighty··on Guy Kawasaki on why he gave up on iOS
I have both as well, and I always really liked the iPad for reading, but now I grab the Nexus 7 first. For me it's not the size, I would love a 10" Nexus tablet, it's the whole experience.
Supermighty··on How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
Just after you silently remove PYDCA you also add them to the block list, and they never see you again.
Supermighty··on App.net is a nice idea but won’t solve anything
At first I can see this. It would change if App.net gets crazy relevant. Maybe not as many direct from the source, but groups of dissident people could pool their resources to buy an account.

That also doesn't include the idea of sponsored accounts. Where App.net or charities in rich countries buy an account for someone in a conflict zone.

Supermighty··on Stack Exchange is not a forum: the role of “niceness” on a Q&A site
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/397229/reaching-up-to-hit...
Supermighty··on Stack Exchange is not a forum: the role of “niceness” on a Q&A site
I can't count the number of times I've found the perfect StackEschange answer to my question and it was marked as "closed as not constructive" or closed for off topic.

The worst is a question that's closed because it's a duplicate of another question that's two or three years old. These answers are not eternal, they should change over time based on the changing environment.

Supermighty··on The Power of Negative Thinking
Positive affirmations can be detrimental if they're not realistic. You can't say "I'm the best ever at golf" if you don't truly believe it. That's when you will feel bad after using an affirmation.

You have to truly believe affirmations for them to expand positivity in your life. "I did a good job taking out the trash, I didn't tear the bag." It's rather boring, but saying something positive about something you know to be true brings positivity into your life. It builds on your positive self image and makes you better in all areas of your life.

Supermighty··on The power of intermittent fasting
I saw that other article about fasting and decided to give it a try yesterday. I made it about six hours before I realized my concentration was way off and my emotional balance was out of whack.

Granted I was also working a freelance job. Which in retrospective was probably a bad idea. However I did learn something about myself. And next time I try fasting I'll make sure that I don't have anything pressing due the same day.

Supermighty··on How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Even with locked bootloaders on Android devices people are finding ways to install custom builds of Android. Why not custom builds of GNU/Linuix, FreeBSD or even Windows.
Supermighty··on Fred Wilson: My New Nexus 7"
Now it's all I can see.
Supermighty··on JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
No, it's not difficult to support oldIE. Single Column, nothing fancy. But the business people don't want that. They want it to look identical in every browser, and the web designers are scared shitless of losing money to tell them different. The problem is that business people don't know that hours of extra work are required to do this. And when they are told they don't care.
Supermighty··on Anonymous Austria leaks 2.8 GB Scientology Emails
Fear and mistrust of Scientology has nothing to do with their beliefs. They are a secretive organization that seeks to protect itself at the expense of everyone else. They are the perpetrators of the largest infiltration of the US government [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White]. And while their actions today may be legal they are nonetheless still dangerous.
Supermighty··on Packages: The Way Forward for PHP
It's a little unfair of a comparison as .NET was released at the same time as C#. So C# never got the chance for little incorrect "how to query mssql in C#" articles.

But I agree, whatever ZF original intention, not being simple and in-core is unfortunate.

Supermighty··on Packages: The Way Forward for PHP
I always thought that was the goal of ZendFramework.
Supermighty··on Packages: The Way Forward for PHP
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Supermighty··on And then...silence
Derek Powazek said it best in Design for Community, create barriers to entry. The harder it is to leave a comment the better the comments will be. Shutting off comments is a knee-jerk reaction.
Supermighty··on Firefox 12 will finally have a New Tab Page and Home Tab
Mac OS9 wasn't scrapped. It ran next to OSX for many years and powered apps that hadn't converted to use the Carbon API that allowed OS9 apps to run on OSX.
Supermighty··on [dead]
Google+ is free in name only. In truth we pay by being there, filling it with our personal information. Google isn't a non-profit, they see a way to make money off all the users. Do you think google+ would still be around if it only had one million users, no, they would shut it down. They need us to use their toys just as much as we want to use them. And if they want us to use their toys then they better let us use them any way we like.
Supermighty··on Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
I still want to move my domains away. Has anyone had any experience with gandi.net or namecheap.com any interesting experiences with either one?
Supermighty··on Alternatives to GoDaddy
Thank you.
Supermighty··on Alternatives to GoDaddy
I will probably move some of my domains to gandi.net and some to Moniker. Why keep my eggs all in one basket?
Supermighty··on Standing Up For Android
I bought and paid for Read It Later on Android and stopped using Instapaper because there was no native app for Instapaper on Android.

I am your lost sale Marco.

Supermighty··on Standing Up For Android
If Instapaper on Android sells handsets then why wouldn't Google want to help.
Supermighty··on Kendo UI is out of beta
I've never heard of your product before and your homepage tells me nothing about what exactly it is.

My best guess is that it's some sort of web development tool that I can pay to get support for.

Supermighty··on Pulse will come pre-installed on the Kindle Fire
Absolutely. I've never heard of pulse before so I went to the blog to find out what it was. But nothing. Same for the homepage. There is just a link to the blog post.
Supermighty··on Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too
The GPL v.2 was written in a time when it was rare that patents were wielded as weapons.
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