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bauchidgw··on Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe
visit geek.com with your ipad, its such a classic example of a redicret loop. (swipeware sucks)
bauchidgw··on Growl 1.3.1 is out, no longer free
does this mean other apps won't install this attention parasite per default?
bauchidgw··on What happened to CouchDB's popularity?
ad documentation: i bought the oreilly couchdb book to get some decent introduction, and lets just say it made me doubt the editorial standards (if there is such a thing) of oreilly - a lot.
bauchidgw··on Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?
at a conference i talked with some nokia devs, two funny stories.

1) the N9 (the meego phone) will never be released in an english speaking country as marketing fears the tech blogger will write even more crap about their strategy change - as it is a quiete decent phone

2) even though the code for the N9 they do not get any test devices, the code in a very rudimentary ide only, as there is a no Meego phone for devs anymore policy

on the other hamd, he was quiete drunk and frustrated so i do not know how mich of it is true

bauchidgw··on Signs that you are a bad programmer
my ruleset is much more liberal

signs that you are a good coder: you enjoy coding, you enjoy a good piece of code

signs that you are a bad coder: you don't enjoy coding, you can not appreciate beautiful code

if you enjoy coding it jut doesnt matter if anyone else thinks that your code sucks. you will get better. if you hate your job (programming) then you code stinks and will get worse.

in my careere i went from good to great to bad to i dont code anymore to good

bauchidgw··on Unofficial Google Advanced Search
great ressource

  pws=0
(turn off personalization) is missing
bauchidgw··on Steve Jobs has passed away.


Sent from my iPad

bauchidgw··on MVC with CoffeeScript
well, you definitly didn't use it.
bauchidgw··on Ask HN: What can I sell in Times Square?
run around with an ipad and offer them to "get a real NY friend" on fb for just 5$. if you can sell that, you can sell anything.
bauchidgw··on Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?
well, i'm goingt to travel southamerica (i'm from europe) with girlfriend, kid, mac (and a thrieving consulting business) for 8 months - starting in two months. so it's possible, i's just that you have to be extra tough (this and no drinking, as your child wakes up too soon)
bauchidgw··on HP Board Said to Weigh Ousting Apotheker as CEO
or they should merge into "Hahoo" ... yeah, i know this would solve nothing
bauchidgw··on Groupon Traffic Declines Nearly 50%
google trends for websites graph groupon.com, groupon.fr, groupon.de, groupon.co.uk http://trends.google.com/websites?q=groupon.com%2C+groupon.f...
bauchidgw··on Show HN: My first Windows Phone 7 app: Colorify
well, here is a canvas / javascript version of something similar http://www.barbafan.de/farbzauber/w - works best on the ipad (and iphones of course) and some modern android thingies, wp7 not yet confirmed, as i do not know anyone with such a phone (would love a wp7 works/sucks confirmation if someone has a moment to spare, thx)
bauchidgw··on What is Google's real market share in the US?
well on most SEO conferences there is the agreement that a good search optimized site gets at least 90 % from its search traffic via google in the us market.

in other western markets (i.e. germany) google has a market share of 98% plus and we are fine with it.

said that, one of my sites only gets 28% of its search traffic in the us market via google, but it has a penalty on most of its pages (everything but the startpage and its blog is banned from google and with good reason) so its an outlier.

bauchidgw··on The Google+ Platform Blog
why bother? they will deprecate it in no time anyway i.e.: the google translate api http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html
bauchidgw··on Google+ Wastes No Time: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zynga On Board
well, the google translate api is still scheduled for shutdown dec 2011 http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html... google wastes its and our time with games from yesterday ... well at least we know now what their priorities are. in a way i pitty google, they were great once, now they are just ... facebook
bauchidgw··on Ask HN: What has been your least profitable side/weekend project to date?
non of them - weekend projects are about experience first, money second - what does work, what doesn't work - how much effort is it? every project that does not just stay in "idea space" is a huge win. and an infinite amount more valueable than any great billion dollar idea that is still stuck in someones head.

said that: checkout http://replycam.com - i learned that any technology that you cant easily iterate a (project) killer (in this case the flash webcam booth app)

bauchidgw··on All Non-Africans Part Neanderthal, Genetics Confirm
a w e s o m e
bauchidgw··on Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs
zip his his data, close the account. even if he did some serious TOS violation, it's still his data. (or isn't it?)
bauchidgw··on Should scientific articles be available free online?
sadly slate.com is not readable on the ipad due to some swipe/touch/die scumware.....
bauchidgw··on A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down
ok, now i get it. still it bothers me why anyone would think that a mirror switches left/right when everybody who looks into a mirror can clearly see that this is not the case. i never thought of myself as an empericist, but it seems i am.
bauchidgw··on A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down
>If there were a person who looked like a version of you who was "flipped" left/right they would look exactly like the mirror version of you.

if the left/right switched person would stand where mirror me is standing, loooking in the direction where mirror me is starring, he would not look like mirror me, he would be switched left/right.

bauchidgw··on A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down
still don't get it: when i blink my left eye, mirror me blinks his left eye.

maybe this question would make sense, if i would see myself as the center of the universe, all creation and all there is - but there is a pretty high chance that i ain't. (and even then i'm not sure if this question would make sense)

bauchidgw··on A mirror flips left and right, but not up and down
i never understood the question: how could anybody ever even think that a mirror flips left and right? there is no emperical way to observe this behaviour (with a single flat mirror).
bauchidgw··on Google Labs Winding Down
goodbye pagespeed / pagespeedonline / mod_pagespeed ...
bauchidgw··on Wikipedia is the Nr 1. Result for a Google Search for [Twitter]
nope, pws=0 turns of personalization, but yeah from the ipad i get the screwed results (even after cookie clean), from the desktop the ok ones. probably some faulty debice targeting from google (and its new, wasnt like this yesterday)
bauchidgw··on Google Prediction API - Google Code
not yet deprecated?
bauchidgw··on The start-up code of conduct and ethics
anybody remembers the blogger code of ethics? what happened to it? what was its impact (if any)?
bauchidgw··on Hadoop & Startups
http://tcfast.com/2011/07/17/hadoop-startups-where-open-sour... (readable version)
bauchidgw··on Why Quora is in trouble
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=quora.com&geo=all... well, the hype is over - now they must show if they are great - or not. but a startup that does not have hard times is probably not trying hard enough
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