chrislomax

I find this applies in developing custom apps for larger companies.

When we were smaller, we dealt with smaller companies. Most of the work was brochure sites. Although these bring in around 4-5x less than larger companies I found that it was easier to secure the deal and equally please the client. You can't build the same brochure site for a corporate and charge 4-5x more, it just doesn't work.

Now we are larger we deal with larger companies. The apps we build are larger and bring in greater deals. The chance of securing the deal though is a lot more than 4-5x harder. I also find the client harder to deal with. You end up dealing with people who are further removed from the people really making the decisions. You end up developing to the people you are talking to then you end up reworking projects when they actually show it to the people making the decisions.

All this process ends up costing us more but we are slowly refining processes for this. I suppose it's a learning curve in dealing with larger companies but I find each client has their own set of challenges.

We now service both types of clients. The quick and easy brochure sites for quick turnover and high profit and the higher end client who pays more but the profit is always less than if we did (x) amount of smaller sites.

Why when you click on the wallet does the last transaction on some of them go to 2013 when the list says 2010?

http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/1Du2jAQsBQnkkVZkN4oqC46tS...

I don't know why you were marked down for this. Not marked up maybe but I was going to say the same thing!

Do you know what, this actually annoyed me about my Panasonic TV, it does exactly the same.

When I go into the "Internet" function, it shows me ads at the bottom. Why am I seeing these ads?

For example, in the UK we pay the TV license to BBC to NOT see ads. We are paying for a TV so why am I still seeing ads?

If I was renting a TV at a reduced cost or some type of freemium model then I would expect it, takes the biscuit a little I say.

And now it's back on for me

It's only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.

When I was clearing out a cupboard the other day, my Son found an old cassette tape, he then proceeded to ask me what it was! I'm pretty sure in 20 more years we may see the same for CD ROMS or DVDs.

This particular post makes me feel so old though and I'm only 30 in a couple of weeks.

I remember buying Doom years ago and when I got the box it jangled round from all the discs inside of it.

I also remember when the first 24x speed CD drives came out, this is when hard drives were too expensive to load a full game on to so CD speed was important so your game didn't buffer as much.

Kids these days with their solid state iPads and 3D games consoles.

Blurgh

Conditioning has taught me never to press the blue facebook button on another website!

I took a leap of faith though when I read the comments here.

Good game, although I was checking my FB profile every five mins to make sure it hadn't posted any crap!

And I completely agree with this, there is definitely a niche. Very much in the same way that Wolfram has a niche. It's never going to replace search but it definitely plays an important part in the way we look for information.

If anything, IBM could replace / merge with Wolfram

The concept of the AI is not what I am disputing, it's this particular story. There is no expansion on how it will replace it and equally dismisses Google's algorithm as simple to replicate.

I don't see it as replacing search either, people search for websites. What is the end result, that Watson replaces all sites on the internet with it's own dynamic page filled with its own information?

How would Watson choose how to display the information it returns to me? Am I getting the full story?

This article breezes over so many specifics I cannot take it seriously.

This is one of the most ridiculous stories I have ever read. How do they so quickly dismiss Google's search algorithm as something to fall back to? Microsoft have been chasing their tails for years trying to be as relevant as Google and never achieving it.

It sounds like the author is suggesting dynamic web pages built by Watson that would answer questions (summarise court cases etc). The underlying problem is, where does all this data come from? It sounds like Watson would intepret multiple data points from around the web to compile the information. How can they say this information is correct? Google at least points you in the direction of the information then you make an informed decision yourself if it is correct.

This sounds like something we already have, we have Google and Wolfram Alpha. Problem sorted.

I think that is meant to be return new Sandwich (bread, bacon); !

I'll be honest, I never saw finger print scanning as the next security measure, it was always about convenience to me. It's the same with PIN numbers, all someone has to do is stand next to you to see your PIN number and they are good to go.

True security comes from multiple layers of security, where the question changes randomly but you still know what the end result will be, much like a bank does when signing in.

When things become easier, it only remains easy to get in to it. The reason it isn't so easy right now is because it hasn't had to be so widely available. When TouchID becomes more popular, you will read more stories on how people have found easier ways of cracking it.

It's all about convenience. If you want security then it's TouchID from 5 fingers + 8 digit pin + your first dogs girlfriend's name.

Another one, if you go to the timer app from the slide up control center, the "pause" is 2 pixels out of being centered. You can just about tell with the naked eye but if you open it in photoshop it's 2 pixels out.

It's not a big deal but I thought Apple would be well on top of stuff like this

If I were to take a massive guess on this (and this is a massive guess). I would say that for the lifetime of the phone being unlocked with your fingerprint you could do things like pay for items etc.

They may be lining up for banks or other authorities to start allowing finger print recognition in their systems and apps to make bank transfers or pay for items in general and that your finger print would be the authorisation.

It may be one level more secure when they implement NFC.

I don't know though, I doubt they have done it simply because people want to unlock their phones 1 second faster.

Nice concept, I just came back on here to let you know that I don't know what is happening on that page but I left it open about 45 minutes ago and noticed my fan kicked in a lot. It was that page I left open. Ended up taking 25% CPU, you didn't work on the iTunes software did you??

Only messing, it was taking a lot of CPU though.

It is very clear that this method is still in infancy and we should not be expected to be able to fully accommodate everyone right now. We are working towards a solution.

The fact the DOM is parsed regardless is not a massive issue to me, as mobile browser speed increases this will become a non issue. The issue really is the images, there needs to be some way of telling the browser to completely ignore the image on certain media types, or at least defer the load if it is not meant for this media type then load it last.

There will eventually be a standard for responsive web design but at this moment in time people are doing it the best they can with the tools they have

I'm no purist but I am in the mindset, "you wouldn't use a fork to eat soup".

I do agree though that it is a pain when something is easily achievable in tables but doesn't work in normal CSS. Vertical alignment being one of them.

What does annoy me is when you see people creating "CSS table" systems. I'm not being funny but that is just plain stupid. I saw a whole project dedicated to replicating the behaviour of a table.

I started developing when tables were fine to use for all layouts and I feel CSS was adopted as a layout too early without some very basic things being answered.

I've read that it can be possible on some makes and models although most of them employ a system where when the camera is active then electricity passes to it, it passes through the LED first so to even reach the camera the LED has to be illuminated therefore making it not possible.

Google bought ITA for 700 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/technology/09google.html?_...

I dislike the whole interview process, I'm only young so the interviewing process is still very new to me. We find that people lie heavily on CVs to the point where it is annoying. We had someone once who had 5 years CSS experience yet found it hard to center some text.

I think an online test would help our cause some but I don't know how simple to make some of the questions. How long would you expect the candidate to be taking the test? Do you tailor the test to the candidates?

Without seeing any real data, wouldn't that all be a WHERE clause? I wouldn't imagine the skill was an aggregate of the applicants.

I've just skimmed over this though, I'm not having a go

Shazam has been around for years upon years? Before it was an app you could ring it and it would text you back an answer. A friend used to use it at quizzes years ago when it got to the music round.

I live in the UK

Honestly when you read that as an actual solution it sounds like a joke

I do think this is a market long forgotten and I do love the application itself. Congratulations on getting it to market!

The one thing I can really agree on here is the installation procedure involved with users. I know someone brushed on it but it may be worth looking into Linode StackScripts and Amazon EC2 Images?

It might not even be a problem or suit your needs but I think it might help in some cases

I love articles like this, I would like something like this but more concise and indexed, does anyone know of anything like that?

There are so many things I do that are described in this article and I class myself as a seasoned CSS developer.

Every project I do I try to improve my layout and modularisation of my code. The one thing I find really difficult is naming, I always fall short on naming my elements.

I like to group stuff too so I know where it is but grouping is sometimes difficult, do I group buttons with buttons or inside the associated container it is in?

I've just done my second full responsive site and have learnt a lot about reusing code in this one due to the nature of responsive sites so on the next one I really want to come up with a routine.

I don't think it is hidden but not indexed by common methods. ie navigation is mostly POST based or JS based to avoid indexing.

I appreciate yours and sgift's response. I will probably keep away to be honest. I always see stories where we only see 5% of the internet on the surface and I wondered what the other 95% could be.

I don't think I want to know to be honest, there's enough crap after page 2 on Google as it is

I know this is a little off topic but what in general are the risks of going onto the Tor network?

Like I say, I know it is off topic but I can't find anything conclusive to how risky it is?

I want to see what is on there but at the same time I hear of hackers at every corner and child porn. I don't want to encounter either ever.

Is there a safe way of browsing it whilst taking a casual look around?

I can see the auction has been removed now for that exact reason. My main issue with it was that it is not fair for other people that entered the the program for a trial pair of the glasses. The guy has clearly stipulated it was to pay for his student debt, doesn't seem fair for people actually wanting a pair for genuine reasons.