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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A couple friends of mine have been having a debate recently. One is constantly updating all of his operating systems, often as soon as a new patch is available. He tries betas and nightlies. He has a different ROM on his phone every other week. The other friend is much more conservative with his updates. Once his systems are running smoothly, he wants to leave them alone for as long as possible. He'll do some serious security updates, but he's extremely wary of anything involving major UI changes or functionality differences. What's your preference? Are you constantly tweaking? Waiting for the early adopters to work out the kinks? How does your preference change between work machines and personal machines?

Submission + - Microsoft Officially Releases Visual Studio 2015 And .NET 4.6

Submitted by rjmarvin
rjmarvin writes: Microsoft has announced http://sdtimes.com/microsoft-r... RTM of Visual Studio 2015, the latest version of its flagship IDE, along with the release of .NET 4.6. The release includes a new set of DevOps services featuring the Build vNext cross-platform build service, the IntelliTest automated unit testing tool, and a Dev/Test service delivered both via the cloud in Visual Studio Online and on-premises through Team Foundation Server. Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president of the developer division at Microsoft, highlighted three main themes Microsoft focused on with VS 2015 in an interview with SD Times: developer productivity, “a holistic set of DevOps services" and giving developers choices when it comes to tooling toward the goal of building Universal Windows Apps for Windows 10. VS 2015 and .NET 4.6 are available here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-....

Comment Submitter should have read this article from 2013 (Score 2) 544

This article from 2013 asks the same question as the submitter but with actual data from a person at Sprint who was also a champion of this form factor.

TLDR version: "People started buying phones they could recognize ... flagship devices which boast fancy designs and giant advertising campaigns."

I found it to be a rather interesting article even though I've never been into this kind of phone.

Submission + - CmdrTaco Launches Trove, a Curated News Startup (theverge.com)

Submitted by jigamo
jigamo writes: The Verge reports:

A long list of startups have put forth a Herculean effort to find the best way to suggest new things for people to read, and former Slashdot editor-in-chief Rob Malda, also known as CmdrTaco, just unveiled his: Trove, a people-powered app initially available on the web and for iPhone and iPad.

Trove basically lets users opt in to feeds of stories that align with their interests. Users are encouraged to curate "troves," collections of stories that relate to a particular theme. You could create a trove for "Ukrainian Politics," "Dog Heroes," or "Best of The Verge," for example, to which other Trove users can subscribe.

"The core of the product is that people have many interests and rather than just giving them information through pure algorithms and picking particular publications, we want to connect them with people who share those interests, who can pick the best content in those topical areas," says Vijay Ravindran, CEO of Trove.

Feed Engadget: Nexus 5 torn down, easily put back together again (engadget.com)

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There are few things worse than doing a full product teardown, only to find that, well, you're not likely to get that thing back in one piece anytime soon. By all accounts, however, it was pretty smooth sailing for the folks at iFixit when they took the new Nexus 5 to the surgical whitebox (one ...

Comment Re:Gasland II (Score 1) 237

by jigamo (#44351335) Attached to: Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water

I didn't realize I was logged out and wasn't intending to post it anonymously. Sorry for the repost:

Have you looked into the credibility of the creator of Gasland and the facts that are presented? I'd recommend you take a look a documentary that was produced in response to it called FrackNation (a Kickstarter funded project). I wouldn't say that everything in the movie is excellent (there are some interesting conspiracy theories as to what's propelling the media portrayal of fracking), but I found it to be incredibly informative. From what I've seen, most people railing against fracking (and oil/gas drilling in general) are incredibly uneducated about the process.

Submission + - Pebble Developers Make All the Difference (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: When it first launched, the Pebble smartwatch was a nifty, if pricey, way to get notifications from your phone without having to go to the effort of pulling your phone out of your pocket. As previously posted on Slashdot, the real promise of the watch wouldn't be realized until developers got their hands on the SDK. Now, a few months after launch the apps are starting to roll in and Pebble wearer Kevin Purdy has rounded up some of the best apps and projects — and also where to find them.

Comment Re:Petition (Score 1) 386

by jigamo (#43172661) Attached to: Google Reader Being Retired

This article has an interview with an early creator of Google Reader. I found it to be really informative. In discussing what it takes from Google to make reader work, it says:

Wetherell said that it took a lot to make Google Reader work.

For instance, it was Google Crawler that gave the system ability to make lightning-fast connections and bring up recommendations. It is one of the main reasons it cannot be open sourced. The systems are too intertwined with Google’s search and other infrastructure to be sold as well.

I think that explains why Google Reader won't be sold (or open sourced).
Programming

Submission + - Ask Slashdot - Monitor setup for programmers

Submitted by oxidus60659
oxidus60659 writes: I currently work as a programmer for a small business. They have provided me with a laptop and a 27" BenQ monitor on a Neo-Flex stand. The problem is that my main screen is the tiny laptop right in front of me. The 27" monitor is on the left at a very different height position. I want to put the 27" monitor directly above my laptop so I'm looking UP rather than to the LEFT for all my coding on the bigger monitor. The stand does not have a high enough setting to accommodate this.

What would be a good stand that can mount to a desk high enough to be above a laptop? What kind of monitor setup do you use when programming?
Politics

Submission + - New Jersey to Allow Voting by Email (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by sl4shd0rk
sl4shd0rk writes: In what could be quite possibly the most epic disaster outside of hurricane Sandy, New Jersey has decided to allow email voting in Tuesday's elections. With experts listing many of the ways this could possibly go wrong, it looks like email voting "may be the best of some bad options.". In TFA, it's mentioned voters may also opt to go to an alternative voting place in lieu of email voting.
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows RT uses almost 1/2 the storage on 32GB Surface Tablet

Submitted by jigamo
jigamo writes: Microsoft's newly released Surface tablets are available in 32 and 64 GB capacities. The company has disclosed how much of that space is available to the user. After taking into account Windows RT, Microsoft Office, built-in apps, and Windows recovery tools, nearly 13 GB of the available space is eliminated from user accessible storage. Microsoft's recommendations for adding additional capacity are to use cloud storage, a memory card, or a USB storage device.
Android

Submission + - Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application (ibtimes.com)

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "Even though Apple's App Store has also been friendly enough to offer alternative mapping applications to ameliorate customers upset with Apple's new default Maps app, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company may not be so friendly as to approve a Maps app submission from Google, which used to be responsible for the Maps experience in iOS until the iPhone 5. On Monday, sources at Google familiar with its mapping plans said the chances of Apple approving a dedicated Google Maps app on iOS 6 are "not optimistic." Specifically, they pointed to the lack of any mapping app in the 'Find maps for your iPhone' section of the App Store — accessible only via iPhones or iPads — that use the Google Maps APIs to call wirelessly for location, routing or point-of-interest (POI) data."

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