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Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP
Wouldn't it be great if you could call a Google Voice number directly via SIP? So that you could bypass the PSTN when calling a GV number and go directly over IP? With potentially all the advanced capabilities that could give? (wideband audio, video, etc.) It turns out that you now can !
World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets
Arduino Websocket Client Arduino Pusher Client Pusher – Real Time Push Notifications Follow Me On Twitter: @kevinrohling If you don’t have your very own Arduino yet you should get one. …
Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is my PERSONAL blog. This article reflects my PERSONAL opinion and does not necessarily represent the position of my employer.
Why I'm Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User and a Developer
<p><strong>Jun 2013 Update:</strong> <a href="/2013/05/farewell-windows-phone-you-cant-say-i-didnt-try-hello-android/">I've made the switch to Android. More info can be found here</a>!</p>
Piracy Doubled My App Sales
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Cutting their own throats
Back to: World building 201: Heuristics | Forward to: Upcoming reading in Edinburgh
Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep
For those of you that know me well, you know that I have terrible, horrible insomnia. In high school, I would go to sleep around 3am and then struggle to get up at 6:30 am. I would drink a dozen Mountain Dews everyday just to stay awake. In college, my schedule shifted further so that I was falling asleep around 6am…
Apple’s boring hardware updates
Apple now seemingly considers most Mac hardware updates boring enough to skip any potential press event and just feature the new models on the Apple website for a while. Event-worthy Mac updates are now limited to entirely new products or major redesigns.
Nokia’s Suicide Note
Stephen Elop has jumped his company off the burning platform, all right. And, I judge, straight into the fire.
Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
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How to DOS a developer
So you think your favourite FOSS project is moving too fast? Easy, just DOS the developers. Here's a few tips on how to achieve this: On IR...
How to Give Your Product Personality
There’s a really great post on Fred Wilson’s blog (AVC [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://avc.com/]) about building a “ Minimum Viable Personality [https://web.archive.org/web/20160320050249/http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/09/minimum-viable-personality.html] “. Of course, this is a
The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2011. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
Only fast languages are interesting
If this isn’t a Zawinski quote, it should be. I have avoided the JVM my entire life. I am presently confronted with problems which fit in the JVM; JVM libraries, concurrency, giant data: all …
Chromium Notes: Ninja, a new build system
When we first started porting Chrome away from just Windows, we intended to use Scons to build Chrome on all our platforms. But early on in development I discovered that Scons, despite its admirable goals of correctness and ease of use, was quite slow — it could take 40 seconds from starting Scons before it decided to…