Posts by hexx

Erik Meijer: AGILE must be destroyed, once and for all

I guess the main problem are Agile zealots, who received their 'Scrum Master' certifications and now are trying to apply Agile onto anything - and that's where the problem is.

You cannot use Agile for everything - impossible. Agile is great if you are adding a feature to an existing product and can be shipped with minimum viable functionality and then iterate and add more.

If you need to build an API that needs to be specced, secure and simply just work out of the box, forget Agile. You need good old waterfall - at least for the core functionality and then use Agile to plaster on top bits.

If you're starting fresh, I would go every single day with Lean instead of Agile - because you have no idea yet what's going to work and what isn't.

Yes, those of us who have been in development for some years can see where it fits, zealots don't - they treat it as a silver bullet for everything.

Peak Apple: Has ANYONE at all ordered a new iPhone 5c?

after long time came here... can see the same rubbish in both articles and comments... moving on (mods -> grow up you retarded fandroids)

Amazon ditches 'neo-Nazi' security firm over alleged harassment of workers

Re: Another point of view

Disrespectful is your lack of knowledge when it comes to geography. Most of the workers who came here came from Central Europe, not Eastern Europe. Back to school I would suggest to you.

Apple to stop European shipments of Mac Pro on March 1?

mini ITX but huge :) got one, very good access though and thermal performance and can take full size PCI-E GFX card without any problems and water cooling too, very good case indeed

Re: Oh dear ....

or you can build a hackintosh... i've just put together one, based on mini ITX, i7 3770, 16GB of RAM, 2 x SSD and GTX660TI - that thing flies!!! but I might keep my 13" MBA

New Year's resolution: Don't use Instagram, it'll sell YOUR photos

this made my day, i can put coat on and walk home now

Sorry, Apple - China's just not that into your iPhone 5

Anna - get another job

You can't be serious writing articles like this. How much is iPhone 5 in China? What's the average income of an average family in China, how many of these families can afford one? Not bright enough to connect the dots???

iPhone 5 launches in China, late and expensive. Chinese say 'meh'

BS?

What's this BS???? Apple sold over 2M devices in 3 days - Anna smoking something good? pass it over ;)

Judge to Apple: You WILL tell Samsung what you got from HTC

don't get the headline here, apple doesn't really need to care, it's HTC he didn't like the idea of sharing this stuff with samsung, not apple

Apple: Sure, here's the HTC patent pact. WITH numbers blanked out

Re: @Paul

nope, what you're stating here is the outcome of the legal battle between those two. what I thought you're stating here is the pre-battle proposal from Apple - I haven't seen any numbers anywhere.

Re: @Paul

Cool, so you have info :) but do you also know the scope of the deal?

:) all these fandroids, I just stated fact that Samsung has been approached by Apple and was trying to come up with a licensing deal. Samsung didn't like it and got sued - which bit of that isn't clear? I'm not talking about specifics, details and so on (I don't have them), what I'm pointing out is the fact that Samsung wasn't willing, HTC in the and was and managed to get 'sweet' deal with Apple.

apple offered samsung licensing deal prior to this mess, samsung rejected

Swedish woman cuffed for sex with skeleton SHOCKER

LOL!!!!

Nokia HERE today with decent mapping on Apple devices

"iPhone users struggling with Apple's substandard maps app can now get a decent alternative in the shape of Nokia's Here."

have you even bothered trying it yourself? I guess you haven't otherwise you wouldn't open this article with such rubbish - HERE maps on iOS is pile of shit, slow, laggy, UI is horrible and it doesn't look retina-ready

Apple's Cue gets parking space on Ferrari board

Ive drives Bentley ;)

Apple unsheathes MacBook 13-incher

Re: price comparisons

you're forgetting that UK/EU prices include VAT, US prices don't include sales tax - that could give you your price difference.

Just how good is Nokia's PureView 41Mp camera tech?

Re: could somebody explain

but you can have lens wide open - meaning shooting at the largest aperture available on a lens ;)

Re: could somebody explain

no, there's no such a thing like a 'wide' aperture, my comment was ironic, you have wide angle of view or narrow angle of view but aperture doesn't have property of being wide or narrow since it's circular.

could somebody explain

what is 'wide' aperture? all i know there are small and large apertures

Apple iPhone 5 review

c'mon fandroids, everybody knows iPhone is waaaaay better

(let the downvoting commence)

Burglar steals $60,000 of computers from Steve Jobs' home

Samsung's R&D team?

Apple 'offered Samsung $30-per-mobe' patent licence truce

Re: I wanted to buy a quaility S3

if you bought it from a fruity store you could return it and get a full refund ;)

full 90 pages of 2010 presentation: http://allthingsd.com/20120810/heres-what-apple-had-to-say-to-samsung-about-copying-back-in-august-2010/

Re: And on the flip side

massive difference between standard essential patents and those which you can work around (not standard essential ones). read a bit...

Re: FRAND?

no, these are no SEP and don't need to be offered on FRAND conditions

Apple and Google go head-to-head over Kodak patent sale

lets hope apple wins (please down-vote at will :) )

Google Talk goes dumb in massive global outage

that made my day, thank you

and now twitter is down - what's going on?

Apple misses earnings targets, Street reacts

who cares about analysts? Apple hit their target and are $1B over that target.

Skype: Nearly half of adults don't install software updates

Re: Still on Skype 2.8

same here, that new UI is horrid, everything is so big for no reason.

Canon debuts EOS M compact system camera

"Canon is playing it safe with DSLR tech in a small body and competing with Fujifilm's X-Pro1, Sony's NEX and Samsung's NX CSCs"

- how's this competing with X-Pro1 or NEX-7?

Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad

jeez again this retard....

is this really happening? I mean seriously? Can a judge force company A to promote products of company B on their website?

Nutter bans Apple purchases over environmental fudging

Re: Better Than Recycling

thanks god somebody sees it this way

nope, what it says is that EPEAT is a bit out of date and doesn't cover products which are the main source of Apple's revenue - that's in the nutshell

It's easier if I just point to this article rather than rephrase it in my own words:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/10/apple-responds-to-epeat-concerns/

Foxconn daddy: 'Don't buy Galaxy S III, wait for iPhone 5'

Re: Why?

exactly, I also upgrade only if it's really worth it (3G -> 4, skipped 3GS and 4S) - after all it's just a phone

Samsung Galaxy S III

That's one FUGLY slice of polycarbonate

Apple design chief Jony Ive knighted - but not by the Queen

Re: Sir Job

Ive is British, Jobs wasn't ;)

Steve Jobs' 'private Apple spaceship' seeks public love

seen the icon? it's troll, troll alert ;)

when is samsung building their own campus? - just asking ;)

Sony NEX-7 24.3Mp APS-C compact system camera

2 things were not mentioned - there are problems with wide angle lenses (leica, zeiss...) and also there's no way to have electronic level and histogram at once in the EVF - you need to cycle through view modes.

Leica goes all out B&W for M-Monochrom camera

also, just seen the price of the new summicron, it's more expensive than summilux - that doesn't make much sense to me

Re: hmm

yeah, you need to deal with luminance values ;)

Re: hmm

and forgot to add, the assembly is in Portugal so no, no German labour is involved here ;)

Re: hmm

Yeah I do get it but the casing, the sensor and everything is the same as M9. So there's really no need to pay extra as the components are the same if you see what I mean, so they don't pay extra on top to suppliers for lower volumes.

hmm

Every sensor is 'colour blind', what they've done isn't much really, it's the same sensor from M9 just with Bayer filter removed, so it's naked sensor. Oh, they also removed colour related items from menus. So what we have here is old product without colour filter array for more money. Go figure!

Samsung shows 'designed for humans' handset

fugly - that's all

Punters want BBC iPlayer in TVs, not 3D

and bring F1 back to BBC!