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Re: How to get involved with Open Climate Fix

Ryan Bateman — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 18:22:45 -0000

This is really interesting, Jack. You should consider joining the climateaction.tech Slack group, "climate change activation accelerator" - I'm sure you'd find plenty of others (myself included) who'd be up for helping.

Re: G. Gerlach Honors Polish Space Exploration With the Kosmonauta

Ryan Bateman — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 04:35:23 -0000

Odd that you don't mention / show photos of the black PVD version. Still - very interesting!

Re: Summer Beaters: 10 Tough Watches for Under $500

Ryan Bateman — Tue, 19 May 2015 08:30:56 -0000

Maratac Mid-size Pilot would fit on this list quite nicely, to my mind.

Re: REVIEW: Tudor Heritage Black Bay Blue

Ryan Bateman — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 04:33:55 -0000

Great review and beautiful Tudor piece. Minor edit required: "the Ranger looks bigger noticeably bigger on the wrist".

Re: Thoughts on the MMT Swiss Horological Smartwatch Platform

Ryan Bateman — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:30:16 -0000

A fascinating industry response to the rise of smartwatches. I love the idea of thinking of the modular 'smart' component as simply another complication. I would definitely buy the Mondaine.

Re: Using ShinobiCharts with Android Studio: Update 0.5.5

Ryan Bateman — Thu, 01 May 2014 10:20:52 -0000

This doesn't seem to be working as of AS 0.5.7, though for the life of me I can't see why. I suspect the new Eclipse-to-AS importer is trying to be too smart and failing. It currently seems to just bail out of the import process but still seem to show the 'import summary' document afterwards, with no new module created nor the library added.

Re: Google April Fools’ Day jokes for 2014

Ryan Bateman — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:33:10 -0000

Google's added "Signature Edition" to the Play Store release options:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: 24h Android sniffing using tcpdump

Ryan Bateman — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:44:06 -0000

It'd be interesting, if you were willing to do so, to compare the time a given application spent open with the data usage of the application. Facebook, for example, seems to occupy a very large portion of the data transfer. If you were able to give some stats on how often you actually had Facebook open / in use, it'd provide some interesting insight into how much background data the Facebook application is moving for no reason. Just a thought.

Re: Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Americans have no right to freedom from religion

Ryan Bateman — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:52:41 -0000

I'm genuinely interested in what one of those might look like. I'm imagining an independent coffee-shop.

Re: Cratering

Ryan Bateman — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:51:14 -0000

Hey. Your comment would be totally fair if John was being serious, but he's really not (I'm assuming you've not read the rest of piece - he essentially decides to break all connections with his family in order to spend more time with his devices i.e. the opposite of the trend a few noted journalists have tried.) He's generally a very funny/facetious guy and anything he writes should rarely be taken at face-value (or from single, out-of-context quotes, such as I rather foolishly provided). So... yeah. I highly doubt he's advising you how to parent (or seriously wants to come across as doing so.) Anyhow, just a heads up.

Re: Subcompact Publishing — by Craig Mod

Ryan Bateman — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:20:21 -0000

For whatever it's worth, a small team (including former colleagues of mine) has created something like the agnostic magazine-publishing platform you mention (including Newsstand integration). The platform's completed and they're in the midst of attempting to find people to publish their own content so that they can better showcase the platform (i.e. now would be a great time to get in touch with them to cheaply publish any content in a serialised, magazine format.)
They call the platform Magnolia.

http://madewithmagnolia.com

Re: Everything on the Internet Gets Stolen. Here’s How You Should Feel About That.

Ryan Bateman — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:53:59 -0000

My apologies - the complaints I mentioned were among various people I talk to privately (who hadn't submitted content, nor intend to, so their opinions are kind of moot.) My timeline was based on checking in on the site personally rather than from any actual verified fact (i.e. I was partly talking out of my ass.)

Re: Everything on the Internet Gets Stolen. Here’s How You Should Feel About That.

Ryan Bateman — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:22:38 -0000

I'd argue the statement that Tumblr "worked hard" to bake attribution into their system. The Radar was consistently filled with unattributed or straight-up coped material (co-incidentally, right up until the point when they suddenly had to put ads in it.) I'd say they made it easier to _copy stuff_, sure - all the better to appeal to people who are on Tumblr but who aren't actually making anything or posting original content (i.e the majority.) That copying wasn't necessarily attribution - just reblogging content. I mean, they only started included source links, what - a year ago? 18 months? Having been going for 5+ years and being the darling of the blogging platform world for 3+. And they launched Reblorg (or whatever that abomination of a site is called) a week or so ago and it didn't include attribution at all for few days until people started complaining.
But yeah, good points. Well said.
Anyhow. Hey, Nick.

Re: Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

Ryan Bateman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:53:06 -0000

That sucks. Sorry to hear it, Mat. Hope you get some help from Google / Apple.

Re: The Psychology of Android and iOS Users

Ryan Bateman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:17:28 -0000

Just out of interest, what is it exactly am I supposed to be ignorant about? The state of Android? Pricing on the Android market? I'd be genuinely interested to hear what, exactly, you think it is I don't know.

Re: The Psychology of Android and iOS Users

Ryan Bateman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:03:42 -0000

No, I really don't assume that, nor do I state as much in the article. I view Papermill as a success (see the first line of my conclusion in the original article, if you don't believe me.)
I just don't like ads. I clarify it a little here ( http://www.papermill.me/bla... ). That was the intention of my article. People, such as yourself, seem to have misinterpreted and be taking this personally. I guess I understand that, but I don't understand the personal comments.
I'd stop developing apps for Android in future but then I'd have to stop my full-time job, as well as my hobby, Papermill. I don't really plan on doing either. Sorry.
Have a great day.

Re: The Psychology of Android and iOS Users

Ryan Bateman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:57:42 -0000

An interesting read and you definitely make some good points but, as I mentioned in the clarification ( http://www.papermill.me/bla... ) my intention wasn't to comment on Papermill's "success" (I think it's been wonderfully successful and actually say as much in the original article) but on advertising as the go-to method of funding Android applications. A large number of articles seem to have taken this to mean that I view Papermill as a failure (I don't, at all, and continue to develop for it), either intentionally to drum up traffic or as a misinterpretation of my meaning. They're wrong.
Hope this helps.

Ryan (The developer of Papermill)

Re: Basic Economics: Are We Really Not Willing To Pay For Quality, Pricey Apps?

Ryan Bateman — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:17:55 -0000

Thanks for an even-handed, thoughtful take on the whole issue. I appreciate it.

- Ryan (the developer of Papermill)

Re: The Knork Is The Spork’s Slow Cousin

Ryan Bateman — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:09:23 -0000

"Retarded" is not the preferred nomenclature - it's considered offensive. Just an FYI.

Re: O2 data breach potentially shares your cellphone number with the world (Updated)

Ryan Bateman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:55:19 -0000

I used to be an engineer for a company that provided a mobile phone operator with mobile video portals (back in the day when such a service was needed due to the variety of handsets and lack of standardised codecs i.e. 2004). This was a known issue and, in fact, a lot of how we processed billing (terrifying, huh?).

No matter how many times we raised it as a huge security hole, they wouldn't listen (although by time I had moved on, they were in theory making an effort to ensure the header was only passed to internal / partner sites.) Nice to see that 8 years later it's finally hitting the public. Would be interesting to see if any payment portals stop working as a result.

Re: http://everythinginthesky.com/post/14905259320

Ryan Bateman — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:47:57 -0000

Huh. Excellent point - never occurred to me that they'd be working on multiple jobs.

Re: http://leahreich.tumblr.com/post/13636451959

Ryan Bateman — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:29:35 -0000

Would be interesting to see read how this aspect of 'taste' as cultural symbolism intersects with how, say, Adam Lisagor thinks of taste and how he uses his taste as his brand (as he talks about it in http://huffduffer.com/merli... ).

Anyhow. Wanna go ride bikes?

Re: http://everythinginthesky.com/post/6207449475

Ryan Bateman — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:58:58 -0000

I don't know what you're talking about. No-one named Ryan Bateman, however handsome and daring he sounds, blogs here. You should definitely not read anything more on here or anything of the sort. And, um. No habla the English.

*runs from room, flip tables over as he goes*

Re: Go to Wikipedia and click “random article.” This is the name of your genitals.

Ryan Bateman — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:02:14 -0000

A rear-admiral, no less.

Re: http://girldetective.me/post/3602546410

Ryan Bateman — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:30:30 -0000

Holy crap the Castle is my second favourite pub in all of London. Wow.