ConstantineXVI

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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Pedantry: BBX hasn't shipped yet outside the PlayBook, and I'd hardly call that popular. The phones are still running the original since-1999 BlackBerry OS. And why not BSD? I'd mainly say mindshare, and portability to a degree. You don't h
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Amazon and Netflix are now direct competitors to HBO; "partnering" with them would be at best surrender, and at worst suicide. Apple's a non-option; if they wanted in the subscription streaming business, they'd do it themselves. Independenc
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
He mentions "slightly larger tablets like the dead (and rooted) HP TouchSmart."; unless 20"[0] is his definition of a 'slightly larger tablet' and Windows can be rooted (in the Android sense) now, I think it's safe to assume he mis-typed To
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
As mentioned, Apple has plenty of experience switching architectures, so technically it's not a huge issue. Don't hold your breath though; since Apple's going out of it's way to build custom ARM cores now, it's safe to assume ARM (or if any
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Most Android phones don't have glass running all the way to the edge, I'd imagine that's a factor. Semi-related: I've dropped a pocketknife blade first on a Nokia E71. There's the tiniest scuff on the screen, that's it. (And it's still in a
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Depends on the lighting; can be anywhere between instant and 2s. Trade-off is the camera's useless in the dark, takes maybe 1s for the phone to realize this (or there's an override button) and falls back to pattern/PIN.
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Simple fix: permissions. > [Podcast App] would like to run in the background. You can change this at any time. Allow/Deny? Or perhaps being a bit more specific: > [Podcast App] would like to sync nightly. Allow/Deny/Charging Only?
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
> The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript"[0] Macros would be deviating from core JS too much to fit with CoffeeScript's goal. Just happens that the compiler is nicely hackable to allow for these projects. Not to say I
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
How will functions learn to stay in line if the compiler doesn't make an example every now and then? On a serious note, what you're thinking of is contracts, like so[0] [0] http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
I imagine many things use Unix time or a similarly flat calendar internally (Twitter's Snowflake[0] uses a custom scale), it's the translation into the Gregorian (/Jewish/Mayan/etc) calendar and time scale where the bugs come from. Can't co
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
I have a hard time (ow) having much anger over time-related bugs these days. Seems the only real way of getting the calendar more programmer-friendly is to switch the world over to Unix time.
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Just one: don't try to. :) As I said, you have to write separate UI on each platform, and you use the native toolkits (there's no fancy abstract cross-platform UI kit in Mono), so there's little chance of looking much out of place as long a
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Xamarin's examples for MonoDroid are (IMHO) pretty solid, to the point where I'll go to them first instead of the Android docs (even though I'm writing Java[0]). It's true you have to re-write the UI code on every platform, but it's still t
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Worth pointing out that CrOS's "secure boot" is somewhat unique among mainstream OSes in that it still respects the user's wishes by design[0] (aka developer mode), unlike iOS, WinRT, and (with some exceptions) Android devices. [0] http://
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Chromebooks make excellent portable SSH terminals (see [0]) thanks to having decent keyboards (esp. for the price range) and great battery life. http://c9.io shows some promise as well, though IMHO it still doesn't beat good old-fashioned
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
The Twitter comparison doesn't work here; Bancorp is explicitly a middleman. As long as Bancorp is getting paid, it's in their best interest (excuse the pun) for Simple to stay afloat. Bancorp is a closer analog to EC2; they let Simple get
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
I wouldn't cut them any slack. I can't say my bank cards have ever gone down. Totally losing access to your customer's money doesn't help your reputation at all, "disruptor" or not. EDIT: "The Bancorp Bank", the bank Simple farms out the ac
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
That's the developer's choice. Pay the price on the tin, switch to Android where they've chosen to make it free, or find an alternative. The market will sort itself out if it's truly priced too high.
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
If you're trying to block screenshots, AirPlay mirroring is something else you'll likely want to watch for. It's possible to send a separate feed to the AirPlay display; but not an iOS dev myself so I can't speak to how difficult this is to
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Booting Windows on x86 Macs (pre-Boot Camp) was mainly a problem of hardware support; Windows simply didn't support booting via UEFI in 2006, and Macs didn't ship with BIOS emulation. Linux can boot on UEFI systems; the problem here is Secu
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
If you're already familiar with SQL (which your average C# programmer likely is), select/where/aggregate look familiar to you, so less of a mental leap to understand them. And being able to say 'it's like in-line SQL!' makes Linq more accep
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Odds are the orgs in question were using Jira long before they were using GitHub. Pretty sure it's Atlassian feeling the pressure here and not GitHub; given the existence of Stash.
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
If the designer was particularly paranoid, they could be keeping the keys in RAM only (on machines without swap, of course). If the keys never touch disk, easier to purge them and know they're gone.
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
They're (explicitly) deleting the key; provided they're not using ancient or horribly broken encryption, the image itself is effectively indistinguishable from gibberish. I'd assume the images themselves get deleted as well, but without a k
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Only real difference I'm aware of is the release schedule; as far as I can tell the plugins get major updates with IntelliJ releases, not alongside the separate IDEs. (It's possible I'm wrong, just my observations)
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Every Ruby user I know personally that's tried RubyMine loves it; from total beginners to experts (myself included). Note that IntelliJ effectively includes both RubyMine and PHPStorm (+ PyCharm); it's the better choice if you're wanting bo
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
The Cocoa bindings for Java are deprecated; so "every app built on Java" _has_ to look like that. I'd rather have a good and usable tool than a pretty one; instead of wasting time fighting unsupported bindings or trying to replicate them (l
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
I believe only IntelliJ gets the other IDEs as plugins.
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
If your main concern is media, the Fire will better suit you (no Prime Video, no Kindle Library, etc. on Android and Google Play still has a ways to catch up); otherwise IMHO the Nexus 7 has the better build, better software, and better app
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by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Myself, @jfedor[0], and a few like-minded others are usually at the Grale on Fridays around 4-ish. Consider yourselves (+ any other locals in the thread) invited. [0] http://twitter.com/jfedor

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