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by DCKing 12y ago
Oh I see. But that still doesn't validate his cynicism, as Google has been doing that for quite some time as well for Holo [1]. It's not as if this is the first time that Google has a "design language" for Android. [1]
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by DCKing 12y ago
"Finally"? Apple announced iOS 7 barely a year ago, and they were far from 'minimal' before. Google has been using this design since Google Now was launched a year before that .
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by DCKing 12y ago
That would be difficult, I think. "Cloud service" does not really define any capabilities present or absent in the library. Even if you split it up in things like "mapping service" and "cast service" then a lot
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by DCKing 12y ago
Pure AOSP doesn't provide cloud services. That's right. Developers need to think of the libraries they're using, whether they are Google's, Amazon's or Microsoft's. In the end, I think it's a good thing th
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Google have taken the Open Source ideology and bastardized it to fit their commercial needs. Ah you're one of the people that thinks open source also comes with a mandatory ideology. That it's not good enough if source is rel
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by DCKing 12y ago
Android was originally developed with the intent that it could make the access of web services better on mobile phones. The intent was to create a market, not to take one. AOSP is still open source for that reason, presumably. Although th
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by DCKing 12y ago
That is true. Although AOSP in itself is a complete operating system, most apps require the need for the "extras" that are provided by some cloud service. Although you can manage without, apps assume an "ecosystem" with
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by DCKing 12y ago
> as Android ecosystem is getting more and more dependent on Google's proprietary software This is untrue when you're talking about app development, which this is about. It can be demonstrated by simply pointing out that Micros
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by DCKing 12y ago
The 240000+ applications in the Amazon App Store that work without Play Services show that this is not a problem. Both Microsoft's Nokia X line and Amazon's Fire Phone are useful phones running Android without Play Services. Those
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by DCKing 12y ago
I have to call bullshit on this one. Google has open sourced a fully featured mobile operating system, with an already free kernel, an optimized and secure app runtime for mobile applications that they keep on improving, a completely functi
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by DCKing 12y ago
What definition of "to express" are you using? Because expressing does not come with a single word restriction that I know of. I think you mean whether or not there is a translation of a certain word? We were talking about conce
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by DCKing 12y ago
I don't think it's a bad thing either. Those scripts will not be forgotten soon because of the way information is preserved in our current age. Nothing of their historicity is lost to us at all. Yet this script (and many others) d
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by DCKing 12y ago
You just expressed these in English. Although you might spend far more words on it, and it might be hard to properly capture abstract concepts in another language, these are not examples of concepts that cannot be expressed in English.
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by DCKing 12y ago
I can't tell whether you are deliberately being dishonest or genuinely don't understand how to have a proper debate. > Correlation does not imply causation. You can't simply wave this around to invalidate information that
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Does that prove the causal link? No. Yes, for all reasonable definitions of 'prove', the vast amount of evidence collected that is a proven fact. Although correlation of one metric does not necessarily imply causation of some
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by DCKing 12y ago
I'm not saying that people should not discuss this. I'm saying that the debate is over unless substantial other facts are presented than we do now. Discussion value based on evidence and not conjecture. Claiming that this is the
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's quite the same as the fact there are incredibly few biologists who think that evolution is false. The debate is simply not worth having, even though a large number of uninformed people still don't accept it.
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by DCKing 12y ago
You appear to be saying that you think this could be explained by some natural variation. That seems plausible, but is not supported by scientific evidence. The term "man-made climate change" is a term for the truth of these three
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Just because you're not looking, doesn't mean they don't exist. Did I say really say that? And was that jab really necessary? I'm well aware of the Moto E. It's definitely a competitor to this phone, but it&#x2
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by DCKing 12y ago
I'm not suggesting it appeals to the Android user at all, it appeals to the prospective smartphone user. As long as you can install basic messaging apps on these things (which you can), this is a really good deal. This is a market segm
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by DCKing 12y ago
Microsoft releases a phone running Android, Microsoft releases hardware running Linux, pigs are flying and hell is freezing over etc etc. The real news is that this is not just an Android phone, it's a really good Android phone. It has
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by DCKing 12y ago
Not really a great reply as 'phantom types' are possible in the majority (all?) of typed languages with generics. Even C++ has them - that is mentioned in the article. What I think the OP was expressing is that the various article
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by DCKing 12y ago
In non-secret chats it even saves all messages on their servers. You can then 'conveniently' retrieve all non-secret your messages when setting up Telegram on other devices. For non-secret chat it's even worse than Whatsapp,
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by DCKing 12y ago
Right click the video. It's probably Flash. Plays using Flash in Firefox on my machine. OS X is the last platform where Firefox doesn't support H.264. They're working on it, but it doesn't seem to be landing soon.
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by DCKing 12y ago
Your redefinition of 'core business' is confusing. IBM's core business is monetization, by definition. Making services that enterprises like to use is what they do to feed that core business, not vice versa. Walmart's co
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Before Android came along that business was at the mercy of Apple (in the mobile space anyway). Android has existed for the entire time mobile advertising was becoming huge. The iPhone was a big innovation, but in its first year it w
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by DCKing 12y ago
Please stop pretending I'm advocating JS crypto. I did no such thing, and you are being extremely disingenious and rude for suggesting that.
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by DCKing 12y ago
I do all my development work (which involves a lot of heavy Scala stuff) on a 2012 MacBook Air, which is a wee bit slower than this one. The CPU really is not a problem. There's no SSD or 'Fusion Drive' in this one, which wil
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by DCKing 12y ago
Most functional languages don't really go for any ORM. It's usually considered a cumbersome abstraction for relational databases. Clojure makes it really easy to use SQL directly with the java.jdbc package [1], or through some hel
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by DCKing 12y ago
> What use is there for client side JS crypto? Uploading encrypted files over HTTP. A JavaScript SSH client[1] for throwaway servers. Client-side password hashing to prevent passive MITMs to find raw passwords. These are not as secure as

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