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by DavidNielsen 9y ago
Rob Reid did a funny 5min TED Talk on this called the 8 Billion dollar iPod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0 He used the same premise when he wrote the comedy sci-fi book Year Zero, the story of naive aliens acc
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by DavidNielsen 9y ago
And a citation. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/private-i... No timeline yet though but given the early state of WireGuard and the platform support that is understandable.
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by DavidNielsen 9y ago
Seconded, e.g. going to the signup page on my iPhone 5 just leads to a blank page. I suspect the same might be true for my iPad Air despite being on a current iOS release. A slightly better onboarding experience would be worth a lot, even i
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by DavidNielsen 9y ago
They would likely argue that HEVC and H.264 are hardware accelerated on nearly all of their devices whereas VP8 likely isn’t. This would mean compromising on battery life as they’d have to provide a software fallback where needed. I don’t s
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by DavidNielsen 10y ago
There's also a somewhat incomplete reimplementation in C# https://github.com/toshok/scsharp
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by DavidNielsen 10y ago
In that case it would lessen the chance of a competitor gaining access to your eyeballs, not a bad bargain in some cases.
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
Signal is great in principle but: 1. Their desktop support isn't provided by a native app but rather ducktaped onto Chrome, which in turn forces me to have that pole of junk installed. 2. There's no iPad app, granted you can run t
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
Considering my wife just bought a 8620 this bodes well for my future.. oh joy.
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
Signal has limited platform support, e.g. I can't use it on my OS X desktop nor is there a version for the iPad (I could us e the iPhone app but I'm not a savage and the user experience actually matters to me). Worse though is the
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
They have very well defined documentation for all the stable parts of the API, their code is modern and quite readable. In addition to this Lennart is good at publishing lengthy explanatory blogposts aimed at system administrators. Finall
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
He created Instapaper, not Instagram. He sold it to Betaworks. They've been doing great work with it lately and have a solid subscription business model now.
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
This is the second LWN subscriber link to be posted in as many days. I suspect they might have been a little peeved as posting those for the entire world to use isn't exactly the intended use.
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by DavidNielsen 11y ago
Xamarin offers a free starter edition[1] and you can request free full licenses for use with Open Source projects[2]. Getting started on your own project or doing an Open Source project that relies on Xamarin's tools is perfectly possi
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by DavidNielsen 12y ago
It is my understanding that XMPP also presents a problem with regards to mobile due to inefficient design from a power usage point of view. I could certainly see how that would be reason to look into fixing or outright replacing XMPP but no
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by DavidNielsen 12y ago
I am a backer but it is pretty much just a multiplayer game and what I loved about RTS games was the single player campaign experience