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by DominikR 12y ago
It should have been mentioned that in fact, NASA suspended all cooperation with Russia at the end of March, except for the ISS. Therefore it's not a unilateral action the Russians are taking here, they are merely responding to the vari
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by DominikR 12y ago
I'm glad that this trend didn't reach Austria, because as annoying as it may seem, swatting can result in deaths of innocents, if the cops are trigger happy or the victim fears that (possibly armed) robbers are breaking into his&#
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by DominikR 12y ago
"No, it will be one of the thousands captured by the American marines in Vietnam and used in their desperate attempt to halt Communism and to avert the calamity which threatened the Vietnamese people." I'm sure that the Vietn
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by DominikR 12y ago
So the worst case scenario is that Chinas GDP growth drops to "only" 6%, and will become the largest economy in the world by the end of this year. We'd be happy in Europe with 3% GDP growth, and I'm sure the US wouldn&#x
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by DominikR 12y ago
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. Accessing GPS every 20 secs just can't be what they had in mind when they implemented it. (not even in case it fails, because it would prevent the CPU from going into deep sleep, w
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by DominikR 12y ago
The update dialog should also be displayed upon opening the Play Store app, but yes I agree. The user should be given the option to upgrade the moment an app requests a feature not provided by the current Google Play Services version.
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by DominikR 12y ago
If Swype tried to get your location every 20 seconds on purpose, it would drain you battery within a few hours.
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by DominikR 12y ago
Maybe this is caused by using Google Play Services to get the location. The location tracking of Google Play Services is basically a black box, that tracks the users movement very accurately. It could be that we don't see the count of
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by DominikR 13y ago
That's usually the first thing that war criminals come up with to shield themselves from prosecution. "They just didn't know better" It doesn't matter if they knew or didn't, they are responsible for what they
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by DominikR 13y ago
I'd just like to know what the hell they were thinking when they gave her the job since I don't believe that many US citizens have fond memories of her. Couldn't she just get herself a job in the Oil/Gas industry or at s
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by DominikR 13y ago
Creating an artificial uterus and sending that device with frozen sperm and eggs would be more efficient. I just think that it would be impossible to calculate the risks if real human beings would be sent on such a journey.
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by DominikR 13y ago
> The answer there may be "not yet" With that argument you could justify almost anything. Just ask yourself if you'd tolerate a coup in the US initiated by China that leads to a civil war which lasts 10 years (basically wh
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by DominikR 13y ago
That's the reason why countries like Russia and China make it so hard for NGOs to work within their borders. I can't blame them for that, why should they allow foreign governments to stir up protests in their countries? Is anyone
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by DominikR 13y ago
Using the NDK is already such a pain in the ass (we are using pjsip in some of our apps) that I couldn't imagine why I would want to switch from C to Go, which isn't even officially supported. And you have to consider that soon ev
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by DominikR 13y ago
Such media campaigns are only for enemies of the US, not for allies like India or Saudi Arabia. (where the punishment for having homosexual intercourse is death by beheading)
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by DominikR 13y ago
There was a time when I used to wonder why sovereign states like Russia or China built their own variant of Facebook and Twitter instead of using the original. I thought that language or cultural barriers prevented those companies from succ
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by DominikR 13y ago
And we all know that they are using this data only to fight terrorism. They would never use it to give their own industry insider information. </sarcasm>
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by DominikR 13y ago
Who else should own the data if not Facebook?
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by DominikR 13y ago
> And why would Russia want to recall the US ambassador? To signal that Russia will interpret a possible US intervention in Ukraine as an act of war against Russia. I hope that the situation will de-escalate and differences will be settl
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by DominikR 13y ago
The only reason Whatsapp doesn't have this issue is that it doesn't allow you to login with the same account on multiple devices like Skype does. Both use the same underlying technology (XMPP) and both know how to use the protocol
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by DominikR 13y ago
How is that even possible, I thought Android is closed source. At least that's what Ars Technica has been telling us for the last months. </sarcasm>
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by DominikR 13y ago
Don't you think that a manager should be able to assess the value of his employees? I'd react the same way GP did.
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by DominikR 13y ago
Baker will probably be more motivated than Able who apparently started to interview for a new job. That would be a big motivation for me, especially if his job is critical.
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by DominikR 13y ago
While this is true you've got to ask yourself if you are not overly fearful considering the current market situation. At what demand/supply ratio for developers would you be willing to ask - 5:1? 10:1? never?
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by DominikR 13y ago
You are right even though I feel that you are nitpicking here, since you probably understood the basic point he was trying to make. But I disagree with tn13 too - I'd try to extract X^2.
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by DominikR 13y ago
> Those location-based restrictions are totally silly. I can’t figure out any logical reason to block people from accessing (and paying!) for your apps and content if they happen to be elsewhere. To give you an example why this makes sen
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by DominikR 13y ago
It's not about bandwidth used, it's about the billing service (charging via the customers carrier contract) 25% is a low rate for that, carriers usually charge 40-60% of the total amount, which seems totally insane to me consideri
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by DominikR 13y ago
Because Skype allows you to use the digital content that you buy outside of the Android app. (Desktop, Web and so on) Apple has a similar rule. (We have an iOS App in the App Store that uses Paypal) Edit: Here's the relevant part from
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by DominikR 13y ago
Of course I agree that it would be better for customers to have the binary available on Adobes servers. What is annoying to me is that this is so obvious and trivial to everybody here on HN, yet this developer feels it is important to decla
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by DominikR 13y ago
I just don't get such people, how can someone be so persistently annoying instead of just downloading the damn software somewhere else? Or maybe connecting an external DVD drive/using Apple Software to connect to some DVD drive ov

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