GeneralTspoon

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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
The issue is still open here: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/838833329491346/?search... I think the guy on the ticket didn't really understand what I was saying. I'm happy to provide any extra inf
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Last time I used Parse the Android SDK had a crippling bug that made it unusable. This was version 1.8.0 I believe. Essentially Disk I/O was using the same synchronized lock as the main thread. On some devices this caused a reproducibl
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
What I should have said was, "not once did he come forward and say it was him, while Ellen Pao was taking the heat ". Of course, once Ellen stepped down and Yishan already exposed Alexis, he admitted it. For the sake of this dis
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Uh, unless you consider Yishan Wong (former reddit CEO) publicly stating it[1], and Alexis himself admitting it[2] 'speculation', then I think the evidence is solid enough. [1]: https://np.reddit.com/r/TheoryO
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Off-topic, but isn't Alexis the guy behind firing Victoria and setting Ellen Pao up for taking the wrap? Not once did he come forward and say it was him. I've heard he's an intelligent guy, but I have a particular disgust for
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
I wrote a small implementation of ListView in Kotlin a while back just to try it out [1]. The pros are pretty cool and some of the issues I mentioned in the readme have been fixed now (multiple constructors). There are still a couple of is
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Ha, awesome! Personally, if I happen to see the name of the brand I'll avoid buying their products (if reasonably possible).
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
That doesn't really morally justify the lies though... "Hey, FREE SEX!! Nah, just kidding, but buy our stuff".
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
You're right, perhaps that's not precisely the correct term here.... "Psychological trickery" or just straight up lies maybe. As it's essentially trying to paint a picture of the game in your mind that's just n
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
> But what is being passed today as advertising is nothing like that Here's an example of one such piece: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XkaWyrm8EQg/maxresdefault.jpg It's from the Superbowl ad for the mobile
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
There are plenty of apps on the App Store with using Flash (Adobe AiR). As well as other languages like JS (React Native, Titanium). I think you're thinking of when iOS decided not to support Flash in the browser.
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Huh? You can use C libraries on Android with JNI & the NDK. In fact it's how most games do it.
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Optimizing the Play Store for Quality(medium.com)
2 points by GeneralTspoon 11y ago|0 comments
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The Sad State of Android Gaming in 2015(medium.com)
1 points by GeneralTspoon 11y ago|0 comments
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
This is exactly the problem I'm trying to solve with Curated[1]. The Play Store is filled with low-think, one-tap junk these days... Finding a good game on the Play Store is almost as hard as finding a science show on the Discovery Ch
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem unfortunately - if the app is already on Google Play then F-Droid isn't needed. What F-Droid needs (maybe it already has these things too?) is: 1) It's own URI schema for these things - s
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Identity is for GCM (android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS). For sending notifications (coming soon). I personally don't care who you are :) WiFi connection info (android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE) is for displaying more helpful error mes
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
I actually had screenshots up - but an update was rejected (I guess after a human looked at it), and I had to removed them. Unfortunately I haven't once seen Google go for Fair Use in the multiple instances I've been involved in a
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Somewhat confused by [1]... Haven't tried it but I'll put it on the list to check out. [2] is more of a novel than a game, right? [3] is already there. Fantastic game!
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
Not sure what I was thinking. I'll have to update that.
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
I would really like to, but there are a couple of problems... 1) Distribution - I don't want to take responsibility for distributing random APKs that could have sleeping viruses in them (that I don't catch). And with something lik
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
True indeed. I agree that differentiation between IAP & IAC would be a good improvement. No, but as of now, I am. Designing a quantifiable system for ranking a game is one of the problems that needs to be solved if moderation is to wo
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by GeneralTspoon 11y ago
It's something I would like to do - but requires a large manual labour invest. Not to mention it changes over time. Something that's on the TODO list definitely. I don't think it's really 'penalising demos' th
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Show HN: Curated – Find the best games on Android(play.google.com)
20 points by GeneralTspoon 11y ago|21 comments
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by GeneralTspoon 12y ago
I've used it in a couple of small Android apps. Overall, I wouldn't recommend it (yet) for anything more than toy projects. The sibling post mentioned a few reasons why, but here's are another few: No inheritance. No nested