Jyaif

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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   What exactly are they embracing by creating a new OS?
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   > About 1/5 of all economic activity is US Perhaps, but how much is in China? And how much 30 years from now?
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   That's very surprising that you mention iOS as being stable. To me it's the worst offender. Most of the apps I worked on needed to be updated for every single iOS release because of deprecated APIs.
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   Regarding your last paragraph, I wonder how you feel about Netflix.
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   >Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. You have to pay every year to be in the appstore.
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   If multiple companies are selling the same product, and one company is making more profit from this product than all the other companies combined, wouldn't you say that this company is dominant?
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   > I think they've helped Spotify grow a lot Well no, Apple's even admit that Spotify didn't get their subscriptions through them: "only a tiny fraction of their subscriptions fall under Apple’s revenue-sharing model&q
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   the good news is that virtually all of the software in the linux ecosystem is missing the last 20%, so there's plenty of opportunities to train.
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   by Jyaif 8y ago

   > They would be captured by the ISP. Ever heard of https?
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    > Is it mainly for the ability to signal non-nullability in the signature? Can't answer for the parent, but for me yes it's exactly that. When I'm calling a function I'm going to look up the prototype anyways so I don
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    They do have revenue (although the cars have safety drivers).
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    How information gets propagated in 2019: 1. The study talks about how some vision-based object detection systems don't work as well on black people. 2. The articles makes the leap to self driving cars, ignoring that self driving cars u
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    Can you elaborate what you mean by "imperfect"?
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    Apple is also sniffing UA (and doing some crazy heuristics with it) when delivering webpages to its apsptore. I think it's because they want to try to serve you a different webpage that opens up the appstore application when you are
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    The response is to offer Google News in europe with snippets from newspapers from Québec, Mexico, Brasil, Saint-Marin...
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    One day I'll write a blog post myself writing about how I went from ECS to OOP. The short version is that ECS works against creativity. I want my entities to be unique: they move differently, they react to damage differently, they die
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    If you navigate to https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com the first story is about a vulnerability in skia, a library made by Google: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-c...
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    "If there is more that one *Config in scope at any one time, calling them config1 and config2 is less descriptive than calling them original and updated ." The correct naming is of course "originalConfig" and "updat
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    Wow, that dither function! float dither_matrix (float x, float y) { return mix(mix(mix(mix(mix(mix(0.0,32.0,step(1.0,y)),mix(8.0,40.0,step(3.0,y)),step(2.0,y)),mix(mix(2.0,34.0,step(5.0,y)),mix(10.0,42.0,step(7.0,y)),step(6.0,y)),step(4.0,
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    So it's Flutter, but with ReasonML/OCaml instead of Dart.
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    The AI lost because it completely messed up the response to the immortal drop, nothing to do with micro.
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    It could be software too: Employee 2 launches a build before going on a break, or a GPU-intensive screensaver that starts up. That would explain the ~50% occurrence.
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    Reminder that Wikimedia receives north of 100 million of USD per year, with the servers themselves costing 2 millions.
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    100% agree. Having to extract information with regular expressions is a waste of time. If the structure of the data was available, you would have type safety / auto-completion. You could even have GUIs to compose programs.
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    Flying took billions of years to evolve, but we created machines that fly faster than the speed of sound...
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    If you have a lot of states (postgresql has > 400 keywords to identify), the assembly encoding the switch will be several kb big, so you'll have cache misses. Perfect hashing trades more computing for less cache misses. [edit] Also,
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    It's an incredible escape mechanism. You can escape your shitty little apartment and be immersed in a place where you have a ton of power at the tip of your hands with 0 limit on your creativity. And if you are not a creative type you
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    You should be able to switch job if you have a side project proving your passion and if you are ready to take a pay-cut.
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    > Most game dev studios are Small or Mediums sized companies, and don't really have the time to waste in Committee meatings.. Irrelevant. What counts is where the C++ game devs are, and it's in the big companies. And participat
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    by Jyaif 8y ago

    > This is literally the past 15 years of Google. Other than for Gmail/Chrome[OS]/Android/Photos/Youtube/Music/Maps, I totally agree.