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by Ologn 11y ago
I've been seeing these gloom and doom articles on Android since its launch. Nowadays at least they have to have the reality of the situation included - "A Murky Road Ahead for Android, Despite Market Dominance ". "And
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by Ologn 12y ago
The article mentions certain things, but every piece of outside software run is a potential security problem. Every piece of inside software is a potential security problem for that matter. The authors don't even have to be malicio
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by Ologn 12y ago
Some of the best samples are from Google - https://developer.android.com/samples . They are some of the best examples of how to program Android, especially in terms of keeping to best practices and avoiding now-deprecated
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by Ologn 12y ago
He talks about the virtue of using new and untested languages and frameworks. The example he uses is Twitter's use of the relatively new Ruby on Rails framework. Unfortunately for him, this is a bad example. Twitter was notorious in
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by Ologn 12y ago
Going for my bachelors, most professors said we would have to spend at least three hours of study time for every hour we spent in lecture. Splitting it up another way, that is three years of studying on my own, and one year of lectures. If
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by Ologn 12y ago
I don't believe that the price of gold outpaces its value over the long run. Of course prices can swing in the shorter term. Silver was worth $10 an ounce in 1979 and $10 an ounce in 1981, but for a few days in 1980 it went over $40 f
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by Ologn 12y ago
Bitcoin itself is a scam, so it's no surprise that all the key organizations around it are founds to be scams - the Bitcoin Foundation, Mt. Gox - even hardware manufacturers like Butterfly Labs. The scam actually ended in December 2013
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by Ologn 12y ago
> big projects > portfolio > contributions to a notable open source software project This might help, it is something you can talk about on the interview. I wouldn't spend a lot of time thinking about if it was notable or not
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by Ologn 12y ago
How many people pay to use websites? One of my side project Android apps made over $2100 in advertising revenue last month, and my other Android apps made hundreds of dollars in ad revenue. There are a number of ways people monetize Andro
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by Ologn 12y ago
I worked at Radio Shack 20 years ago. The ideal customer would probably be a guy in his 30s coming in with his girlfriend or wife to buy a television and VCR, or a stereo system. Maybe a parent looking for a remote controlled car as a Chr
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by Ologn 12y ago
Yes. Donald Knuth sometimes quotes Huxley - a good education is learning something about everything and everything about something. There should be a center to studies or you're all over the place, but having extreme tunnel vision is
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by Ologn 12y ago
Not really. If you feel compelled to rent a one bedroom apartment in the West Village or Williamsburg maybe. There are plenty of cheap, low crime places to live within the city limits with access to the subway and local supermarkets etc.
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by Ologn 12y ago
A small example for myself, when I started programming for Android I looked for popular open source Java libraries I could use in an Android app. One was Jackcess - an LGPL licensed library which handles Microsoft Access files. So I porte
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by Ologn 12y ago
Actually, wheat (triticum) has opiods, and a small percentage of people have hyper-sensitive reactions to those opiods. It's quite possible that wheat was originally harvested not to make bread but to get people high. There are scient
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by Ologn 12y ago
Yes. I know more about Google Play than the others. You underestimate how much attention people will give you. Let's say you find the perfect user - someone who types "news game" into Google Play. Well, you don't show
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by Ologn 12y ago
> But to most people none of that makes much sense if you don't even grasp what bitcoin is and why it matters. This is exactly the type of thing people were saying in 2000 just before the dot-com crash - that all the old fuddy-duddi
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by Ologn 12y ago
Especially since the dollar was exchangeable for the 10,000 tons of gold stored in Fort Knox etc. prior to 1971. Those 10,000 tons of gold are still there - obviously as a means to back the dollar (what alternative explanation is there?)
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by Ologn 12y ago
It's instructive of all the commodities out there in the world, you point to the only other one of questionable value as an example, "unbacked" paper currency. But obviously just because people use dollars (or euros) does no
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by Ologn 12y ago
Warren Buffett said Bitcoins are a mirage and I agree. They are worthless hashes. Why do they have any value? The answer is they have no value. I said so here when they were worth over twice what they are now. If there is any sign of a
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by Ologn 12y ago
> How did it get value to begin with? It never had value. It had a price. The price of silver in 1980 was $33 an ounce, by 1981 it was under $10 an ounce. Pets.com had a market cap of $220 million in early 2000, by November it was ban
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by Ologn 12y ago
I do seem to have to bang hard on the space bar. It has not been enough of a problem for me to see if I can tune spacebar sensitivity in software.
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by Ologn 12y ago
> Bitcoin's price is mostly backed by speculation Bitcoin's price is 100% backed by speculation. Bitcoins are worthless. They are worth $0. They are useless hashes. Their value is $0, and their price is destined to be closer
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by Ologn 12y ago
I bought a System76 laptop this summer, to replace one I bought in 2012. Both worked great for me. My Ubuntu 14.10 upgrade went off without a hitch, and the 2012 laptop has upgraded without problems as well.
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by Ologn 12y ago
Bitcoins are worthless. They have no value. The whole thing is a scam. The ASIC manufacturers have been raided by the government, the major exchanges have been shut down for fraud. I mean, even their inventor keeps himself anonymous. Bi
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by Ologn 12y ago
Cool. For production slated machines, we were usually running commands such as "copy-clock-tod-to-io-board", nothing too creative. While I was there, the Sparcstation 20's reached end-of-life and we were allowed to bring one
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by Ologn 12y ago
I agree. I went from dot-com Unix admin to investment bank Unix admin in 2000. Luckily it was via a consulting company. They said my interview process was unusual, because every internal interviewer passed on me, while every interviewer
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by Ologn 12y ago
> the job-market I've always experienced has been one of ever-increasing demand Believe me that can change. In a heartbeat. February 2000 and February 2002 were like night and day. BSCS's become much more important as oppose
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by Ologn 12y ago
I primarily program Android and have talked to many other Android programmers. The primary blunder companies make on doing an Android app is they pretend they're making an iOS app. This is very widespread. The company has a database.

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