RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Samsung, Xiamo, Huawei, Lenovo all appear to be making good profits off of Android. There are a few other smaller players also making good profits, although note that Huawei and Lenovo are pretty big players, easily bigger than RIM/Nok
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Dungeon Keeper on Android filters out 1-4 star reviews(kitguru.net)
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He's not wrong though - competing with Google on Android is definitely possible. I think the best step would be to create an OSS (GNU?) distribution of Android in the same way we have Linux. While Linux doesn't have all the same p
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
What? No, it's got nothing to do with commenting. It's to do with basic code design: put your stuff in functions. A line like that should have been in a function to start with, and it should have been caught during a code review o
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I'm trying to work out if this is some grand statement on the similarities of Bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme in the way it's deflationary, or just a quick way for someone to make a few BTC. Maybe it's designed as a way to teach pe
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
You really shouldn't have to be relying on history for all of that context. It should definitely have been a function simply called 'triggerLayout()'. Then the exact and best method for triggering layout could be put in that
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
True, but Microsoft had a big role in it. "The new technology platform has been developed using the Microsoft .NET Framework, with support from Microsoft and Accenture, and marks the final phase of the Exchange's four-year Techno
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Not even just the early days - Microsoft's fairly recent attempt at providing software for the London Stock Exchange met with disaster and frequent downtime [1]. This from a major tech giant, not just a card game exchange. Running a re
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Not necesserily, it's still good to realize that there would be a more efficient solution. This applies in the real world too: you might be working out the best way to notify servers of an event through P2P, but it may be better to sim
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
As far as I know, the guys making custom ASICs for mining are selling them to miners for real dollars. I don't think that helps your point much.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head here - scaling up a real exchange is incredibly difficult and the kind of talent you need to hire probably has a price tag hugely in excess of the revenue of all BTC exchanges combined. These guy
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
People are dismissing this too easily. Looks matter, a lot. Tipping is an emotional connection - it's not a logical transaction. The tipper is making a contribution to something he likes. Giving 0.000000005 BTC gives the tipper and tip
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Any chance of someone putting together a benchmark for http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ for quasar? It would be nice to see how it compares to other techniques.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Definitely, thanks for adding in those terms. I kept it simpl(er) and left out the extra terms because I think that those two terms (benefit from cutting the corner vs loss of not cutting the corner) are the major factors when making the de
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Honestly the pricing is the real unnerving part here and it's definitely going to be a deal breaker for much of your audience. Personally I'd prefer something like this: I enter my current flight details and the price I was going
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I managed to read the article before it went down, it was a pretty good read. Hopefully it comes back up soon. Anyway it makes a good point that business objectives come before "best practices" which I agree with, but you need to
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
By far the most correct observation. These guys are just following a script - they probably don't even know what half of the words mean. Please don't read anything into it or assume the outsourced support is somehow privy to anyth
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
These comments are a bit off target. 1. You'll never buy a big screen TV for what it costs to have a cruise. They're generally about $500-$3000 depending on length, with full room, food and entertainment provided. If you're l
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
There's also another option for doing async on the JVM: http://vertx.io/ The polyglot aspect, very impressive performance (as it's based on netty), and simple deployment model make it an interesting choice. It let
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Well you've got a free plan and a paid plan: so first question would be what conversion rate do you have from free to paid users? If that rate is under 1% for active free users moving to paying users then it's definitely a value p
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
This question is even deeper than just a you or not you. It's been a tough question for a very, very long time. [1] "The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of w
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Good eye, I didn't notice at all. It is indeed fake and done with a green screen and post processing.
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RAID controllers will usually have backup batteries for just this reason.
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It is the biggest problem, it's just hard to see. Let's assume iMessage was OSS and freely uninstallable/re-installable on iOS devices. This would mean that an iMessage fork could be created that was able to talk to additiona
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Um. I'm not the one who made iMessage - you need to look at the guys making locked down messaging systems for the user-hostile actions causing problems like these and no doubt much more in the future. If I could help these people out a
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Just think, if you hadn't used a proprietary messaging solution as your default contact method, you'd be able to easily control how you receive the messages. Maybe stuff like this happening is a good thing as it drills home the po
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Dealing with overly detailed project planning (bert-hubert.blogspot.nl)
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Some people just don't like declarative programming(kirit.com)
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I don't see how immutability makes much difference to garbage collection. Garbage collectors don't look at the value inside memory they are collecting, only whether something live is still retaining that part of memory. Whether th
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Why does an MVP need an original typeface? Seems the opposite of minimum. Looks good, nice work.

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