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by aceperry 12y ago
I had no idea that "MS-centric" meant your site is hosted on Windows. Thank you for clarifying that. IOW, WTF ???
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by aceperry 12y ago
Maybe I've conflated your response with others here who seem to have a huge dislike for Android and an obvious bias against anything Google. If that's not you then I apologize for the misunderstanding. I can understand being rea
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by aceperry 12y ago
"I used to do everything in google's ecosystem " How does that work if you're using Windows phone? "Microsoft has been forced to get it, their stuff works great on all platforms" I can't get IE, VS, or muc
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by aceperry 12y ago
This. Strange to see so much hate on Google. I've never seen that anywhere else.
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by aceperry 12y ago
??? Why would stack overflow focus on MS when MS has their own forums and developer resources? I have to admit, I don't look for MS things on stack, but everything else I have questions about I'll look there. In fact, most searc
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by aceperry 12y ago
Well, for what it's worth, your posts are quite reasonable and balanced. And I think your observations are accurate, I've noticed the same things.
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by aceperry 12y ago
"But did it actually get faster? Not by much" It's a new runtime, and expected to get better and faster. If you don't like it that much, and you sound like you really HATE Android, maybe you should use something else.
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by aceperry 12y ago
I have to agree with you about the MS shills. Seems pretty bizarre, especially with all of the hate on Google that appeared instantly here. They also include incredible love for MS products, which I don't see anywhere else. Sure fee
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by aceperry 12y ago
I have a completely different view of how Microsoft behaved when it was dominant, vs Google today. Back in the day, most of the tech industry feared Microsoft. MS had a monopoly over hardware and software companies and bullied everyone.
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by aceperry 12y ago
"This reminds me so much to Windows 95 ..." That statement is so wrong... I switched to linux from Win95 because the bluescreens sucked so bad. No comparison really.
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by aceperry 12y ago
Preliminary cause is described here: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15045
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by aceperry 12y ago
"Nokia, Motorola, Erickson, Blackberry. There was a glut at the cheaper end" None of the dominant phones had what Apple's iphone had. Apple is clearly not catering to the low end/margin business either. "But for Ap
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by aceperry 12y ago
Gnome Terminal is the shit. It's totally awesome and other terms seem to copy it, like xfce's terminal. It wraps text just fine for me, has profile switching and lots of other features. Funny you mention that OS X is taking away
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by aceperry 12y ago
While Apple revolutionized some industries in the past, I wonder if manufacturing cars makes any sense for them. Under Steve Jobs, Apple has completely changed computers, the music and entertainment industries, cell phones and mobile devic
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by aceperry 12y ago
"But I had to add some tape, as it wasn't strong enough to keep itself in place properly" I hope it was duct tape, otherwise it may not last for too long. Funny project, done in a cool way, and a great hack.
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by aceperry 12y ago
'The key word being "part", so the headline is incorrect.' That's a ridiculous argument. Parsing the spec like that is meaningless. "While it was the main innovation in 2.0, EDR was optional in the spec."
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by aceperry 12y ago
Nice. Reminds me of a software monitor. Can't wait to see what other features will become available.
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Linux has nearly 2000 new developers in past 15 months(arstechnica.com)
7 points by aceperry 12y ago|0 comments
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by aceperry 12y ago
"the patents concern a specific feature of Bluetooth 2.0" That's not a "feature" of Bluetooth 2.0+, it's a fundamental part of the Bluetooth spec. Without it you couldn't have Bluetooth. So the headline
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by aceperry 12y ago
I would love to see that paper.
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by aceperry 12y ago
I fully agree with you there. I'm working on some BT stuff, and find it to be lacking, mainly the software stack. The spec looks ok for a wireless interface, the quality of the stacks are all over the place.
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Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung(arstechnica.com)
83 points by aceperry 12y ago|46 comments
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by aceperry 12y ago
"Squeezing the people doing the work was probably not the idea from the outset" Looking at some of the companies that are popping up, it's looking more like the case where the "contractors" are getting squeezed more
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by aceperry 12y ago
Absolutely! Glad to see that most commenters here see that this gig economy is really bsed on exploitation.
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by aceperry 12y ago
"their people don't understand economics and vote in favor of things that are economically good" And what is economically good for India? You say that as if you have the correct answer. You're also assuming that the pe
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by aceperry 12y ago
Funny that you mention elevator operator. When I moved to San Francisco, I saw a few elevator operators in some of the city's buildings. Where did you get the idea that the elevator operator in India had a job "Because he needs
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by aceperry 12y ago
I wouldn't blame India for its condition due to having a jobs program. They started off far down the hole when they became a nation after securing their freedom from colonization. They have progressed in many ways, including some of
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by aceperry 12y ago
It's not necessarily the answer, or even a good answer. But the service sector has been growing for a long time. And it has become one of the huge growth areas due to the software revolution. Just look at the types of jobs produced
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by aceperry 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with your points and sentiment, but have one minor issue. It might actually be cheaper in that type of economy to have manual laborers than to use machinery which requires its own support infrastructure and much high
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by aceperry 12y ago
In an economy where there aren't a lot of jobs and a lot of poverty, just about any decent job would give someone dignity. In those economies, it's probably cheaper to have human labor than machines.

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