aceperry

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   by aceperry 12y ago

   Now it's getting spooky. What's next, self-aware computers? With their own impulse for self-preservation? Oh noes!
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   by aceperry 12y ago

   Maybe I am. Don't unplug the computer!
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   Xiaomi coming to the US(sfgate.com)

   2 points by aceperry 12y ago|0 comments
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   by aceperry 12y ago

   Nice, I didn't know about this board. It looks pretty interesting.
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   by aceperry 12y ago

   LOL, I totally love this. I wonder if this uses web audio.
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   Does the gig economy exploit workers?(sfgate.com)

   2 points by aceperry 12y ago|0 comments
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   by aceperry 12y ago

   I laugh whenever someone tells me that they never buy anything over the internet. Their reasoning is that they're afraid of hackers going after online transactions. It seems to me that most of the serious security problems reside in
8. 578.▲
   by aceperry 12y ago

   "I'm not dismissing their experience (if any)" Does that mean if someone doesn't like Win8, they don't have any experience? Or they're not serious? Sounds like an insulting dig at people you don't agree
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   by aceperry 12y ago

   LOL, looking at the headline for this item, I have to agree.
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    Jeb Bush campaign's tech troubles(politico.com)

    1 points by aceperry 12y ago|0 comments
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    Jeb Bush campaign dox citizens(gizmodo.com)

    4 points by aceperry 12y ago|2 comments
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    This is what I've been looking for. I didn't want to have to create something like this myself, but wanted to be able to reuse older smartphones lying around. I don't know if I want to use JS though.
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    Ouch!
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    In my experience, most users don't have surface or windows tablets. And they came from XP or 7. As far as I can tell, they use windows 8 as seriously as when they used xp and 7. You can dismiss the vast majority of people who have th
15. 585.▲
    by aceperry 12y ago

    It's good to see that consumers are beginning to question who owns and controls data that is collected from them. I sometimes think that the "big data" revolution is worse than anything the NSA is doing.
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    "I have never met anyone who truly likes windows" Interestingly, I've seen a small group of Windows fanbois arise within the last couple of years. Very much like the Apple fanbois; just as irrational and quick to take offens
17. 587.▲
    by aceperry 12y ago

    BB10, yes. WP, not so much. It may be better than the older Windows mobile, but not really in the same class as iOS and Android.
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    Really. I liked the hardware and BB10 very much. They had lots of unique and innovative features which would've made Blackberrys a viable 3rd OS.
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    The only Tizen phone out in the wild has had some bad reviews. I think Samsung is committed to Tizen for at least a couple more years, mainly as a foil to Google Android, as Samsung has stated repeatedly.
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    Yeah, sounds bad. The constantly changing API is just too much to keep up with.
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    "Google has done a good job trying to starve WP users of their services" I don't think Google has done anymore than MS to cripple WP. With WP, you can use Bing maps, Outlook, skype, cortana and all of the other MS apps that
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    I don't think WP lacks core functionality. It's the best looking phone OS today IMHO. But the design limits you to using only a few apps before it gets unwieldy. It's suitable for the casual smartphone user, not the power
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    I'm amazed that anyone going from an iphone would find the Windows phone to be acceptable. I would agree that the price/performance is pretty good for the low end Lumias. I have the 530 which I got for only $35, half off during
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    Part of the problem with the app situation is due to MS themselves. They've treated the independent developer as a second class citizen, compared to large corporations. Large companies get access to undocumented apis and much more co
25. 595.▲
    by aceperry 12y ago

    MS has changed that screwed up situation to a new store model. IIRC, it's now only $20/year I think, and that includes the ability to produce apps all across the windows landscape, desktop, xbox, etc. Originally, they copied the
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    That's pretty funny. It seems that Google and most Android devs don't really like what the OEMs are doing. From one googler's explanation, the OEM really believes that they're offering something that users are asking f
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    I guess that I mean, it doesn't offer half cooked buggy software. :-) Well, at least it works about as good as Windows stuff. This is from many years past, so that's the experience that I've had. But as other commenters s
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    I was thinking, hmm... Shouldn't this have been done in javascript? To keep up with the times that is. :-)
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    Sounds like great advice to me. I'm looking at different stacks and approaches now and coming to the same conclusion about using a single technology to reduce the context switching and simplify everything. The idea of taking time to
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    by aceperry 12y ago

    I haven't touched Debian in a long time, and I didn't know that unstable was a rolling release. Thanks for the info, I might look into it someday.