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by ahupp 11y ago
When porting a React Native app to android 85% of the iOS version was reused: "At the time of shipping Ads Manager for Android, that approach yielded around 85 percent reuse of app code."
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by ahupp 11y ago
" that taxi has to pay insurance in case I'm injured while I'm in their cab" Uber pays for commercial insurance for it's drivers. See http://newsroom.uber.com/2014/02/insurance-for-uberx-w
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Winners of the Oculus Mobile VR Jam(vrjam.challengepost.com)
1 points by ahupp 11y ago|0 comments
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Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015 Offers $1M in Prizes(roadtovr.com)
2 points by ahupp 12y ago|0 comments
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by ahupp 12y ago
"It seems to me that it is self-evident that most low-skill labor, at the very least, is in the process of being automated and is therefore going to be unnecessary. " I'm not sure this is restricted to low-wage labor. There
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by ahupp 12y ago
If you follow any DJI forums you'll find that the situation is not any better on that side. Anyone who's had to deal with their support is uniformly unhappy.
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by ahupp 12y ago
I have never seen this distinction made before. cite?
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by ahupp 12y ago
This seems like amazing technology, but I'm having a hard time seeing the use case for it. If you are sensitive to a single machine going down for a reboot, the occasional kernel upgrade is the least of your concerns. Those are at
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by ahupp 12y ago
They are increasing within any one user database, but there are many of these databases. So useridA < useridB only implies B is newer than A if dbid(useridA) == dbid(useridB).
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Inside the Mirrortocracy(carlos.bueno.org)
393 points by ahupp 12y ago|204 comments
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by ahupp 12y ago
The issue with XML-based schema languages is that they optimize for making the language designer's life easier at the expensive of its users. For anything with significant usage this is not a great tradeoff.
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by ahupp 13y ago
There are lots of places in the world where bandwidth is rationed for very real reasons, e.g due to oversubscribed cell towers.
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by ahupp 13y ago
Their description is entirely accurate, which makes your insults doubly inappropriate.
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by ahupp 13y ago
Just last week I string to think how I'd make ball bearings and this strategy came to mind. Neat to see that it's actually feasible.
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by ahupp 14y ago
> What's the use of medical advancement that can't help more than 10% of humanity? A drug under patent might be accessible to 10% of the population now , but considering the number of people who will be able to access it in the future
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by ahupp 14y ago
That only applies to trademark, not copyright.
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by ahupp 14y ago
Or, they did the same stuff when you were 4 but being an irrational 4 year old you never noticed.
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by ahupp 14y ago
Avatar cost $200-300m dollars to produce and promote, all before they knew it was going to be a hit. $10m for a TV show is of course beyond the abilities of most independents, but there's no reason to believe that only small independents w
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by ahupp 14y ago
I think this taking the wrong lesson from Netscape. If you do a greenfield re-write of a multi-million line application you probably are going to have a bad time, but people successfully re-write smaller applications or portions of an appl
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by ahupp 14y ago
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/intrusive/usag... Not sure if this qualifies as not "breaking encapsulation" but it's as close as you're going to get.
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by ahupp 14y ago
I felt the same way when I started at Facebook. The thing I've learned, though, is that your language choice is very far down the list of important factors. Most important: the problem you are solving and the quality of the engineers you
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by ahupp 15y ago
It would be nuts to consider starting a brand new, dependency-free project in PHP today for all these reasons and more. If the reason for doing that is "all I know is php", well, now you have two problems. That said, my primary language is
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by ahupp 15y ago
In San Francisco I can walk, bike, or take the train to most places I care to go. I realize other places (particularly SoCal) aren't like that though.
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by ahupp 15y ago
Eventually you'll have users in the same state, either because the push is not atomic or because the change is rolled out slowly. This means you have to build the change with this in mind regardless of the employee testing.
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by ahupp 15y ago
I wouldn't hesitate to put it on a CV. First, an entry would have to be really bad to be worse than a big unexplained gap. Second, startups go under all the time and everyone understands that this is more likely than not. If anything a
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by ahupp 15y ago
The legal and medical definitions of narcotic are not the same, unfortunately.
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by ahupp 15y ago
To support this you'd need refcounting of each object on top of the gc, which would be a substantial overhead.
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by ahupp 15y ago
Here's where the python one above (as well as a different haskell version) lives now: https://github.com/ahupp/bktree
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by ahupp 15y ago
Can you give examples of features we know how to make fast?
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by ahupp 15y ago
This has worked for a while, it's just much more apparent on his posts: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=496077348919

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