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by ajg1977 17y ago
I'm curious why iPhone can't page application memory out to persistent storage (whatever of that 16GB etc you're not using for music) when they're in the background and RAM runs low. That would be the ideal - frozen background apps saved t
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Actually it sounds more like they have completely changed their business plan. Before: Provide communities and companies the software and hosting that enabled the creation of high-quality Q&A sites. Now: Create a carefully cultivated ga
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Frankly I think this sounds terrible. Instead of providing a service that allows people to create, maintain (and yes, perhaps fail) their own community Q&A sites as they see fit, the Stack Exchange team now seem to be aiming to crowd-so
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by ajg1977 17y ago
If the price point is right I think these are going to be smash hits with the younger crowd. To me they seem quite underwhelming, but if I look at how my younger sisters & cousins use their phones then all those boxes are checked and in
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by ajg1977 17y ago
My experience is quite the opposite. Unless it's in a darkened room, where the glow really does cause eyestrain, I've found reading on the ipad to be surprisingly pleasant. In landscape mode it feels "odd", but in portrait I find the device
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by ajg1977 17y ago
All of these apps will contain identical portions of code that are either included as a result of, or generated by, those tools. They're effectively like inadvertent watermarks. Once you identify these it's trivial to automatically scan exe
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Not true. There's already nothing preventing paid apps from running ads (CNN Mobile is one example) and the iAd framework makes it even more tempting for app authors to do so.
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Apple wants developers to take 1/8th of your phone(gizmodo.com)
9 points by ajg1977 17y ago|3 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
While both are stringent and designed to protect consumers, I'm not sure there are many other parallels between the processes of Apple and Nintendo. As a developer who's gone through the process of submitting games many times to Nintendo, t
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by ajg1977 17y ago
What could possibly go wrong..
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Yes. I'm sure there are others, but the most prominent is probably the wordpress app.
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Ubisoft's draconian new DRM already cracked?(kotaku.com)
2 points by ajg1977 17y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
To be honest no. While there may be people who buy the game after being able to sample it, there are far more who would happily pirate a game and never look back. Of course, it's foolish to equate every pirated copy as lost sale (as the RIA
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by ajg1977 17y ago
That's quite an assertion - care to back it up with your reasons? FWIW I've written similar "time bomb" crack prevention techniques that were used in a couple of reasonably high-profile PC games (e.g. 500k to several million copies sold). S
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by ajg1977 17y ago
And how exactly would that work? Every time a user, or potential user, mistypes your URL then best case they end up on some keyword related site. Worst case - they end up visiting some adword-buying competitor. If it's more profitable to di
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The US Senate Becomes A Polish Joke(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
6 points by ajg1977 17y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
The article mistakenly refers to an SPE as "the group of all SPUs", which is incorrect. An SPE is a single element that contains an SPU, a MFC, and some RAM. It (Geohot's work) is an impressive achievement but the magnitude of what's been a
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by ajg1977 17y ago
But for a "fair" comparison you would also have to adjust based on the cost of attending a movie compared to average income (it's increased disproportionally, even over the past 20 years), and take into account the other forms of entertainm
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Ask HN: How to sell/auction a domain name?
4 points by ajg1977 17y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
So tired of all this constant iWhatever speculation.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Sadly it's not too different from the current situation where the activities of people with similar names in your area can sometimes sneak into your credit report.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Looks like it'll do a great job of all the furniture-free rooms with perfect 90 degree corners I don't have!
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Technically it's not. Programs use the libdvdcss functionality built into VLC, but there are other alternatives (such as Fairmount) that also use libdvdcss. VLC is just more likely to be installed. Indeed, if you're running 64-bit Handbrake
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by ajg1977 17y ago
But who was your roaming provider while in California? Was it AT&T? T-Mobile?
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by ajg1977 17y ago
But there's no real argument, just a flimsy assertion that this will somehow allow people to better control their privacy. The inference is that often people are unaware that a network such as "Los Angeles" has millions of users and thus ar
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by ajg1977 17y ago
"Regional networks are hugely popular... so we've decided to remove them".
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Google to limit free access to news sites(news.bbc.co.uk)
14 points by ajg1977 17y ago|15 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
>> Calling a memory analysis "naive" because it bases itself only on the system allocation/deallocation routines is just silly << No, it's being accurate. Reporting leaks based on mismatched alloc/dealloc system calls is a f
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by ajg1977 17y ago
This seems like a very general and somewhat misleading statement that's based on a naively instrumented/integrated analysis tool.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Wasn't Pownce the software where they were using string functions to round floating point numbers? Doesn't sound like the sort of engineering know-how that would lead to a scalable system.

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