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by alayne 13y ago
I find the web programming model to be very difficult and limiting relative to desktop or mobile UI development. I don't take on any development work in that area because it is so unpleasant to me (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, DOM manipu
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by alayne 13y ago
There is some "flat" design that is similar to Android, but the similarities are fairly superficial and not what the article was addressing.
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by alayne 13y ago
How does anyone suffer either way? Someone is trying to get more open source out which seems like a good thing for any language.
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by alayne 13y ago
In the IPhone 5, the glass and digitizer are bonded. Apple charges $149 to replace them. I'm sure it's possible to do it cheaper.
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by alayne 13y ago
But they're not worried about the fact that more people are seeking political asylum from western countries? Is this our Roman Empire moment?
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by alayne 13y ago
I think looking at a popular open source project in C++ like LLVM may prove valuable http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html . Google has a C++ style guide http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn&#
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by alayne 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the author means "companies can hire a programmer IN India or Russia for 1/3 the cost of a US worker"
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by alayne 13y ago
I also have tried to figure out the original reason for hellbanning, and I think there are a lot of instances where you could chalk it all up to a temporary lapse of judgement. Sure there are extreme cases where people are nuts, trolls, or
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by alayne 13y ago
I lost flag ability recently. I must have overdone it. I had definitely been flagging a lot of non-tech posts that seem better suited for general news sites.
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by alayne 13y ago
Bing's results are much more entertaining.
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by alayne 13y ago
And the UTC would be wrong.
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by alayne 13y ago
I'm a big fan of the general visual appearance and behaviors of ICS and Jellybean! After Froyo and Gingerbread, it was a relief. With all the Project Butter work, Android has become much better. I wish they would block carriers from me
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by alayne 13y ago
Well, my personal experience is that things break on different Android devices for various and sundry reasons despite the existence of dp. If apps run on the iOS simulator you rarely find issues on an actual device except performance issues
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by alayne 13y ago
That is not what he's saying at all. He's saying there is disruption and an opportunity now, not that continued disruption (fragmentation) is a good thing!
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by alayne 13y ago
It's not even comparable. Android has many more levels of fragmentation than iOS ever will and Google knows that they screwed up. You have display resolution * display density * OS version * carrier OS modifications * device hardware (
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by alayne 13y ago
Why are people doing so much peer level file sharing anyway? Performance? Security? In a company it would be a lot better to have centralized servers with high availability, probably with some kind of web-based CMS to store files, something
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by alayne 13y ago
Memory performance is a big problem. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2158184/intel-memor...
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by alayne 13y ago
Like father, like son. Don't expect Rand to actually get legislation passed.
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by alayne 13y ago
Clash of Clans needs a revenue stream since there's a server component. The alternative to in app purchases would be a subscription for everyone. One non cynical way to look at it is: here is a free game for many people that is funded by ob
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by alayne 13y ago
This is our generation's moon shot.
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by alayne 13y ago
There was a big amount of noise about this stuff 6-7 years ago http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
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by alayne 13y ago
Not sure if this is related, but you often have to declare local variables volatile when using setjmp/longjmp because they do not preserve registers. It's one case where unoptimized C code will run fine, then -O will push variables into reg
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by alayne 13y ago
I figured someone would make that comment. I'm just giving one example of why this may not be a good engineering decision. It also makes it hard to access or inspect the wheel/tire in general. You can't just optimize for one thing like aero
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by alayne 13y ago
Here in snow country, the last thing I would want is for my wheels to be covered like that.
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by alayne 13y ago
I'm sure you will find strlen and linear searches too. It's more likely that absolute performance wasn't necessary for those cases, or memory usage with linked lists is better than a more complex data structure, or maybe even that linked li
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by alayne 13y ago
That's why you use a growth factor, say doubling the backing array when you need to grow. That makes the amortized cost of adding an item constant. The only case where a LL may be preferable are when you care about performance of inserting/
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by alayne 13y ago
This seems like a niche technology. I doubt that many C/C++ developers want to write front end code for the web.
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by alayne 13y ago
I would love to see Google design a car with usage data. It would have one door and the trunk would be perpetually open.
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by alayne 13y ago
I have new compose disabled. It's just more incompetent UI design from Google. Even their search page is bad. There are two menu bars after I run a search including two More drop downs and the poorly named Search Tools which seems to change
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by alayne 13y ago
Where's Internet Explorer and Office 2013 for OS X? Which significant Microsoft apps run on iOS? Obviously it makes sense for Google to get its advertising hooks everywhere it can, but I don't see Apple and Microsoft having the same cross-p

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