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by antrix 14y ago
I picked up my parents from the airport last month. It showed me the time of arrival updated in realtime while I was going to the airport. At the airport, once the flight had landed, it started showing me the checked baggage collection belt
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by antrix 14y ago
> Sony's solution is called Homestream[1] which is just a transcoder. Sony's Homestream is just string replace s/Serviio/Homestream :) Serviio: http://www.serviio.org/
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by antrix 14y ago
I've setup up: "<my name> | EMERGENCY CONTACT: <wife's name> @ <wife's number>" A side-effect of having a long string like the above is that the OS will scroll the text side-to-side (marquee style) to display the who
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by antrix 14y ago
> Admittedly, I wasn't thinking about browser based JITs when I said that :) Don't HotSpot and JRockit also do background (de)compilation & swapping of generated code?
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by antrix 14y ago
When I refreshed my resume [1] last year, I went with Bootstrap first. But I found it really difficult to modify the defaults that Bootstrap provided. The deal-breaker for me was that the responsive grid worked only when the container width
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by antrix 14y ago
But they wouldn't be able to call it FirefoxOS. The source may be open but the brand & trademark certainly aren't.
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by antrix 14y ago
I'd love to see a writeup with some code samples. Android view animation is something I've never really got the hang off.
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by antrix 14y ago
I thought of it as a glitch too.. till I made enough progress in the game to find that it was a progress bar. Would be better if it started from the right of the 'up' button and not from the very edge of the screen.
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by antrix 14y ago
> WinRT lets MS say to Intel that Intel has to care about the tablet market and low-power processors I don't think Intel needs MS to say that. The lost money on the table in the smartphone-tablet ecosystem is enough incentive!
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by antrix 14y ago
Precisely my thoughts. The way things are looking, by the time MS gets sizable Windows RT device sales, Intel would be beating ARM on performance/efficiency.
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by antrix 14y ago
> * Written in Python Isn't punch a nodejs app?
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by antrix 14y ago
Agreed. After their UK & France editions, I am hoping they'll launch an Asian edition too.
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by antrix 14y ago
The trouble with Twitter is that you can't go back and find tweets from the past to figure out, say, what did I do in the 2nd week of November last year or when did I send that notice out.
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by antrix 14y ago
> "Is the test failing because the test is out of date? Or is our program causing a bug?" IMO, when you change code (extensively), you'd still have to invariably answer those questions. But in the absence of tests, it becomes much harde
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by antrix 14y ago
> Tinfoil for Facebook And Tinfoil is better integrated with the Android system than the official Facebook app. Click a Facebook link in an app or browser - you'll get Tinfoil as an option to view the link but not the official app.
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by antrix 14y ago
(author here) Two points, (a) I was describing general lazy initialization, not just Singletons and (b)I believe the Enum approach is not lazy.
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Lazy Initialization in Java - Surprisingly Tricky(antrix.net)
6 points by antrix 14y ago|2 comments
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by antrix 14y ago
> but in reality not everyone is happy to use Google of various reasons. I don't think he is saying 'just use Google'. He is saying that Google's wide-spread adoption of OAuth 2.0 is existence proof that the technology itself works. &#6
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Affinity: a new OSS schema-less object database from VMWare(affinity.cloudfoundry.com)
2 points by antrix 14y ago|0 comments
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by antrix 14y ago
You should read the full article.. the hiring writers bit is just a parody.
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What if we hired writers like we hire developers(hitesh.in)
185 points by antrix 14y ago|93 comments
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by antrix 14y ago
One corporation is claiming losses from another corporation for services not rendered as expected. What's the outrage for?
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by antrix 14y ago
It is being argued that these losses aren't just vanilla trading losses. They arose due to technical glitches at NASDAQ which led to quotes being unavailable, delayed processing order cancel requests, missing acks, etc. Essentially, traders
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by antrix 14y ago
> Can you write/submit an end-user programming app like Scratch? Yes, you can. e.g AIDE : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
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by antrix 14y ago
Full quote: "github is a total ghetto of crap commit messages and unreadable and unusable pull requests" Conveniently left out the part most salient to Linus' argument? Linus repeatedly stresses that he thinks Github is great as a hosting s
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by antrix 14y ago
> (running newer code in older vms). That's pretty much how Java works too. In general, you can't take code compiled with a newer version and run it on an older VM. You will get class version mismatch errors.. they update the class vers
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by antrix 15y ago
> Ugh. Google, you have so many cool ideas and so little business acumen. Yeah, they became a 200 billion dollar company without business acumen.
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by antrix 15y ago
Sounds like`virtualenv` for Go. But shouldn't the need for this go away over time as Go 1.0 use becomes widespread?
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by antrix 15y ago
I personally know one company which lost a court case based on that defense. Not in US/under DMCA, though.
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by antrix 15y ago
Do you have plans to attempt an ICS build for the Nexus One?

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