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by antrix 15y ago
I would actually like the opposite feature from Google: let me update my location in your DB! The last time I moved house, it was months before before my phone started locating me correctly when at home. Of course, the hard problem in doing
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by antrix 15y ago
Professional Photoshop users already have existing hardware. This is trying to fill the gap that none (afaik) of the existing hardware offerings support Linux. Also, if you really care, they say they'll ship a Linux Live CD with the device.
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Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Platform Highlights(developer.android.com)
6 points by antrix 15y ago|0 comments
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by antrix 15y ago
I upgraded to 11.10 today and guess what, suspend works! I had to add `i8042.reset` to grub config but finally, working suspend!
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by antrix 15y ago
I do have the v1.28 BIOS. And I think I did try that and all the other options I possibly could when I first got this laptop. I've just settled for the loud fan. Anyway, I'm going to upgrade to the new release and see what that brings!
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by antrix 15y ago
I have the 3810T too and I can report similar numbers. But still, I get more life when I boot into Windows. Moreover, suspend & hibernate just don't work & the laptop fan always stays on. It could be a buggy BIOS for all I know but
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by antrix 15y ago
I guess the issue is that making thread-safe GUIs is incredibly hard. So all GUI frameworks require you to update the GUI state only in the 'GUI thread'. Which means we use hacks like 'runOnMainThread', etc. to update the GUI. A saner way i
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by antrix 15y ago
I don't get this argument. If I replace my memcache logic with an in-memory thread-safe hashmap, it will always be faster. I can't see how it can be slow. As for 'simpler', as long as you aren't actually implementing the thread safe map, it
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Android niceties - showcasing great looking Android apps(androidniceties.tumblr.com)
3 points by antrix 15y ago|0 comments
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by antrix 15y ago
> Android UI design is easier coz it's XML so you can do it programmatically! That is absolutely not the point raised in the article. XML based declarative UIs help to keep your view code separate from the application's logic allowing f
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by antrix 15y ago
> Twitter now serves this purpose for a ton of people, which is lovely, but a carefully-chosen Delicious network had a signal-to-noise ratio that was pretty unbeatable. Moreover, searching for anything old on Twitter is pretty much impo
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by antrix 15y ago
I think it was a bad decision to ship devices with limited internal memory. But I'm trying to figure out how this is an 'architecture flaw'.
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by antrix 15y ago
This reminds me of something that happened here in Singapore not too long ago. The government had big plans of reviving the downtown area with lots of new developments, including the new casinos. As part of this makeover, they thought the t
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by antrix 15y ago
Feedback not on the concept but on your implementation. Since you are saving the UUID to SharedPreferences, you can simply implement a Backup Manager [1] to ensure this is persisted for the user across application installs. It won't be tied
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by antrix 15y ago
Not really, if you enable multi-threaded request handling. While one thread/request is waiting for IO/network to complete, other threads are still handling requests. All in the same instance.
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by antrix 15y ago
Go isn't going to help at least in the near term. Concurrent request handling is not supported on Go. Nor do they have it on their roadmap, AFAIK.
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by antrix 15y ago
Just two sentences after that, it lists exactly what it offers. One click away is the homepage which has much more detail. Are you seriously _so busy_ that you can't read a couple of lines more? And if you really are, please do practice ski
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by antrix 15y ago
FWIW, Google discourages the use of UDID as a 'unique user id' and recommends these alternatives: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-a...
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by antrix 15y ago
The original complaint & the actual patents if anyone is interested: http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/16/htc-sues-apple-patents/
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by antrix 15y ago
Here you go: http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/16/htc-sues-apple-patents/
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by antrix 15y ago
> Most these device makers outsource and do not have their own manufacturing. You mean like Apple?
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by antrix 15y ago
> The first litmus test will be the release of Honeycomb. You mean Ice Cream Sandwich? Google has made it clear that they won't be making a Honeycomb source drop. Instead, ICS would contain the 'converged' codebase from their phone (Gin
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by antrix 15y ago
> minimally affect the price of said stock by the sale. [snip] I'm not sure I seed (sic) the point of the latter This generally affects sales involving large quantities. Say you want to sell 10000 of IBM. The current order book at the
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by antrix 15y ago
> Java is notorious for having over-engineered frameworks You've got to separate Java the language from all the other stuff. You aren't going to use J2EE for Android so how does that affect you? Java may not be the most elegant languag
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by antrix 15y ago
Why is _Android_ development relatively easy? Well, for one thing, the territory is well trodden. ... _Java_ masters have been able to switch to _Android_ and tell people/show people how to code properly. ... _Java_ has been around for a wh
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by antrix 15y ago
Same here. At times, it gets so bad that I have to hit Ctrl+C and then it dumps out a nice big trace before giving me my shell prompt.
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by antrix 15y ago
Android is already selling tons of phones in Asia. HTC's rise as a top tier manufacturer is on the back of Android sales in Asia. Another data point: the Samsung Galaxy S2 has sold 5 million phones and it hasn't even been launched in the US
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by antrix 15y ago
What the parent is describing isn't so much OS version specific but device specific. If Samsung puts out a phone with a broken Android build on which the GPS is always faulty, as a developer, I can blacklist that device and my GPS reliant a
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by antrix 15y ago
A best of breed garbage collector is a strong argument for the JVM.
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by antrix 15y ago
In addition to what johnyzee says, in Java at least, a class with just static methods can't _implement_ any Interfaces.

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