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by aphyr 17y ago
I'd be happier if Titanium started up in under under five minutes. Something is seriously troubled in their linux version.
752.
by aphyr 17y ago
Oh, believe me, I'd love to. The difficulty, however, is that extracting H264 or FLV streams from embed codes is a process that every video host is actively attempting to thwart--and there's some 15,000 of them, and one of me. :)
753.
by aphyr 17y ago
There's a lot of good stuff here--notably the (finally) decent support for literal sets, arrays, and maps in JSON style... but most importantly, closures! I am so sick and tired of creating one-off anonymous classes just to pass a function
754.
by aphyr 17y ago
We use a modified webkit2png, along with some ruby and erlang RPC stuff, to take thumbnails of flash videos at vodpod.com. It works great!
755.
by aphyr 17y ago
I started writing android apps four months ago. My co-worker started developing iPhone apps two months ago. We have similar levels of "Arrrgh, this is so broken" conversations--but about entirely different things. The android emulator is wa
756.
by aphyr 17y ago
Guys, you're all missing the point. Clearly what Apple wants is a virtual machine, implemented in Javascript, capable of running Scheme bytecodes. ;-)
757.
by aphyr 17y ago
Clearly, I only write Ruby because I never learned C (or Modula-2 and Java for that matter) first. And I'd never write in a high-level language to deploy to multiple platforms with totally different APIs. Is this article supposed to be ridi
758.
by aphyr 17y ago
Android's notification system is one of the things that really rocks about the platform. It's quick to scan, never gets in your way, and works seamlessly.
759.
by aphyr 17y ago
In some ways, I think the recent obsession over iphone ToS is a community backlash, though it seems overblown. I am surprised that four developers I know are dropping their iPhones at the end of contract and switching to Android. We must
760.
by aphyr 17y ago
A friend of mine maintains Thoth, a lightweight blog engine written with Ruby. It's a quality piece of work. http://wiki.github.com/rgrove/thoth/ If you're interested in photoblogging or a heftier multi-contributor model, I've written Cor
761.
by aphyr 17y ago
It doesn't work in yammer, market, contacts, google voice, or facebook. Google voice at least lets you copy the whole message, but then you have to paste and edit.
762.
by aphyr 17y ago
Some companies are interested in having their ecosystem succeed and keep their agreements largely stable. Developing software for Microsoft is typically a solid proposition, for example; they're unlikely to change the agreement as to what t
763.
by aphyr 17y ago
Doubtful. Adobe, Appcelerator, et al are not in competition with Apple, only making products which run on theirs. The ToS have always been disclosed as variable. It's a good reason not to predicate your business model on the whims of anothe
764.
by aphyr 17y ago
Agreed. Android copy and paste only works in 1 out of 10 text fields I've tried it on. Sometimes UI elements give a long-press option to copy. Seriously, copying an address from a text message to google maps should NOT be hard.
765.
by aphyr 17y ago
The iphone and ipad lack virtual memory? They can't be serious... it's a Mach kernel. Maybe he means swap?
766.
by aphyr 17y ago
Familiarity and learnability are not the only rubrics for UI design. While it's good to make products understandable by two-year-olds, there are other important considerations in UI. Can it help you accomplish the task efficiently? Reliably
767.
by aphyr 17y ago
I agree; it really depends on the individual situation. Most of the hourly folks I know who are commuting long distances are in the 30-45 dollar/hour range. Sometimes you have flexible hours, sometimes not. Other times you can freelance. Ot
768.
by aphyr 17y ago
Yes. Coming from android, the ipad app-switching interface feels cumbersome.
769.
by aphyr 17y ago
Both good works. Upvoted for taste. :)
770.
by aphyr 17y ago
Really? That's 460 hours per year, spent sitting on your ass in traffic. If you worked hourly at $20/hr, that's over $9000/year. If you average 30mph, and it costs 24 cents/mile in depreciation, maintainence, insurance, and gas to operate y
771.
by aphyr 17y ago
Often when I read something from a file or socket, prior to parsing, it's called data. Same goes for the information to be inserted into a template, or intermediate structures when transforming datasets or documents without knowing their ty
772.
by aphyr 17y ago
The search is working again, and MSNBC has an official article available. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36182383/ns/world_news-mideastn_...
773.
by aphyr 17y ago
My guess is they're not doing regexes. Someone in charge probably said "Stop people from searching for wikileaks" and they added that term to a hacked-together blocklist ASAP. Either that or they added it to a special list of queries that g
774.
by aphyr 17y ago
Tin foil hats? /?q=wikileak works, /?q=wikileaks returns an error. It's a politically sensitive topic involving the death of two press employees, possibly unethical conduct by the military, and the government has attempted to suppress its r
775.
by aphyr 17y ago
Before I read the summary, I thought a cord bank was a co-op where you could share all those electronics cables and cords you rarely need with others. I have so many cords the manufacturer included that I can't get rid of. Yes, yes I would
776.
by aphyr 17y ago
Ruby distinguishes between begin/rescue (analogous to Java's try/catch) and throw/catch. I never understood it until discovering that throw/catch is perfect for dealing with nested cases where rescue or break fail. Also, it works through fu
777.
by aphyr 17y ago
Oh, yeah, the 5% thing is only a small part of the article. I've just read four or five "OMG 80% of science is wrong!" articles this month, and think it's kinda tired.
778.
by aphyr 17y ago
I'm somewhat amused to see people complain that "commonly accepted" alphas of .05 are yielding high error rates. Surprise: setting your confidence interval at one-sigma yields a ton of false positives. There's a reason particle physics uses
779.
by aphyr 17y ago
Anyone out there have ideas about embedding HTML5 videos on other sites? I love that we can implement controls, playlists, etc., all in JS, but I do wonder how to safely hand off those features to another site, like the embed tag does for
780.
by aphyr 17y ago
Correction: it is highly probable that they will have a captain. :)

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