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by babebridou 15y ago
That's what alt+tab and ctrl+tab are for. The confusion comes from the use of only one back button instead of one per hierarchy. On android we have only one system-wide consistent timeline to work with, and that's the timeline of fired inte
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by babebridou 15y ago
I've had the issue using maps with primitive keys. I solved it by isolating the performance critical functionality and not using the Collections framework there, instead writing my own data structure for it (with heavy influence from the ha
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by babebridou 15y ago
The thing is, you need to remember that in France, you can't talk about personal fortune/money without raising public outrage. We have an extremely special relationship with money, it is absolutely taboo to talk about how much money you m
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by babebridou 15y ago
As requested: Biography in English http://www.economist.com/node/14402214?story_id=14402214 There's more available on French-speaking web - here are a couple links about his porn debuts and his jail time for misuse of company asset. http
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by babebridou 15y ago
Official press releases from competitor Orange says (paraphrasing): "Dear customers, we will let Free celebrate their D-Day, but stay assured we will make sure to come back to you later." All online & phone services for ending or transf
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by babebridou 15y ago
> It's rather an initiative championed by very very smart people, with very decent ethics. Let's not go there! Niel, founder of Free, did it all "for the lulz". His favourite passtime as an engineer founder is to take a market, build a
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by babebridou 15y ago
DSL Internet speed can be explained, according to my brother who lives in the US, with the way that local carriers segmented the broadband network by area. ISPs in the US, maybe in Canada too?, apparently benefit from a quasi-monopoly per l
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by babebridou 15y ago
The comparison with Jobs is very far-fetched in my opinion. Niel was rude, aggressive, partisan, almost violent with his words, and was all around not a good orator. The show was a blast nevertheless!
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by babebridou 15y ago
Niel specifically included all protocols, NNTP, P2P, VoIP etc. when he presented the "unlimited" data plan, to contrast with the kind of data plans the other carriers provide.
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by babebridou 15y ago
the first one is free. The others are either 2€ or 14.99€
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by babebridou 15y ago
The first "2€" mobile plan is completely free if you are a broadband customer. This puts the family budget down to something very, very manageable. None of the plans include any sort of 12/24month lockout. Devices payment over up to 36month
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by babebridou 15y ago
Others mentioned it, "Staying alive" is indeed not regulated for services nor for activities on Android. It is however strongly recommended to make Services terminate themselves when they are done and instead use the AlarmManager service fo
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by babebridou 15y ago
Well, from purely an app developer's point of view, the situation with Webviews on Android is completely opposite to the one you describe! WebViews are power hogs and unbearably slow to render anything. Their only saving grace in that respe
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by babebridou 15y ago
As a dedicated Android supporter, I wonder when the Android webview system will be decent enough to actually work with that design pattern, because the premise is good. Shake a xoom a little and the css loses track whether it's in portrait
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by babebridou 15y ago
How do you assess the "rightness" of the platform before you even know the order of magnitude of, say, traffic or concurrent users? I would love to rewrite my engine if it means I have a thousand times more customers than when I started. I
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by babebridou 15y ago
The question is more "what if you could talk as fast as you think?" French stand-up artist Pierre Desproges once said "one can laugh about anything, but not with everyone." It's the same with radical honesty. I've been able to enjoy "radi
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by babebridou 15y ago
This would actually be one of the better ways to do it. The link would only lead to Wikipedia donations, and the business would be essentially paying for public goodwill, a hefty sum of it. Just imagine Coca Cola making a big donation to Wi
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by babebridou 15y ago
I often got back to Playing to Win by David Sirlin - http://www.sirlin.net/ptw/ Though it's certainly aimed at competitive gaming, I also use it at times as an inspiration for my business. It helps whenever I need to take a second look an
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by babebridou 15y ago
I just finished Logicomix (got it as a Christmas gift), in French though. It's a great read for anyone looking for a refreshing take on the history of mathematics in the early 20th century.
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by babebridou 15y ago
I'm just implying that when the entry price of your product doubles and competition undercuts you to death, it's no surprise your market share goes down - at least in France. I'm also implying that maybe under Apple's pressure, maybe with t
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by babebridou 15y ago
"just price" indeed. In France there are incredible offers for Android phones (I got my Motorola Atrix for "free" back in september), whereas the prices of iPhones have doubled since the device opened itself to multiple operators, from 99
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by babebridou 15y ago
The current strategy for android is to keep pushing the device level up through app developers rather than through carriers. I'm now at a point where I do all my devs targetting Ice Cream Sandwich and including the compatibility packages fo
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by babebridou 15y ago
I'm currently building an app that only uses the permission for internet access, but it's also using basic functionalities of the OS for managing specific types of public files that might be on the SDCard or not depending on the device, in
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by babebridou 15y ago
This is my feeling, too. I never took any serious CS course during my studies, not more than maybe an hour a week at best on Mathlab, Caml, Prolog or Pascal, a tiny bit of assembler or LOGO, and these courses were almost always tied to othe
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by babebridou 15y ago
"I don't understand", eh :P, well, allow me to expand then, my English level isn't good enough to get my point across in a couple sentences. - The guy barges in uninvited as if all hell broke loose and goes directly to the tech manager inst
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by babebridou 15y ago
To be honest I don't know either. Eclipse has always runned fine until the rare day when some plugin goes overboard and destroys all hope. Last year for instance I've had bad issues with autocompletion on some huge classes (GLES20 I'm looki
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by babebridou 15y ago
I learned programming with Eclipse default settings and Java, on a PC with a classic AZERTY straight keyboard with 105 keys layed out in the classic way. At some point there's not debate, yeah Java is crap, yeah Eclipse is laggy, etc, but m
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by babebridou 15y ago
Well, as much as I agree with you from a personal perspective, I'm afraid it is part of your job to manage your boss, just like it's part of your job to build your team, build yourself, build your product, build your users and build your cu
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by babebridou 15y ago
This quote from the OP hit home. Me: The program was written with 3 SQL selects inside a loop. It ran OK when we had 500 parts. Now that we have 10,000 parts, it runs real slow. Boss: I don't understand. I could say
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by babebridou 15y ago
I'm definitely glad you like it, it means I'm not the only one ;) I'll see what I can do about the share button & opening the source. There's definitely tons of improvements to be made.

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