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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I thought about a similar solution about a year ago, but mine involved embedding small spring loaded pins into the front, back and sides of phone that would pop up when the phone was dropped.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
This is a much better talk with better video and sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Here's their first ad campaign: Lenovo - we don't charge $257 to fix your space bar.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
That's just crazy. $257 for a space bar fix. That's like the price of 2 quality mechanical keyboards with RGB lighting.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I wasn't aware of this. So they launched 1.5 million balloons to set a Guinness World Record only to have Guinness not recognize the record and have 60% of the balloons fall into the river and eventually make their way to Canada. Crazy
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
This was my favorite part: >This is fun and is easier than optimizing gcc / llvm, since the majority of the Go compiler, runtime and standard library is written in Go
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Gravity syntax is designed to be familiar to people coming from C-like languages like Javascript, Swift, C++, C# and many more. We started working on this new language a year before Apple announced Swift and we were happily surprised to
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
This is my experience also. People not fluent with Gradle or just don't want to invest the necessary time in learning how it works just cut and paste stuff into it and wonder why it doesn't work anymore.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>I dont think AS is the problem. Android SDK + Build System + Emulators are just not good enough My AS Emulator starts in about 20 seconds from a cold start and in a couple seconds from a saved image state. >If it works the first time
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Funny how android studio helps you develop in 1 way : developing non-native java apps. How are Java/Kotlin apps non native in Android when they're first class languages that are compiled to native code? AS also supports Androi
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Good to see Google embarrassing Single Activity You probably meant "embracing", but a funny autocorrect nevertheless.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Edge on iOS and Android will have a built-in adblocker soon. You mean the same AdBlock Plus that allows selected ads to bypass it so long as you paid them?
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Edge is the most resource efficient No it isn't. According to this independent test not only did Edge lose to Chrome, but it was also wildly inconsistent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0112lYQBPE
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Here's Tim Draper's interview on CNBC telling people in 2018 that Elizabeth Holmes is an icon and hero. He was an early investor in Theranos and likely responsible for bringing in a lot of the major investors. As far as I'm c
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
What does that have anything to do with your original comment? You incorrectly stated there were 24 in 2018 when in actuality there was only 1.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Having used Access a few times I find it hard to believe how anything could be worse than that anti-productive, database corrupting, File Already in Use piece of garbage. It's astounding that they're still updating it.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I'm not seeing 24 products in 2018, but just 1 - Encrypted Search. I just realized you're counting the Others section and incorrectly lumping them into 2018. It would seem you also neglected to read Wikipedia's banner above t
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>In the past years Google has deprecated more than 100 services, so I will never trust them to build any software using their proprietary stack. And Microsoft has abandoned over 220+ products and services. https://pastebin.com
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
In the words of Lisa Jackson, VP at Apple: Please know that Apple will continue its work with law enforcement. We share law enforcement's concerns about the threat to citizens and we work closely with authorities to comply with legal
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
In addition to ML a lot of people are reporting offensive comments. If you care about your account then you should perhaps think twice.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
I would say Google has always taken the security on the Pixel very seriously. It's also the reason why the Pixel phone was unhackable at Pwn2Own 2017 while the Chinese teams had their way with the iPhone.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
My favorites are the ones that never knew Google Reader existed, but use it as a martyr every chance they get. >My fear is this -- once Google has control of the web, they can turn off huge parts of it for whatever reason, however though
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
You keep referring to the Android developer site as if they're some type of smoking gun when they have absolutely nothing to do with the point you seem incapable of proving other than to illustrate the obvious in that the Java language
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Chrome is borderline unusable on 8GB RAM - more than a few tabs open make it go into swap hell, I'm currently using Chrome on a 4GB system with 10 tabs open with no performance issues or fans screaming. To claim that Chrome is bor
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Except it wasn't a TCK project licensed for deployment on embedded devices. It didn't require a TCK license because Apache never called it Java nor did Google need permission to use it on embedded devices. >Says the Google
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Unless you live in China. In that case the Chinese government has full unfettered access to your iCloud Drive data and iCloud email.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Proof of what? That Google includes your Gmail, Gmail attachments, Photos, Videos, Music, Drive files, etc in their data exports.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
>Android started by copying Apache Harmony, as means of Google trying to avoid to pay Sun their rightful licenses, as confirmed by Andy Rubin emails. The Apache Harmony code base is an open source, free Java implementation, developed by
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Android is not a fork of the JVM as it doesn't use the JVM. You seem to keep on parroting this fallacy.
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by bitmapbrother 8y ago
Microsoft didn't rewrite Minecraft in C++. It was rewritten in C++ by 4J Studios that were contracted to do so by Mojang in order to bring Minecraft to the consoles. Microsoft did create the Windows 10 edition and likely reused a lot o

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