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by campnic 14y ago
Or really tight dates to meet and rushing.
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by campnic 14y ago
So, it sounds like 'spriting' in this context is a way of sending a stitched together larger image and then showing a portion of it in each uiimage. I work on Android, and I'm interested in the technique but just was looking for some valida
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by campnic 14y ago
I can confirm IBM uses an evaluation technique that is modeled off the stack technique. All employees have a band for their job. Rank employees by performance per band. Then assign raises/promos based on performance relative to band. I can
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by campnic 14y ago
Ha' then I'm appreciating your honesty :-)
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by campnic 14y ago
I appreciate your insight into the original article and your help placing it into the context of the broader field.
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by campnic 14y ago
Is there any study of the cumulative effects of stationary standing vs. sitting?
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by campnic 14y ago
I'm baffled by this statement. You seem to be drawing comparisons between Flash and Java when Flash's use cases would describe about 10% of the use cases of Java. Are you referring to Java in the browser only? Or are you referring to all Ja
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by campnic 14y ago
How hard would it be just to expose the information on who up-voted an article? That would leave it open to easy mining to figure out up-voting trends.
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by campnic 14y ago
I'd only read about not being able to replace the HDD, but permanent memory modules? I'd say this is news, since I haven't heard of this situation in any other computer in recent memory. Of course now i read that Mac Airs do the same, so i
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by campnic 14y ago
The knowledge is esoteric to what is being done. I know its convenient to believe so, but there are smart people that make mistakes. Misusing one of these methods isn't discouraged because its obvious, its discouraged because it fails in no
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by campnic 14y ago
Aren't you as the person providing the application ultimately responsible for knowledge of what library calls work well and, thus, which you should use? I think Zed's cautionary statements are merely summarizing a bunch of his experiences,
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by campnic 14y ago
One additional concern on this: the cost is hidden. My current company sometimes misses this issue. The developer you've outsourced to can take 1.5x but if that slows down not just his items but dependent work, the cost can be very difficul
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by campnic 14y ago
Its not surprising to me at all that you guys have spent a lot of time thinking about this. I think people with a legitimate use case for not hosting their plugins on the webstore will be able to cope with the workaround.
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by campnic 14y ago
I have spent a few minutes trying to think of an alternative to this. I understand that users getting tricked into installing malware is a big issue. I think we, as developers, are paying a bit of a price for the number of popups we used to
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by campnic 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing and was baffled by all this wii-u talk. Air play is a really neat feature I've been jealous of with my Android devices. If they are able to provide a similar experience using the xbox i already own and my compu
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by campnic 14y ago
Verizon carries the Galaxy Nexus.
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by campnic 14y ago
Author here. Thanks for reading. I concede that its possible to manage Bitmaps without issue. But I'd argue there are tons of resources (and SO questions) because the system in place is such a mess. Recycling bitmaps manually is a non-funct
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Android Image Problems(blog.nicholascampion.com)
4 points by campnic 14y ago|3 comments
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by campnic 15y ago
So, you should balance this. There are lots of people out there that do well serving ads. It really depends on your product and your alternative avenues to revenue. It is a cautionary tale, but you shouldn't close the door because of that.
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by campnic 15y ago
Your comment only makes sense under the argument that when a user purchases an app, the developer is indebted to the user to provide future functionality of any variety. Maintenance should not be expected for free. New features should not b
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by campnic 15y ago
Put this together over a weekend. Wanted to put it out there to see if other people had suggestions or might be looking for this sort of integration with HipChat. I love HipChat and strongly recommend it if you need a simple standalone chat
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jHipChat - HipChat API for Java/Android(github.com)
1 points by campnic 15y ago|1 comments
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by campnic 15y ago
This title is misleading, the article starts: "U.S. newspapers lost $10 in print advertising revenue last year for every $1 they gained online, a deeper loss than in 2010, as competition from Internet companies increases, a study by Pew Res
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by campnic 15y ago
I think this assumes that there is no concerted effort by a group of people to be arrested. If a group of people had this mission in mind and committed a crime to become incarcerated in an already overwhelmed part of the US, wouldn't that b
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by campnic 15y ago
I saw a presentation by the Founder of Dwolla which suggested they were working on some interesting monetary software. Located right in Des Moines : http://blog.dwolla.com/another-ramp-looking-for-more-team-me...
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by campnic 15y ago
That is exactly what happens. There are so many tiers of issues its hard to dissect. 1. Big corporations get much better rates by pooling all their employees together and then negotiating for coverage. 2. The insurance companies pool all th
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by campnic 15y ago
I was going to write up some big rebuttal but I realize now we are arguing from very similar positions. 1.) Developers don't understand what they are worth 2.) The culture of 50+ h/week working is pervasive I think the point where we disagr
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by campnic 15y ago
I think it's the convenience. I think its because employers for large companies get the only reasonable health care rates in the country. If you work for a large employer and you have a way as an individual to get comparative coverage for
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by campnic 15y ago
The problem I see with many of these lines of thought are that they grossly over simplify the effects of situation and environmental factors. Even if there exists a comparable job with better hours, its existence doesn't always make it a vi
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by campnic 15y ago
Wow, vrapper is what I've always wanted. Thanks for posting this. Its always amazing to me when some part of someones comment really changes my daily development. This is one of those times!

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