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by chickenbane 9y ago
This is often stated, but when you actually look at his accomplishments (from Wikipedia): > Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 pe
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by chickenbane 10y ago
> Something tells me shipping your phones off to be built by other people in China and building your own auto assembly factories from scratch are two completely separate things. This is the question. Indeed, an electric auto is far simp
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by chickenbane 10y ago
One of my responsibilities on a medium-sized Scala team was managing the builds. Naturally, this meant learning the wonderful world of SBT. SBT is the "Simple Build Tool", but it's misnamed; in a way, I think SBT is the qui
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by chickenbane 10y ago
A bit off topic, but I was just in New Orleans for a fun trip. I normally use Lyft, but apparently Lyft pickups were not allowed at the airport so I used Uber (my last Uber ride was months ago). After waiting at least 15 minutes in the pi
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by chickenbane 10y ago
> I am sceptical that Scala/Kotlin and many others started in last decade stand chance against Java/Rust/Swift/Go In contrast to Scala, Kotlin has a much stronger focus on Java interop so its able to much better lever
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by chickenbane 10y ago
The purpose of the report is not say what the update situation is across Android devices, Google has a monthly dashboard for that: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html If you're intereste
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by chickenbane 10y ago
In today's media environment is it strange scary-sounding headlines are published without deep analysis or actual evidence to back them up? But headlines saying devices are vulnerable is not evidence that the Android users are adverse
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by chickenbane 10y ago
> you should have started on it years ago As somebody who has been following Android for a while, this statement is incredibly unfair. The Android ecosystem is huge and remarkably safe. For those actually interested in the details, the
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by chickenbane 10y ago
I recently watched and enjoyed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkdPjbaLngE where he describes the hack of the Nintendo Switch, because they shipped an old version of Webkit. It's pretty impressive to see how &qu
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Reminds me a lot of Jesse Wilson's excellent talk, "Decoding the secrets of binary data". It's a fun video to watch on a lazy Saturday =D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_p22jMZSrk
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by chickenbane 10y ago
My eyes started to glaze over this piece, but dating a surgeon really opened my eyes to their very exclusive profession. First of all - forget about the tech industry, surgeons are overwhelmingly male. It's obviously a tough path to g
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by chickenbane 10y ago
As an Android developer, this article is clickbait. However, had this been written just a few years ago it would have definitely rang true. Android development was truly in a gruesome state - based off of Eclipse and clunky build and a mi
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Agreed, came here just to make this comment. It's silly that a piece comparing the two map apps - inherently very visual - has such bad imagery, especially considering the author clearly spent good time making those images. Worse, be
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by chickenbane 10y ago
I have no love for those who visit child porn on Tor, but in general I am now very wary of the FBI. I can't help but feel it's a powerful organization that's slowly turning into a dark oppressive one. The power grab from th
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Dropbox is currently indispensable for iOS users. Most iOS people I know use Dropbox as the clunky-but-works app-to-app sharing mechanism. Dropbox is not as popular on Android because apps can integrate more naturally. iCloud may be easie
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by chickenbane 10y ago
I do not think writing Android apps is straight-forward and would not recommend it to new developers or engineers like the author who want to do other things like iOS. People's expectations for apps is only getting higher, and there a
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by chickenbane 10y ago
On the other hand, Twitter is dealing with strings < 140 character. Pokemon Go is tracking all the trainers and Pokemon at all times, not to mention the gyms and lures.
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Best innovations come from the most surprising places: Sundar Pichai(blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by chickenbane 10y ago|0 comments
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Actually, Chrome dropping a feature that was removed from a spec, was a lot of code and had low adoption sounds like a good idea. Engineering is always about trade-offs, and choosing a good balance in Chrome is what made it so popular. The
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I'm of the belief that you shouldn't refer to yourself as courageous. Especially if you're a company. Courage is something others must judge, and I was amused during the keynote Apple used th
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Yes, of course he is. Most people are not talented enough to run one company, let alone have the time. The primary thing that concerns me is I understand his rush. As Tesla is rushing towards the Model 3, they remain largely without compe
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by chickenbane 10y ago
You are fine using apkmirror to grab an update you haven't yet received from the Play Store. When you install the apk, Android knows you are updating an app, verifies the signature, and ensures it came from the same developer. Android
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Might be a false statement, but it's effectively true. Defense is part of their charter, but American government and corporations are clearly very vulnerable and are compromised routinely. At this point I'd argue Google's se
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by chickenbane 10y ago
"crap" aside, users of the Play store (as well as Apple's App Store) are overwhelmingly safe. Google now has Android Security Annual reports [0]. From that you can see that if you only use the Play Store (no sideloading), onl
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by chickenbane 10y ago
I wouldn't be as alarmed at the NSA's data collection revealed by Snowden if I felt they took their job of defending and protecting US systems with as much zeal. Of course, as the government's own reports show mass surveillan
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Here's the announcement from Google http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/06/github-on-bigq...
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by chickenbane 10y ago
I did a double-take reading this: Google Maps appears differently depending on the country of your IP address, allowing the company to stay on the right side of the law in the many jurisdictions where it operates. Log in from Chi
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The Geek Behind Google's Map Quest(fastcompany.com)
1 points by chickenbane 10y ago|2 comments
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by chickenbane 10y ago
Not only is this a great read, but the follow up for citations is replied with "I am the reference". If this were reddit I'd post the hot fire gif. Eh, here it's anyway: http://i.imgur.com/VQLGJOL.gif
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by chickenbane 10y ago
I love Gmail and wish Hangouts got more love. Obviously Gmail is hugely successful in email, and an email address is identity for most services. On the other hand, mobile is where the puck is going, and the base identity for mobile is pho

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