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The "real" number is 66% While I don't normally agree with dismissing something from the source -- in this case Apple Insider -- the way that the article digs to try to generate their manufactured numbers borders on comical
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Good thing I never said "all of android", as there will always be edges that in many cases aren't even worth targeting. I did, however, say that many of the cheap phones are quite powerful. And they are. And as someone who ha
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the 80% of android phones that are cheap and basic with small data plans and limited access to slow wifi Ignoring the fictional statistics, the cheap devices (e.g. Xiaomi) in countries like China still tend to be surprisingly powerful, an
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I wouldn't quite say it does nothing, depending upon where in the stack the encryption is performed. If it's in the application layer (e.g. similar to transparent data encryption with SQL Server), it would stop anything else in us
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The various internal encryption statements seem to be speaking to the various NSA issues.
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Maybe the ecosystem should stop trying to profit from someone else's work. All of us profit from other people's work, and we all deal in derivatives, including Flappy Bird zero.
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but it's a terrible place for discussing important social issues Is an echo chamber really better, though? In this case Raganwald twisted someone's disagreement with an idea into a purported attack on a person, inventing a vic
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Having a tantrum and trying to raise a mob because someone says something that you disagree with is, under the most charitable of interpretations, bully-like and absolutely childish. His original comment was fishing for a query, and such wa
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Is it irony that Raganwald is trying to group shame someone( 1 ) for stating their opinion? 1 - they have to know with certainty that people will dig into the cause of their rather childish blowout. If people want to quit something for
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You can't change one part of history and everything else remains the same: In the early days the single and only reason Android had any hope at all was that it was the concerted push of a dozen+ once major manufacturers in the face of
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There is consensus on a very small percentage of the dogma that is so often dragged into this debate. Haughtily declaring your "pro-reason bias" doesn't help your cause, and it makes you appear irrational. The Earth's cl
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Is this true? I've yet to actually sell anything on either platform, but my understanding is that Apple is the seller of apps on the App Store, and makers are simply publishers who effectively get a royalty check. The Google Play store
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I can only draw from anecdotes, but those align with your suspicion: where overtime was mandatory (where management was largely about maximizing suffering ^1, as if suffering has any value by itself), everyone simply compensated by doing le
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Most people, once they've established a position, become incredibly "biased" in their views. Skeptical Science, which I mention because it is referenced some dozen times in here, is the sort of site that proselytizes to the c
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Despite your insincerity, for those who actually care the negative trait I was talking about is sophistry: The collapsing of complex situations with many players and perspectives into single-dimensional, black and white, clear-cut projectio
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Your analogy adds nothing but noise to the conversation. The lawyer for the accused never recants either the confession, or that his client said what he is reported to have said. In typical defense lawyer posturing, instead he tries to draw
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they're nothing but another gang and the only good cop is a dead cop. Hacker News is rapidly becoming Reddit. Reddit has its place, but this is not a good thing .
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They arrest the guy and sentenced to ten years in jail with just a screenshot of a Facebook comment as a starting evidence. I don't believe he has been sentenced to anything. He was given an offer of 10 years probation, which his law
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People have skill sets and acclimations: If someone is an xcode developer that has cracked out a couple of iOS apps, probability dramatically favors that they will do so again, perhaps even justifying using the hammer again. There is noth
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TCP establishes a two way connection (SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK), so you can send the original SYN but the SYN-ACK will go to someone else and be discarded. UDP is fire and forget, in contrast. There is a proposal from 2000 that is mentioned in the
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Maybe the developers have a Macbook and know iOS? And if we're going to talk metrics, at the rate that Google Play spending has been exploding, it will be passing the iOS ecosystem sometime very shortly. By no stretch am I saying that
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As he posits some may conclude, it does just read like bitter sour grapes...yet I've been professionally programming since 1995. Is someone casting their own lot as the lot of the world? http://www.theonion.com/articles
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Do you think either Apple or Google bring down the "hammer" for fake reviews? Hint: They don't. They remove the fake reviews, but if there were really a ban hammer it would be a fantastic way of getting your competitor's
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The original creator gave up $50k/day and took the #1 game off the market. Why do people think he gave up $50k/day? The hundred million or so installs are still out there. The advertising account is still active and in full effe
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Just as an aside about Flappy Bird, pulling in Bitcoin given it's another hot topic -- on Android he used the AndEngine project ( http://www.andengine.org/ ). It's interesting to see that the project has received ab
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It does sound like a bug in Bitcoin, and it's one that people have to specifically work around. It does not sound deadly, but nor does it sound ideal. And it does seem likely that someone figured out that Gox was doing what they were d
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Villain? Super-intelligent? While your strawman is interesting, and typical in a discourse that too often has to be extremely polarized opposites, it has zero relevance to my comment. Don't try to use me as a lever, thanks.
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The linked article talks about the enormous upswings at the end of January, and pewdiepie was likely the funnel that caused that. However YouTubers had picked up Flappy Bird much earlier, again for the "so impossible" angle (in th
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Absolutely. There are thousands of them. Indeed, the whole "this game is super frustrating" was a meme the author of the game picked up on and leveraged in December. e.g. https://twitter.com/BarlowConnor/statu
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It is not obsession with money, it is just confusion over it. The actions and statements of the author seem completely at odds, and he literally could not do more self-promotion if he tried. Seriously, beyond assassinating a world leade

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