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by damian2000 7y ago
Exactly - done in order to fake volume - so it looks like your exchange is doing a lot more business than it really is. Also to manipulate the bitcoin price on your exchange, although it would be difficult to make significant moves due to a
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by damian2000 7y ago
Totally agree - Theranos went on for something like a decade without any evidence they had made any sort of process breakthrough or innovation. The whole company was built on lies and bullshit. The co-founder dude who put up the initial mon
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by damian2000 7y ago
In my view there's been a turnaround since the days when they were seen as money hungry monopolists. They're still a business that has to make money, but they're contributing to open source more, and they've released Vis
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Counter overflows and clock drift bugs in safety critical systems(dodgycoder.net)
3 points by damian2000 7y ago|0 comments
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Counter overflows and clock drift bugs in aircraft and missile defense systems(dodgycoder.net)
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by damian2000 7y ago
I came across this from the wiki page on Actor model programming languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Later_Actor_progra...
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The P Programming Language(github.com)
3 points by damian2000 7y ago|1 comments
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Pros and cons of using Shopify to build an online retail website(dodgycoder.net)
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by damian2000 7y ago
That was a great episode, the guy funded a lobbyist from his own pocket to the tune of $70k but still lost
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by damian2000 7y ago
It loaded for me ok, I'm using the Materialistic HN app on Android
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by damian2000 7y ago
Can see the author's point, but I know people in their late teens who never would have bothered ringing up restaurants to get things delivered. They only do so now because its a single app with many choices ... similar to Uber in this
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by damian2000 7y ago
Agreed, although I thought it was a key value store as a service at first
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by damian2000 7y ago
Fortran 77 was the language I used in my first job in 92 on DOS and Unix. Can't see the benefits over other languages like C, Go, Python though. Unless you've got some specific high performance floating point ops requirements?
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Lightweight IoT Command and Control(dodgycoder.net)
3 points by damian2000 7y ago|0 comments
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The Many Benefits of Regular App Updates(dodgycoder.net)
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by damian2000 7y ago
For Australians, I'd compare this place to a red dot store, just a little larger. I wasn't really that impressed by it, didn't seem like it's doing anything better than other stores. Maybe it's unique in Japan becau
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Inactive/Failing Mobile Apps: The Many Benefits of Regular App Updates(dodgycoder.net)
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by damian2000 7y ago
Minor point but I know c# has a GeoCoordinate class into the framework Dlls. It also contains methods to calculate distance between points. Many .net Devs I've worked with didn't know about it. I think it came out first in .net 4.
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by damian2000 7y ago
You're totally correct, you can do pretty much anything you want in Android running in the background. But the post you replied to is referring to Stopping an app .. via the app info in settings. In this case it stops the background se
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by damian2000 7y ago
I think the complexity is when say 2 aces have been played, how exactly does that affect your chances vs the dealer. Do that for every possible deal. I'm reading Ed Thorpe's autobiography right now and he goes into some detail abo
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by damian2000 8y ago
No way that will happen, the ones without the fix will remain grounded as a safety issue.
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by damian2000 8y ago
There's a number of differences, including generics done well. The team behind C# seem really engaged and transparent. The latest C#8 brings non nullable reference types, similar to how Kotlin does it.
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by damian2000 8y ago
Yes this is a complete piss take, potentially a joke gift.
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Instant Agile Practitioner Just Add Coffee: Blank Lined Journal(amazon.com)
1 points by damian2000 8y ago|1 comments
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by damian2000 8y ago
Google's solution - Firebase Cloud Messaging is for the most part free and fairly easy to setup. Yes you can use curl to call their HTTP/REST endpoint to send a notification I believe. If you get to the stage of sending millions o
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by damian2000 8y ago
Those open connections would be very hard to keep open indefinitely in an Android app that gets optimized or goes into sleep / doze mode.
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by damian2000 8y ago
XMPP is only one option for communicating with the FCM server. The most popular method is using HTTP/REST. XMPP is only needed when you have bidirectional messages - server to client app (downstream) and client app to server (upstream)
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by damian2000 8y ago
AllBirds were originally designed for exactly this reason - the founders didn't like the branding on shoes
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by damian2000 8y ago
I think desktop support will always be there in some form or another because I believe to port flutter to some particular platform wouldn't be a massive amount of work. Reason is that Flutter is written to address a graphics layer such
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by damian2000 8y ago
The reply from a Google employee when asked this question was to look at the Google AdWords team - they have invested heavily in Flutter for their Google Ads app on iOS and Android. He basically said Flutter will be supported for 10+ years

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