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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Sure. It's also a great way to get around domestic wiretapping laws. Assuming you can cooperate well enough with a foreign power, you can have a "I'll show you yours if you show me mine." sort of situation.
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Just to be clear, this is a report published by the government of China. I don't have the time to read the whole article, but here's a few thoughts: Regarding On life, property and personal security , this section is about violent crime in
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
I disagree. If I understand things correctly, the purpose of the IPO is to raise capital for Facebook. As such, if they sell the stock for $30/share, that's what they get. If the stock then goes up to $34/share, they don't get the extra
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Well, it's not something that I have definitely concluded, but in my opinion, the speaker has lost significant credibility. If someone is willing to lie and bully in order to voice a particular opinion, why should I not expect them to lie
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Perhaps, and I accept that it is possible that the facts as stated in the article are wrong. However, if we accept them as true, the speaker: 1. Hired a PR firm in an attempt to threaten TED into publishing his talk. 2. When that failed, h
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Whether or not the talk was politically motivated, if this article is correct about what the speaker did as a result of rejection, the speaker is an attention-seeking demagogue that uses threats and deception for self-promotion.
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Clojure Gazette 1.9: Clojure on Android(us4.campaign-archive1.com)
2 points by daniel_solano 14y ago|0 comments
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
At our local Android developer's meet-up, we had a local game developer who has released several paid and ad-supported games. There are two relevant observations he made: 1. He often made more money from the ad-supported free versions of h
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
This is really interesting project, and after taking a little bit of time to look it over, there are a couple of things that I have noticed: 1. It's not entirely clear how to use this. Is XobotOS a replacement for Android, or is it somethi
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Really? I haven't heard of that. In my experience, most of the alternative compiled JVM languages, i.e. Scala, Clojure, Mirah, and JRuby, seem to run fairly comparable to each other once they have started. The biggest differentiator betwe
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
If I am not mistaken, any JVM language that has immutable data structures and closures is probably going to generate a fair bit of garbage. I believe this also applies to using Scala functionally. My understanding is that there is greater
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Yes, Scala is currently the best alternative to Java for Android development, but I am hoping that Clojure can close the gap significantly. The main drawback to Clojure is still the start-up time, but that's getting better. For example, th
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
That's an interesting observation. Not long ago I was talking to an editor who thought that books 150-250 pages in length were an ideal sweet spot.
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
Is the demo a bit contrived? Sure, but it's an inspired vision that was whipped up inside of a week . I don't think the creator has any illusions that making the vision a reality will be easy . However, it is clear that this vision is
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by daniel_solano 14y ago
You get to be a 'sponsor'. That's obviously twice as good as a 'backer'. Honestly, I have no idea. In the end, these levels are primarily oriented at companies or other groups (education?), not individuals. What's one person going to do
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Well, the ‘gated community’ as such may exist by virtue of the automobile, but the overall concept is much older and can apply even in high-density urban environments. What about a luxury apartment building that hires a doorman? It is the
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Linode adds DNS AXFR ACLs and IPv6 masters(blog.linode.com)
1 points by daniel_solano 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
For example: in the K-12 sector, I heard schools are getting 90% discounts. Ninety percent discounts..... If I recall correctly, according to the director of IT of a large, local non-profit, they get access to the full suite of enterprise
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Ask HN: OpenGL ES book recommendations
2 points by daniel_solano 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
This footnote drew my interest: Although female programmers are rare now, that wasn't the case in the 70's. That shift is another argument against the natural balance hypothesis. I am too young to know, but is this the experience of other
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Just yesterday, however, we had Newt Gingrich of all people saying that capitalism shouldn't benefit the few at the expense of the many, and that the reckless pursuit of profit at the expense of people is a perversion of capitalism. Were
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Yes, you can run arbitrary code using the NDK, but you're still sand-boxed into your application's process. Android relies on the Linux security model where each app runs in its own process as its own user. As such, just like with a Linux
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
It all depends on what you mean by "safe". It is certainly possible to create input methods that behave as spyware, that's why Android puts a big fat warning telling you so whenever you switch to a third-party input method. I think what is
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
As both a Scala and Clojure user, I believe this is primarily a Scala-specific issue. The one caveat to that is that, if you're using Clojure and AOT-compile your code, you can run into some issues if you are trying to use AOT-compiled cod
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I think it the takeaway is slightly different: When many of Android's fundamental design decisions were made, specifically making UI animations take place in a normally-scheduled application thread, the prime competition/inspiration was th
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
You're right, it's not quite impossible. However, the idiomatic ways of doing things in Scala tend to be very bad for performance if you're in a tight loop. For example, if you have two arrays that you need to iterate through simultaneous
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
While I haven't used Scala on an "enterprise" scale, I can certainly agree with many of the criticisms. However, in my experience, Scala is still worth it. I don't deal with training a team of developers, nor do I have to integrate with en
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Yes, Java is generally fairly simple. I generally find that the most difficult part of Java is generics. On the other hand, anything that you want to work at a slightly higher level, such as closures or higher-order functions, Java just ge
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I am also interested in this topic as I plan to be publishing an Android app for a client in the near future. In case you haven't seen it, here's 'Evading Pirates and Stopping Vampires' from Google I/O 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I was honestly a bit confused by this headline. For a bit, I thought it was something about about a JIT/heap sprayer for the ARM platform, or something to that effect. Oh, well.

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