daniel_solano

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Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing(rossbencina.com)
18 points by daniel_solano 15y ago|1 comments
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
One thing that I hope doesn't get lost amidst the jubilation is that I do not think that this changes the recommended way to create Android applications. Generally, developers should write applications to allow the same code run in as many
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Announcing Baitha: The Scala/Android toolkit(deepbluelambda.org)
2 points by daniel_solano 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Thank you for the feedback. I do plan to include some information about the platform. In particular, it is important to explain why some JVM languages work and others do not. Some of the more detailed discussion will likely end up in an
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Ask HN: A non-Java Android book, what would you like in it?
11 points by daniel_solano 15y ago|2 comments
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Thanks for the confirmation. I appreciate your help.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I have a question: I am receiving stock (not options) in a publicly traded company for part of my compensation in a project. I believe that is considered by the SEC to be restricted stock, so to sell it I will need to follow Rule 144. How
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I think his argument is that if you wish to create a variable called ©, that's up to you. For some reason, he objects to the language/standard library allowing ← in addition to `<-`. I think I would definitely object to `<-` to be
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I am not a networking expert, and I haven't looked into this in any greater detail than what was in the article. However, it is possible that the Mac doesn't wait long enough to see if an address is already in use before using it. As such
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I believe that Android also uses dhcpcd, if I recall correctly from recently browsing the source code. I do not know whether or how Android's dhcpcd may be modified.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Is that the space exploration budget, or NASA's budget as a whole? Manned and unmanned space exploration is only part of NASA's mission. NASA also does a lot of Earth science.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
> No refund policy --> is this even legal in the US? Sure. There's nothing illegal about 'all sales are final'. As far as the 'refund gets you a free app' concern: paid apps from Amazon and come with Amazon's DRM. Google provides
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
The following is a good talk given at this year's Google I/O on how to use secure Android applications: http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/evading-pirate...
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Unfortunately, some tax money also goes to bad locations, like people who abuse welfare and commit fraud, payoffs to politicians' allies, and overseas junkets for elected officials and their mistresses.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
This is a false dilemma. It's not a question of whether taxes can be justified at all, but more of a question of whether all taxes and government expenditures can be justified. Certainly, there are some things that governments that are es
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Actually, they have had a facility in Texas for some time that they were planning on expanding. Last year, the comptroller demanded they pay back something on the order of $600M in back taxes and penalties.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Well, this is a case of the State trying to milk every bit of sales tax revenue it can. Normally, if you have a presence in a state, you are responsible for collecting sales tax from your customer and sending it to the state. Let's say tha
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
It all depends on the context. In code that is not performance-sensitive, a bit of object churn isn't a problem. However, there are places where a lot of object churn can really be problematic. In particular, I find that Android applicati
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
A good way to figure out if you are doing something that you shouldn't in your application is to use the new StrictMode API: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-gingerbre...
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
When I developed the application for my talk on non-Java development for Android [1], I found that Scala performed as quickly as plain Java. However, it does use a bit more heap. [1]: http://www.deepbluelambda.org/events/live/decaffeina
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I am not sure this article gets it quite right. Yes, there are a lot frameworks that help shield the developer from having to deal multi-threading concerns. However, so long as you have shared state, you still need to worry about the prob
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I disagree that fingerprints are a secure form of authentication. As the Chaos Computer Club has shown, it is relatively simple to create duplicates of fingerprints that can fool sensors. In essence, relying on your fingerprint for authent
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
> People who aren't rich, white, straight, and male don't have the privilege of forgetting about their own identity the way you do. You know, not everyone who isn't rich, white, straight, and male has the burden of being constantly remi
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Of course, you could download the source, comment out the lines that do that, and use the app. Or just don't enable the 'backup to Google' option.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
As I understand it, it's up to each app to decide what exactly it will back up. After a quick glance at the code, it seems to me that it backs up preferences, host keys, and public/private keys.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I agree, and it's open source too. In fact I am currently working on getting it to work well with the full keyboard on my new Android tablet/netbook.
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Have you tried Maemo? With Maemo, I can just launch an xterm and ssh to my heart's content. For that matter, I can also set up an SSH server and ssh into the device. I'm guessing Meego probably has the same support. In my experience, it'
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
> Regulation is bad for businesses individually, but it's good for society in aggregate. Progress may be slowed, but it's still happening and happening with fewer horror stories along the way. This is not necessarily the case. Often ti
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
I generally agree. What most people often don't realise is that a lot of regulations that are allegedly in place to protect to consumer are actually there to prevent established interests. This is particularly true of licensing. The stand
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by daniel_solano 15y ago
Just relying off the quote given: "VUPEN follows a private responsible disclosure policy and reports all discovered vulnerabilities to the affected vendor under contract with VUPEN…" It makes it sound like if they crack your software, yo

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