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811.
by dminor 17y ago
I think your translator is broken -- there's just a bunch of new Android phones all coming out at once, whereas before last month there was only the G1 on T-Mobile. Hence the explosion.
812.
by dminor 17y ago
Visits on our site over the last month were 14% direct, 5.7% searching for our name, according to GA. If you are unsure of the domain name, Google is definitely the more trustworthy option.
813.
by dminor 17y ago
Out of curiosity, which startups? I'm not sure this changes anyone's chances though -- bug tracking was already a bit crowded. They're probably going after the trac users.
814.
by dminor 17y ago
Yeah, you probably won't get banned from Google, but who really wants to take that risk?
815.
by dminor 17y ago
Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell Post Captain (well, basically all of the Patrick O'Brian series)
816.
by dminor 17y ago
Just be aware that Android operates in a resource constrained environment, so that some practices (such as avoiding garbage collection through resource pools) aren't typical in desktop or server-side Java applications. Also, if you're going
817.
by dminor 17y ago
It's the natural result of the spate of 'iPhone developer gets rich' articles that were popular several months ago.
818.
by dminor 17y ago
I wonder if they're trying to squeeze out some settlements before the Bilski case is decided.
819.
by dminor 17y ago
> There is nothing in either the Constitution or in the existing patent statutes that expressly allows courts to limit process or business method patents Except that they basically didn't exist before the StateStreet case. The court has
820.
by dminor 17y ago
It seems that the solution will be to develop a means of modding the system while leaving proprietary apps & drivers intact: http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_threa... Kudos to the Android engineers for working ar
821.
by dminor 17y ago
I think it's long past time to revisit and dispense with the arcanities in telecom law.
822.
by dminor 17y ago
The performance problems he mentions probably aren't due to a lack of JIT, but rather to poor garbage collection performance. One of the biggest problems with developing a real-time app on Android is that the garbage collector can take 200m
823.
by dminor 17y ago
http://www.sleeptracker.com/
824.
Generate CSS Sprites On The Fly(spriteme.org)
61 points by dminor 17y ago|8 comments
825.
by dminor 17y ago
I thought Java's sorting algorithm was just recently replaced: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6804124 Is this the same, or something new?
826.
by dminor 17y ago
Motorola is going to need more than the 3rd Android phone on the 4th place carrier to save themselves. Hopefully they have a Verizon Android phone up their sleeve. That said, it's great to see the flood of Android phones hitting the market.
827.
by dminor 17y ago
> What service? The one where they index your site at your cost so they have something to serve their users? There is a trick to save you the obscene costs of being indexed -- simply make your robots.txt like so: User-agent: Googlebot D
828.
by dminor 17y ago
This has me quite excited about Android's future: http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10307673-251.html?tag=mncol... If it had come a month and a half ago Verizon could have saved me a switch to T-Mobile!
829.
by dminor 17y ago
The shopping thing seems ripe for fraud. Put in a fake order, get a discount.
830.
by dminor 17y ago
OK, but the implementation layer is just another layer of algorithms, except that you have somewhat less control over it. I notice your code uses inject, which is coded in C rather than Ruby -- as are many parts of POOR where C offers bette
831.
by dminor 17y ago
I used to as well, until one of the cheaters got out of his car and yelled at me at the next traffic light for "cutting him off". I decided that this potential outcome wasn't really worth it, especially since they always find a way in anywa
832.
by dminor 17y ago
Tried this for about a month and ended up with a drop in conversions and slightly higher cost/conversion, so it doesn't work for everyone.
833.
by dminor 17y ago
Charlie Nutter of JRuby did a (very long) post about invokedynamic on his blog awhile back: http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/first-taste-of-invokedynamic...
834.
by dminor 17y ago
The JSR will certainly improve JRuby's speed and simplify development, but I don't think it will affect adoption (and actually I'd say JRuby was already on the map, given that it can run Rails and handily beats Ruby 1.8 performance-wise). J
835.
by dminor 17y ago
They were employed by Sun, not IBM, and already worked on JRuby full time. I think this was more about integration into the Ruby community as well as getting a good JRuby deployment option in place at EY, as well as uncertainty over Oracle'
836.
by dminor 17y ago
Cool to find out what that actually means -- I always just knew it as the magic incantation needed to play Jumpman or Impossible Mission :)
837.
by dminor 17y ago
I dunno, I think Google knows the DOJ is waiting for an excuse to come after them, and it's hardly worth the risk over something that has no impact on their bottom line.
838.
by dminor 17y ago
Part of HTML 5 that Google and others have been pushing is the ability to run browser based apps offline (think Google Gears), where the browser is basically a rendering engine and javascript sandbox, rather than a means of accessing remote
839.
by dminor 17y ago
Not to mention double opt-in is required by most certified email services before you can use them.
840.
by dminor 17y ago
Actually, gambling itself is generally not against the law. Anti-gambling laws usually target businesses that derive profits from gambling, not the gamblers themselves.

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