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by dschuler 13y ago
I was wondering how it's possible that IntelliJ is free for Android development? What drives the decision making to make one product free and the other paid? In a way I like paying for RubyMine, hoping that it won't be discontinue
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by dschuler 13y ago
I went to a Cal State for undergrad, and had a great experience. None of my engineering or math classes were 'seminar-style', I always had access to my professors, who generally knew me by name. Most of the students come out being
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by dschuler 13y ago
Hey so I'm usually the first person to point out when something sucks, but this thread is soo negative. What's up with that? Is everyone on HN all about Python and Vi or what? I got into Ruby years ago, and I still think it's
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by dschuler 13y ago
I like RVM - and I donated $5 to the maintainer. I guess it's better to not always need it, but it's saved me a lot of time.
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by dschuler 13y ago
The instructions for the Consolas font on Mac OS include downloading an Office update for Mac and extracting the font. I just realized that I already have the font installed, since I also have a copy of Office installed :)
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by dschuler 14y ago
Can you elaborate on what makes Visual Studio so great? I used it professionally for a year, but it would just grind on my productivity. I wonder if I'm missing something. Specifically, VS 2010 had a lot of strange bugs - mt.exe fails durin
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by dschuler 14y ago
I'm amazed at how many comments there are in line with "OMG this is amazing, now I can decompile thousands of apps blah blah". I write Android apps all day long, but I have yet to find a (legitimate) need to decompile someone else's apps. I
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by dschuler 14y ago
Most places I've worked at really do want to hire a diverse group of engineers. At one company, one of the managers was asked by his manager to hire e.g. more black women. His response was "you show me one, and I will hire her". Personally,
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by dschuler 14y ago
I couldn't believe it either, and left that place pretty quickly. I still talk to a lot of people that work there, and I get the feeling that they live in this bubble where they assume everything will work out for the best. To them, I'm jus
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by dschuler 14y ago
Whenever I hear terms like "vertical-oriented", I'm reminded of the managers at the big stagnant corporation I used to work at. Those terms sound just like "value proposition", "leveraging assets", and so on. They're not talking to develope
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by dschuler 14y ago
Wait so you think it's reasonable to bank on some uncertain future benefit to pan out, and expect people to be 'heartbroken' when it doesn't go through? Come on, you don't mean that, do you? When I worked for a startup, I only considered my
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by dschuler 14y ago
Well, I have to say that a lot of work goes into explicitly taking advantage of NEON, and even Google states in their docs that you must check at runtime whether NEON is supported (and not just ARMv7). So if you're using NEON, you're alre
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by dschuler 14y ago
I haven't seen any MIPS-based devices yet, but I also added x86 support before I saw any evidence that it was needed at the time. I try to make the app as widely compatible as possible without creating undue work for myself. I did not know
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by dschuler 14y ago
The very first releases of the NDK only supported ARMv6, but now it also supports ARMv7, x86, and MIPS. I actually compile my code for all 4 architectures, and end up with .so binaries in my APK: lib/armeabi/libpuddle_drops.so lib/armeabi-v
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by dschuler 14y ago
Presumably, judges need to assume that granted patents are valid and defensible. On the other hand, Eastern Texas probably gets a good amount of revenue from allowing this sort of nonsense to be litigated.