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by erydo 11y ago
To be fair, Android has a hugely disproportionate number of API WTFs to choose from. It's an absolute mess.
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by erydo 11y ago
This is a fantastic reverse-engineering writeup. It's always fun to see this kind of thing on HN.
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by erydo 11y ago
Re FaceTime, I recently read an unsubstantiated but plausible comment that they'd run into patent issues that caused a redesign that caused issues open sourcing it.
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by erydo 11y ago
Chris Lattner did comment less than a month ago they were still on track: https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/3q2zqa/when_is_swift... > We are still on track to open source Swift (including Li
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by erydo 11y ago
Ah, cool, I hadn't seen that. Good work and I liked your post!
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by erydo 11y ago
He identified a bug in the function `evaluateIntegerExpression` which parses an integer literal from LLDB, erroneously always parsing in base-16. But the pull request he created ( https://github.com/facebook/chisel/
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by erydo 11y ago
IO is the type, not the value. Something that takes IO and returns IO wouldn't be optimized out for the same reason a negation wouldn't be optimized out simply because it takes an Int and returns an Int.
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by erydo 11y ago
Yes. That's what I was trying to say with the "morally wrong because having and acting on those expectations reduces the opportunities given to members of those groups" bit. Creating uphill battles doesn't allow the situ
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by erydo 11y ago
That's roughly right in a moral sense, but in a Bayesian sense I don't think it's unreasonable. If race (or background or country of origin, etc.) and some attribute (education, wealth, etc.) are correlated, and names and rac
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by erydo 11y ago
You make an interesting point about the dangers of blindly "monetizing", but I don't think it's relevant to parent's comment for a few reasons (not the least of which that paying for software doesn't by itself
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by erydo 11y ago
How many daily-use scripts do you suppose intentionally run `rm -rf /`? Cost-benefit for common use seams clearly in favour of adding a failsafe.
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by erydo 12y ago
This really became more intuitive to me after studying German, where the idea of separable verbs was made explicit. I don't think things should be named "setInstanceUp" or anything like that, but you could see how "setUp
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by erydo 12y ago
Preo Mobile Ordering - New York, NY - Front End or Full Stack Engineer - Full-Time https://getpreo.com Preo has built the most advanced mobile ordering app and venue integration in the world: Order and pay for food and drinks fr
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by erydo 12y ago
You make a very good point about ROI for non-obvious investments. I also agree with you that for many things like your general repair example, humans are better than robots for the time being. That's why I framed it as them having &quo
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by erydo 12y ago
That's a bit of a straw man argument. Nobody's claiming that we can't; rather that to accomplish many of our goals, having a human as the physical actuator is a bad choice. Robots have the potential to perform nearly any give
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by erydo 12y ago
That could happen but in a lot of strictly typed languages it would be non-obvious and special effort to do so. There's absolutely no justification to send ints when you have any reasonable chance of needing to change it to a string la
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by erydo 12y ago
I usually do the same thing. Both the 32-bit issue (that issue being with JSON libraries, not the spec) but also: IDs are opaque tokens. If down the road it makes sense to use UUIDs or have a sharding hash or something else, you don't
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by erydo 12y ago
My first thought was to enumerate the red flags I see (since there have been a fair number of investor-bait non-serious "space startups"): The team comprises CEO, CFO, COO, and VP-BizDev…no engineers, at least in the leadership. T
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by erydo 12y ago
This reminds me a lot of Naviedge ( http://naviedge.com ), something I made for hotel concierges a couple years ago. A huge part of the technical burden was making the itinerary editor WYSIWYG in a cross-browser, mobile-friendly w
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by erydo 12y ago
EDIT: We have.
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by erydo 12y ago
We haven't.
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by erydo 13y ago
I'm not that old—27, so, maybe—but I do the same thing. In-App Purchases signal to me that the game is likely to begin ransoming my pleasure as soon as I invest time into it. It's a very frustrating feeling. There are too many thi
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Ask HN: Open-source native mobile app analytics solution?
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by erydo 13y ago
Cool! I did the `Session.prepare_request` change [1] and found the project maintainers extremely helpful and patient in discussing the best way to go about it as I stumbled around. It's a good codebase and an awesome library. [1] http
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by erydo 13y ago
This is true on a micro, per-interaction scale. On a macro scale, it can be more beneficial in the long run for people's egos to be hurt when they're wrong. For someone like Torvalds, the macro scale of interaction matters a lot.
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by erydo 13y ago
Looking at the source itself, there's no way it's "draggable" unless you're just toggling it coincidentally with drag gestures. Perhaps your drags are just coinciding with the 0.3s ease animation, or we have a diffe
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by erydo 13y ago
The Radon transform was the first thing that came to my mind, too[0]. It does the same thing, but more rigorously and flexibly. Imagine instead of just looking at the shadows (which are essentially a binary 'this is part of the object&
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by erydo 13y ago
It hasn't even started yet…why would you make that comment?
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by erydo 13y ago
Fundamentally, I agree. I have my entire team set up with PGP keys. However, there's a huge training burden that needs to be overcome. People don't understand what it is, how it works, how to manage keys, what they can do securely or not, e
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by erydo 13y ago
So, I actually grew up in the Mat-Su Valley. I lived in Palmer (a quick bike-ride from Wasilla) from 1987 through 2004. I was born in '86. My grandparents were some of the original settlers in the area in 1936. Sarah Palin's accent is not

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