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by falling 14y ago
Device drivers are Linux device drivers, while not the most stable, that interface is quite mature and people have been mantaining device drivers for a decade. In my experience UI code gets messy much faster and easier than lower level. No,
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by falling 14y ago
They could be "encouraged" to only use public APIs and not change the base OS, which would make porting much much easier. This is of course assuming the problem is really a technical one and the carriers/manufacturers care at all about supp
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by falling 14y ago
Apple just wants your money, they don't need your data.
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by falling 14y ago
That is not entirely true. However, I think the issue with defending the language is that its more fervent supporters are using it as a confrontational political leverage instead of just plain culture.
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ICANN is wrong(scripting.com)
157 points by falling 14y ago|88 comments
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by falling 14y ago
http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/
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by falling 14y ago
pg may well say that HN has not become Reddit, but it has. (yes, my account is less than a year old but this is a fresh start, my other account is 6x older)
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by falling 14y ago
No, your point is –in your own words– that, since it’s at best incremental protection, it isn’t worth the non-trivial costs. Which is not a good point because, as I said and you agreed, all security is at best incrementally better protect
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by falling 14y ago
> But it's not perfect protection (a compromised kernel will give up the keys too). Honestly, given the frequency with which we see kernel exploits in the wild I'd say it's at best incrementally better protection. There is no such a
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by falling 14y ago
> Jelly Bean just around the corner Is it? It’s a real question. Currently ICS is installed on < 10% of the devices in circulation, but (I hope) it’s safe to assume OEMs and carriers are working on new devices based on the new ope
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by falling 14y ago
I’m making the point that that issue alone (which I consider very serious and hindering the ecosystem) didn’t kill Android.
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by falling 14y ago
For that matter, who is going to buy an Android 2.3 device now, since there's no reason to believe it will run Android 4.0?
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by falling 14y ago
> N+?? The time library in your programming language is correct. That is almost always a better assumption than “I can write a better one”.
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by falling 14y ago
Prototypes, sure, but people always mention it to say “You can write apps in Python on Android”. That’s simply not true. SL4A is kinda like PhoneGap: you can use it, but you will not get a quality app out of it. That might be fine for your
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by falling 14y ago
I can't comment on the other options because I haven't investigated enough yet, but people should definitely stop suggesting SL4A as a viable option to developing Android apps. It's not.
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by falling 14y ago
You also don’t want it in the released app so that random guy in the coffee shop cannot connect to your app and mess with it while people use it.
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by falling 14y ago
3) Don’t try to bend OS X to be what it isn’t: you will be frustrated, disappointed and will not succeed. If you decide to learn to live with it, actually learn to live with it: you will have to adopt new usage patterns and tools. Don’t t
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by falling 14y ago
> How do they come off as sustainable and cool when their are responsible for all this trash production? How do they come off as sustainable and cool when Greenpeace was protesting in front of Infinite Loop a month ago?
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by falling 14y ago
> The argument doesn't really hold up, as we're only given two choices: Upgradable, or amazing screen. If there was a third, "Upgradable and amazing screen" with the applicable price/weight tradeoffs, then the "we can choose" view woul
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by falling 14y ago
Chances are that iOS 6 already has a higher percentage than ICS today ;)
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by falling 14y ago
it doesn't have Cut, but it now (as of Lion, I think), Move Here as an alternative to Paste, use it with Cmd-Opt-V.
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by falling 14y ago
> How hard is to make […] Since you are on HN, I assume you either are an engineer of some sort or something close to that and you are working on some product, so I expect you to know that the answer to questions that begin like that
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by falling 14y ago
The article talks about “mobile browsers”. Neither iOS, Safari or even WebKit are mentioned. Why does the submission title say “iOS browsers”?
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by falling 14y ago
Despite the irritating and condescending tone, that’s a good argument.
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by falling 14y ago
do you have better sources? it seems simple math to me. I have also seen a few articles from artists (not record companies) that say the same thing. if you have proof of the contrary it would make me feel better.
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by falling 14y ago
I also pay an Rdio subscription and enjoy it, but I still buy the records I find myself listening more often. My reason is simply this: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
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by falling 14y ago
I do not want animations. As you said, design is how something works . I want a readable font. I want modern HTML that adapts to different devices and screens. I want links that don’t expire after I left the page open for half an hour and
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by falling 14y ago
Apps and zooming and reflowing text are just workarounds. I don’t want an app, I want a decent website that can render on a smaller screen. Not hard.
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by falling 14y ago
Incredible the cottage industry of HN clients that sprouted just because the website is stuck in 1998. Goes to show how the community is so important it can trump design.
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by falling 14y ago
Isn’t that repeating the same thing I said? They are creating new cool tech, but they have to figure out how to make money from it, thus it’s not future proof. Android is successful, but apparently it’s not generating much profit for Googl

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