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by ge0rg 15y ago
There is even a built-in for that: >>> "foo".find("a") -1
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by ge0rg 15y ago
The problem is that you need to replicate the struct entries in the pack/unpack calls as well, which is only possible in plain C by using X-Macros. It might be possible to construct a macro that creates both the struct and the format string
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Unfortunately, that only works for network-byte-ordered data. If you have LE data, you still have to do it yourself.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Yeah, C is really missing a way to serialize/deserialize data from raw memory/sockets into structs usable by your code. The least insane way, libpack [1] requires replicating the data format definition three times: * define the struct with
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by ge0rg 15y ago
The initial reason of why Android was even purchased was to prevent Microsoft from becoming dominant in mobile. This is very interesting. Can you provide a source on it? I think the thesis should be seen more broadly than stated in the ar
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Happy 25th Birthday, screen(groups.google.com)
3 points by ge0rg 15y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Why do "journalists" always forget to link to the primary source? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mzh/eurosys-2012.... is the original research paper and also provides interesting insights for smartphone app developers. [edit]
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Moebius, aka Jean Giraud, aka Gir, Has Passed Away(bleedingcool.com)
2 points by ge0rg 15y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 15y ago
TL;DR: some guys bought a bunch of WebKit zero-days, gained root on an Android 2.x device, installed a surveillance app and demoed it at RSA conf. It would be nice to get hold of some more of the technical details involved.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
TL;DR: By deleting the Wallet application data from Android prefs you can assign a new PIN and access the Wallet (e.g. on a stolen phone). This looks like a typical authentication-done-wrong problem on Google's side here... Not sure if it r
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by ge0rg 15y ago
With some Android applications polling for new data every three to five minutes (even when not in use), [...] This is actually the providers' own fault. If you want to keep a connection to a "push service" like gmail, imap, voip or jabber
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by ge0rg 15y ago
It does indeed. However, what are they going to do? Torture you until you give them the "other" password? How can they distinguish whether you just cleaned your hard drive or if you gave them the wrong key?
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Yes. The term for that is plausible deniability. It is implemented (probably among others) in truecrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
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XDA-Dev blacks out until 50k visitors sign pledge(xda-developers.com)
8 points by ge0rg 15y ago|0 comments
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by ge0rg 15y ago
From imgur: We have blacked out Imgur today from 8am to 8pm, EST [...] Another mirror: http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/01548/toto_sopa_googl_...
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Probably the main potential of the deal is not within the essential patents, as these have to be licensed under FRAND, limiting both the possible revenue and their tactical effect in court. The question is however, which other, non-essentia
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by ge0rg 15y ago
However, low quality tends to surface anyway. With mutt, several issues come to my mind, like: * broken transparency (and trailing spaces in copy&pasted emails) when run in screen. * the hoops you have to jump through if you want to scr
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by ge0rg 15y ago
I do not know the licensing fee involved with WP7, but demanding higher royalties on Android devices might be a way to push vendors into switching. Also, 5-15$ is significant when comparing it with the manufacturing costs of the device (the
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Can you please provide a source for your information? "HTC Pays Microsoft $5 Per Android Phone, Says Citi": http://www.businessinsider.com/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-andr...
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by ge0rg 15y ago
As the guidelines outline, the (physical) Back button has a different meaning from the Up button in the top left corner of your app.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
"Don't use right-pointing carets on line items" "Avoid them to stay consistent with the platform and in order to not have the user guess as to what the meaning of those carets may be." Instead, let the user guess if an entry is just an entr
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Yes, they are hiding somewhere in the multi-gigabyte Android source code. At least the basic default elements. And their style formatting. And then there are the closed-source Google apps which at least slightly resemble the UX guidelines g
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by ge0rg 15y ago
And this does not even need GitHub support. I'm using remote repositories to maintain projects with >10 contributors without much effort.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
Utterly worthless. This looks like a web designer on crack had too much time to promote the beauty of the new Android. However, from a developer's point of view this is almost unusable. By not providing the according XML/Java code, we are f
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by ge0rg 15y ago
As was already stated: it isn't really given that users will already have perl installed . The usual workaround for such situations is to add the preprocessed files into source control as well, so they are available when a user is building
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by ge0rg 15y ago
The code in the article is actually less horrible than I expected from the title. However, it seems like a situation which could be more elegantly solved with X-Macros ( http://drdobbs.com/cpp/184401387 ), provided that you consider X-Macro
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by ge0rg 15y ago
This was in violation of EU privacy laws. Wich did not prevent the "information exchange". Anti-Terrorism beats any other legal arguments.
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by ge0rg 15y ago
BBVA's director of innovation, Carmen Herranz, stressed that all customer data and other key banking systems would "stay in our own data centres" and be completely separate from the cloud solution. I really wonder how they are going to ma
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by ge0rg 15y ago
This is soooo true. I was in a bad coverage area recently as well, and just to add insult to injury, the Android app provided by my own mobile carrier timed out and told me there is no network connection.
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Gameloft Ripoff (on Android Market)(kuwaitiful.com)
1 points by ge0rg 15y ago|0 comments

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