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by hrjet 12y ago
This is nice. There are two things however that would make GitHub issues awesome: 1. Starring / Voting an issue. The count of stars/votes should be visible and we should have the ability to sort by the number of stars / votes
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by hrjet 12y ago
> [Google] uses coarse location (GPS being too taxing on battery to get constant location updates) which has an accuracy of 100+ meters. You mean Google Maps -- the app -- doesn't use location data from GPS? I am pretty sure that is
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by hrjet 12y ago
Sometimes you need a lab so big that you need to observe astronomical phenomena before your time runs out.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Didn't have time / resources to find out. GAE consumed a lot of my time (until I realized it).
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by hrjet 12y ago
The graph I would like to see here is "integrated expense" and "integrated income" over the years. That would indicate when the point-of-break-even happened (or will happen).
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by hrjet 12y ago
Seconded. Every word of it. I was a fan of AppEngine in the early days, and built a couple of small projects with it. There is a reason they remained small.
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by hrjet 12y ago
You are right. I remember more details now. The problem occurs when you want to make regulated DC from a lower voltage DC supply. Step-down is easy. For example, my battery is 12V, but my laptop needs 19V. AFAIK, you can't get regulate
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by hrjet 12y ago
Interesting. Perhaps, it was the output of a tool that compiled higher-level code down to C.
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by hrjet 12y ago
This is something that always caught my imagination: using DC for the last mile. I don't understand electricity well, but it seems that electronic components require regulated DC , and producing that requires an AC somewhere in the tr
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by hrjet 12y ago
> That pre-compilation step, though... How does that play with the IDE? It doesn't integrate with the IDE and I am not too fond of it either. But if you want ORM as a library in Java, I don't think there is any other option pos
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by hrjet 12y ago
The modularization reduced the API surface, but in terms of size of binary, didn't have much effect (about 20% size reduction). ProGuard is useful during deployment but cumbersome during development cycle.
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by hrjet 12y ago
The nice thing about Xtend is that it has a light run-time library. I wish Scala had a core-library that could be used in Android and such other constrained projects. Perhaps a library without specialisation and/or without collections
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by hrjet 12y ago
Thanks, good to know.
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by hrjet 12y ago
You probably are angry at the "length" of the dependency chain, but I see no conceptual difference between the two bootstrapped tools. Of course, I am looking at this far from the battle-field, so maybe I am being too non-chalant.
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by hrjet 12y ago
This in combination with "Restore all tabs on startup" not being the default is a disaster. The first thing I do on a new Firefox installation is enable "Restore all tabs on startup".
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by hrjet 12y ago
Bootstrapping any tool is going to look that way. To compile gcc you need a C compiler don't you?
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by hrjet 12y ago
Just had a look at jDBI and it doesn't exactly look like a simple library to me. There's a lot of run-time annotation processing. Have a look at jOOQ if you haven't seen it yet. There is a pre-compilation stage which generate
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by hrjet 12y ago
Why do they get upvoted then?
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by hrjet 12y ago
But then, the founders / presidents would need to pay income-tax on their salaries. The only benefit in this arrangement is that sops given to individuals might be higher than that to companies.
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by hrjet 12y ago
If it's not reliable as claimed by the article, then does it really serve the purpose? There might be a code-path in an innocent little app that calls brk() often and then gets tainted as causing IO. Aside, thanks for reminding me abou
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by hrjet 12y ago
I was running a Twitter client (servlet + Postgres) in a 64MB VPS not too long ago. There were about ~2000 active users.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Cameras can use batteries too. Moreover phones these days have inbuilt cameras. You could also use battery power for torch-lights and music players. Then there are things like GPS trackers, which can be useful after a trip to know where y
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by hrjet 12y ago
But can the batteries cook your dinner?
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by hrjet 12y ago
That's a fair point; though I am not sure what limits you from testing on other platforms. Even if you don't have real hardware for them, most of them have cross-platform emulators.
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by hrjet 12y ago
Why only iOS? If you and the developers use a tool like GetLocalization.com you can support many platforms easily.
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by hrjet 12y ago
About 10 years back I tried to do this by defining terminal escape codes for this. I was also implementing a new terminal as a POC. Unfortunately didn't find the time to go beyond it. Here's the POC if anyone would like to take it
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by hrjet 12y ago
Related, Kaplan, a Scala based constraint language (uses Z3 for solving): http://lara.epfl.ch/~kuncak/papers/KoeksalETAL12ConstraintsC... The Lara team at EPFL seems to be doing lots of research in this area: htt
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by hrjet 12y ago
Why should the static content be dynamic? The responsive look can be a cherry on top of the static content. $("#content").makeResponsive();
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by hrjet 12y ago
It's not because I dislike JS the language that I disable it. And, I do enable JS when I am on a familiar / trusted / interesting site. I definitely won't enable it on an unfamiliar / blank looking website.
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by hrjet 12y ago
That is true for about 50% of the links posted here these days. I usually just close the tab and read the comments on HN. Note to site designers: something is terribly wrong if JS is needed to render the main textual content of your site.

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