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by jm_l 9y ago
Is there anything you wish that Google/AOSP contributors did differently that would make the LOS development process easier?
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by jm_l 9y ago
FYI, what you're calling phone state (someone's calling) is actually call state ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Te... ) which does not require READ_PHONE_STATE. That permis
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by jm_l 9y ago
To the extent that we can do this simple word substitution, it should probably make us less impressed, not more. Basically only the most generic points that you can make about any new technology (e.g. this will not solve every single proble
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On finding meaning in your 20s(medium.com)
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by jm_l 9y ago
I hate asking for spoilers but could you explain what the reasoning is?
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I took the survey, am a younger sibling, and have very strong memory of the questions being very fair. If I think I my hardest I can't imagine any reason another responder would have been pulled to unconsciously report wrong data on th
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by jm_l 9y ago
Pixel's goal is to be an iPhone competitor. This is reflected in its pricing and product design. Nexus was for Android enthusiasts who wanted the stock experience. I think in their own words it was "meant to showcase the best of A
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by jm_l 9y ago
I think this is a neargroup-fargroup thing. I'm willing to bet that very little of the Hackernews demographic watches enough NBC/ABC/CBS to feel subjugated by their ads, but most of us use Google and Facebook a whole lot.
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by jm_l 9y ago
I'd just like to point out that this isn't really "scroll hijacking." You have full control over scrolling on this web page. Rather this is uses what we call a parallax layout ( https://envato.com/blog&#x2
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by jm_l 9y ago
Agreed, Google is unlikely to stop trying to track it's users; it's too profitable. On the other hand, privacy is more about choosing what you share than not sharing things, and imo Google does an okay job at letting users control
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by jm_l 9y ago
Companies are incentivized in the long term to make good products. This incentive usually eclipses incentives that our (often justified) anti-corporate suspicions invent.
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by jm_l 10y ago
"Be yourself" doesn't really mean anything. I do agree with your assessment of the healthiest interpretation of the advice, and I think this is how people mean to use it. That said, plenty of people misinterpret the advice to
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by jm_l 10y ago
Hiroshi Lockheimer has publicly stated several times that there is no merger of Chrome OS and Android. https://chromeunboxed.com/some-andromeda-perspective-hiroshi... I think you alluded to this, "cue endless debates o
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by jm_l 10y ago
The great thing about the rationalist is that if you explain why their conclusion is wrong and come up with a better explanation then they change their viewpoint. They don't get caught up in trying to prove they're the smartest.
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by jm_l 10y ago
FYI, The permission BLUETOOTH_ADMIN allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices, but Android system services still handle the necessary user interactions to confirm and complete the process. CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE allows apps t
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by jm_l 10y ago
> That's a wild assumption. FWIW A participant (of the 2010 study, not the follow-up you linked) did explain in a blog post that "[the Strads] were loaned with the stipulation that they remain in the condition in which we recei
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by jm_l 10y ago
1. Your ability to perform a skill is dependent on both how much you work on it and how much innate ability you have 2. Kids often get frustrated and lose motivation to work on improving when they think their work doesn't matter 3. Ins
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by jm_l 10y ago
CyanogenMod exists because Android made the choice to be open source. >30% of my 2GB storage I'm going to assume you mean memory? On my phone Google Play Services uses 120 MB on average. >give more power to the browser Could you
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by jm_l 10y ago
I think this article, while informative, could stand to be a little more charitable towards the Android team. Another perspective: Karim Yaghmour, author of Embedded Android, a book I highly recommend for anyone looking to learn about how t
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by jm_l 10y ago
did you mean potted plants, rather than pot plants?
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by jm_l 10y ago
perhaps a horse-drawn carriage in which the horses require only broad instruction
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by jm_l 10y ago
Looks like they were unable to continue funding and shut down in April 2016. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/asdffilms/gest-work-wit...
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by jm_l 10y ago
Here's an online book I read that explains perceptrons and sigmoid neurons from the ground up. I think it's a great resource and might help answer some of your questions. http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ch
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by jm_l 10y ago
Her clearest point to me was when she wrote: "I don’t want anyone who works a 9-to-5 to feel like a fool for staying at a stable job, or feel wrong if they actually enjoy it." The whole romanticized narrative of quitting your job
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by jm_l 11y ago
I agree, I also think it unlikely that the adoption of the term 'mansplaining' encourages non-men to patronize more people. On the other hand, what I understand from the criticism of the term is that it hurts some people to hear i
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by jm_l 11y ago
I absolutely agree with you. My idea is that perhaps the worst thing about a site that claims to report news but doesn't do good journalism is just that it claims to report news. I don't think people would or should stop reading s
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by jm_l 11y ago
To your first point, I think that's correct when you reach a certain level of granularity, like specific issues. Very often what can happen when people lose the distinction between Party and Belief is that (as touched on in the article
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by jm_l 11y ago
Another potential alternative: large trustworthy media outlets form a committee themselves, develop some review process for adding a stamp to the top of their sites that says something like "American Online Journalist" and thereby
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by jm_l 11y ago
Actually it's just life imitating art imitating life
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by jm_l 11y ago
Scott (author) critiques bad statistics; that's all there is to it. He admits all the time that critiquing studies that are in favor of his beliefs makes him feel like a bad person, but altogether Scott is "in favor of niceness&qu

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