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by kogir 17y ago
My bad. I suppose you could also credibly argue that since it's open source nothing is impossible, and that MySQL is infinitely more extensible than MSSQL. Also, it seems C/C++ support is deprecated in MSSQL, so it's not a proper solution
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by kogir 17y ago
I can only guess as to Apple's motivations, but that's probably a liability risk they'd rather not incur. At Loopt we don't have a choice; It's our business.
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by kogir 17y ago
That title is very misleading. Finding a way to get location from sources other than the phone when the app isn't running is far from "Sneaking Background Multitasking."
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by kogir 17y ago
I just wish the entire industry would pick one measure and stick with it.
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by kogir 17y ago
You make an excellent point. Given the low quality of the driver ecosystem, I'm amazed that most Windows machines function at all. ATI, Creative, and Silicon Image are at fault for 90% of the BSODs I've ever experienced.
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by kogir 17y ago
Or you could install it locally... The installed MSDN library is rock solid. I've yet to find an instance of the online docs being better. When I have used online help in visual studio, the worst problems I experienced were some formattin
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by kogir 17y ago
It loses precision in scenarios where the desired aggregate would not. It's a hack.
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by kogir 17y ago
Limitations like this are among the most trivial of the reasons I pay for MS SQL. Even though no such built in aggregate is available, I'm free to write my own in C/C++/.Net. I'm pretty sure PostgreSQL lets you extend it however you want a
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by kogir 17y ago
I got all excited thinking they had made something I could install in my own data center. While nifty, this still doesn't allow me to properly protect my data (whole disk encryption, etc). I want a self-hosted private cloud.
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by kogir 17y ago
First, it isn't clear how you request a specific item or file from the network. You can request the USB stick, but who knows what will be on it. Second, SMS traffic is already tracked for billing purposes, and is tied to a phone number with
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by kogir 17y ago
With the accelerometer you can detect gravity (true down) and your angle relative to it. Then model the earth as a plane and keep the label a constant distance above the ground. Seems like they did a good job of it though. It's really slick
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by kogir 17y ago
Probably GPS + Compass + Accelerometer. You need to be able to detect the angle of the phone as well (looking up, level, or down). The iPhone doesn't have the processing power to do meaningful real-time image recognition.
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by kogir 17y ago
Boost mobile has multiple J2ME phones available for around $50. Just check Wallmart or Best Buy. You'll need to load the games with a serial cable, but the phones can take a real beating. J2ME has no future, so it'd be a poor startup idea.
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by kogir 17y ago
For a while at Loopt we considered becoming a Tucows reseller and only holding our domains, but it wasn't worth the effort. Whoever bought our first domain used GoDaddy we just stuck with it. We've seen no pressing reason to switch.
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by kogir 17y ago
Given that none of the articles referenced actually give any details about what GPL'd code was improperly used or linked, I'm still skeptical. Call me a fanboy but I believe in innocent until proven guilty. Show me the offending code. Don't
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by kogir 17y ago
I'm sure it'd be a lot faster if they made a Java Applet or JavaFX version. Is there a reason they didn't? They could always fall back to Javascript if Java wasn't installed.
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by kogir 17y ago
I tried this out. Perhaps it's just Google's implementation, but if people get used to OpenID it's going to be a phisher's heaven. It appears that any site you log into with your OpenID could potentially proxy your provider, obtain your c
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by kogir 18y ago
Don't know if it's still the case, but Charles Schwab had the same problem. It really increased my confidence in the safety of their website.
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by kogir 18y ago
It's the chicken and the egg problem. Right now I can't name a single US consumer ISP using IPv6. If I update my edge routers, all my firewalls, dns, and all my servers to support IPv6, what have I gained? No users will use it to access my
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by kogir 18y ago
The really exciting news here is the bit at the end: "I am 100% convinced that if there were a general-purpose platform for running behind the firewall to automate scaling and deployment and take IT out of many loops, there are a whole lot
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by kogir 18y ago
So, at least with bombs, wouldn't jamming devices allow for better targeting? For instance, if I know jamming is employed, I could create a trigger that detects the jamming (not very subtle and only available to the military), and goes off
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by kogir 18y ago
In other news, I hacked my Microwave by entering a duration and pressing start.
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by kogir 18y ago
Storage server. I use Windows Home Server, but OpenSolaris with ZFS would be just as good if you don't need Windows system backups.
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by kogir 18y ago
It tried to install something without even telling me what it was. I'll pass.
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by kogir 18y ago
To the same, out of date email addresses?
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by kogir 18y ago
I don't see how AOL did anything wrong here. They offered a free service that millions enjoyed, and when it came time to close it down, they notified users using the email addresses the users had given them. It's not AOL's fault if people
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by kogir 18y ago
Substantially lower than if you put a mic inside one of the servers, preferably next to the concealed webcam ;) Also, to directly answer your question: The latency demonstrated is in response to high amplitude noise. For talking you'd need
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by kogir 18y ago
What's coolest is that the analytics tools were available to discover it. No other storage solution I've seen has that level of instrumentation.
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by kogir 18y ago
You already called out the problem: you can only be up as often as all of your critical partners are up. If you care about uptime and reliability, you can only partner with well established, reliable players for core functionality. For exam
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by kogir 18y ago
"PG talks about Sam Altman pitching phone execs the early days of Loopt to great success, and his background was CS not sales." Of note is that while pitching execs in the early days he was also doing at least 2x the development work of any

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