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by koko775 15y ago
Those downsides were upsides for me. I love that everything must be configured on Arch, because I know that I am doing all the configuring. I've tried to customize Ubuntu's motd, change services to start backgrounded, and install packag
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by koko775 15y ago
Sounds like a combination between flow-based programming and declarative programming. Perhaps a possible approach would be to write a flow-based programming language with some methods marked as "pure" which statelessly map input to output a
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by koko775 15y ago
As an engineer working at a startup that is actively challenging the entertainment status quo through a slightly non-traditional vector, this RFS strikes me as amazingly naive and lacks any realistic suggestion for what kind of challenges m
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by koko775 15y ago
This argument evaporates when you consider services that offer all-you-can-eat for a flat monthly fee. If you only have to pay the price of one day's lunch for access to a library of content, then downloading a title rather than watching it
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by koko775 15y ago
Precisely.
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by koko775 15y ago
So I take it you've never tried Ness ( http://www.likeness.com/ )? * Ratings don't need reviews * Personalizes like Netflix * Shiny mobile app (Disclaimer: The CEO is a good friend of mine)
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by koko775 15y ago
I live in Berkeley and work in SF. To make this work you'll probably want to live near the BART and work somewhere on Market, or if you're OK with a little more transit time, in SoMa. BART from Downtown Berkeley to Montgomery Street is 20 m
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by koko775 15y ago
And would never happen. Oracle has a huge vested interest in controlling arguably the most successful universal language and vm platform in the world. As fantastic as it would be for it to happen, imagining a multibillion dollar company man
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by koko775 15y ago
Oh, no, it's on an entirely different level. You not only have to deal with elastic screen size, you also can't tweak to pixel-perfection nearly so easily as you can with iOS. If this were all that was wrong, Android would be better. Howeve
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by koko775 15y ago
I've long known that excessive context switching dampens my productivity, but how else am I supposed to take my job seriously and give my side projects a shot? :/
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by koko775 15y ago
> - A lack of respect for the customer and an attempt to maximize profit at the expense of their enjoyment of your product. I do not subscribe to Hulu for this reason. As someone who works for a different video streaming site (that also
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by koko775 15y ago
Well...VenMo is competition and waives the transaction fee - so there's definitely competition there. I still think Square is superior, though.
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by koko775 15y ago
I developed one of the featured TV apps. I think licensing is indeed one of the sticky points. One key point is that a lot of licensors may require DRM in their licensing terms. Google has a lot of room to grow in this area, and certainly w
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by koko775 15y ago
So this is somewhat related, somewhat off topic from the subject at hand, but... ---- As for bringing content owners on board - as far as I can tell, they did. Their developer support was also very responsive. A+ on forming a dialogue with
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by koko775 15y ago
Well, more accurately, Safari was born from KHTML. WebKit was Apple's massive retooling of it, and was widely acknowledged as superior to KHTML (someone correct me if I'm wrong) and in time replaced it. However, your point isn't necessarily
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by koko775 15y ago
I'm surprised that there's only one mention. It is an engaging and very fascinating read which explores some of the fundamental aspects of transhumanism.
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by koko775 15y ago
Note: "the guy" is Jonathan Blow, who created Braid.
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by koko775 15y ago
Google provides an ImageLoader library. It kinda sucks, and occasionally causes Application Not Responding errors or out-f-memory exceptions in my company's apps, but there's nothing better that's open-source. I wrote something pretty cool
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by koko775 15y ago
The more you know: UIViews are basically event-handling abstractions above CALayers, which in turn are a relatively thin abstraction above common OpenGL actions. Core Animation simply manipulates these layers in the hierarchy, of which ther
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by koko775 15y ago
No, there are methods and settings that can be set via code that cannot be set via the XML, and vice-versa - I'm not talking about mixing them together. Yes, they are the same classes. No, they are not created and instantiated and configure
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by koko775 15y ago
Moreover, Interface Builder's file format is quite literally a serialized version of the class constructed at runtime, as configured in Interface Builder. What can be done in IB can also be done in code, which is more than I can say for And
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by koko775 15y ago
Agreed on all counts. As for the backgrounding stuff, though, don't worry too much, as with a local binder, services become little more than classes running in the background. The ickiness from all that AIDL stuff I've found to not be parti
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by koko775 15y ago
You're high on the post-development rush. It's addicting. But it doesn't mean the platform will scale with you. I've done extensive iOS and Android development (more extensive on the Android side due to business necessity). Here's some gotc
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by koko775 15y ago
Shallow social connections have earned me two jobs and a number of deep social connections by leapfrogging off of shallow social connections. If you think there's no value in maintaining shallow social connections, then I think you too need
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by koko775 15y ago
To be clear, the NDK will probably remain supported and first-class on mobile devices. Given that I have an NDA for the current Android device I'm targeting, I can't say anything really specific about it, only that the NDK is not designed t
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by koko775 15y ago
Ha. You don't know how good you have it. On Android: * Certain devices decode h.264 wrong and crash, others don't, and it's hard to reproduce and virtually impossible to test * No, there is no Android device dominating the others. Not even
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by koko775 15y ago
Seriously? Nobody's read Accelerando? :(
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by koko775 15y ago
Next thing you know it'll be asking to be uploaded onto a mining colony on some asteroid!
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by koko775 15y ago
I suggest using prgmr.com instead. $6/mo is worth a Xen instance with IPv6 and everything.
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by koko775 15y ago
Holy crap, yes. This was incredibly alarming. SSH keys are far and away more secure than username/password. I would be far more comfortable if it were possible to use GitHub with nothing but my SSH key. The ability to create a passcode-secu

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