lnanek2

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by lnanek2 10y ago
I worked at a startup producing an Android device funded by Intel and Intel wouldn't even give us source code to all the parts of the OS. We had to deal with binary blobs copied into the Android source tree for things like the HAL (har
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His entire rant seems to boil down to this: " Legally if an ebike in the US has more than 750W it must be registered and insured as a ‘motor vehicle’ and have turn signals, mirrors and lights. That’s just not gonna happen with any of m
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My wife is Chinese and has intentionally bought replicas (knowingly ahead of time and even choosing the quality level) online before for shoes and jackets. If she sees a nice Chloe jacket for thousands and wants something that looks like it
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Yeah, but Yahoo could point to Google just as easy. That's where all Mozilla's money comes from. Just Yahoo has too many employees vs. Mozilla.
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Not only that, but big iron level Java app servers like OracleAS have long been able to have "hidden" dependencies. So your Hibernate dependency can depend on one version of, say, commons-lang, and your Spring dependency can depen
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Will have to check it out! The company I'm at has more Chrome boxes than rooms, running meetings with Google Hangouts, but everyone hates them. The controllers randomly stop working and only start again if the dongle is unplugged and r
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Providing users the best recommendations so they participate more, get more from the service, and churn less. Detecting fraud and so saving money. Predicting users who are about to leave and allowing us to reach out to them. Dynamic pricing
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The things he lists to justify calling Wall Street that are real, however: " When I see, for example, that you’re making millions by laundering drug-cartel money (HSBC), or pushing bad paper on mutual fund managers (AIG, Bear Stear
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In the military, you may be subjected to high G forces, which can reopen the LASIK flap cut into your eye.
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It probably lacks data lines. It is common for USB cables used for charging to only have power lines and skip the data lines to save money. I believe the USB cable that came with my Chromecast is the same.
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That's too bad. I love the algae based DHA-3 fortified milk at the super market. The other option is fish based DHA-3 fortified and I can't stand the taste. It's strange to blame something sold in supermarkets like that.
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> they're trying to sell $10 throw-away quality devices for >$100 I can say their software is in the same category from personal experience. Their Android app was written through minimum cost outsourcing, has no comments (since t
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Reading the whole thing is more in the entertainment realm. He advises some things that aren't acceptable in the US like government control of CEO salaries, but also some things that aren't acceptable anywhere, like confiscatory t
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It is possible to make the text a test spec that is then verified. See: http://jenisys.github.io/behave.example/tutorials/tutorial01... His complaint is that it isn't being done here, so all the prose is jut
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That font is really thin and weird looking here on OSX too. I can read it, just not sure I want to.
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What's unsolvable about it? Every bridge I've ever been on has had a little gap for expansion. Just make a little gap every 5km, cover the outside with rubber that stretches across the two sides, boom, you are done. The cars float
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> This is a ridiculous point to waffle on: pet cats should no more be allowed to roam around at will than should pet dogs, horses, pythons, or pot-bellied pigs. Actually, my Dad grew up on a mountain where, every day after school, he wou
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I'm sure Daydream VR is still like that, just like Gear VR was at first. I'm finding the 2016 GearVR much improved, however. It has a separate power jack for the headset, for example, so you can prevent the phone from having to do
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> paid off when the game launched without incident in Japan, where the number of new users signing up to play tripled the US launch two weeks earlier. The "without incident" part is hilarious. The game was unusable for over a w
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I work at a microservice company. An example microservice is our geoservice which simply takes a lat/lon and tells you what service region the user is in (e.g. New York, San Francisco, etc..). You can see how dozens of these services m
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I tested out React Native on Android the other day and it was a real disaster. It doesn't compile for all the CPU ABIs (instruction sets) we have, so if you have native libraries for x86 or arm 64 in your app it immediately breaks it c
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Agreed. Often the questions they kill are the only ones that could possibly be useful to me. I don't need someone to regurgitate the manual/docs for me. I need answers to things like "what is the best ad library to use on And
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That's not true at all. As someone who had multiple Twitter API apps killed by them, I would have welcome app store level review processes. Limiting tokens (killing any popular app) and killing games that let you tweet easily because t
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Yes, but Apple and Google, they only have what their company cars bring in for road data. Tesla makes it clear every customer is also acquiring data for all their cars to make better decisions: > Curve speed adaptation now uses fleet-lea
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Yeah, but Apple isn't using Bluetooth for the AirPods (they've already been quoted in the press as saying their technology is more battery efficient than Bluetooth). Do we really want everyone moving away from a wireless standard
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Pretty tough to not make money when you are selling pretty much sugar and water, highly marked up. Soda is incredibly profitable once you have a brand that sells.
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Wouldn't the ants just eat the rope? They don't have the intelligence to know not to eat it and that it is more valuable to leave intact for climbing back up later after falling.
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There are many people who find cars a better choice: models who don't like getting their feet dirty so won't do the first two. Real estate agents who often have to pick clients up at airports or take them to NJ or Long Island. Peo
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"fighting for their future" is often shooting themselves in the foot in my experience. A company I was at agreed to transition off of ARM to x86 for the next cost down revision of their embedded product. During the negotiations In
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I don't really agree that most of what he says is a bad thing. E.g.: " Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. In the bel

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