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by lnanek2 11y ago
Yeah, user experience on Google Maps app has been atrocious recently. I especially hate when I search and get cards when I want a map with placemarks on it, then try to get to the map and it forgets my search. Some designer sure went all ou
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Android developer here as well. Have found the same. It has saved the day before where the only other option would have been licensing commercial options like skobbler. I don't think Google actually dog foods their Android Google Maps
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by lnanek2 11y ago
It's kind of an arms race. In the early days of iOS app development, developers would just not call the private APIs during the review period and hide them in an easter egg or enable them from the client checking with the server to see
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Pretty funny story considering YouTube is back to unusable on slow connections. They used to buffer the full video, so you could load up a page, let it sit until the video buffers, then watch it eventually, maybe after reading your social n
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by lnanek2 11y ago
You seem to be agreeing with the quote. Note it doesn't say no one represents them. It says no single member. Influence spread across all members isn't really going to get much work done for them as if they had their own specific
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Google famously banned face recognition on Glass after I and some other developers made demo apps and APIs for using it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aeMJY1AO0 Even now that Glass has been canceled for all but commerci
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by lnanek2 11y ago
There have been a couple accessories, like pressure sensitive pens, that transmit to smart phones via infrasound via air. They aren't very reliable.
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Anecdotal, but at least M preview 3 on my Nexus 6 is much worse. Hangs for a second some places, etc.. I'm a developer so I had to install it to test the new permission system in my apps, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The
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by lnanek2 11y ago
I ordered a highly rated head light and tail light the other day off amazon. When it came everything was super cheap thin plastic and the head light wouldn't turn on at all even with fresh batteries. The tail light turned on once, then
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by lnanek2 11y ago
That's in the same ballpark as the 25k number the article comes up with. For people who don't know, these numbers are very, very small. I wrote an app store dice puzzle game on Android no one here has heard of and it has 20x those
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by lnanek2 11y ago
I think the article was pretty clear about API first being bad, and even linked to Twitter's write up of having to tear out that failure: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...
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by lnanek2 11y ago
That review was pretty fun to read, actually. Doesn't sound like the book is any good, but I read 90% of the review instead of the normal 10% as I skimmed through and recognized all the games. Normally I would have stopped as soon as I
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Yeah, main demo just got stuck on my 2.5GHz MBP here too. The free 3D models demo worked good, though. Must be fewer polys.
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by lnanek2 11y ago
In this case, getting injected with star fish killing bacteria nutrients is probably less harmful than stepping on one of these poison star fishes themselves...so the robots are actually preferable if one or the other has to live.
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by lnanek2 11y ago
http://qz.com/116196/google-engineers-insist-20-time-is-not-...
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Idle just means it isn't being used for anything at the moment in this case. They aren't referring to keeping the engine running while not moving.
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by lnanek2 11y ago
I don't see anywhere in his calculations where he takes into account that the more you lean the larger the tire surface against the ground gets. Motorcycle tires are actually intentionally designed for this nowadays.
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It took me some research to figure out too. I've read Bruce's free books, but never even heard of Atomic Scala. Following the link in the article it's apparently a paid book that only has some free sample portion about the Sc
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Seems pretty lacking. The best dual band routers have MU-MIMO, the ability to talk to multiple clients at once without making them each take a turn, or at least send an extra spatial channel to help reception with more limited SU-MIMO clien
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Pretty nice UX, actually. Even a stereotypical grandma with no knowledge of the internet would probably have a high change of getting being told to scoot down to the nav below with a hand gesture and head back. Bet it retains users on the s
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by lnanek2 11y ago
I like the Aldi I used to go to in Kansas while working there. Cheap, clean and no one bothers you. It actually was a better experience than Walmart, even for this American. They had cool, better carts too!
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Would be nice if they provided more information about their implementation. I currently pay for a barcode API that doesn't have the dumb binary off/on pixel logic of the free version of zxing almost everyone else uses. It's j
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by lnanek2 11y ago
Sidechains are a kind of complex mess. After reading about them I'd definitely chalk them down to terrible, committee based software development vs. just bumping the size like the XT people want to do.
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It's well established that carnivores have much shorter intestinal tracts. Meat is relatively easy to digest and simply doesn't need a long break down and absorption process. So we know meat eaters don't need long intestines
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Kind of weird just taking the middle row of pixels. He mentions using a pano library at the bottom, so he could have just fed every frame into it instead of one row per frame and gotten a clear panorama instead of so much blurring and messe
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I've heard people play it at developer event concerts...it sounds really bad. I guess it's technically interesting, but will never be popular just because it doesn't sound any good. Kind of a common description of developer c
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As a developer, I'm really hoping they fail and some developer friendly alternative comes up. Google Plus is really bad because not many people use it and they only approve certain verbs. Twitter is really bad because they banned a bun
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They down sampled by 2x, in other words, they just dropped half the pixel data. They then gave this half data to the algorithms. The full data was only used so they would have something to compare the output to. How is that any different fr
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Unfortunately, HN only allows the original title, which results in crappy titles that weren't designed for the context of a social news site so often leaves readers clueless.
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Doesn't seem very responsible behavior by the reporter. Google accepted the suggested patches, fixed the original cases. Now some other cases are discovered for these larger numbers, OK, that seems like a new thing to fix next. Not sur

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