lnanek2

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by lnanek2 12y ago
You should have seen the YC hackathon, it was pretty clear they took the youngest applicants. Speaking like that is appealing to high school and college kids rather than using more formal language. He wasn't addressing journalists and
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by lnanek2 12y ago
What makes you think polices get more effective? The F-35 is a laughing stock. Surely most effective wouldn't be an overbudget, past deadline, aircraft with a host of problems. Surely most effective would mean avoiding things like that
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Amusingly, BIOS features to test/clear memory are usually disabled due to boot performance impact.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> If Microsoft’s stance on this issue is not reversed it’s possible we will see a spike in sales by manufacturers such as System76 and ZaReason who ship computers running Linux out of the box without any signs of Secure Boot at all. Come
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by lnanek2 12y ago
But that would use up material, all of which has to be trucked up to orbit at great expense.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
The http://hippyvm.com/ site looks really nice and it is impressive they managed 2x Facebook's offering's speed. Too bad it also says it is too incomplete to work for web servers yet. Not sure I would want to comp
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I've always picked the cheapest option in Uber and I've never gotten a bad ride. I very frequently get bad rides with Taxis, the most common being when you call them and they never show up because they just pickup someone else wit
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I've already been getting kind of ridiculous suspensions due to this. A dice puzzle game where all you ever earned was points for making the right patterns was banned for encouraging gambling. So, uh, goodbye one of the few things that
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I admit this was my one complaint about their API when it was released, since it meant I couldn't do thinks like write Uber for Glass. Their branding document is very detailed and handy to make their buttons look good on mobiles too, s
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Kind of a shame none of the OEMs are picking up the API. Google really should have worked with Intel/Qualcomm/etc. to come up with something that the parts vendors were willing to support. The API really seems dead in the water as
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Pretty cool they got the price so low. I've consulted as an Android developer on the app side of medical software and for every day we actually wrote features we spent something like four testing. Unit tests, integration tests, UI auto
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by lnanek2 12y ago
The improved screenshots do look quite improved, with less screen door effect. Nice.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> Really, convicted of a felony, you're guaranteed lifetime financial insolvency? This is actually flat out true. All large companies perform background checks and none of them will hire you if have any sort of criminal charges what
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Well, I'm fine with the link because it says it was just done for learning, but you'll never get anything practically useful out of this. The performance of the real JVM is decades ahead...
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Java and OOP in general are already famous for being made fun of as the Kingdom of Nouns. So it would be funny to call something built with the Kingdom of Nouns as Verb World, lol.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Seems like a good opportunity for an Indian startup to make an Uber for India that easy ECS billing each month or before each month or something. I'd happily take an auto-debit of my average spend each month over having to manually do
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> People win by making "cool" apps (Uber for X) whereas technical hacks are totally ignored. I think a hack is worthless if you can't get regular people interested in it, so technical hacks are rightly failing. If you ever
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by lnanek2 12y ago
At least for Android bug reports, Google mostly ignores them and closes them all as obsolete every release even though they weren't fixed. So I don't think they'll have any problem ditching Chromium bug reports. I've hea
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Honestly, I think he was right. Google has a really bad image problem right now where lots of people don't want to get involved with their projects because Google will most likely kill the project just like Reader and Glass. See my cou
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by lnanek2 12y ago
That's unfortunate. I still regularly come across things on Google Code that are useful, usually just there because they were written before GitHub. There's very little chance the authors will bother moving after all this time and
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> “Matt Murphy said he had looked at the company before, and that the founding team ‘wasn’t business minded,’ and that they would not be able to generate revenues and create a sustainable business.” This honestly seems dead on about the
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Don't even understand how this is an article, they flat out have a disclaimer: > Auto-hold strategies vary by game, based on the particular features of a game and do not necessarily result in theoretical payouts On smart phone games
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by lnanek2 12y ago
It's not particularly rare in SciFi either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Ships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn_series
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by lnanek2 12y ago
This is a terrible, inaccurate article to link. Google Talk is going away, so is irrelevant. Google has a big banner on pages about it that it is going away. I don't even understand why the article talks about it so much and mentions i
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Honestly, I kind of prefer the new AT&T solution where they charge you ~$30 more to do nothing with your data. If paranoid people want this, then by all means, let them pay for it.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I bought a replacement metal band for my Galaxy Gear. No clue if it was standard, but certainly replaceable.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
3 million dollars and they can't hire an industrial designer to make it look like something other than a preschool toy? They feel like a bunch of developers competing against Apple. No offense intended, I'm a developer myself. I
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I still remember the Google IO where I lost my ticket because Google Wallet error'ed out. The JavaScript was really amateur and just left the user sitting at a progress screen forever in the case of an error. I don't really consid
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Not sure there would be any point to unsigned integers in Java. Most cases where you would want to use them you are better off writing in C and calling it via JNI. That's what is done on Android when you need performance, anyway, that
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Probably because Google got a lot of negative PR for forcing manufactures away from more accurate Location API implementations so now they need to use a private API as an excuse to kill location service competition in the future. You can se

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