lnanek2

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by lnanek2 12y ago
Amusing that he considers reading blogs a productive thing that you would brag about.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
That isn't really definitive, because the NSA has required companies to change software to capture keys before. There was an encrypted email company who was told they have to start recording private keys used in their web client.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Too bad, his claim that he isn't a developer and just wants to have fun playing and tinker makes him sound a lot like the famous Miyamoto from the StarFox development stories. Miyamoto apparently often played with many different implem
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Not really a fan of Google negotiating unmetered access for Android to cellular data like this. I think Google/Apple/BlackBerry/Windows Phone/Xiaomi/random OEM should all have equal access to cellular data and let t
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Good. I've seen people cut by those drones and it isn't pretty. The manufacturers should have put safety cages around each prop, even if it cut into performance. But since they don't, I think they should be banned.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
And a web developer is going to change China how?
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Every time I've talked to a business that wants a web site or server backed software product for Chinese users, they've said the server has to be in China. This is why. Even when you do manage to get a request out, it is often lag
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Looks like iOS development is going to join the ranks of Android where we have many ways to handle all the screen layouts, sizes, and densities. E.g. the nine patch format to specify which parts of a graphical asset are content, which are p
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I think you are kind of missing what the hard part is for many people, which is not choosing where to put the savings, it is choosing to save at all. Many live paycheck to paycheck, even go deep into debt on credit cards and payday loans. T
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Yes, but have they ever managed to do anything good in the space? Google Health crashed and burned remember. Lift Labs could have found a better company to work with just by going to single Standford medicine and tech event, of which there
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by lnanek2 12y ago
He claims no one is bad and some just don't fit and will thrive elsewhere, but this is nonsense to anyone with big corporation experience. I've met many people who never did any work, only jumped to the next easiest excuse for why
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Considering what that means some friendly white hat probably dropped that in via a comment field or the like rather than abusing it....
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by lnanek2 12y ago
They clearly had no choice re the see no evil emoticon, it would just be a brown blotch and unreadable if it was all the same color. Same for a lot of the black and white renders of it. And of course the ASCII for it is just white with an o
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Your reasons are those of someone deeply involved in technology, which is not the case for the mass market. For them, just looking and feeling good is far more important.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Doesn't actually seem true. OK, running the decrypt leaves the key and data in SSE registers that are rarely used where it might be looked up later by attackers. There isn't any portable way to explicitly clear the registers. Then
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Searched the entire page and saw no mention of LTE, so I assume it doesn't have it. The price is actually high for a non-LTE smartphone in my opinion.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Taxis are nearly worthless in SF. I've called them many times and they only show up half the time, and that's if they are open and serving your area. There's no penalty for them if they pickup someone else on the way to pick
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Native apps already have good support for encryption in general. The default Mail app in OS X has a button for it, for example. The only thing new here is bringing it to the big webmail clients via browser add-ons.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Even if you put a good title the HN mods tend to strip it to be more bland anyway. I'd much rather they just allow duplicate story submissions with different titles and let the crowd pick the best title with voting. They aren't do
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Seems disingenuous to not mention MUDs at all, the first of which had been running for a decade at that point. Yes, they added graphics, apparently, but I was playing Neverwinter on AOL a year later in 1991 with graphics as well, and quests
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> This is a very strange way to run a news blog. He doesn't seem to realize all that matters to the blog is getting page views...
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by lnanek2 12y ago
It's easy to make that much on ads and ad removal upgrade fees for a semi-popular game on mobiles (Android, iOS). You don't have to be on the charts. I make that easy and only ever made top 200, I think. Games are a nice category
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Would anyone really consider AppEngine successful? I hear so many support horror stories, only one poorly supported open source project to try to move off to without recoding to different APIs, and the price is ridiculous compared to other
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Fortunately, G+ has been losing lately.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> The famous fizzbuzz test simply asks "are you aware of the modulo operator? No it doesn't. It could be implemented with counters you reset when needed. Didn't really read any further, I don't think this person shoul
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by lnanek2 12y ago
On a macbook on Chrome here, can't scroll and the screen keeps bumping up and down on its own. I think the "translate?" bar is trying to come down then the web site must have some Javascript or something that fights it.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Actually, I know drivers who use multiple services and get along quite well...
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Not to mention that services can participate in transactions and rollbacks a lot easier. Doing that with web services involves getting a ton of wacky protocols like WS-AtomicTransaction working, which many back ends simply don't suppor
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by lnanek2 12y ago
> As for everyone else, how quickly they update seems to depend on how complicated their skin is and how much they take advantage of the update mechanisms Google has created. Honestly, as someone who worked at an OEM, all that matters is
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Bizarre they bring up hydropower not accounting for it, but don't mention nuclear power at all. Where other countries ran from nuclear power, China embraces it: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles&#x

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