lnanek2

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by lnanek2 12y ago
Can't get the videos to load, guess their site is overloaded...pretty rare for amazon
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I think a lot of developers would break at the point of native cross platform support. I like writing stuff people use, that's cool, but it's a huge pain to write for and test on platforms I'm not going to use like Windows an
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I realize it is popular to hate CEOs nowadays, but the article sure seems to be stretching with its conclusions. It seems much simpler and more likely to simply conclude that companies pay CEOs more than usual and give them large non-cash i
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Isn't your server just virtual? Your instance could be running on a physical host running a hundred others, all accessing disk at the same time. A lot of times these cloud providers don't really target super fast individual respon
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Why would you find that hard to believe? The NSA has been putting their own hardware in other people's data centers and requiring their SSL keys, for example. So it certainly happens in the US.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
First party support for Robolectric would be wonderful. It is a nightmare any time you need something Robolectric doesn't implement, particularly in Context classes because there are so many different types of Context: Application, Con
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Not sure why they don't just brute force their data out. Back when Google was hiding Google I/O redeem codes with goo.gl links, I brute forced thousands of links out of that shortener, just using 20 lines of bash script. I was jus
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Wow, did they put any work into that thing at all or just hook up the default chat bots we've had for a decade? It would be pretty trivial to just have it keep track of what it said and never repeat exactly, never ask where someone liv
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I wish they would keep it, since I really don't want another account to log into just to use the site, but I admit they handle it a lot better than Hacker News did with this transition page. With Hacker News the Google login and whatno
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Definitely. I know the NYC iOS meetup has people advertising gigs or looking for work every session, and even more get made just networking in the bars afterwards.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Agreed. It is often a race to the bottom against programmers in a third world country with very little living costs, you are often lucky to get $40/hr until you have references and a good portfolio, but it can bring in enough to eat.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Harsh, but seems like all good advice, honestly. I think the OP would do better cutting the conversation and sticking to the details on that page as well. I had to scroll down to see what you were skilled at and you really want that above t
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Amusingly, I've heard carriers use that justification before for pushing phones other than iPhone. Well, that and Apple demands the largest subsidy of all phones. It's a position Apple can sustain because people walk in to the sto
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Otherwise known as gradual engagement. Let the users enjoy as much as possible before you force them through a registration process and then more of them will be willing to do it. Props to them for doing it. It is certainly harder than just
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I kind of prefer my HTML and CSS to be declarative and not a bunch of complex conditional commands...
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by lnanek2 12y ago
atto is about the closest their writing rules allow. It is all pairs like ka, ki, ko, ku, except for n. So all loan words have to be extended if they end illegally.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Kind of weird talking about some conference in Europe no one ever heard of when Apple just OK'ed virtual currencies...
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by lnanek2 12y ago
He doesn't seem to know much about iOS or Objective-C due to that comment about parameter names probably being unused. You wouldn't be able to make meaningful method selectors calling into the code from Objective-C without them, s
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by lnanek2 12y ago
same here
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Well, even in countries like Belarus, where the largest companies were indeed outsourcing companies, I still saw a lot of gaming companies, particularly war games. Graphics programming is a grueling field where you spend months working on c
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by lnanek2 12y ago
It sounded fun, honestly. Props to her for getting her own medicine too. That's the one thing I always cringe at - when an SF date off craigslist, often an out of town person passing through like a stewardess, wants a hookup like that.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I think it is healthy to cover all maps providers anyway. I had a rude awakening too a while back when I wanted to do a native Android hack on Google Glass using maps, but there is none of the usual MapActivity, etc. available. So Open Stre
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by lnanek2 12y ago
They do flat out say "top retail sites", not just amazon.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
It's always less exciting to hear that there isn't a problem somewhere than that there is, I guess. Sorry you weren't entertained.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Some of their products have bug trackers. That said, I submitted some fixes to their Android docs in the Android issue tracker years ago. Really obvious stuff like where their sample code would cause a crash due to trying to start a dialog
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I was impressed that even with all this translation and Java compatibility going on, the sample code still shows some situations where the nice clean, concise nature of Ruby is still up and running. E.g.: > @paths.each { |path, paint| ca
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Google is pretty famous for letting Android contributions sit in a review queue forever to die. They effectively don't accept.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Amusingly it also has unrelated changes that look like the developer was working on 7.2 for a proper release before this.
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by lnanek2 12y ago
Amusingly, they modified the license to remove the advertising clause that was causing trouble. The author seems really awesome the way they are handling this, wish they weren't stopping. It may be out of their hands, however: NSA, law
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by lnanek2 12y ago
I can't think of a single headphone business that is anywhere near Beats. The headphones are crap, they used to be relabeled Monster headphones, for example. It doesn't matter. The brand is successful. Coco-Cola is just sugar wate

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