mdwrigh2

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Concurrency in Go (or, Erlang done right)(docs.google.com)
28 points by mdwrigh2 15y ago|15 comments
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
One of the more interesting ways I've seen channels used in Go is a channel of generic interfaces, and then switching based on the type received. https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df36r82q_5gdq5gzth&#... has an example of this on sl
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I would point out that Wolfram Alpha claims gold is at $1577 USD/oz versus $1597 USD/oz on two other gold sites. A big difference? No, absolutely not, but if you want to know the price of gold, you probably want to have faith that they get
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Building StatHat with Go(blog.golang.org)
106 points by mdwrigh2 15y ago|25 comments
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Side note: Not even WaPo can seem to get it right. The unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil" not "Do no evil", which is what they have as one of their photo captions.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I wanted something like the TextMate project drawer wrapped around VIM for a long time, until I started using Command-T + ctags. I can't think of the last time I've really wanted IDE features wrapped around VIM since then (except for specia
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Except their co-founder signed as the co-founder of the company. I would assume he's signing as a private citizen to say he's signing because he , and not the company he works for, sees it as a detriment.
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Android versus iOS: The Power of Culture and Tools(informedskeptic.com)
4 points by mdwrigh2 15y ago|0 comments
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
This is to celebrate 10 billion downloads, so clearly Google hit billions without giving away 10 cent apps too.
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10 Billion Android Market Downloads and Counting(android-developers.blogspot.com)
11 points by mdwrigh2 15y ago|0 comments
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Do you have a source for that info? A quick Google search turns up nothing on Microsoft's stance on SOPA.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I pulled the repository and all of the code is very well documented, and easy to read. Really a great resource for learning OS internals.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I have yet to see a new /accessory/ use NFC (really, the only thing I've seen use it is Wallet-like applications and check-in type applications). The desktop dock is still sold by HTC, but the car dock doesn't appear to be. Regardless, they
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
To be fair, you do get to use all of the new accessories and cables. Plus if you want to run ICS, while Google may not support it, it certainly seems like Cyanogen will have a version for the N1.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I suspect they will not be able to remove the feature as long as it's an official Android phone. My initial guess is that this will be added to CTS, or at least the list of requirements for things that work on Android.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Look at the date on both of those news reports... :) The first article cites the second one, and the author of the second one confirms it's an April Fools joke in the second comment on the page. They haven't dropped it at all.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
> To me, it's unsurprisingly that google dropped their "don't be evil" motto a few years back. Wait, when did this happen? They appear to still have it, at least on their investor's code of conduct page[1]. [1]: http://investor.google.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I'd also point out that basically all tool development is done in the open in AOSP. As you pointed out, it's usually just a matter of finding the people necessary to do code reviews.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
There are Android animations [1][2], not sure how they compare to WP7 or iOS though. [1]: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/view-anim... [2]: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/animation-in-...
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Interesting. Links show up as purple if visited for me as well.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
What specifically would you like to see in terms of testing tools for Android? I ask this not because I don't think there are areas to improve (there are), but to get a better idea of where improvement is most needed.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
> I like pointers and recursion but do not see understanding those as defining a great developer. I've seen plenty of people who were way more adept at pointers that couldn't design a fuctional system if they tried. I think you're misun
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
> Google has interesting, proprietary software, but they don't sell search engines http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/ > , sorting tools Okay, so they don't sell sorting too
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
There's actually some discussion about how to handle errors in Haskell. See: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/08/8-ways-to-report-errors-in-ha...
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Anybody know what presentation software the guy in the PyCon talk was using? That looked pretty slick.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
> Nonsense. Google makes 97% of their revenue from search advertising No, Google makes 97% of their revenue from advertising, not just search advertising. 31% of the revenue comes from "Google Network web sites" (AdSense). http://inves
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
For an alternative method, I do a similar thing but put them all on Github and have a quick script to symlink them to the right place. Easy to set up a new machine in minutes, and I maintain history indefinitely. https://github.com/mdwrigh
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Disco was fairly interesting app. Google even came out with a similar product in Huddles. On top of that, they had a fairly successful social app, which I suspect is exactly what Google wanted out of the acquisition (their social expertise)
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Why are you convinced that this was a "bail out"? Why is it unsavory if Google thought that the team and its expertise was worth $200M? Google clearly was trying to get into social at the time, and this team did have a lot of interesting id
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
As I commented above, I was encouraged to find a 20% project while there, and I worked on the Android team. Only a few people on my team had 20% projects, but none of them actually wanted a 20% project as far as I can tell. Anyone that did,

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