mdwrigh2

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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
He isn't talking about video chat but visual chat. Check out the link to his startup that he mentioned to get a better idea.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Except I think this is a terrible thing to highlight the differences. The user should never have to think about clearing the application cache, or what that even means, and in my experience on Android, you don't have to. I can't think of a
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
He shouldn't have to think about clearing an application's cache. Seriously, if that's something he's thinking about, someone, somewhere along the line, screwed up.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
If you haven't seen the Settings app in 4.1 / 4.2, it got a lot better, IIRC.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Dianne Hackborn actually has a pretty good description of process memory usage (particularly about Android, but it applies to Linux in general): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2298208/how-to-discover-m...
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
I get that they're showing Android 2.3 (which is still the most popular), or at least I assume it isn't earlier than 2.3, but this is definitely fixed on Android 4.0 and above which would've been nice to mention. Screenshot: https://docs.g
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
> Then I expect there to be a wave of lawsuits over Google's intelligent search results e.g. flights, tickets, offers, shopping which are very similar to Microsoft's "embrace and extend" approach. See, you left off the end of that strat
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Second paragraph into the article: "It’s as close to perfect as I’ve seen any Android smartphone get. But the Nexus 4 falls just short of perfection due to one major omission: It’s not compatible with any LTE networks."
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Was having issues a couple minutes ago, everything seems to be back up in working order now.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Note this is an unofficial page. https://plus.google.com/113238550815846424978/about
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
From one of the developers on the project: "(And getting a regular u-boot on these to use as generic linux hacking platforms isn't all that hard. Should be a nice base for people to do native ARM development)" https://plus.google.com/10999
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
If you flip the developer switch on the side, you can load whatever you want. Here's a guide for loading Ubuntu on one: http://www.devchronicles.com/2011/10/installing-ubuntu-on-sa...
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
The comparison was between someone who is skilled at vim and someone who is skilled at Sublime Text 2. My argument is that the person using Sublime Text 2 wouldn't be as "fast" as the person using vim, not that the person who was skille
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
That isn't an argument for using a rock. Just because Beethoven was capable of composing incredible symphonies while deaf doesn't mean that you should deafen yourself while composing.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
> A person who is balls deep familiar with Sublime Text 2 or Visual Studio will be just as fast due to experience. I wouldn't state this as if it were fact either. The biggest gain for me is the ability to quickly and easily script my t
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Ask a first-year CS student to quit out of ed.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Where did you go? Because UofT, UBC, McGill, Waterloo, etc. are up there in the rankings with GATech.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Nope[1], nor reasonably could they. The cost of doing tech support for 1 billion people is just massive. [1]: https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=220217228006012
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
1. Really the question I should've asked here was for example where their strong features got watered down. I'm less interested in the specifics, but as far as I can tell, the webapp has gotten better over time, not worse. As for the circle
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
> When Google+ came out I was blown away by just how well designed it was, but then slowly Google ruined it. Andy Hertzfeld created an amazing product, but then Google worked their "magic" just like they did with Blogger and watered dow
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Idiomatically, this should take a Reader and return the result rather than taking a string.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
It sounds like an app problem then.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
> 3. Many of the neat tricks on Android require a rooted phone. Many neat tricks on iPhone require a jailbroken phone. Same idea. Again, not a barrier for hackers. I don't think this is necessarily true. And even if it is, you can buy a
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
I don't believe Go's GC suite of compilers use glibc at all, for the record.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Do you update your apps once a month? Once every few months? This statistic is published for developers to get an idea of which OS versions they should be supporting based off market share. If you aren't opening the play store to buy apps
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
What would you suggest as a solution? This isn't to suggest it isn't a problem, just that not all problems have viable solutions.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
You report revenue and expenses during the quarter in which they were earned, not when they're paid. So a delay in payment wouldn't change their Q3 filings at all. Beyond this, Google makes a profit from having both sides continue to partic
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
I would highly doubt that they dropped everyone's payment information. Think about how much money would be lost from people not willing to overcome the inertia and re-entering their payment info.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
Buzz was used a lot internally at Google, and was pretty handy.
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by mdwrigh2 14y ago
> In other cases, they are forced into prostitution by others. In some cases, people are enslaved and forced to be prostitutes. Make forcing people into prostitution illegal then, not prostitution itself. You aren't stopping people fro

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