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by metageek 16y ago
This is something you can't really do on Android; the Market doesn't let you change an app from free to paid.
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by metageek 16y ago
I should mine this thing for my Android mission statement generator. https://market.android.com/details?id=org.thibault.android.b...
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by metageek 16y ago
Huh. Depending on what they do with the audio input, that might be illegal in Massachusetts. (Our wiretap law requires all parties to consent, and it applies to any covert audio recording, not just phone conversations.)
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by metageek 16y ago
> This is unbiased because all information is given. In this case, though, it is biased because some people will have heard the puzzle before, and having heard it before is tied to culture rather than to intelligence.
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by metageek 16y ago
OK, but there's a difference between requiring students to pick a subject in advance and picking it for them.
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by metageek 16y ago
But was it that way in Britain before India became independent in 1947? I thought the British "slot everybody into a job" system was part of post-WWII socialism.
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by metageek 16y ago
It's a reasonable guess, but it would apply to free apps, too. (Even more, in fact, since they're usually ad-supported, which means they require Net access and probably your location.)
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by metageek 16y ago
> don't take my phrase word for word Say what you mean.
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by metageek 16y ago
> AT&T really was a monopoly, it had the government enforcing that on its behalf. And weren't its tariffs generally set to allow it a certain profit margin? In that sort of setup, the decision to fund a big, expensive research lab
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Rick Webb: Yes, it's a bubble(rickwebb.tumblr.com)
5 points by metageek 16y ago|0 comments
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by metageek 16y ago
That is true. And Archos's own AppsLib just does not measure up, from a developer's viewpoint. I've got two apps that have gotten over 100 downloads each in the Market, and only 2 from AppsLib.
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by metageek 16y ago
I love Google Sky Map. I particularly enjoy pointing it at the ground and seeing stars from the Southern Hemisphere.
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by metageek 16y ago
Hardly any Android phones don't come with the Market--in fact, the only ones I've heard of that don't are China Telecom's oPhone ecosystem. Plenty of Android tablets don't have the Market.
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by metageek 16y ago
But Android has the same range, from the $99 Archos 28 to the $800 Xoom. Plus the off-brand stuff like $99 7" tablets at CVS.
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by metageek 16y ago
Or, better yet, call the inputs sources and the outputs sinks. Just like, say, the entire rest of the world.
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by metageek 16y ago
The Acknowledgements section says: >This document was produced using the xml2rfc tool [RFC2629].
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by metageek 16y ago
And they could add a +1 button to Chrome.
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by metageek 16y ago
Threats of violence are not appropriate. Adding "Just kidding" does not help.
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by metageek 16y ago
Does any of this count as barratry? Even if the underlying case is valid, it seems as if SCEA's attempt to bring it in California is frivolous.
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by metageek 16y ago
An XML parser makes a nice medium-sized project; it'll get you experience with C data structures and string handling. Plus it has the nice property that you can start small and build on, until you've got the whole spec done, and every bit
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by metageek 16y ago
Oh, yeah, that would be good. Thanks!
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by metageek 16y ago
That's Olympia Snowe.
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by metageek 16y ago
From the author of My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer, which came across earlier today [1]. I was startled to see that over 40% of my users were Spanish-speaking (Spanish-speaking users make up only about 3% of all Android Market
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Android Market Publisher Console Now Comes With Stats(kerebus.com)
2 points by metageek 16y ago|1 comments
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by metageek 16y ago
I really need to add sound to my Android game. [1] It's a board game, which means elaborate sound isn't a normal part of the experience; but it could at least click as you move the stones around. I suspect, as the author says, that most pe
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by metageek 16y ago
Oh, very cool. I'm going to have to try this out on some place more interesting than my office, and buy the paid model if I like the results.
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by metageek 16y ago
It costs $99 just to register to sell through Amazon. He'd have to make a lot more sales to be worth it.
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by metageek 16y ago
> If they're ready to ship the binaries It's a little more nuanced than that. They believed the binaries were a good product for 10-inch tablets, but would perform badly on smaller screens. If they ship source, though, people will
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by metageek 16y ago
I went to an IETF meeting in the fall of 1998 where the thing hanging around your neck was a clear plastic holder that contained both your name tag and a brochure. Not quite as nice as this solution, since you could take out the brochure a
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by metageek 16y ago
The name is so generic that when I saw the earlier HN thread ("Color now available on Android Market") I had no idea what they were talking about--maybe the descriptive text for an app could be in HTML?

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