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by mirsadm 10y ago
That was the most surprising thing for me when I went to check out the Silicon Valley area a couple of years ago. I have no idea why so many people choose to work there. It looks like suburbia mixed in with a bit of industrial wasteland. I
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Is it open source? If not, I wouldn't trust it.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Why? What is a doctor going to tell you? 3 days without food is not dangerous.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Basically this. Even though there isn't one particular cure all solution, there are many more treatments available which are more effective than in the past.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Firefox is pretty sluggish for me on my MBP. It sits around 20% CPU usage idling on certain web sites. Playing back videos makes the fans spin up. It's just terribly slow.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
All 8 cores can run at the same time on the 810.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
In addition, touch screen latency is something that never gets tested but is a huge factor in how the device feels to use. Some phones have terrible latency and its impossible to find out until you own the device.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
So the solution is to abandon the hardware market and make $0.99 mediocre mobile games instead?
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by mirsadm 10y ago
The screenshot their provide clearly shows there's a "Don't remind me again" option in the bottom corner. Put down the pitchforks.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Poorly designed APIs are a common theme with Android. Another example is the MediaCodec APIs for hardware video encoding. They are so awful compared to iOS that it makes me think twice about buying another Nexus phone. It is impossible to d
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Claiming it is easy is probably bit of a stretch. I can't imagine any large-scale web app or native desktop app being easy to implement, regardless of the tools.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
As someone mentioned below, C can almost be seen as a portable assembly. Given enough time and optimization it will always be as fast as the hardware allows. I guess my point was it is meaningless to say "faster than C" because it
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by mirsadm 10y ago
Every new language has someone claim it's faster than C. I'll believe it when I see it.
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by mirsadm 10y ago
If they did it "right" there'll be no performance penalty. It should be executing the apps the same way Android does. I imagine they've ported the runtime to Chrome OS.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
I've got an Android Wear device that sits in a drawer because it is pretty useless. Charging it every night is more hassle than it's worth. I don't like wearing watches though. However now I wear a fitness tracker (Garmin For
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by mirsadm 11y ago
I am the same. I would only wear something on my wrist if it provided enough functionality to be worth the annoyance of having something attached to me all the time. Both Android Wear and the Apple watch are just not very useful. I've
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by mirsadm 11y ago
They are mostly accurate. I use a Garmin Forerunner 235 and the average heart rate seems to be mostly accurate. I don't really pay attention to the absolute values though. It's only interesting to see how they change as I my fitne
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by mirsadm 11y ago
Optical HR monitors aren't that accurate. They are only useful if your analysing trends over time. People that buy these fitness trackers and expect medical level accuracy are either misled by deceiving marketing or not doing enough re
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by mirsadm 11y ago
It does seem bizarre that Google would put in all the effort to develop ART and then retire it so quickly.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
My current IDE works just fine with or without internet access. I don't remember the last time I needed to code on a computer besides my own (which is the only use I can think for this, or maybe on something like an iPad Pro).
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by mirsadm 11y ago
That is poor advice and doesn't work for most people.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
There are parks? Where exactly? Riding anywhere but on the road is dangerous. Most reasonably fit road bike cyclist can average 18-19 mph and possibly much faster on a slight declines. We should be promoting cycling not making it even more
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by mirsadm 11y ago
Removable storage is never going to be a thing for a Nexus device so I'm not sure why people bring this up constantly.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
Having moved from Australia to the UK, I can tell you the delivery services I've used so far (Yodel, DPD etc) are far superior than any service in Australia. They even deliver on Saturdays and Sundays. That's amazing.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
That is a reasonable point. It is definitely one way to fix that particular perk.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
I personally am strongly against any kind of "unlimited" vacation days or other such perks. In my experience hardly anyone takes advantage of them because they are made to feel guilty. Even most places that claim to offer working
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by mirsadm 11y ago
One can do that when they are younger, don't have a family or other commitments that would make those sorts of trips impossible (from your edit). If you are unable to do that, would you then just work all the time until you retire?
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by mirsadm 11y ago
They look fine now because the resolution of the screen is so high. Previously you could definitely notice issues with it.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
Apple is not like that at all. Their software is excellent. My guess is that a large percentage of their customers keep buying their hardware because of iOS or OS X not because it's thinner.
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by mirsadm 11y ago
Spotify connect is the most frustrating problem for me. I use it at work on my laptop and it drains the battery on my phone, tablet and my partners phone (as we share an account).

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