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So the thing is, the Nexus 5 was a near-perfect phone (especially considering it was released two years ago), and it's totally reasonable to think it's still doing the job very well -- it is. But that's a fact about the N5, n
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Miracast turns out to be a terrible protocol in many ways. The way it uses Wifi networks is clunky, and requiring from-device streaming is fine for local content or screen mirroring, but terrible for streaming services (where you end up wit
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Amazon Prime video doesn't support any TV-connected Apple or Google device. This appears to be a strategic decision Amazon has made.
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DXOMark is the gold standard of photo-quality evaluations. Their evaluations for mobile phones show the Nexus 6 to have been very good for when it was released (it's #12 now, but most of the phones above it are newer); the Nexus 6P is
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by mkozlows 11y ago
If Crystal gave an option to "allow high-quality ads" and then that list of high-quality ads was curated carefully in the users' interests, it could make sense. But as soon as people start paying to be included on that list,
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I agree with you that ORMs don't add a whole lot of value to Node, but I think there's still value in slightly-higher-level libraries. Like, doing a simple `select whatever from table where x = ? and y = ? and z = ?` is annoying w
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It's not just that they have no incentive to pass on the savings, they actively do not want ebooks to become popular -- they've stated this outright at various points in their battles with Amazon, that their goal with ebook pricin
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The library can't be updated automatically, because suddenly all your stored passwords wouldn't work. If it's a big monolithic library like Spring, they just deprecate APIs and add new ones (which is in fact what they do); if
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The non-expert answer is: Because crypto math is difficult for randos to analyze, and it's not obviously the case that running an algorithm 4,000 times is 4,000 times harder to break than running it once. And from a purely pragmatic pe
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It may well be accurate to say that employers are reluctant to raise wages for developers, and that in the absence of that reluctance, salaries would be much higher. But to claim that devs are basically the same as exploited migrant agricul
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Yeah, the really weird thing about this article is that it's all snarky about Docker, and then it goes off into weird manual-install land (which makes about as much sense as saying "I couldn't get the .msi installer to run, s
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This is a weak article. The author's never worked with Docker before, so got tripped up by a few gotchas (but seriously, installing a third-party PPA isn't that hard or weird), but it doesn't take that much googling or trial&
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The short answer is "because we don't sell to consumers, and credit cards aren't necessary or even particularly desirable for business customers." Okay, that's nice, but... not sure there's really a larger take
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Were you really left alone, though? As in, not even forced to use Lotus Notes? Because even that kind of small-bore enterprisation can destroy the culture of a small tech-focused company.
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I realize this blog post is full of optimistic "nothing will change!" statements, but that doesn't seem super-IBM-like.
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The more interesting point, really, is where on the efficiency spectrum it makes sense to place our institutions. I mean, we all want libraries to continue to exist in the ebook era, right. But the old-style "library buys a single copy
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Because you can get stuff from lectures without paying full attention. I download those Open Yale Courses lectures, and listen to them while driving to work. Driving, obviously, takes up some fraction of my brain, but I find that I still ha
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Because Node uses CommonJS modules.
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The more immediately obvious comparison is MSDN. Anyone who's using ReSharper, at least, is already almost certainly subscribing to MSDN.
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I think the critics are missing one huge benefit: Most of their licenses are bought by companies. A company that buys a perpetual license now has no reason to upgrade unless the developers complain and prod; a company that buys a SaaS subsc
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Apple's $650 flagship will probably continue to do fine. But the $450 phones really got a lot of mileage from being "free." If you were buying a phone in 2012 from a normal contract carrier, there really wasn't any way t
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People are more price-conscious than you'd think. I mean, even Apple -- the brand that cater the most to the price-insensitive -- has always sold a decent number of its $550 and $450 phones. The more people see real prices, even if the
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The move in the center of intellectual gravity from Java/C# to Javascript puts me in mind of Guy Steele's quote about Java, back in the day: "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers
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You're misreading him. Those are examples of "an existing success story" that other startups are comparing themselves to. Yes, nobody except Mark Cuban would consider broadcast.com a success story, but if I got rich off selli
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So the germ of a good idea in the article is that there's a distinction between Computer Science and the techniques used in the actual production of software (call it Software Engineering, but obviously that's an overused term). I
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The key difference on Android is, and has always been, that you can get apps from off of Google Play. Google's store is just a store with its own policies, and you can install apps from anywhere (including other stores) if you want. Wh
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Being able to use Docker tools to deploy these Windows containers is a win, though. Companies with mixed data centers right now (aka many enterprises) are reluctant to use Docker-ecosystem tools for deployment because they won't work f
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The thing is, it's easy to say something is hard. Programming is definitely hard! The question is: Is it hard essentially, or is it hard accidentally? That is, can you remove unnecessary complexity from programming and suddenly it&#x27
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So after they didn't exactly revolutionize the IDE with Light Table, and pivoted to revolutionizing programming, they seem to have kind of come around to revolutionizing... groupware? Which at least seems more plausible, as it ought t
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The only thing worse than a big system with no documentation is a big system with documentation that is full of lies and untruths. Short of hiring people full-time to write documentation, and to ensure that all changes to the program are do

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