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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   It's a cool demo that's fun to play with. Cool demos like this can spark people's imaginations, that's how it's useful.
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   I don't see how being confined to a subset of programming is a good thing. To always depend on what features your overseers are willing to make available to you. So what if a locked down phone can run JavaScript? I can do a ToDo-list a
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   We've all read and re-read all the reasons why corporate work can be unfulfilling. In my opinion this short essay wasn't about that, it was about the personal implications of this unfulfillment. Lacking confidence in social intera
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   I think that when it comes to an idea one truly believes in, even if one is not inclined towards running a company, one is likely to give it a shot anyway. I'm talking about real passion here. The kind of passion that would cause you t
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   Maybe developers smartened up. If you have a solid idea that Google would benefit from and allow you to work on it in your 20% time, why not quit and do something similar on your own? Google is no longer a cutesy company, they're a cor
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   This is all about selling people on a dream, in my opinion. A lot of tech people work in drab settings (at least I do), so images of colorful, social environments awake a yearning for something better, for something more enjoyable. Isn&#x27
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   I have a Galaxy Nexus with 4.3, and it's been getting progressively laggier with each update. Changing screen orientation, doing text input or moving the cursor inside a body of text, and opening the running apps list are all mildly fr
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   Good for you. I was about to buy it despite preferring Linux, but seeing all these comments on HN convinced me to save my money for when the developer releases a native version. The developer's website [1] says that it uses OpenFL [2],
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   by null_ptr 13y ago

   Abuse [1] uses Lisp for game logic. You'd have to dive in the source code to find out more, a quick online search didn't turn out much. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_%28video_game%29
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    > I wonder if it is a rendering trick or something intentional for tracking. How do you mean?
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    A leader has to have technical competency, at least on a general level, on the products their teams develop. How else could they make informed decisions? Advisors can only help so much, the persons who ultimately make the big decisions
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    Cheating according to who? Surely not your website's users? It's the standards makers' fault. Needing to center something on either the x or y axis relative to the parent is as common a scenario as you can get.
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    Will such a program be a first-class citizen though? In other words, will the user have a harder time using it than using a QML/HTML5 app? I could see that be if only QML/HTML5 integrate well with the phone interface.
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    I want to know one thing about this phone that the page did not mention. Can I `gcc-arm -o MyApp main.c` on my PC and run MyApp on any Ubuntu Edge phone, without having to unlock them or enable them for dev or any other nonsense? Or is deve
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    That site messes with the vertical scrollbar on Firefox Android, how hard can it be to serve a page of text without doing any useless CSS or JS or who-knows-what trickeries?
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    I missed it too. The red ribbon in the top right corner is very easy to miss on wide screens. If I do Ctrl+F for "open source", the only result I get is that your designer enjoys contributing to open source projects. You should co
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    "There's some hard evidence that all this privacy stuff just doesn't alarm us all that much." I wish all these articles would stop the reinforcement of apathy in every spying article's opening paragraph. It sets t
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    Could you please elaborate?
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    I remember fondly the time when I learned to use C function pointers. They really stepped up my code design :-)
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    "So what are we going to do about it?" Be kind and empathic to those around you, and call out those around you who are not. Try to use technology to further liberate people's minds from the drudgery of everyday life and giv
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    "Do you believe people on Twitter do not have the resources available to attempt creative works?" They do, but they're overwhelmed by the vast amount of empty content ready for consumption. It's so damn easy to chill o
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    That's what we get for breeding a society of consumers. If you don't have a meaningful way to express yourself productively, you pour all that tension into the wrong things. You become a buly, a stalker, a heckler, you name it. Yo
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    "What if it will become illegal to sell consumer devices without signature checks for all software running on it." Well that would be a tragedy. As if computing isn't moving towards closed systems fast enough. I really hope
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    So are all computing security jobs tied to the U.S.? I can think of Avast in the Czech Republic and Kaspersky Lab in Russia off the top of my head, there's probably a lot more out there.
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    I'm not concerned about things looking bad on my resume. I'm confident in my skills and what I achieved so far at work and on my own before then. I'm just wondering if there's a minimum industry experience that the major
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    There was an article posted here yesterday [1] about how companies have two hiring pools: fresh grads and experienced workers. Those caught in the middle (graduated in recent years but have no to little industry experience) had it tough. I
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    5 microphones and 5 cameras. Not very pleasant to think about. I used to keep a piece of electrical tape on my laptop's webcam but it looks like it came off, time to put a new one back on.
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    So will all users be able to update to the latest Firefox OS as soon as it comes out, or will there be carrier or manufacturer interference?
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    Ask HN: How much industry experience before attempting a startup?

    6 points by null_ptr 13y ago|4 comments
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    by null_ptr 13y ago

    These little teasers are starting to annoy me. Congratulations, you can twist C to be as unintuitive as you'd like it to be. But why would you write code like that to begin with? I don't care what value __ return -3 >> (8 *