omarqazi

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by omarqazi 14y ago
I guess that explains all the soda cans around my room after a long coding session.
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by omarqazi 14y ago
I just realized that at some point in my 30s, I'll get a kick out of playing a version of Halo rewritten in Javascript.
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by omarqazi 14y ago
When searching for apps, do you guys usually immediately jump through the whole list? This is something I never do. However, I will look at apps one at a time and decide which one is best. On iOS 5 this meant clicking on each list item one
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by omarqazi 14y ago
If I was running Yahoo today, I'd want all of my employees to have a smart phone, be using it, and be thinking about where computing was headed. Phone and data costs should not be an excuse. And when I say smartphone I mean a REAL smartphon
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by omarqazi 14y ago
Yes, the networks use different frequency bands. Ostensibly, nobody has yet developed a chip that works on both LTE bands. The iPhone 4S shipped with a chipset that worked with both Verizon and AT&T's 3G bands, so I'm sure somebody is w
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by omarqazi 14y ago
Webkit uses iOS's rendering and compositing libraries to render information on screen. That's why it will never be faster than those libraries.
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by omarqazi 14y ago
So the iPhone 5 on AT&T can't use LTE outside of the US because AT&T uses some LTE band nobody else uses. Bit of a bummer, but I wouldn't call it crippled since you can still use 3G voice and data pretty much anywhere in the world.
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by omarqazi 14y ago
Watch the video. That's not native performance. It will never be native performance, because there will always be the layer of the rendering engine between your application and device. The best they'll ever do is "close enough to native tha