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by personZ 12y ago
>You can be confident that a visible iBeacon is within 30ft or so, rather than 300+ft for WiFi, and with a little calibration you can measure the distance reasonably well. Doesn't BLE have a range of some 150 feet+? That doesn'
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by personZ 12y ago
Cool project. I've always wondered what iBeacon offers, in most practical implementations, that latent wifi doesn't? If I wanted to do something similar on an Android device, for the purposes of conversation, I would register for
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by personZ 12y ago
Has anyone on HN actually bought this application? It seems to have no reviews or ratings for any version, which is somewhat strange for something costing so much (that price motivating feedback). Even the basic version has no ratings or re
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They would have gotten exactly the same press (TechCrunch) minus that commentary. But with that commentary they instantly cloud their announcement with two immediate thoughts- -abandonment. You know, I wasn't thinking of it, but now it
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by personZ 12y ago
Indeed, the probability of this being discontinued, if it follows normal trends, is dramatically higher than pretty much any Google product, and worse the notion that the "product is their focus" is specious: getting investment
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Most of them are (if not all...I can't think of a single one who isn't) still developers. Few have made any great impact, and most have had the "people get hired in as my boss" experience a number of times. But they&#x27
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by personZ 12y ago
This is a very unpopular opinion among .NET advocates, but personally I think LINQ is the worst thing to ever happen to c#. It leads to ( in my opinion ) grotesque, unreadable code that more often than not hides enormous performance problem
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by personZ 12y ago
But it's still true, in general. At best what you could say is true is that people with no relationships and no "extra-curriculars/external interests" have more free time. This crosses all ages. There are young people
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by personZ 12y ago
Yes. Somehow "I am less motivated to work hard and learn new things in my 40s" turns into "Everyone is less motivated to work hard and learn new things in their 40s." Yes, it very much is worded exactly like that. If
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Honest, legitimate post that I very much enjoyed. However I do think posts like this feed in ageism. I say this because it posits that the change is that the author is older and has more things to do, therefore they've fallen out with
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by personZ 12y ago
Because it's a brand new domain running on AWS.
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The best approach to that would be interacting with and leveraging existing, very well proven and optimized image processing libraries. I can see some bindings for things like ImageMagick out there.
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by personZ 12y ago
It's the exact same situation as in native code Just to be clear, Android applications can be, and often are, 100% DEX (the vast majority of productivity, video, etc). Because, you hold, there are exception applications that break
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is that it's intermixed with native code via the NDK Idiomatic use of the NDK is that you always provide Java surrogates for NDK functionality, but of course we know that isn't often the case. Instead developers can and do cross
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By what possible perspective is that from "a different time"? Because Microsoft decided to distribute compiled .NET apps to Windows Phone? Is there some great advantage that Windows Phone gains from this? It certainly doesn't
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by personZ 12y ago
It's how Java works. It is, indeed, how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many, many other technologies work (millions of us are all using the same Chrome browser that's doing exactly the same work to make sense of this markup, build and
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by personZ 12y ago
Can you describe in more details what you mean? An inlined function with restrict parameters is of course inlined as if the variables are restricted. Indeed, a test of an inline of an inline of an inline was still optimized (or rather, not
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by personZ 12y ago
and even claimed to be faster than C for certain cases -a promise made for pretty much every language ever. Just need a couple of compiler tune ups. Not trying to be critical, that just gave me a chuckle. On most architectures (including
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by personZ 12y ago
My professional history is with C, C++, C#, Fortran, even years of Object Pascal in Delphi back in the day. In no universe does Go feel like it's a "bit backwards", and I think you're trying to speak for a group without
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by personZ 12y ago
You should read the first sentence in the page you linked. To make matters even worse, none of the "weak" notions even apply to Go , and I thought you were talking about something entirely different altogether given that Go is by
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by personZ 12y ago
Go's type system being weak is a factual statement. Haskell's type system being overcomplicated is an opinion. Calling one weak and the other overcomplicated are both completely subjective, biased statements. And no, some random
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by personZ 12y ago
I'm speaking more to the viciously anti-technical-interview sentiment that is so commonly seen on technology sites. While there are a lot of shops that do the whole process in a ridiculous fashion, similarly there are a lot of frauds a
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The Atrix was a full fledged Linux desktop, which could run virtually any desktop Linux app such as OpenOffice. Heck, the Atrix ran a Ubuntu-based desktop. Maybe the author just didn't know that, or perhaps they just discount Linux ent
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The Motorola Atrix did that two year earlier, however, and is mentioned, making a Ubuntu mention redundant.
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Explaining your thought process to a coworker after you've written the code is ex post facto rationalization -- you are invariably leaving out many side-tracks, many missteps, and get to condense down a long process into a simple, seem
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by personZ 12y ago
The incentive Google has is to not get sued for contravening a lawful order of the European Court. I don't see what conspiratorial wagering adds (the implied notions of your first post were obvious to all). And be sure that every perso
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by personZ 12y ago
How does this request not have merit? What makes it "clumsy"? Because the linked author says it is? Recall that the original action that yielded the right to be forgotten clause was a gentleman who wanted a debt confiscation and s
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by personZ 12y ago
To be fair to Google, it opposed the European court ruling. But its implementation of it looks odd, perhaps clumsy. I find it incredible that Google is held at fault in this case because they don't choose whether it is "inadequa
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Database Performance, LVM Snapshots, golang and sqlite3(dennisforbes.ca)
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As a quick addition on this, the m3.medium -- running on the same processor but governed differently -- takes 160 seconds to run the same benchmark (after repeated runs). Amazon used to promote their instances via the somewhat comparable EC

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