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by personZ 12y ago
What a dismissive bunch of prattle. Meh. This is about algorithms to achieve better results with a given sensor. The Nexus 5, like the various Nexii that came before, has a poor image sensor -- it's a $300 smartphone, and LG wasn'
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by personZ 12y ago
What is the scope of an on-topic pros and cons discussion, though? It seems that the relative comparison should include competitors, especially given how large of a change this apparently will be. For a current user of Angular it isn't
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by personZ 12y ago
As someone at the inflection point of choosing a single-page framework, I find these "flamewars" incredibly useful. Further I find the notion that this is evidence of insecurity itself evidence of insecurity -- why feel threatened
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by personZ 12y ago
because if you left that well paying job If someone says that they worked at a well paying job, my suspicion would be that they were run out of it, doubly so if they were engaged with such a shoddy, rag tag start-up. It would take pretty
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by personZ 12y ago
It's an implementation detail that may provide better performance, but often provides no measurable difference at all (yes there is a profound semantic difference, and such is the foundation for the mechanism in the first place, but
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by personZ 12y ago
Lead JVM developers have stated this themselves Where? Who? Yes, of course they explore options and alternatives, and no solution is a panacea, but this debate is well over a decade and a half old: This is not new ground. And while we&#x2
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by personZ 12y ago
instead of waiting for a proper struct implementation, like .NET has, on the JVM, which would avoid these problems http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/09/30/the-t... And it'
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by personZ 12y ago
Sure, but for someone using Facebook, LinkedIn, the web browser, gmail, Google Maps, and so on, the fact that one platform has Garageband and the other doesn't is meaningless, regardless of how well built of an app Garageband may be is
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by personZ 12y ago
I never found any apps close to Garageband, iMovie, iWork etc. I have all three of these apps on my iPad. I recently removed iMovie, and never touch Pages choosing to instead use superior options (where there are also superior options on
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by personZ 12y ago
It looks like the physical design is the same as the late 2012, which on mine has a screw top "bottom" (until moments ago I had it upside down...always thinking that screen top was the top) that reveals a couple of so-dimm ports.
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by personZ 12y ago
Most people don't watch their set from 20 feet away. And position is seldom static -- I tend to stand during football games, for instance, and move closer during intense plays or close-call replays. The same thing happens with smartpho
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by personZ 12y ago
It's a portable computer. The "phone" in smartphone is an anachronism of a bygone era, and actually seeing people using one as a phone is rare now. People browse. View media. Post pictures. Read Facebook posts. They do things
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by personZ 12y ago
The exploit seems to leverage PowerPoint files which are generally considered safe, and thus are allowed through mail systems and most normal good-practice behaviors. It uses a sideband exploit that allows PowerPoint to download and execute
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by personZ 12y ago
It's also worth noting that sites only look "bootstrappy" to developers. Among the general public and user base, they just want a site that looks decent enough and functions well across devices, which is what bootstrap offers
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by personZ 12y ago
Interesting that cafestol has also show anticarcinogenic and neuroprotective traits, so this may be one of those things where recommendations continually change over the years as groups study different effects.
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by personZ 12y ago
And yet, Apple does, so it's a hint. Markets have segments. Apple decided to sell their 4S through other channels in the US (they still sell it on their site in Brazil, which I guess by your logic proves that they still manufacture i
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by personZ 12y ago
Apple stopped selling it on their website. Most competitive makes don't sell their devices on their website at all. That really doesn't demonstrate anything. Not only does Apple still manufacture the 4S, they recently restarted
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by personZ 12y ago
The number I gave was Samsung and Apple US spend for promotions on mobile . The Asymco link you gave is for Samsung Electronics, which is the whole that makes televisions, cameras, printers, semiconductors, and so on. That number is a garb
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by personZ 12y ago
Samsung spends significantly more on marketing their mobile devices than Apple does. Samsung is estimated to have spent, in total, $364 million in 2013 in the US. Apple is estimated to have spent $350 million. Is that really "signifi
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by personZ 12y ago
Most phone makers chase this market in some way, Apple doesn't. Except that they still make and sell the iPhone 4s. That is absolutely and undeniably chasing the "very low end" market (it's $199 no contract, which is p
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by personZ 12y ago
Either way, differentiated companies -- apple -- require completely different strategies than nondifferentiated -- samsung. How is Apple differentiated? To a user that wants a smartphone to send emails, visit websites, play fantasy footba
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by personZ 12y ago
You aren't necessarily saying differently, but it's worth noting that Android has supported x86 for quite some time (the platform, the runtime, the NDK cross-compiling, and the x86 emulator image -- all have been available for a c
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by personZ 12y ago
Firefox supports MP4, and they changed their position two years ago when Google and Adobe weren't as all in as they claimed to be. Further through an appropriate media plugins that browser should support anything the platform support
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by personZ 12y ago
Can't we just all settle for .webm? This debate is partly why the web is overrun with enormous animated GIFs. It seems pretty clear that webm isn't going to be widely supported. Time to move on.
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by personZ 12y ago
Can I start serving .html files as .awesome files? Sure, go ahead. Extensions in a URL have little to do with the actual type of content, and .html has long been abandoned by dynamic systems, who originally went to extensions being an imp
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by personZ 12y ago
The iOS 6 update broke wifi for many people for the same reason -- it would hit a certain Apple page to determine if there was through connectivity, and if that test failed it would decide that the wifi connection needed authentication. App
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by personZ 12y ago
Most definitely. Download AOSP, overwrite ./external/sqlite/dist with the new version, and build libsqlite.so and deploy on a rooted device (note that Chromium, and the Chrome browser, use their own copy of sqlite). Having sa
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by personZ 12y ago
when a normal firearm operated by a human is extremely practical Again, doing a crime and getting away with a crime are two enormously different things. The truth is that the majority of humanity can commit terrible crimes with utter ea
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by personZ 12y ago
Obviously the plan wouldn't be "drop the drone at the scene of the crime". Why would anyone ever do that? I mean, of course they would minimize the reveal were that to happen (though note that drones are becoming absolutely p
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by personZ 12y ago
As hamstergene mentioned, drones are the before and after risk abatement. A hunting rifle at a few hundred meters is going to be a heck of a lot cheaper, more reliable, easier to use, and more difficult to trace than some drone with a moun

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