psychotik

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Hadoop on Azure(hadooponazure.com)
1 points by psychotik 14y ago|0 comments
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by psychotik 14y ago
If you want to know what your friends are up to, call them... maybe?
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by psychotik 14y ago
Any idea what type of camera was used to track his descent? Satellite imagery?
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by psychotik 14y ago
That's about the most justifiable reason I've heard for (temporarily) living in a van/car.
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by psychotik 14y ago
Not that I don't believe the fine folks at Lockitron, just a question about this Kickstarter-on-your-own-site thing that seems to be catching on. Since this isn't audited by an independent company (like Kickstarter) how do you blindly belie
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by psychotik 14y ago
FWIW, I find it simple enough to add/remove codes as needed. I can see how punching ~15 buttons can be a pain, but I don't find it so.
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by psychotik 14y ago
Why not use a lock with a keycode instead? I don't see a single scenario where Lockitron works better. http://consumer.schlage.com/Products/Pages/category-landing....
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by psychotik 14y ago
That isn't the only problem. It's the only problem _you_ care about.
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by psychotik 14y ago
Assuming it was acceptable to both parties, why wasn't it possible to add turn-by-turn capability to the existing Google-powered app and ship that instead? Is this something that couldn't have been done without major changes?
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by psychotik 14y ago
That makes sense, but you miss one point - Google isn't the only game in town. Why not contract with Bing, which has it's own mapping app on iOS and use that for iOS 6 (either permanently, or as a stop gap while you perfect your own mapping
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by psychotik 14y ago
The Bing iOS app has transit and good mapping features. I'm surprised folks aren't using that as an alternative.
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by psychotik 14y ago
Or, use the bing app. I am not a fan of their ux but it sure works well!
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by psychotik 14y ago
http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.h... Sections 3.3 and 4.5
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by psychotik 14y ago
Google's Play Store ecosystem disallows you to use any other provider but the Android in-app billing via ToS. Likewise, Kindle disallows you from using any other in-app payment mechanism besides their custom in-app SDK. FYI, Kindle apps nee
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by psychotik 14y ago
"Well, I am just glad that Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 store apps don't have this stupid restriction if you don't use their payment systems." The Android Developer TOS says that any other in-app payment system isn't legal, and grou
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by psychotik 14y ago
File an appeal with the App Review Appeal Board (or whatever it's called). It's pretty simple to do from iTunes Connect. Someone smarter than a robot will look into it and get back to you (my IAP appeal took ~14 days, but they did take prec
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by psychotik 14y ago
Well, all this story tells me is that the folks who frequent Starbucks aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.
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by psychotik 14y ago
POLS = ? DWIM = ?
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by psychotik 14y ago
Maybe they should start with an official Apple account of some sort on Twitter. ;)
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by psychotik 14y ago
A simple explanation for the non tech folks: http://crazyviraj.blogspot.com/2009/10/xsrfcsrf-attacks-in-n...
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by psychotik 14y ago
How did they fix/change the version string, or did they? I don't see how simply re-released a previously released version would cause affected users to update their binaries. What am I missing?
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New patent: will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother?(venturebeat.com)
2 points by psychotik 14y ago|0 comments
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by psychotik 14y ago
In spite of all you say, and in spite of the author confessing to being a Apple fanboy, he's impressed. The fact that Microsoft could orchestrate an event like this, keep details from leaking, announce a product as impressive (even if it's
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by psychotik 14y ago
hey did this same thing with Aquantive (sp?), and shareholders didn't do jack. That acquisition had to be the biggest $6B wasted EVER. Sadly, nothing you expect/want to happen will.
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by psychotik 14y ago
An anecdotal example why the current system is broke (presented with a possible solution): http://crazyviraj.blogspot.com/2011/06/capitalistic-fix-for-...
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by psychotik 14y ago
I think the security thing is BS. It's the ability to run arbitrary background services on Android versus strictly limited background tasks on other platforms that matters here.
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by psychotik 14y ago
They likely did this on Android because it's the easiest platform to developer such a product. On iOS and WP, background apps are severely limited so it makes sense why Android is only platform that gets this.
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by psychotik 14y ago
A blog post about a product launch with a sketch of the founders seems... pompous. If there is an image, I would rather it be a screenshot of the product or product related, or if you want people then one of the entire team. This feels, fro
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by psychotik 14y ago
Lot of good advice on dealing with the $ aspect of this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974781
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by psychotik 14y ago
Walkman!?

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