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by reidmain 14y ago
My understanding is that Googlers get a choice between a Apple computer (primarily MacBook Pro but I think iMac's are a possibility) or a computer running their customized version of Ubuntu. You can get a Windows machine but you need to jum
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by reidmain 14y ago
There was a nice article on Reddit recently about why someone doesn't use nibs but the discussion in the comments may shed some light on your question. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15jjfi/why_i_do...
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by reidmain 14y ago
Except for a lot of those you can't pay for it in certain countries until the Blu-ray and iTunes releases like 6 months down the road. The argument can be made that those people should just buck up and wait but when everyone is talking abou
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by reidmain 14y ago
But Google has no control over the carriers. They can't prevent them from putting that stuff on it. They got in bed with the carriers to distribute as many phones with Android on them as possible.
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by reidmain 14y ago
And for the most part I've got that. I can count on one hand the number of bad experiences I've had with Apple products. I also guess I lucked out a bit because the iOS 6 maps worked fine for me but I do live in Canada's largest city so tha
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by reidmain 14y ago
Really? I think you mean unlocking. Carriers are usually content producers and jailbreaking is mostly done for piracy reasons so I'd be surprised if carriers are onboard.
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by reidmain 14y ago
Garmin and TomTom must be shitting themselves. I can't imagine how many people are just going to be using their smartphones in the next few years. Even built in nav consoles for the latest BMWs can't hold a candle to these apps.
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by reidmain 14y ago
It has always been an option. If you get your phone activated in store it is working the moment you walk out with no input on the customers part.
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by reidmain 14y ago
Jailbreaking will never go mainstream. It has never been easy and/or safe enough for that. Just like how a small percentage of Android users root their phones. However "remote controllers" in iOS 6 are definitely the precursor to the Androi
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by reidmain 14y ago
Oh of course Google would want it's application to be the default. Who wouldn't? It is free users. To my knowledge pure Google Android doesn't package any third-party apps that tap into third-party services which compete with Google. I'm ha
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by reidmain 14y ago
Yeah if you want to divorce yourself completely from the business side of things I understand that perspective. I would not however expect a company to do something that would harm them just to please me. They are a business trying to make
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by reidmain 14y ago
Blame them for not giving ground to their competitors?
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by reidmain 14y ago
I'm not sure upgrading was possible. The old maps app was actually made entirely by Apple while this new one is made entirely by Google. I can't imagine Apple would give a third-party a system level app. Just look at YouTube. The same reaso
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by reidmain 14y ago
If we want to get anecdotal I used my iPhone 4 from launch with no bumper (even after I got the free one). I even dropped the phone three feet directly on it's top left corner and only the dented the metal band.
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by reidmain 14y ago
http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php This gentlemen got the Doom 3 release to compile for OS X. I'm sure the process is similar.
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On average, the male geek keeps his dick in his pants(su-shee.tumblr.com)
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by reidmain 14y ago
He seems to be looking for the mythical developer/designer hybrid. Is $100,000 a decent salary for someone with that skill set?
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by reidmain 14y ago
I will. I have been flayed by other HNers and made aware of my ignorant position.
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by reidmain 14y ago
No worries. I was wrong. Better to be corrected and have my feelings hurt than to go on being ignorant.
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by reidmain 14y ago
True, it is the wrong way. Ideally there would be a better system for this kind of thing. It is the reason why physical authenticators and two phase authentication are becoming more popular.
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by reidmain 14y ago
You're correct. I was not thinking about conning the system but actually breaking into it which is obviously a lot harder. It is a lot easier to look at ways to dupe the algorithms for determining fraud rather than breaking the system and
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by reidmain 14y ago
Yeah like scott_s pointed out I did not consider anti-fraud. In my quick glib reaction comment I did not consider all scenarios. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by reidmain 14y ago
You're 100% correct Rick. I should have been more explicit in my original post. It was a quick glib comment that I should have put a bit more thought into. There is a reason people don't go around wearing their credit card numbers and SIN o
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by reidmain 14y ago
That is a good point. It honestly slipped my mind. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by reidmain 14y ago
It may be the only thing I can do to help mitigate credit card fraud but is it not the solution to preventing it. Credit card companies should be operating on the theory that people freely throw around their credit card number (because, let
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by reidmain 14y ago
Security through obscurity is never the solution.
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by reidmain 14y ago
"wasted their time fooling around with Facebook and iPhones" Is the author oblivious to how the average user has changed how the interact with the Internet because of Facebook and the iPhone? I'm glad he gets off on making an algorithm 10%
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These Guys’ $5K Spending Sprees Keep Your Games Free to Play(wired.com)
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Building NoodleApp, an App.net web client(ednapiranha.com)
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by reidmain 14y ago
There are a few iOS 6 ARC specific features. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12730202/do-you-need-to-r...

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