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by rkapsoro 7y ago
Whoa, hold up - that's OpenMoko's hardware ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko ), the Neo1973. It predates Android, and was a serious attempt to use commodity free software (primarily Linux, GNU, and vario
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
Haha well that explains that then. Thanks.
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
I wonder, why did they use a First Amendment claim rather than something to do with safe harbour considerations (Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communica
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
While I don't yet have great confidence in my mental model of SwiftUI's type system, my understanding is that the DSL builders exist for more reasons than just to eliminate commas. The new Function Builder and `some` return type f
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
Seems interesting to have people sharing these, so I'll happily chime in. $ kextstat | grep -v com.apple Index Refs Address Size Wired Name (Version) UUID <Linked Against> 140 0 0xffffff7f83ac2000
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
Those are very strong words. Why?
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
Humble suggestion: Hong Kong iOS users should file a radar/feedback.
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
The only thing that can serve to enforce the Joint Declaration (and similar bi-lateral agreements between countries) is if the signatories uphold and maintain their expectations of the other. For the last two decades, China has been testing
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by rkapsoro 7y ago
I found this out some years ago and for some reason I felt a profound sense of betrayal. :D
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by rkapsoro 8y ago
Rover.io | Toronto, Canada | Senior Android Developer | Onsite (partial remote), Full-time | https://www.rover.io/ Our product is a design tool that allows a customer to build visual content in a manner somewhat evocative o
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by rkapsoro 8y ago
This seems very much consistent with the Input Hypothesis of language acquisition. Here's a good introduction to the idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EQDtpYSNM Edit: Just realized that the originator of that the
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by rkapsoro 9y ago
Does anyone know if any Android vendors are using a similar approach? I have an Android phone which apparently has a 40% degraded battery (60% total capacity remains, at least according to a battery health estimation app that I used since A
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by rkapsoro 9y ago
My take on the demonetization controversy is that it is too coarse: the output is a boolean, is it advertiser friendly or not so, to say nothing of the preferences of individual advertisers. To me it seems that even assuming the current sin
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by rkapsoro 9y ago
A similar observation on my part that corroborates this: as I started reading the piece, saw that the hacker being interviewed (Myria) was described as female, my immediate intuition (while knowing no other details about the person) was tha
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by rkapsoro 9y ago
Awareness of it is becoming part of the culture in Japan too, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K . and the anime derived from it come to mind.
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by rkapsoro 10y ago
I'm normally very fond of The Economist, but this is one of their "blog posts", which seem to not receive quite the same careful, nuanced care that their other articles for their weekly edition do. Part of the challenge of Wi
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by rkapsoro 10y ago
I'd also like to disagree with Piketty here. It is very difficult to give a precise estimate of the value of Tim Cook's contribution to Apple, or indeed what it might be at any other firm. Competitive markets do not need (and o
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by rkapsoro 10y ago
Hey, where can I find more details on the EY Hong Kong audit of WoSign and Startcom? How did they fail?
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by rkapsoro 10y ago
Hey, what libraries for assisting with MVP/etc. patterns did you have in mind? Incidentally, our Kotlin-based app actually has a completely custom one that an opinionated product guy wrote that works reasonably well, but it still needs
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by rkapsoro 10y ago
A key pillar of today's identity politics is a default state of victimhood in a zero-sum world where a crass rubric of privilege is the only determinant of one's outcome. Sadly, when people (are made to) believe they are victims,
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Joe Sutter, 747 lead designer, has died(m.aviationweek.com)
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by rkapsoro 10y ago
Brazil's faltering economic performance has a lot to do with this style of heavy-handed regulation.
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by rkapsoro 11y ago
Hey, if you can share, in what kind of project are you using shared Rust code on both iOS and Android? That's pretty awesome!
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by rkapsoro 11y ago
"Social Justice Warrior" http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/social-justice-warrior
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by rkapsoro 11y ago
To get a better idea of how the ideas of open source (and free software) reconcile with those of libertarianism, consider that basically all such licensing regimes involve consent and contract on the part of the authors and their community
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by rkapsoro 11y ago
Also to be taken with its sister post: http://basho.com/why-vector-clocks-are-hard/
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by rkapsoro 11y ago
Go is great and all, but I'm really only using it until Rust is ready.