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by themartorana 12y ago
And I was proud of my API backend processing 70M requests a day... That's suddenly feeling like a lot less traffic and a lot less spectacular.
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by themartorana 12y ago
There it is. Thanks. I agree, accessibility should be considered. It's actually extremely difficult in mobile games as engines like Unity have almost no accessibility support whereas UIKit does a really fantastic job. In any case, I&#x
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by themartorana 12y ago
I always wonder if the developer should care? The only front-ends I write these days are admin backends for my own company, so I very specifically don't care. That said, is there any data on browser share with JS turned off? Because I&
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by themartorana 12y ago
There's no such thing as a purely selfless act. That said, they could still only hire people with no criminal record. Don't be too quick to dismiss the good they're doing, which yes, has its own rewards (like say, free press)
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by themartorana 12y ago
That's how I think about a lot of sentencing. Take sex offenders. After they are let out of prison, they have to register as a sex offender, can only live in certain areas, etc., which is equivalent to a life sentence. We can debate th
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by themartorana 12y ago
Best thing I ever learned - probably 15 years ago at this point - is just use the right tool for the job. We're a mobile game company, and we use C, C#, Objective C, Java, Python, Go, Erlang, JavaScript, Lua, and more where they make s
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Judge approves $415m settlement in Apple and Google employee poaching scandal(theverge.com)
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by themartorana 12y ago
Agree with @interesting_att - it's all about EA Sports. As much as I despise EA, even I get sucked into FIFA. Their sports franchise will support one hundred studio fuck-ups - annual minor updates are as good as owning a money printing
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by themartorana 12y ago
From before iOS 5, webOS had pull down menus, wifi quick-select (STILL missing in iOS) card-based interface, card-based background-pause multitasking, backgrounded music player, card-based multitasking switcher with swipe-up to close, and t
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by themartorana 12y ago
Man, webOS ruled in this market before the epic journey that was its downfall. I had to drag unwilling family members kicking and screaming to iOS, unable to give a good explanation for why it was missing so many conveniences webOS had. It
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by themartorana 12y ago
We've elected to use Go in a lot of our backend services - nothing striking there - but I've also been playing with Nim for fun. I can see clearly where I might draw a line of delineation between where I select Go vs. say, Rust, b
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by themartorana 12y ago
Because they were pressured by the government. Who were pressured by a different company. Who pay for elections.
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by themartorana 12y ago
It's quite easy to declare that anyone claiming to need end-to-end encryption has something to hide. The NSA, and by extension pretty much any agency of the US government won't stand for being truly locked out of a person's o
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by themartorana 12y ago
Do you need fractional reserve banking with cryptocurrency? The physical object limitation of hard currency simply doesn't exist. But the real hallmark of FRB is that banks only need hold in reserve a fraction of their depositors&#x2
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by themartorana 12y ago
Probably because the MITM vulnerability is horrible sloppiness, but the ad serving is done with the malicious intent of continuing to extract revenue from users that just ponied up a couple thousand dollars for the laptop to begin with. I&#
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by themartorana 12y ago
Except he may have called it "evidence." I have no evidence to back that up, although I have seen "The Tudors" which probably qualifies me as an expert.
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by themartorana 12y ago
> But it's also true that it's unreasonable to demand that the technology be released freely. I disagree entirely with this blanket statement. In fact, somewhere in this thread you'll find a university researcher speakin
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by themartorana 12y ago
Whether that investment is public or private is irrelevant. It's not at all irrelevant. With Kickstarter, the private transaction is between two parties that are fully aware of the terms of the transaction, and explicitly agree to th
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by themartorana 12y ago
No, but with billions of stars in our own galaxy, and more beyond, wouldn't (my misunderstanding of) the probability of witnessing a past supernova event during one's lifetime be higher than it feels like it is?
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by themartorana 12y ago
Except there are already VCs in the equation, so any profitability helps them. It also doesn't dilute their shares, and they don't have to decide if they should risk doubling down on the second round. If I were a VC, this would de
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by themartorana 12y ago
I think this is the right way to go. Short of the argument against patenting math, I think you're hard-pressed to find anything that parallels pharma or hard-goods patents in software. But with software should go business-process paten
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by themartorana 12y ago
Forgive me for veering off topic, but would you mind sharing the terminal theme?
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by themartorana 12y ago
I would argue that they are desperately unconstitutional. The right to say what you want in private is nowhere near as important as it is to say it in public. Much as the Supreme Court has determined that you (and police) have no reasonable
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by themartorana 12y ago
And more importantly, given that no one is ever held responsible. No one goes to jail. Again. Punishment is supposed to be disincentive to crime. With no punishment, what's wrong with lying, cheating, stealing, and killing?
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by themartorana 12y ago
Hasn't it been shown time and again that the act of thinking positively about your future often carries over in to your real life, making you happier in the present? Besides, I could drop $100 on Blackjack in AC once a year or $2 every
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by themartorana 12y ago
At this point, considering how absolutely consistent the USA has been with extending copyright expirations when major IP is coming up to the deadline, I've come to assume that copyright is now perpetual. The US doesn't even make a
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by themartorana 12y ago
Right. You can't establish that you were harmed, but the easily obtainable evidence you should be able to present in discovery is classified. I know it exists, you know it exists, but State Secrets, so no.
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by themartorana 12y ago
Gave you an up-vote, not sure why you're being down-voted for making a perfectly logical assumption. It's annoying if in fact it's very specifically Firefox Mobile and nothing else, but I agree, if the app has the better expe
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by themartorana 12y ago
It's all nonsensical, so try not to stress yourself too hard trying to make sense of it. This is much like prosecutors filing 68 charges against someone that committed a single crime. They pick the number from the most absurd form of m
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by themartorana 12y ago
The majority is often in support all sorts of policies that are against their best interests. That has nothing to do with what agenda is moved forward by the oligarchy.

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