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by whatever_dude 16y ago
How is performance in the browser for PhoneGap applications? I'm not expecting anything native, but I tested some of the sample apps on my Android phone and they were... /underwhelming/ - clicking anything would take around 3 seconds just t
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Playing, pausing, seeking to positions, and looping a <video> to your heart's content. None of which you can do reasonably well on iOS.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Registered users only. Here's a free alternative with the same source, I believe: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/31/android-sym... This is the interesting part, IMO: (...) the smartphone market itself (...) grew by 88.6% b
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Are you willing to ignore ~50% of the potential (mass) market? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers And do you guys really think it's gonna change that much in 1 year? http://gs.statcounter.com/ In the end it's about
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Awesome. Now we'll just have to use an application that requires people to sign up and pay for a developer program to be allowed to use, that only runs on a single platform, and that can only generate content for a single ad platform on sel
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
The problem is that it is a clever combination of techniques that already exist. * OCR, to identify the text * Removing the background of the text, filling it with surrounding colors * Translating words * Placing new words on the same area,
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Some times, but not always. Not even sure if it's "most" of the times. "Right turn" to "correcto turno" is so wrong, anyone following directions with that would be lost pretty easily. Still, amazing technology, specially since it's all clie
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
How long have you lived in the country, other than seeing 'articles' about it?
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
The techs are alright. Both things you mention are two prime examples (I'm still flabbergasted how well the voting machines thing worked out, because it had all the reasons in the world to fail). But when you need to invest 4x more on hardw
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
São Paulo. Stray bullet to the head (luckily just a scratch) and then having my car (and everything else I had with me) jacked at gunpoint.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
All fair and well, but no amount of Olympics or World Cup hosting will change the fact that the country has problems that are so deeply ingrained into its culture that they have a huge halting impact on everything else. The culture of corru
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Funny - same here, but 18 and 30.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Easy answer: no. Brazil has a lot of positive things going for it, but when you have a cultural background that's as rotten as Brazil's one is, you can count on everything to fail stupendously.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Stopped reading after the blatant display of apostrophe usage misunderstanding and unnecessary insertion of recent popular culture reference in the article. That is to say, after the first 3 words.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Piracy is not theft because there's no subtraction of goods. This is not a justification, just logic.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Did this ever work? I can't see how it wouldn't be using the public Facebook API, which doesn't normally include contact's email (not even your own email).
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/07/07/clifford-stoll-on-this-...
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
You can't convince people the shinier product is better when they're buying servers based on actual numbers instead of whatever their impressionable peers say they should have.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Funny, that's all I could think of when watching it.
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by whatever_dude 16y ago
Or rather, it was just a dick but pointless move by Microsoft (probably because the Marketing/partnership/demo deployment teams don't talk to each other very closely). This article seems to try to make a mistake sound like it was some geniu