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by yareally 13y ago
There's a pretty good IDE that runs directly on Android[1], though I still find programming much too painful to do on anything other than a PC (screen size, etc). For a kid that's just getting interested in stuff, something like t
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by yareally 13y ago
I played similar type games on my TI-86 calc and modded them some as well when I was in high school. They were basically stock buying/selling games, only with the stocks renamed as drugs to better appeal to teens.
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by yareally 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I am guessing you meant to reply to a different comment than mine? I'm referring to following software licenses (such as the GPL and the Linux Kernel) and Xiaomi has always ignored t
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by yareally 13y ago
It's more than alleged if you're into the Android modding scene. MIUI extensively rips off Cyanogenmod, contributes nothing back to them (including source, not that they have to under Apache 2.0, but they should) and also complete
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by yareally 13y ago
Typescript[1] remedies a lot of things people dislike about Javascript, including the lack of strict typing. I've been using it with Node lately and it has made me do a 180 towards my interest in making Javascript a sever side language
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by yareally 13y ago
There's also the "grass is always greener" complex as well. The perception that what someone else has or does is better than what you do because it's different. It may be true or it could all be in one's mind. To wa
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by yareally 13y ago
Some may require "EA activation" which pops up at the first run of the game, but they don't require origin if they have a Steam key.
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by yareally 13y ago
Not every game has a steam key on there (even ones that happen to be on Steam already, such as Sims 3). http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-humble-bundle-tea...
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by yareally 13y ago
> English classes in the U.S. spend a lot of time teaching people how to write five-paragraph essays: one paragraph of introduction, three paragraphs of argument, one paragraph of conclusion. But outside the classroom the five-paragraph
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Maybe my parents would think they're really neat and cool (as they have mentioned in similar things before to me), but I would object to that. While their claims of thinking that are perfectly rational from their own viewpoint (because
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by yareally 13y ago
Depends on the kind of tea. Higher the oxidation level, the longer you steep it, and various ingredients can alter the caffeine level. Not 100% accurate, but it goes something like: black → green → white → chamomile (which is naturally caff
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by yareally 13y ago
If you read my previous posts, the page file is far from the only reason I have a ram drive. Since I use it for lots of other things and I rarely use all of it, I might as well put my page file there as well. I also have 24 GB of RAM so no
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by yareally 13y ago
Windows likes to use it regardless of the amount of RAM you have free. Page File on Windows is unfortunately not as friendly as the swap area on Linux (where what you said is true). Currently I have 8 GB free (out of 24 GB) and the page fil
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by yareally 13y ago
Mainly to avoid the Windows page file from getting fragmented on a HDD, since fragmentation on a RAM disk is a non-issue. I keep my home desktop PC on most of the time and don't reboot often unless switching OSs.
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by yareally 13y ago
ImDisk[1] is free without restrictions and also open source. I just set it as a small system startup script[2] to create a ramdrive on boot into Windows. Makes for a nice throwaway drive for things that are read/write intensive (like c
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by yareally 13y ago
I've seen plenty of non-tech savvy users become curious on how to mod their Android device. Most don't go very far past "1 click root," but there's always a small number that have dreams of learning to compile Andro
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by yareally 13y ago
I'll have to pick it up. I've always considered Oppenheimer one of the most interesting people to have lived. He was very charismatic, winning over scientist and bureaucrat alike and a compromiser when necessary, but yet would not
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> "There have always been reasons to object to working in national defense. During the Cold War quite a few physicists and engineers chose not to go into defense work because they did not want to feel like they were hastening nuclea
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by yareally 13y ago
> How the US - just a single country (its size doesn't matter) - managed to end up with multiple competing standards continues to make my mind boggle. I'm guessing it had to do with Qualcomm being a US company and having the ad
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by yareally 13y ago
Thanks for your reply. I agree there's quite a few things that I would flag myself if I could (I coincidentally lost the ability from flagging too many in a short amount of time). I would ask for it back, but I am afraid I would lose i
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by yareally 13y ago
Occasionally, I put some code on Github that I consider to be more useful when open than closed. Other times, I create a small project just to share useful programming information along with a few coding examples that someone can clone if t
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> "If police are arresting people without probable cause or even reasonable suspicion, then it is the police that are acting illegally here. You are not required to identify yourself to any police officer just because he asks, and
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by yareally 13y ago
Alternatively, purchase the original Nexus 7 that still has the factory images and proprietary binaries posted for Android 4.3 and before. It still runs great (current owner) and the differences between the new one and the previous are not
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by yareally 13y ago
If the person you're replying to is going to flag it based that vague criteria, they might as well flag much of the front page. One should start finding better articles and submitting them if they believe HN is lacking what they percei
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by yareally 13y ago
Economist is also a quality news source. I'd rather have articles from the Economist make the front page over sensationalist/uninformed tech articles from The Register or similar sites that lack substance.
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by yareally 13y ago
Now, the only "valid use of the blink tag"[1] will work again. [1] http://blink.tylian.net/
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by yareally 13y ago
Haven't heard of Mirah, but looks like it's still updated and maintained so that's a plus. http://www.mirah.org/
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by yareally 13y ago
There's been some Jython ports to Android in the past, but all are abandoned as far as I know. There were some problems with performance as well and the dynamic nature of Python. I know there's a maintained JRuby project[1] for An
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NDK also lets you compile one binary for all device architectures now as well.
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> It's getting wishy-washy. I find it a little disturbing they're claiming it will work on Verizon (my current carrier for the past 10 years) and Sprint for a few reasons: 1) It's unlikely Verizon will have VoLTE on day

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