BrianHV

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Future of Java 8 Language Feature Support on Android(android-developers.googleblog.com)
182 points by BrianHV 10y ago|99 comments
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by BrianHV 10y ago
Because of the points you mentioned, I've been wondering why I haven't been able to find a framework-independent, open-source user management and authentication system. This seems like the sort of thing that should be solved in a
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by BrianHV 12y ago
I'm hoping these features find their way in, too. I was just looking into their status yesterday, in fact, and came across these tracker threads: * Non-nullable types: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/i
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by BrianHV 12y ago
Having just started reading the Rust guides, I'm curious: can the closure type actually ensure it doesn't mutate any externally visible data, or does that only apply to memory? Can declare that a closure doesn't (or shouldn&#
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by BrianHV 12y ago
To be fair, it's not just the octave. The interval between a C and a C is a unison. The interval between a C and a D is a second. Two octaves are a fifteenth (not a sixteenth). The entire thing is one-indexed. It's perhaps better
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by BrianHV 12y ago
Yes, I should have gone logarithmic. But I spent enough time playing with that. Had to get back to work. ;) Thanks for figuring out that it's 16 cents. And yes, 16 cents is very noticeable. I might even say dramatic. The thing is, tune
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by BrianHV 12y ago
This doesn't match my experience. When I tune by ear, I spend a lot of time compromising to get even a few basic chords to all sound good. But since we're talking about the math, I thought I'd try to put some numbers behind m
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by BrianHV 14y ago
Yeah, cabal isn't quite there yet. People are aware of the issues and are working on them, but it's a slow road. As a workaround, my modus operandi right now is to use virthualenv and build everything in there. I understand cabal-dev provid
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by BrianHV 14y ago
I was in a similar — albeit not so extreme — place to where Abe was. I tell everyone that I'm working towards a music career and experimenting with startups. But I recently (prompted by a birthday) started looking at how I spent the past fe
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by BrianHV 14y ago
You may be right... but might it also be the case that the people who are doing something about it just aren't making a big deal about it? I suspect many people in their 20s and early 30s can think of a time when they were rewarded just for
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by BrianHV 14y ago
It sounds like this was a good speech. I expect few people here will disagree. I'd like to remark, though, on the fact that the author called this "controversial advice," while going on to describe not a controversy, but instead "overwhelmi
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by BrianHV 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - New York, NY Particularly experienced in Django. Solid familiarity with C#, and firmly intermediate fluency in Haskell. Client side experience with jQuery, backbone and coffeescript. I have a simple iOS app in the App Store a
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by BrianHV 14y ago
"Shy people fear negative judgment" is a bit facile on its own; it was sort of mentioned in passing in her TED talk. But it's actually not far from my understanding of the subject. (IANA psychologist, though.) The wikipedia quote you gave l
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by BrianHV 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - New York, NY Particularly experienced in Django. Solid familiarity with C#, and firmly intermediate fluency in Haskell. Client side experience with jQuery, backbone and coffeescript. Would enjoy working in-person in NYC, but
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by BrianHV 14y ago
Indeed, you are correct. And the heuristic clearly isn't as simple as whether or not the cursor is at the start of the word. Clicking between O and P produces a seemingly pseudorandom alternation that probably has some basis in statistics.
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by BrianHV 14y ago
I just played around with this in the emulator for a bit and I discovered that the feature has some subtle nuances. Clicking on the same pixel can produce either the visible letter or the invisible letter. From what I've been able to ascert
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by BrianHV 14y ago
I find the personal dig at the start of your comment unnecessary, but I appreciate that you're engaging me in a discussion about the design aspects. I'll grant that if you're optimizing for error correction, it's a perfectly suitable soluti
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by BrianHV 14y ago
Perhaps there were thousands of iPad users who used the keys without knowing it. I don't have access to those numbers. But how many more would have used them if there were an affordance? And if we're talking about good (user interface) desi
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by BrianHV 14y ago
I'm not entirely convinced this falls under the category of good design. As it stands, it's a fun and useful easter egg. But good design wouldn't have required a blog post months after the OS's release to inform users of the feature's prese
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by BrianHV 15y ago
Unfortunately, Schumer just got reelected. He won't be up for election again until 2016.
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by BrianHV 15y ago
As a day 1 Droid user after 10 years on Palm OS, I was stunned that the control in your third picture made it into a release, and even more stunned it persisted so long. On Palm OS you could pick a time with a maximum of three taps. There's
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I haven't tried Prezi in public. But to me, the big opportunity in this for a well-organized presenter is the ability to spatially orient your audience. I can imagine a history lecturer creating a timeline spanning the entire length of the
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I think this is obscuring the hover on links. I'm on Firefox and when I hover over a link so I can see what subreddit it's in, the status bar shows it loading stuff from reddit, then reverts back to scrolldit.com. Cool site, though. Could r
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by BrianHV 15y ago
In addition to this, once I get a mail server running, I'm terrified to make changes lest incoming mail end up in a black hole. One time when I made an incorrect change, the backup mail server that godaddy "helpfully" put in my DNS settings
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I tried it out for a bit a couple of weeks ago. I didn't stay with it because it didn't seem to be playing nice with the beta Xcode, but I'm still interested in switching. My two major reasons are refactoring support and the vi plugin. Havi
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New Public APIs in Ice Cream Sandwich(android-developers.blogspot.com)
25 points by BrianHV 15y ago|3 comments
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I don't have a specific idea at the moment, but... I've often wondered why emacs seems to have these plugins and modes that make one want to learn emacs, and vim doesn't. For instance, org mode. I don't think there something inherent to ema
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by BrianHV 15y ago
Assuming the author is reading these comments, I have a few questions: - What neighborhood in Manhattan? - How do you approach the owners/managers to negotiate? - Do you find that small owners are more (or less) receptive to the idea than l
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I can get behind that. I'm a big fan of finding better ways to teach. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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by BrianHV 15y ago
I'm unclear on what it means to "understand references" in a way that doesn't involve the way they behave in code. Unless you're saying that the concept as it appears in code can be explained entirely with the tautological definition, in wh

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