Irfaan

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Nvidia Nsight Tegra 1.1 Visual Studio Edition gives developers a path to Android(engadget.com)
4 points by Irfaan 14y ago|0 comments
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by Irfaan 14y ago
And if I could actually try Grouper, I would. But given I signed up over 4 months ago and haven't heard a peep (though the site still insists "YOUR APPLICATION IS ON ITS WAY. WE'LL BE IN TOUCH."), I'm currently labeling anything and everyt
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by Irfaan 14y ago
" I hope Google does just that. It takes a nontrivial amount of stupidity to think that Apple does not know shortcomings of its maps application and are working on fixing that. " I'm... not sure how to parse that sentence. I guess it's i
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by Irfaan 14y ago
"If I were Google, I wouldn’t launch a native Maps app for iOS 6 for at least six months, [...]" If I were in Google's shoes, I wouldn't be launching a native Maps app. Period. It's not like Maps is driving vast amounts of search revenue
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by Irfaan 14y ago
Getting a database error. But thankfully Google's got it cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:idAZix5...
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by Irfaan 14y ago
I have no idea what Telrik is like. But I do know Eric - he's incredibly committed. Fiddler was a side project for him, written during his meager free-time when not working his full-time gig as a PM at Microsoft. The fact that it's made
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by Irfaan 14y ago
If PayPal is so very terrible (and I believe it), Is there a reason Amazon Payments or Google Wallet haven't overtaken PayPal in this market? If neither Amazon nor Google's brand recognition hasn't convinced folks (buyers or sellers) to s
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by Irfaan 14y ago
Anyone have any guess why Amazon pulled the plug? There must be a reason beyond "Amazon has decided against “boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time”" - just pulling the plug on an entire category of products willy-nilly is a
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by Irfaan 14y ago
I'm confused - the author assumes an android powered camera should have the same usage expectations as a tablet or phone... And that's a terrible mistake. I don't care how capable my Angry Birds experience is on my camera. I care about ap
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by Irfaan 14y ago
Some of it might have to do with the server platform - a lot of us really like the flexibility of using Linux on the server, but when we think C# we think IIS + Windows. Is the server-side ecosystem for Linux-hosted C# production worthy? A
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by Irfaan 14y ago
I only skimmed the article, but that strikes me as a "mistranslation". Adobe is emphasizing that they have to do more compositing logic, so they they need an RGB version of the video frame on the CPU side. If they did the colorspace convers
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by Irfaan 14y ago
Does this mean there's a business opportunity here, than? A 3rd party, escrow-esque middleman who holds the domain so that neither party breaks the agreement?
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by Irfaan 14y ago
I find the idea intriguing. Is there a market for crowd-funding scholarships - rather than let committees decide who to give a scholarship to, leave it to the people? Maybe even spin it as an investment in their career, with some sort of
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Allison Goes to AFI: Crowdfunded "Scholarships"?(indiegogo.com)
1 points by Irfaan 14y ago|1 comments
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by Irfaan 14y ago
I think I see a way of shaving another byte: instead of "0<x%n&", you should be able to do "x%n&&". Works for me on Chrome. My goal is to shave 2 bytes, so you can change the key handler back to onkeydown. :P
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by Irfaan 15y ago
A vote for UltraEdit here.
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but I couldn't find the 14 device smoke-list actually enumerated. Is it actually listed anywhere? If so, I'd love a pointer to it. If not, anyone know (or have a reasonable guess) what devices are on it?
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690063
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690063
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by Irfaan 15y ago
This reply hit so very many of my buttons - it's either a brilliant trolling, or incredibly unfortunate. But either way, my (entirely too detailed) response: > why is that comment either a) at all credible First off - rather than add
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Not my insight, but one of the more informative comments I saw in the article Slashdot linked to on this topic ( http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/10/mika.mobile.sa... ): I completely support your decision to drop Android like a h
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I have to respect consistency. :) I find it interesting that the poster mentioned the growth of C# (going from 4th to the 3rd), but didn't mention Objective-C's much larger growth spike (from 8th to 5th place). To me, that's the bigger sto
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by Irfaan 15y ago
But for a low-budget startup the licensing costs are what'll get you in the long run. Stick with something free to use like ruby, javascript, php, etc. I take it mono isn't a reasonable replacement on non-Microsoft OSes?
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I think it is a shame that a language targeted mainly to a single OS gain such popularity (not counting Mono.) I do hope you hold the same cynicism for Objective-C. :P
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by Irfaan 15y ago
ASP.Net might be behind the growth, but I wouldn't discount native application development (particularly in the enterprise space). Not everyone writes web apps, after all. :)
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I know next to nothing about publishing, so do take my opinions with a rather sizable grain of salt. With the growing prevalence of ebooks, the "waste of paper" seems a bit weak. And the ridiculously rapid pace of tech advancement strikes
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by Irfaan 15y ago
Not actually true. From the comments on the linked page: It’s available for Linux, just have a typo in the release URL on their website. See: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.0.0/vlc-2.0.... Took 2 minutes to figure that
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by Irfaan 15y ago
? So you don't think a good hacker would find a bug in Apple's developer account registration system that'll inadvertently pull your apps from the App Store - with additional background information that points to a likely cause - interestin
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I'm unfamiliar with "King of Chicago". But now that you've pointed it out, I'm going to try and correct that. Thanks, vidrh!
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by Irfaan 15y ago
I can't say I agree. That said, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "a more efficient production cycle, from artist to consumer". And I'm not sure how "[reducing the] cycle time between artist conception of an entertainment pitch and cons

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