aguynamedrich

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by aguynamedrich 13y ago
The first time I used bit manipulation in web apps was for declaring user roles and permissions. A single integer field in your database can be used to declare any combination of up to 32 different capabilities/permissions for users b
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by aguynamedrich 13y ago
I didn't see anything in there advocating overabundance on either side, simply the irony of selling an alternative to one overabundance to a mass of people willing to engage in an equally or similarly harmful overabundance of something
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by aguynamedrich 13y ago
Their Android libraries and their involvement in the Android dev community are incredible.
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by aguynamedrich 13y ago
I was checking the app out earlier and was curious to see what they're doing and what kind of data they're collecting, and they're really doing nothing out of the ordinary or worthy of distrust. They're using Flurry and
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by aguynamedrich 13y ago
That doesn't give you the phone number though, nor does it excuse them using the phone number (as I'm inferring from the wording in the article). TelephonyManager.getDeviceId() returns the IMEI/MEID/ESN, not the phone n
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
The first comment is a self promoting alternative (daPulse) whose website looks very similar and whose product, much like the one being promoted, just looks like a slightly different Yammer. This seems to be an unnecessarily crowded space.
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
Looks cool, but also looks just like it's aspiring to be Android Bootstrap which already exists. I don't use either, because application setup isn't really the big pain point of Android development. I'd love to see this effort being focus
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
The bit about building a web app in C is totally off-topic from your claim that 100 lines of python would equal 100 hrs of Java. If you can only write good software in a short amount of time in one or two languages, that's just a reflectio
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
So, you're suggesting the following analogy: The crime level of a region relates to the region itself the same way that the quality of software relates to the language the software is built on? You're comparing a property of an object to
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
So, the language choice of a piece of software determines the amount of time and money that is required to build the system?
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
That's not always the case. I have grown overwhelmingly comfortable writing all my utilities and demos in Visual Studio, but I no longer work for a Microsoft shop, which is where I've always gotten my VS licenses. On any new computer I pu
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/19/facebook-is-secretly-buildi... This article is from nearly two years ago and claims that Facebook was very secretively working on its own mobile OS. If this is indeed the case, a lot of their somewhat rec
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
Tricky, but not impossible. The same as you would have to learn the API's and general usage patterns of new features, you just have to learn how to use the compatibility package or third party libraries like ActionBarSherlock to take advan
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
I keep seeing these awkward auto-posts on Facebook from both Socialcam and Viddy, and as someone not seeking out a product like either of these, this is my only impression of these services. People in my social graph who clearly wouldn't w
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
Reasons not to listen to this guy: 1. Not all CEO's work 20 hour days, and he probably doesn't either 2. Starting your own company can give you the ability to challenge the outdated 9-to-5 sit-at-your-desk status quo more than working for s
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
I still disagree that your case is the average and that your situation can be used to model any young startup. Don't get me wrong, I admire what you're doing and the strong statement you're making about productivity and balancing prioritie
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
There's a good video from a recent Google I/O on memory management where they explain the recycle method, their reason for requiring it, and that it won't be necessary in 2.3 and up. I still always recycle everything manually just to be de
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by aguynamedrich 14y ago
The OutOfMemory issue is a pretty big problem, but I'd say it's quite lazy to just dismiss it as something the framework needs to fix so that you can effectively do your job. I ran into this problem a lot early on in my Android development