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by codeka 10y ago
I agree. The article says there'd be some benefits to switching, but there'd also be costs (for example when I travel I don't have to do mental calculations to figure out what time to eat lunch, or when to set my alarm clock)
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by codeka 10y ago
Pretty much any half decent software developer could have done what they did over a weekend. This is incredibly clickbaity and is definitely not the sort of calibre of article I'd expect to see on HN.
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by codeka 10y ago
It's because other manufacturers replace the Nexus dialer with their own app. But you can download the Nexus dialer from the Play Store now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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by codeka 10y ago
> But I hope you can imagine why a chat team does care if a technology doesn't allow them to send timely and reliable notifications. Sure, that's why they have the app. But it's not a reason to completely turn off messagin
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by codeka 10y ago
Chrome has perfectly acceptable push notification support. I am an occasional user of Facebook Messenger, and using the mobile website was perfect: I don't care if notifications are delayed or even lost (I'll see the messages even
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by codeka 10y ago
https://youtu.be/ryIQYYogQ8A I've literally never owned a plunger in my whole life, and I don't know anybody who does. It baffles me everything I'm in the US and every toilet has a plunger!
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by codeka 11y ago
> People hate ads (pretty much everyone) Except of course, the people actually paying for ads don't hate them... otherwise they wouldn't be paying for them.
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by codeka 11y ago
Not really, if I were doing this, I'd buy ads for the search term so I can guarantee (within reason) I'm at the top.
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by codeka 11y ago
I always thought those websites were jokes, right? Right...?
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by codeka 11y ago
Depends. If Google et al are right and they have studies which show it degrades performance under certain conditions, then all it would take is one class action to get off the ground. People will pile on, and the evidence that Verizon knows
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by codeka 11y ago
> If you don't know what you're doing and install apps from the app store without examining them closely That's completely orthogonal though, because Play Store is Google's walled garden. What Google allow you to do
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Google, Microsoft Resolve Global Patent Fight Over Phones, Xbox(bloomberg.com)
3 points by codeka 11y ago|0 comments
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Big Australian banks stun Bitcoin companies by closing their accounts(afr.com)
3 points by codeka 11y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 11y ago
A better title would surely be "Robot ethicist calls..." I mean, I'm not really sure what a "robot ethicist" actually does , but it at least seems more relevant.
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by codeka 11y ago
It's important to note that most engineers at Google don't actually work on Ads or anything to do with monetization directly. Most will be working on things like Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Docs/Drive, YouTube, Chrome, etc
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by codeka 11y ago
I work on Google Maps and can confirm that it definitely takes the time required to turn left vs. right into account. If you send me an example of a bad route (you can use the web interface, which uses the same backend as Google Maps on you
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by codeka 11y ago
Apparently it's in iOS 8: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204132 There doesn't seem to be an authoritative list for Android, but I did find this: https://android.googlesource.com/platform&#x
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by codeka 11y ago
This is something I really miss from a few years ago when I was using Cg to do my shaders. It had (what I would consider) fairly basic features like #include and the ability to specify texture states and so on within the shader file. Now I
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by codeka 11y ago
It depends on your role, PMs and managers would obviously have a lot more. I'm just a lowly engineer and looking at my calendar this week, I've have 2.5 hours of regular meetings, 3 hours of interviews (though that's an outli
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by codeka 11y ago
Coercion is a problem even with paper ballots, though. I could force you to take a picture with a cell phone of who you voted for on threat of violence.
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by codeka 11y ago
That would be a problem if internet voting was the only option, but surely if the "normal" way of voting was still to come in to the polling place on the day and cast a paper vote, then online voting as an option for people wh
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Yik Yak Quietly Dropped from Google Play Charts in October(techcrunch.com)
2 points by codeka 12y ago|0 comments
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What's the deal with USB headphones?(codeka.com.au)
1 points by codeka 12y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 12y ago
If the Android watches are anything to go by, absolutely not. The heart rate monitor on my Moto360 is often out by 50% or more.
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Interview with an “Apple” Journalist(blog.sawilson.org)
27 points by codeka 12y ago|3 comments
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by codeka 12y ago
> The cost of the C# approach is that existing classes could not be gradually migrated to be generic; existing collections had to be effectively deprecated and replaced, or a "flag day" had to be declared where all the code
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Karl Stefanovic's sexism experiment: Today presenter wears same suit for a year(theage.com.au)
2 points by codeka 12y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 12y ago
Wait, isn't "Memory Clean" just one of those apps that allocates a huge chunk of memory, forcing the OS to page everything else to disk? Those things are snake oil, they don't improve anything and in fact are often worse
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by codeka 12y ago
... and width is the only dimension where the iPhone 6 is actually bigger than the Nexus 5.
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by codeka 12y ago
Also, Chrome has experimental support for HTTP/2 in Canary[1] as well as Firefox since version 34 (if I'm reading [2] correctly). It seems unusual for Microsoft to disable SPDY support entirely, at least until support for HTTP&#x2

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