flipperypokery

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   by flipperypokery 13y ago

   Most people really have 10 different WiFi networks? I have two. Home and work. Who has 10? Apple solved this by supporting local backups. My phone backs up to my computer. When I restore to a new device, the backup goes with it. When I se
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   by flipperypokery 13y ago

   Those who don't understand history are doomed to misinterpret its lessons. Do you remember the OSI binary protocols as designed back in the day? ASN.1 as far as the eye could see. OIDs. MIBs. Loosely defined extensibility. Terrible, co
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   by flipperypokery 13y ago

   I'm not really convinced that this is an interesting feature. People tend to choose store brands for a myriad of reasons, and stores tend to differentiate themselves based on those market divisions. Paying a premium to get a single del
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   by flipperypokery 13y ago

   That's $8.5M they're going to spend proving (or disproving) market viability, at which point, if it's working: - The stores themselves will just roll out their own competing services. They can't afford for a middle man t
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   by flipperypokery 13y ago

   I feel as though the people in this thread against (well-designed) binary protocols have never tried implementing a binary protocol. Length-prefixed fields and direct encoding of binary data go a long way to simplifying implementing a proto