hackoder

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by hackoder 12y ago
What's stopping clones from replicating your UI right now? Are you concerned with loss of IAP revenue to clones? I would suggest you open source it under a non-commercial license. Also, take a look at how some successful android open s
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by hackoder 13y ago
(Copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7132790 ) If you're using Android, I'd highly recommend using a combination of XPrivacy [1] and Android Firewall [2] (iptables frontend). To make your life easier,
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by hackoder 13y ago
If you're using Android, I'd highly recommend using a combination of XPrivacy [1] and Android Firewall [2] (iptables frontend). To make your life easier, disallow everything from accessing the net in Android Firewall. Then, for th
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by hackoder 14y ago
It was a bunch of different tasks. For some, we did use a read only account. Other tasks (updating top 10 scores, updating the users table with their geo-ip based location etc) required write access. Just to add some more thoughts based on
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by hackoder 14y ago
I was in a situation very similar to yours. Also a game dev company, also lots of user data etc etc. We did have test/backup databases for testing, but some data was just on live and there was no way for me to build those reports other tha
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by hackoder 14y ago
Thank you for that voice of reason. You make two very good points here and in your other post. 1) Kids are different. There is a whole spectrum of right and wrong decisions depending on what your kid is like. Would anyone suggest that the s
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by hackoder 14y ago
Nicely done! Tried it out and will definitely be keeping it. I like the website as well, the utility of the app is obvious from one quick glance. I think it'll be useful in convincing yourself to do that 15-60 min task that you've been putt
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by hackoder 14y ago
The 13" Air and 14" Carbon are fairly similar in screen resolution (right?), however I believe that font rendering on Mac OS seems to be sub-par.
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by hackoder 14y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is a way to achieve both. If you want a reasonably sized keyboard, the screen will end up being too large (as is the case with Surface). Or if you want a more traditional tablet sized screen, the key
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by hackoder 14y ago
The e420 is of the 'Edge' series. What you want to get is a T, X, or W series thinkpad. The E series is just thinkpad in name, so its no wonder that you had a bad experience. Ofcourse, you are not to blame since Lenovo still markets it as a
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by hackoder 14y ago
Why is this the arch linux demographic? I have a working arch install. I don't touch it unless I have to reboot for some reason and then I read for known issues, do the upgrade and then reboot. Otherwise, no touchy.
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by hackoder 14y ago
A lot of ideas sound great to management, and they work too! I mean, other than killing employee morale and resulting in long term loss ;-) At one of my past jobs, we worked like consultants (we quoted hours that a task would take to get do
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by hackoder 14y ago
This is great. Keep up the fantastic work! The FF mobile team deserves a lot of kudos for the way they've been able to fight their way back onto Android. I remember it was kludgy beyond belief as much as 6 months ago. But since then, it has
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by hackoder 14y ago
Absolutely, price is on the higher side. I feel that they're looking to make it the "really really Pro" line. The existing MBPs (specially the 13") is used by everyone (students for e.g.), so its not really a Pro line.
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by hackoder 15y ago
Absolutely. Time and time again they've shown that they'll do the right thing. Like with firefox sync, where data is encrypted on the client. And its not like they're lacking in features or speed. Firefox for Android (while buggy) could vi
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by hackoder 15y ago
Hmm. This was a fresh vanilla install that I tried recently on the same hardware that runs debian wheezy. I wanted to have all the benefits of ubuntu's large community (PPAs for a lot of sofware etc, plus I do generally agree with the direc
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by hackoder 15y ago
Debian is fantastic. I tend to stay on testing (wheezy atm) because it is fairly modern yet stable. Stability is the biggest problem with Ubuntu I believe- people will generally adapt to the UI changes that canonical is making, but breaking
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by hackoder 15y ago
I have this year's MBA. Its pretty good, except for the 4 gigs of ram. I find the the T/X series more ergonomic for longer periods of typing though (matte screen + plastic wrist rest is more comfortable). The T/X run well with linux, so you
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by hackoder 15y ago
The thing with lumping all 'Android' together is that it gives the wrong picture. Similar to lumping all PCs. When you buy anything non-Apple, you have to be a smart buyer. This can be good or bad, depending on your world view. If you compa
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by hackoder 15y ago
This is exactly right. It is the presence of a keylogger, which (at the very least) is echoing keystrokes, that is the problem. Whether they 'send' everything or only parts of it, or whether the data is anonymized, aggregated etc is a whole
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by hackoder 15y ago
I dont see how meta comments on HN help the discussion? Directly from the article: > “Our technology is not real time,” he said at the time. "It's not constantly reporting back. It's gathering information up and is usually transmitted i
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by hackoder 15y ago
I think it is certainly a lot worse. All user data (since it is a keylogger?) being logged and sent to a third party without user knowledge or consent, how is that not worse than just logging user information on the device? To get access to
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by hackoder 15y ago
Completely agreed. I dont see why valid criticisms of what Apple is doing get such a negative response. A lot of us love Apple software and hardware, and have invested a lot of money in various parts of the ecosystem. We are not windows fan
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by hackoder 15y ago
For those criticizing- He has given one example of what he thinks is wrong. Not all posts are meant to be essays... Briefly though, (as another user who switched from Mac OS X), I can certainly give examples of what he says: Not all of thes
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by hackoder 15y ago
I use awesome wm on my debian laptop, but I prefer Unity and Gnome Shell to the old gnome 2 or kde or xfce. They are really starting to come together as coherent interfaces instead of having mismatched UIs. Some tweaking tools are around an
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by hackoder 15y ago
I recently got an ASUS Transformer and I was pretty happy that I could use something like ConnectBot [1] to ssh into a virtual machine I was running on my main laptop. I was coding in django/python, and I could test the website using Firefo
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by hackoder 15y ago
I'm often surprised that the value of OSX and its built in conveniences is not factored into a comparison. Preview, built in file extraction, TimeMachine (which does not really have any comparable alternative on windows IMO), Calendar, Mail
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by hackoder 15y ago
I recently picked up a ThinkPad T420 with a dock for around $1000. Adding in an mSata 80 gb ssd for $200. i5-2540, 1600x900, 8 gb ram, 2 batteries (9 cell for 9-10 hrs working in a VM, 6 cell gives around 5-6 hours). Like you, I enjoyed OS
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by hackoder 15y ago
Can you share some of these? Should be interesting reading. I'm mostly seeing nerds going crazy at the cheap hackable tablet.
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by hackoder 15y ago
Its just a guess based on how things are moving. Won't be the first time I've been wrong about Apple :)

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