kamechan

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by kamechan 12y ago
high number of commits can be one indicator of "goodness" but consider an unsolvable problem that tempts developers, yet stumps them at the same time. they could all commit a solution thinking it's the right one, yet nobody a
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The New Nexus 7(play.google.com)
1 points by kamechan 13y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 14y ago
> There is no more hardware back button on any recent android phone either... Any? While the Galaxy Nexus has onscreen navigation controls now (and the Nexus7 followed suit), both the One X and the Samsung Galaxy SIII have dedicated cap
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by kamechan 14y ago
I took the challenge and google beat bing 4 to 1 for me.
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by kamechan 14y ago
X1 carbon still designed in Japan, along with a couple of other models. http://blog.lenovo.com/design/developers-on-the-x1-carbon-in...
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No-tech hacking (DefCon15 - Johnny Long)(youtube.com)
1 points by kamechan 14y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 14y ago
i can confirm this too. 3 private message threads from 2009-2010 were on my wall with the privacy set to "friends". these were conversations right out of my private messages (which were also in my private messages). i'm deleting every faceb
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by kamechan 14y ago
> Kind of like when you see a fake Rolex from 20 inches away and it looks pretty good, but then you look up close and suddenly one little flaw makes the whole thing fall apart. The crystal on a Rolex sticks up above the bezel as well.
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by kamechan 14y ago
> does apple have a maps program on the android devices? not that i'm aware of. i don't believe there to be a browser interface for their maps "solution". i could be wrong. > are there other maps program available on the ios devices
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by kamechan 14y ago
on battery life, i get anywhere from 1.5 to 3 days on my HSPA+ nexus (from play store) the way i use it. definitely have never sweated getting through a day. * fair amount of web browsing * little or no media or games * heavy twitter, fairl
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by kamechan 14y ago
the numbers are all over the place. would be nice if they also did an average score among all the phones with the same name. here's a Galaxy S3 score better than the iPhone5: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/1026099 and here's o
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by kamechan 14y ago
to me, this comment seems to be phrased a tad bit negatively, even though it may be factually correct. a lot of people like to talk about "android fragmentation". while the variety of devices out there can sometimes be annoying as a consume
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by kamechan 14y ago
If by "strategy" you mean patenting obvious and likely things that already existed and then litigating the crap out of people, you may be right...this trial has set a precedent that might make that sustainable for them.
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by kamechan 14y ago
In the global market where android now has 60 something percent market share and iPhones have 18.
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by kamechan 14y ago
Works at Whole Foods and Peet's coffee.
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by kamechan 14y ago
If it were a google TV also, and played android games via some innovative controller like ouya's, i'd buy it in a second.
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by kamechan 14y ago
Apparently, according to the verge, a windows client was not weeks away. http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/21/3174803/sparrow-for-window...
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by kamechan 14y ago
My nexus 7 has JB, my Galaxy Nexus has JB, how is that out of sync?
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by kamechan 14y ago
There's a vim mode in st2. I'm not near my computer at the moment but IIRC it's in the preferences (classic mode I think it's called?). edit: back at my computer now. to put st2 into vim mode, just comment this line out in the default prefe
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by kamechan 14y ago
itty bitty bytes of space for the commodore 64.
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by kamechan 14y ago
i never used the screen-size qualifiers myself, but good to know they've deprecated them in favor of what seems to be simpler. AFAIK, the density qualifiers are still being used, and are mentioned in the "new" design guidelines document as
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by kamechan 14y ago
in android, one provides four different density-specific resources. ldpi: low-density screens (~120dpi) mdpi: medium-density (~160dpi) [baseline] hdpi: high-density (~240dpi) xhdpi: extra high-density (~320dpi) there is a no
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by kamechan 14y ago
Heating your computer is a side effect.
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by kamechan 14y ago
i actually returned a macbook pro retina yesterday over this. i know it's insignificant to apple's bottom line, but their tactics against competitors seem to be growing increasingly unsavory. i think in many tech patent cases if someone wer
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Galaxy Nexus no longer available on Google Play Store(play.google.com)
2 points by kamechan 14y ago|0 comments
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by kamechan 14y ago
here's to hoping that google will step in here as they did with linux and make it run anyway...
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by kamechan 14y ago
you know it was more work to type "and no, I didn't put the okina(s) in. Fuck that noise." than to put the okina(s) in, right?
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by kamechan 14y ago
> "Android and Ubuntu are clearly different and describing both as "Linux" is not particularly helpful to anyone." except they both run on the Linux kernel, so it is, nevertheless, accurate. personally, i think it is helpful. there seem
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by kamechan 14y ago
i have a t420 running arch, and am able to get 13 hours on idle and 10-12 doing work. posted something about how i did this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3564400
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by kamechan 14y ago
Ahh, yes. Thanks for asking. It occurred to me I probably should have included this info in my original post only after the window for editing it had passed. I'd previously written a bit about how to optimize the Thinkpad power consumption

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