lnanek

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by lnanek 14y ago
They said during the key note that they are lighter than many sunglasses. Many of the team were wearing them when taking orders as well. So they are trying to show off they are natural and easy to wear. Brin also said they do a lot more tha
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by lnanek 14y ago
The reason cloud streaming is so important is because wireless streaming from a device eats the battery alive. Amazon recently announced that battery and then price are the primary drivers for users buying tablets, and battery is amazingly
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by lnanek 14y ago
At the fireside chat afterwards the Android team said the real term they use internally is jackbusting. Butter is just a marketing term.
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by lnanek 14y ago
Put me in as a nut job then. I've seen plenty of users who make no distinction whatsoever re case of characters in passwords. One day their password is working, the next day it isn't, and the organization ends up spending the custom care mo
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by lnanek 14y ago
How is breaking backward compatibility simpler? If you don't support legacy commands and options you are forcing countless programs to be rewritten. Many aren't even actively maintained any more and businesses will avoid upgrading to your n
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by lnanek 14y ago
Agreed. Was very impressive seeing Googlers respond, and respond helpfully which is not always easy in tech esp to outside parties, and have forums and regular G+ hangouts so it isn't a one time thing. Not to mention other people with simil
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by lnanek 14y ago
I've run into multiple situations at work where someone I was working for knew how to code, even if it wasn't their job, and it made things so much easier. I probably shouldn't reveal the details, but in general they were able to identify s
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by lnanek 14y ago
Make sure you have clicked on a story before you try to scroll, that got me for quite a while too. There was nothing to tell me to click on stories to read them. I only figured it out because I tried to click on an image and got a story ins
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by lnanek 14y ago
You sound dead on to me. Java tooling is basically light years ahead of JavaScript, just because it's so much easier to write for a static language. Most people don't learn all the advanced features of Eclipse and other IDEs and debugging u
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by lnanek 14y ago
I hate to break it to the guy, but I can't remember the last time my browser was at 100% zoom, so his perfect pixels will never look perfect on my screen anyway...
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by lnanek 14y ago
It's a tough call for the company. They don't make money on old versions of Photoshop, they make money on selling the current version. Engineers may have long since all been assigned to working on the current version or later, or even switc
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by lnanek 14y ago
This sort of thing used to happen a lot at an Android app company I worked for. It would be easier and cleaner to implement something like a button background in XML, but it wouldn't look nearly as good as a button produced using real graph
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by lnanek 14y ago
Man, whenever me or a family has Prime, amazon is the first place we check. It's a great lock in. The trials and share with family functions help make it viral even. Businesses love subscriptions too. Get paid even when they subscriber does
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by lnanek 14y ago
A friend who really loved the game tried to show it to me, but it kept having server problems. I wonder if that was just an isolated case or if it was frequent, in which case it could drive off users.
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by lnanek 14y ago
Hmm, I've had to do similar in Java before and it just took breaking out what I wanted to retry into a separate method. Nice simple clean Ruby is preferred, but it is possible already, at least...
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by lnanek 14y ago
I admit I didn't make it through reading the article, but I disagree with how he sees the CEO talking about wanting retail reps to sell the phone as a bad sign. Every single phone OEM that sells in the US wants that very badly. In fact, I'd
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by lnanek 14y ago
I had one of these and the touchscreen on my phone while charging was indeed unusable, as he warns can happen. I almost wrote off the phone as broken before I realized what was causing the problem...
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by lnanek 14y ago
The world isn't black and white. Just because fruit has some healthy aspects, doesn't mean it can't have bad aspects as well. In fact, different fruits have different ratios of fructose to glucose. So you can't even generalize to just fruit
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by lnanek 14y ago
Other advertising solutions for Android apps often pay more in my experience anyway, like Millennial Media, for example. I don't know why offhand, maybe there are fewer apps on them, so advertisers end up paying more for fewer slots. There'
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by lnanek 14y ago
Yeah, I saw an entire screen of players turn toward me once before as well and turn away immediately later. Hopefully players end up in the same world with just a lot of computer opponents as well...
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by lnanek 14y ago
Hmm, favorite strategy: zoom ahead full speed with a spammed bullet stream in front of you. After wrapping around enough times your bullet stream (and probably you) are going to nail someone. As you get better you can adjust your course a l
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by lnanek 14y ago
Hmm, well, re the last thing he wants, carrying it around; if there were a Kindle version of this it would be in the Kindle app on my phone which is with me almost constantly. A physical book, I don't think I'd bother carrying anywhere, whi
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by lnanek 14y ago
Would have bought it if there was a Kindle version...heck even a PDF version...
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by lnanek 15y ago
Isn't call for a price a good deal for little guys? If IBM calls for a price, they are going to get charged a huge number like 100k. If a Mom and Pop shop calls they are either going to get told to take a hike, or given a much better deal.
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Show HN: Smarter Commuters Via Apps. Feedback appreciated!(neatocode.tumblr.com)
1 points by lnanek 15y ago|0 comments
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by lnanek 15y ago
I had a ton of stock options that would have made me rich if Yahoo had accepted Microsoft's buy out well above the trading price a while back - something shareholders would have loved. So even this particular company is well known for not f
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by lnanek 15y ago
> total amount that the average user spends for apps This is like complaining about the total amount the average user spends on web sites. Most of the web is free to the user and not supported by direct purchases of content by the user.
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by lnanek 15y ago
The link's "getting angry" comment reminds me of this bug report bingo card: http://the-b.org/~kenny/bingo.txt Which I just saw linked from this issue with an open source Android app: http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/issues/detail?id=
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How I built a better location control with user feedback(neatocode.tumblr.com)
1 points by lnanek 15y ago|0 comments
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by lnanek 15y ago
This reminds me of how PHP used to turn HTTP request variables directly into global programming variables by default. Now it only happens when you enable the register_globals option. I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't consider it

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