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by nlogn 15y ago
Yep I'm wrong. Mixed up factorial just like mistercow said. Thanks for the corrections. And here I was worrying that someone would complain that my loop wouldn't address the issues of collision response necessitating more checks, thus makin
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by nlogn 15y ago
He's right actually if the code is written sensibly. Well it should really be (N-1)! but close enough. Think about it in terms of 3 balls. I check ball1 against ball2 and ball3 then move to ball2. It gains me nothing to re-check ball2 a
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by nlogn 15y ago
I have to second the completely unbreakable part. I have dropped it whilst biking many times (seriously I'm embarrassed to say like 4 times) and it has only a few minor dings to show for it despite tumbling on asphalt at 10-15 mph. It see
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by nlogn 15y ago
Especially since we as a species have eliminated so many other "natural" causes of death thanks to vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation etc. What we are left with are what we have not yet solved: cancer, heart disease and strokes (mostly). h
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by nlogn 15y ago
>If it's not complicated, why do some Android users complain about it? If it's as intuitive as you say, shouldn't everyone be happy with it? Don't you think this is a silly argument to use against Android's back button when the post we
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by nlogn 15y ago
Another benefit is that manufacturers can't screw with the button order.
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by nlogn 15y ago
Dibs on the color #80881E
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by nlogn 16y ago
"horrible UX on Android" This is more than a little hyperbolic. Sure, the animations may not run at 30fps all the time. Some animations running at 15fps != horrible UX. I am an iOS dev as well but use an Android phone and just completely
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by nlogn 16y ago
I googled it before I commented, thank you. Note that I asked if you had any numbers. In each of your sales comparisons links, they point to the very same short quote from an analyst. Not the most compelling data, wouldn't you agree?
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by nlogn 16y ago
> The Xoom was superior in terms of all hardware, but it failed to make a dent against Apple simply because Apple executes the tablet exquisitely. Do you have any hard numbers to back up this assertion?
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by nlogn 16y ago
Not only that, but there is no reason that the physics loop would have to be run in real-time. They could just as easily run the physics loop for a few frames as fast as the hardware would let them with fixed deltas of average frame length
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by nlogn 16y ago
And yet there is a functioning work-around that is extremely simple: https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/332363
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by nlogn 16y ago
If you cannot honestly make this claim: "I believe in god/s", you are an atheist by definition. You may not be a strong atheist which is someone who would make the claim: "There is/are no god/s", but you are still an atheist (a weak atheis
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by nlogn 16y ago
Is there a reason that MPEG-LA isn't offering patent indemnification other than they aren't sure H.264 is patent free either? http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2100601 This argument is total FUD.
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by nlogn 16y ago
Rather short and lacking in details for a "review" isn't this? Anandtech and Engadget have already reviewed the Xoom in more detail and I have to say, this reads very much like someone wanting to validate their own opinion instead of offer
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by nlogn 16y ago
For "power users", the Xoom should be a clear winner, no? More free customization, tabbed browsing (and plenty of RAM to handle it nicely), and most importantly, it is free to develop for the Xoom from any OS. As far as cheaper, maybe the
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by nlogn 16y ago
I believe the new macs still have USB ports, no? So what incentive do peripherals manufacturers have to use Thunderbolt and target just the new macbooks vs USB 3.0 and targeting everything?
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by nlogn 16y ago
Thunderbolt may be technically superior in every single way, but unless other manufacturers use it for their laptops/motherboards, Apple's 10ish% market share is going to ensure that USB 3.0 "wins" ultimately. This will wind up being jus
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by nlogn 16y ago
A display of that resolution is infeasible with current GPUs, though. The device would be a combination of too large, too heavy, and/or have too short battery life. I don't even think it will be feasible in the next iteration; perhaps the
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by nlogn 16y ago
Dual-core and 4x the RAM offer no benefits to non-hacker customers? Sometimes page elements must be reloaded when browsing a SINGLE PAGE on the iPad. Surely you can admit that 4x the RAM would offer a notable boost to browsing experience.
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by nlogn 16y ago
I disagree that Apple's tools are superior. XCode is a really unpleasant IDE to work in imo because it has so many separate windows, even in the All-In-One view. Admittedly, this could just be because I am so used to the VS/Eclipse single
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by nlogn 16y ago
And Android for that matter. I really don't see podperson's point; what Android builds have broken backwards compatibility?
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by nlogn 16y ago
Are you saying that you believe Jonathan Schwartz is lying in this post? If so, what evidence do you have and if not, why the effort to undermine him by attributing attention-seeking motives to him?
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by nlogn 16y ago
"as long as all the other parents get their children vaccinated, your child can take a pass on some vaccines and come out ahead from a mortality perspective." This is true, of course, but who decides which kids should get the benefit of red
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by nlogn 16y ago
I doubt he was since the 4.3 beta was just made available to developers a couple weeks ago. edit: oops, my mistake. Thanks Xuzz.
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by nlogn 16y ago
I don't think this is really a common pro-piracy argument. Most of the arguments I see stop at "it costs them nothing for me to copy it" and completely ignore the lost sale side of things. Those that address the lost sale aspect just say
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by nlogn 16y ago
Very true. Hacker News is not a community where second-rate grammar and spelling is the norm, however. Also, I'm sure you can see how those who are copying/stealing/whatever you want to call it might wish to call it copying instead of stea
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by nlogn 16y ago
I don't even think they should just blacklist Google. They should just respect robots.txt. edit: I should have clarified. I know that the Bing crawler likely respects robots.txt, but if they are using clickstream info to build their inde
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by nlogn 16y ago
Firefox and Opera had chosen VP8 in favor of H.264 before Chrome did.
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by nlogn 16y ago
They are similar in that they both are big touchscreens with no physical keyboard. Apple did not invent that by any means. That is also a shot of the Android App Drawer and not an actual homescreen. Most Android homescreens I've seen hav

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