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A year ago I developed an android client for freebase, but unfortunately I never had the chance to finish or publish it. I guess now it's too late :D If anybody is interested the a…

Another useful resource https://github.com/futurice/android-best-practices

Something like this http://www.panoramio.com/map ?

I didn't say that, I said that both went for what was the optimal choice at the time. Why Apple didn't go for Swift from the start? Because Objective-C was used in NeXT and then OS…

You're comparing apples and oranges, Apple had the privilege of choosing its own hardware and programming language. For android they went for java because of popularity, and everyo…

I agree in general with all your point, apart from 4 and 5. Malware in linux repositories is "practically" impossible. Software is most of the times peer reviewed and patched in di…

I'll give it a try: privilege separation and permission since the beginning only super user was allowed to install new software (simplifying) different distros and different versio…

1) Linux and other unixes were created with the idea of privilege separation and permission baked in. Windows had to add it later, while keeping compatibility 2) Linux has a variet…

no-ip primary use case is certainly not botnets. It's used by dsl users to connect to their home network, or to get an easy to remember address for a vps, or maybe while developing…

Sometime we spend time on a project for the good of the community, and it's ok, because sometimes I give back time, sometimes someone else does and so on. It's also ok to try to ge…

True, but be polite about it: "Sorry, I'm disappointed because my expectations differ from yours. I'll found an alternative. Good luck with your project"

I would like to thank you for creating go read and making it open source, it's what I use as RSS reader, using my own free quota of App Engine. I hope I can contribute back some da…

Maybe a solution could be weighting the vote according to the user history: a user leaving a single vote on a single movie shouldn't be as influential as an user that voted on a wi…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjTj0ymhbBw

backuppc, incremental backups, de-duplication, supports Windows/Linux with smb/ssh/nfs etc

The height is calculated automatically for the rows that are visible and you can fix it to a certain amount. So, as screigh said, you won't have the wormy effect on contact list, a…

I see your point, but this layout is used also for variable height images, variable lenght text, compound layouts, etc. The equivalent of pagination on Android is usually done usin…

On the other end, pagination is rarely used on Android, and calculating the height of a single row can be more expensive since it has to layout the children hierarchy for a row acc…

For the OS. Imagine 999 rows containing one line of text and the last one containing a long text spanning maybe 30 lines. To calculate the scroll accurately you need to calculate t…

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?product_id=... There are lots of exploits, and every time someone publishes a rooting method that does not require "fastboot oem un…

Rrrright, so I will consider my GNU/Linux installation not any better than Windows or OsX, since my video driver, my wifi driver, my BIOS, my Ethernet controller firmware and my ha…

I think applying a newton-raphson approach instead of just choosing a fixed pivot could result in fewer comparisons. On the other hand, a comparison is a dirty cheap operation, eve…

This app[1] for android is being updated to add support for chromecast, and from what I remember by checking the SDK it is quite simple to do as well, something like preparing an H…

I'm not entirely sure, but I think so, I remember someone saying that it was already possible with some models of an LG tvs. I think it's called the DIAL protocol.