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Android’s original offering was nothing like modern phones. They didn’t have multi touch and they expected physical keyboards. Android added multi-touch in 2.0 Eclair in 2009 as a …

Biggest killer of JetBrains IDEs has been simple: the “Switcher” now orders navigation destinations dynamically, whereas they used to be static. Destination keymap is not customiza…

The opposite, actually. Signal endlessly nags you to turn on notifications, and when you turn them on, previews and content are shown by default. You cannot opt out of the nags.

>The actual meaning of a "clean room implementation" is that it is derived from an API and not from an implementation This is incorrect and thinking this can get you sued https://e…

I wouldn’t take too much issue with the “cameras are enough” claim if cameras actually performed like eyes. Human eyes have high dynamic range and continuous autofocus performance …

The reality that most encryption enthusiasts need to accept is that true E2EE where keys don’t leave on-device HSMs leads to terrible UX — your messages are bound to individual dev…

Had so many Boston cabs not show up for rides to the airport growing up. Uber was such a breath of fresh air…until it wasn’t anymore.

I’ve said several times before that notifications should be reportable as spam directly to Google/Apple, just like email spam reporting. Google tried to tackle this with notificati…

Rockets? Seoul is in artillery range of the border.

git by itself is often unsuitable for XL codebases. Facebook, Google, and many other companies / projects had to augment git to make it suitable or go with a custom solution. AOSP …

>The biggest problem with Nix is its commit-based package versioning. I am naive about Nix, but... ...isn't that like...the whole selling point of Nix? That it's specific about wha…

Does Lottie do no temporal compression? Is it just a sequence of p-frames with a json manifest?

It's really impressive. Technical content, GitHub repos that go along with the videos, set design, retro editing -- much higher quality than a lot of stuff out there from major stu…

Unfortunately the cheats are way ahead of this. Most modern aimbots in shooters like Counter-Strike are (intentionally) not-obvious. They give minor advantages and do tiny correcti…

>I think many would quickly understand the value proposition I think thousands of innocent teenagers without credit cards will be furious. Not to mention anyone that takes a game s…

So because China will steal it eventually, we should just give it away now? That’s your argument? >clearly China is capable of catching up with ASML’s tooling The only thing clear …

My situation: hardware company, over 100 years old. I’ve found useful usage examples of pieces of software I need to use, but only on an OS we no longer ship, from a supplier we no…

Have you ever worked in a large organization with many environments? You may find yourself with a particular interface that you don’t know how to use. You search the central code s…

I don’t particularly accept f(g()). I like languages that require argument labels (obj-c, swift). I would welcome a language that required them for return values as well. I’d even …

Not everyone reading your code will be using an IDE. People may be passively searching your code on GitHub/gerrit/codesearch. val/var/let/auto declarations destroy the locality of …

If you’re going to attempt to be pedantic, can you at least work on basic reading comprehension? The concept of a large and powerful entity allowing free speech is in the spirit of…

Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. Meta, as a large and powerful entity with the ability to censor as much or more than many governments, is opting to allow free speech on it…

The ideas are from the Bill of Rights.

Just being able to hold a drink in your hand as social cover is part of what you’re buying. At a Christmas party, you just want to have what appears to be the peppermint Christmas-…

gotos can be used without shame. Dijkstra was wrong (in this rare case). defer is cleaner, though.