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micampe··on Git add -p
Why are people so upset by the title? Is it a cheesy buzzfeed style bait? Yes, but why should I be offended by a random person on the internet insinuating I don't know about some random thing?
micampe··on On Google's Acquisition of Nest
The estimate also depends on current traffic conditions.

I won't debate the accuracy of either case since it can only be an anecdotal and unproductive conversation. You were disputing the value changing over time, not it being inaccurate. Google does seem to give more optimistic estimates in general.

micampe··on On Google's Acquisition of Nest
Well of course the ETA changes while you are driving, that seems obvious. It's an estimate, it depends on current conditions, it can't be correct from the start.
micampe··on Quick tip for developers who use OS X
Correct (man 1 qlmanage). Depending on the type of file, it is usually faster to open quicklook than opening the file in its default application, especially if you just want to take a look and you don’t actually need to edit the file.
micampe··on Quick tip for developers who use OS X
Also very useful for similar use cases is qlmanage.

    $ qlmanage -p <file>
micampe··on Cryptocat for iPhone and Android – Call for Review
Hong Kong has a ccTLD (and an ISO country code, and a currency) but is not a country, while still mostly working like one.
micampe··on Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
My laptop goes easily to 7-8 without changing my usage significantly, 9 if I'm only doing email. I hardly carry the power brick outside the house anymore.
micampe··on Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition review
3-5 hours is good battery life in 2014?
micampe··on Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map
Oh god, Onswipe again. Has anyone who puts it on their website tried to use it from a phone or tablet?
micampe··on The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android
I bought the Nokia 770, N810 and N900 on release day. Capacitive screens made everything much nicer by being usable.
micampe··on The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android
I think the problem is the word "copied", it always comes with a whiff of "and hence worthless".
micampe··on Starting Feb 1, new apps and app updates must be optimized for iOS 7
The only apps I have that have not been updated are Google's and the only annoying thing is that they use the old keyboard, which looks bad now.
micampe··on Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're there
If someone can see this screen, they have access to your email. Did you disable email too?
micampe··on Android Support vs iOS Support
> I was cherry-picking Maps, but I remember that not all iOS apps were updated to the iOS7 look and feel when it came out

This is not true for apps that come with the OS. Some Apple apps were updated later, but only those that come from the App Store like any other regular 3rd party app.

The advantage Google has to be able to update core apps from the store instead of through OS updates is specific to Android's nature, because it allows them to work around OS updates not being available to customers (because of carriers, OEMs, whatever). Apple doesn't have that problem because they update the OS themselves. Also, Google likes to update its software more often than Apple does.

micampe··on Android Support vs iOS Support
> but for the end user, they don't receive a patch of say 15MB with what has changed.

Yes they do: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2013/09/ios_7_0_2.jpg (since iOS 5).

micampe··on Google’s copyright win against Oracle is in danger on appeal
Sorry, I’ve been trying to be less cynical lately. If someone does something good I prefer to take it, not dig for nefarious motives.
micampe··on Google’s copyright win against Oracle is in danger on appeal
It still wouldn’t make the entire project illegal, only things outside of the standard.
micampe··on Google’s copyright win against Oracle is in danger on appeal
Director of the open source technology centre at Microsoft Tom Hanrahan said the Community Promise allows projects like Mono to fully support its technology. “The type of action Oracle is taking against Google over Java is not going to happen,” Hanrahan said.

Microsoft’s Community Promise has made the .Net runtime and C# specifications available to Miguel de Icaza and the Mono project developers.

“If a .Net port to Android was through Mono it would fall under that agreement,” he said.

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/358564/microsoft_won_t_s...

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)

micampe··on Yotaphone
BlackBerrys have had it forever.
micampe··on Tesla cleared in German probe
Tesla “issues” get more attention than regular car issues for the same reasons Tesla successes get more attention than regular car successes. No one remembers what was last year's safest car.
micampe··on Chrome DevTools for Mobile: Screencast and Emulation
an iPod touch may be even cheaper.
micampe··on How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties
Because duplicates are useful. I hadn't seen the original post, I've seen this one. Disallowing reposts is one of the HN policies I don't agree with.
micampe··on For true panoramic images, toss this camera in the air
A similar project, that also supports live video http://bublcam.com
micampe··on Google Play Music on the App Store
I don’t, I guess my expectations were wrong, not very clear though. So what are the features available without a subscription? Just music upload from my computer? I was under the impression that some kind of radio/streaming was included in the free account.
micampe··on Google Play Music on the App Store
Really? I’m trying it and I disagree. I don’t understand what’s the difference between Listen Now and My Library; I though it would search in the entire Play library but it only finds stuff I already have, even when creating Instant Mixes; recommendations are empty; scrolling is terrible, it loads thumbnails only after you completely stop scrolling (like YouTube), losing most of their usefulness; parts of the UI seem cobbled together (eg. it overrides the cancel button in the AirPlay action sheet displaying an ugly mix of an old and new button); playback stopped as I was typing this, I killed it and now it’s stuck at Loading My Library making no progress.

I’ll stay on Rdio.

micampe··on Amazon WorkSpaces
Dear HN, can we please reduce the frequency of the same inane NSA wits in every single discussion? If there are new informations or interesting opinions I’m glad to read them, but repeating ”NSA! ah-ah!” in every single article doesn’t add anything or help anyone. Awareness is already very good in these quarters, I think any HN user knows the situation and has formed an opinion about whether to assume that every communication is tapped or how much encryption is sufficient for their case.

Thank you.

micampe··on Apple Bought $578M Worth of Sapphire
On that vein, an essay on how a pencil is made: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

«I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me—no, that's too much to ask of anyone—if you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because—well, because I am seemingly so simple.

Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U.S.A. each year.»

micampe··on The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android
Yes, of course, but that’s a tautology. What would the first goal achieve over running the Twitter app on my phone?
micampe··on The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android
What is the difference then if you are still using proprietary services that run proprietary code, just on a different CPU?

You are not gaining anything from the change other than the inconvenience of "pretty good" web applications instead of local native applications: you still can't modify them or verify their behavior.

micampe··on Show HN: Netflix Showdown – because I can't decide what to watch
I see, thanks. Just a very poor error message then.
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