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ntlve··on Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions
Possibly not: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869851/
ntlve··on Nordic Ice Skating on Thin, Black Ice in Sweden Is an Art and a Science
There’s quite a few beaches in the UK, https://www.thebeachguide.co.uk/south-east-england/.
ntlve··on Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders
Their code is executing with a third party kernel, trusting that but not trusting the notification system which sits way above hierarchically seems like a very arbitrary delineation.
ntlve··on A Love Letter to Plain Text
But it's so legible!
ntlve··on It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android
I've found that the best way to deal with this complexity is to ensure that any concurrent work is done in a fire-and-forget kind of style. Concurrent work is submitted to a IntentService (possible backed by a thread pool instead of a single worker thread to speed things up) and if it needs to talk back to the UI it does so via a local sql-db or similar construct. That way the UI can die and get restarted indepedently of the worker service and the worker service can update UI state without having to care about the UI existing or not.
ntlve··on Swedish court upholds Assange arrest warrant
Do you have a source for that number?
ntlve··on 43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach
Not made by the websites themselves but I think dashlane does something close to what you are asking for: https://www.dashlane.com/passwordchanger
ntlve··on The Dropbox hack is real
They would also need access to the machine which you have your vault stored on which would be your laptop and your phone and nothing else.
ntlve··on Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS?
It is certainly not FUD, see https://www.eff.org/cases/oracle-v-google

The point is, Oracle have decided to sue once over usage of something they bought and may do so again in the future.

ntlve··on Electron 1.0 is here
Spotify used to be fully native, nowadays the UI is done in various web technologies while the heavy lifting (streaming audio etc) is done in c++.
ntlve··on Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS
I imagine something like crouton[1] would come in handy for the CS students.

1. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

ntlve··on The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede
Any sources on that?
ntlve··on Free, three-month trial of Apple Music now available
Surprisingly it was an okay experience in chrome for android. Only a broken top menu and a bit sluggish scrolling.
ntlve··on LastPass Security Notice
I use a password manager along with Syncthing[0] which seems to be the compromise you are looking for. This setup works well as long as your devices are decently often on a wifi that allows local device discovery (since syncthing needs either that or static IPs) and it also keeps your password vault offline (i.e no cloud involved).

0: https://syncthing.net/

ntlve··on Programmer proverbs
What if preference is based on whatever makes you work the fastest? Or what if preference is based on objective, reproducible evaluation?
ntlve··on Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android
I'm curious as to why you think it is a bad experience?
ntlve··on Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
Have you tried Reddit News [1] ? It has a very large button at the bottom of the screen that says "Sidebar" which will show you the subreddit sidebar.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news

ntlve··on Cryptic genetic variation in software: hunting a buffered 41-year-old bug
Out of curiosity, do you have any examples or references to something with examples of sets that are neither open nor closed?
ntlve··on Facebook Does It Again. Cheating Dalvik
This is just me guessing but one of the initial goals of Dalvik was to use as little space as possible (due to memory constraints of hardware at that time). Perhaps they thought saving a a byte or two on method identifiers was a good idea. This would not be a problem if it weren't for the fact that dx also squashes all classes into one single class, meaning that instead of being 65K methods per class you now get 65K per apk.
ntlve··on HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game
The Android version is going to need a lot of polish. The menu is jittery and the wrong icons are used. Also the whole app lacks touch feed back so there is no way of telling if you are pressing a button or not until afterwards. Finally, a few idioms like long pressing to edit items and such remain unimplemented which atl east made me confused.
ntlve··on Why don’t designers take Android seriously?
Make more money perhaps, no source on whether or not well designed apps drive more revenue, just a guess.