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ambirex··on The Curious Case of the Curious Case
For sure it is ugly, but one thing about Gruber's post intrigued me, how it felt in your hand.

Personally I use a minimal case, but my parents use a larger battery case and I've always found holding their phones awkward.

It is hard to tell from photos, but I might consider it if it actually felt good in my hand.

ambirex··on Blizzard DMCAs “Show HN: HTML5 Version of Starcraft” from Sept 2015
I'm curious to what "source code" they claimed ownership under.
ambirex··on Android 6.0 Marshmallow Reviewed
"There is still no solution for getting Marshmallow out to the billion+ devices out there."

I can't wait for this one to be solved

ambirex··on In search of the perfect URL
We have reversed it to be example.com/seo-go-nuts/%d/ to bring the text closer together.
ambirex··on The Cult of Vice
I really wasn't trying to dismiss what the have been evolving into, rather to voice my own problems seeing past the Vice that was presented in Page One.
ambirex··on The Cult of Vice
Absolutely they are evolving as a news org, and for the better. It is just hard to shake off the view I had of them.
ambirex··on The Cult of Vice
Perhaps this is now old, but everytime Vice is brought up all I can think of is this piece with David Carr from Page One (2011) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmkec_4Rfo
ambirex··on Opensource Backend as a Servicce: BaaSBox
Here is their github repo - https://github.com/baasbox/baasbox
ambirex··on Detecting duplicate images with Python
Several years ago I tried matching images on histogram comparisons, I realized it wasn't going to be a perfect match, but actually had a pretty high degree of success on my data set (game tiles).
ambirex··on Amazon Fire TV
Not necessarily, Roku, PS 3 & 4, Xbox 360 & One all have amazon streaming.

It probably has more to do with Apple than Amazon.

ambirex··on Chrome on iOS now adds a per-device GUID to its User-Agent string.
It looks like every tab has a different GUID.

Am I missing a use case where this might be beneficial to a user? Because all I'm seeing is a cookie-less tracking method.

ambirex··on Flash is dead, long live OpenFL
I've been following OpenFL/NME for about a year, I was surprised when reading http://www.openfl.org/blog/2014/03/18/flash-and-html5/ that pixi.js is based off the Flash API.
ambirex··on Why are Nodejitsu registering the npm trademark
I can't help feel this was partly fueled by npm Inc asking Arnout Kazemier (Nodejitsu's Lead Software Engineer - https://www.nodejitsu.com/company/) to change the name of his package from npmjs to something else. (https://medium.com/p/271013ff33c5)
ambirex··on Apple Releases iBeacon Specification
That seems to be the current push, but off the top of my head I could see museums use them for exhibits, airports for communication back to the airline on where you are in the airport (ie, you should head to the gate now, or your gate has changed).
ambirex··on Sending Email with Laravel, SendGrid, Beanstalkd and Go
or, if you do want to queue it, why not use postfix as a local relay host?

http://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Mail_Servers/postfix.html

ambirex··on Ask HN: Is Apple going downhill?
In fairness, I don't ever recall hearing anyone say "iTunes sure is a fine piece of software"
ambirex··on What does your ISP say about you?
Nice write up about the different demographics on mail providers. But I'm not sure that "ISP" is the correct term for the title.

I always considered which ISP you use has more to do with picking the least horrible option for your geography.

ambirex··on Walmart Node.js Memory Leak
Thank you, I really enjoy detailed write-ups like this. It is fascinating to see how an engineer approaches an elusive problem.
ambirex··on DigitalOcean pledges $1500 to RVM 2.0 Fundraiser
Hi, I upvoted you and here is why:

Your post is a fantastic breakdown on why such comments are unhelpful and shortsighted and in a very helpful tone.

Keep up the good work!

ambirex··on The Onion quits print
In a way this is too bad, in the 90's I'd always pick a copy when I visited friends in Madison, WI.

But it also isn't very surprising. Free print publications are entirely reliant on print ads, which have have been having significant downward treads.

ambirex··on Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?
I've been using is since the shut down and I've been pretty happy with it.

What do you find slow?

ambirex··on Steam Controller
Did I miss any sort of guidance for the cost?
ambirex··on Apple’s “Windows 95″ Problem
I doubt the market sell off yesterday had anything to do with how well the products will sell (I'm guessing we will soon hear that it is "The best selling iPhone ever").

Rather, it is more likely to do with downward pressure on profit margins of the iPhone. Sure the plastic cover of the 5c will help, but there are still a bunch of expensive components inside.

ambirex··on Autoworkers of our Generation: A Repsonse
My father was a computer programmer in the late 60s to 90s. Throughout his career he saw several of his skills automated but his approach wasn't that he was out of work, rather his tool chest was increased. With each automation there was more time to explore a new tool.

What makes us as a valuable source isn't how we use the tools today, rather our ability to understand and apply the tools to come.

ambirex··on New Android Release to be named Kit Kat
Starting a counter for headlines containing "break". (already counting around 4 from google news)
ambirex··on Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range
It looks like they are using TI chips for the wireless (CC1101 for prototyping but it looks like they are targeting the CC1200 for release).

The have a little more technical information on their website - http://www.flutterwireless.com/press.html

http://www.ti.com/product/cc1101 http://www.ti.com/product/cc1200

ambirex··on Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir
When looking at languages like LiveScript (or CoffeeScript) I say to myself: "Javascript has been around for 18 years, how long will this be around for?"

Not saying not to use it, but my use case has to overcome that question.

ambirex··on What next for Agant – iOS house downsizes
After looking at their portfolio, I'd say that high-cost/low-audience apps are hard to make profitable. Let alone building a business around such apps.

That being said, some of their apps look beautiful. Wish them all the best of luck on their next venture.

ambirex··on The next generation of Instapaper
When I compare this to the Parse/Facebook deal, this seems like a more natural transition.

I actually doubt it has much to do with Pocket, instead I think is exactly how Marco put it, grown bigger than a single person could manage.

Congrats to both Marco and Betaworks.

ambirex··on How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?
This is pretty fun thought experiment.

Let's actually say CNN has close to 100% market penetration, making the number of users around 25 million.

if say 5% of those would be willing to upgrade to a premium for $25/year that would make the potential size of the market $31 million a year. Just using numbers I'm pulling out of my posterior.

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