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It was available via the Humble Bundle sale before it was released in the play store, so people who are "into" android gaming probably grabbed it then.

Well no, that's exactly what you want to find out from data like this. :)

(Well, what I was curious about, anyway.)

The big distorting effect here was that it was available for a long time on iOS before other platforms -- if you wanted the game, initially you had no choice other than iOS. And despite it being significantly more enjoyable on a touch screen, it was ported to Android last out of all the platforms supported.

Anyone know of a major game that had simultaneous releases on both Android and iOS at the same price?

e: Oh, another factor: it was available through the Humble Bundle on Android before it was in the Play store.

I guess I should also mention that it's a pretty fun game. :)

Speaking of sf/fantasy authors, Steve Brust writes using emacs.

(And on mandrake linux, according to the acknowledgements of this unpublished work: http://dreamcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/My-Own-Kind-...)

It's still not at all clear to me what you're saying.

Feel free to express yourself in more technically/mathematically: while GR is certainly not my field, I took classes in grad school that covered the material.

>That said, I'd be much more optimistic about the plausibility of a proposed warp technology that only lets you go FTL relative to the implicit reference frame of the distant stars. Because that avoids any possibility of causality violation.

I don't understand what you're getting at. It would be trivial for someone close by to match that reference frame, and then what?

If the options are an update that fixes driver issues but is never pushed, and an update that only fixes less serious issues but is pushed -- which would you rather have?

My (fairly naive) understanding is that there is nothing comparable to the Gecko layer on Android (Dalvik seems in practice to be very intertwined with lower level code) so I'm not sure what conclusion you're drawing from the docs. Feel free to school me on it, though. :)

A typical Android update will change the drivers and other low level stuff. My understanding is that a Firefox OS update will typically change only the upper layers: Gecko and Gaia. That should hopefully reduce the amount of testing necessary to push a release.

In any case, it seems unlikely that Mozilla would simply announce this without any consultation with their hardware partners. They're in a much better position to know what's possible than you or I!

I don't think it's anything quite so conscious as that. The majority of human actions are impulses, not calculated decisions. That's certainly true of drive-by discussion posts. :)

I think in cases like this, the urge is just to show off -- to show that they're not one of the "sheeple". The poster certainly knows that the POV they expressed is already very common on HN.

It's not even that I really disagree with the claims. But this was an interesting article, and there are so many more relevant things to discuss!

Err, did you read the article? It was about all types of crime, not just murders.

Comments like this are basically predicated upon the idea that anyone reading it will agree. That is, there's nothing persuasive put forth if I disagree, and no real information offered. They're not very good as conversation starters either.

So why the heck do people post them?

e: I care not for your downvote! Posts like the parent kind of ruin HN for me, so if my opinion is so out of the new norm here I'll know to just stop reading it. :)

Well:

>The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for.

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from...

Huh, that was the exact rule I adopted the first time I had to work on a "real" project. I wonder if I'd previously read it into my subconscious, or if it's simply kind of obvious. :)

Apparently they consider tags like gay and lesbian to be Adult.

Even if that was somehow relevant (it doesn't really matter what you called it internally if you didn't use the name publicly), the existing Q.js is older!

Here is the first public version, from 3 years ago: https://github.com/Gozala/q/tree/v0.1.0

It'll actually use whatever you have the search bar set to.

> A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

The thing is there are people like me who prefer a separate search bar. I don't want google search results showing up when I'm just trying to look through my history or bookmarks.

It also is a privacy issue -- if the URL bar tries to autocomplete search results, then it necessarily sends every URL you type to google/etc.

What left pane? (I see nothing of the sort in the link or screenshots.)

I believe that in a previous thread, FirefoxOS devs were hopeful that the way the OS is "layered" will make this less painful -- that upgrading Gecko should be much easier than upgrading Android versions, because it wouldn't introduce driver issues etc.

Updating the underlying kernel would be more arduous.

No shit, now read my post again with the knowledge that I already knew that! :)

Err, or maybe it's just a sensible precaution, because relying on a single defense against failure is a bad idea?

wallunit's response was in direct response to someone who claimed this feature was "snuck in".

AFAICT Last Chance to See is still in print? (In the US I can get a new paperback from amazon for $10)

I still have a very tattered version of it from when it was first published, though. :)

To be fair, a great percentage of the comments on these topics sound exactly that ignorant. Maybe there's an echo chamber effect where reasonable people just stop reading/participating in these threads, because to my eye it's been getting worse.

I can understand why someone would be driven to mock them.

Huh, that guy has a pretty fucked up attitude towards libraries.

>I think about how manufacturers drag their feet on normal updates

They do release security updates. (Or at least used to -- I haven't paid attention lately.)

The major upgrades change and break lots of shit for them. A backported security update generally does not.

Note for anyone confused: this is not true on a Mac; in general it depends on what the OS's convention is.

>In Firefox's case in particular, users are often asked to create a new profile, which AFAIK still requires command-line hackery and, from direct personal experience, carries a significant risk of corrupting or destroying your regular profile even if you follow the instructions to the letter. This is insane.

I have reported a fair amount of bugs to Mozilla over the years, and have never been asked to do this.

You seem to confuse what is mandatory with what will simply be helpful. All the things like creating clean profiles, producing test cases, are things that expedite progress on a bug. If it's a real, reproducible bug, it'll be looked into regardless of those things. And if it's not easily reproducible, exactly how much time should the developers spend before they move on to another bug that is?

>Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory.

It's entirely possible for a website to have a memory leak. (Or, at any rate, consume an ever increasing amount of memory.) If closing the tab and opening it again frees the memory, then there might not be anything FF can do about it. (It's also possible you've got an addon causing the problem.)

It's always so cute how everyone thinks the way they use a browser is the only way anyone uses a browser.

Like folk who think that having hundreds of tabs open at once is the norm! :)