cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud
It's so sad and inspiring to see him in such a state and still have the willpower to do the WWDC like that.
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cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Google Play Music on the App Store
Talk about bad journalism. That is not true. Google's All Access music streaming has _never_ been blocked by flash DRM restrictions. The raw MP3 streams have been available ever since its inception, as it has been included in Simon Weber's python google music API implementation [1] for about 5 months (which is a few weeks after All Access was announced). From that API it has been implemented in those 3rd-party apps like GMusic and Cloud Play.
So, the only "bad guy" here is Google for not making an iOS app sooner.
[1] https://github.com/simon-weber/Unofficial-Google-Music-API
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Google Play Music on the App Store
For the record, the delay has absolutely nothing to do with Apple withholding the Google Music iOS app. Google didn't decide to start developing it until early October [1].
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/03/google-music-ios-app-laun...
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation
Agreed. Ever since they added the feature to send a snapchat to multiple people, it turned into a narcissistic cesspool. After a while I couldn't even tell if the snapchats I was getting were even for me or for everyone on that person's list. The new "Snapchat Stories" was the nail in the coffin that made me uninstall it.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation
That's mostly a problem with the current laws in place, which encourage the creation of these frivolous services.
For example, let's say piracy was legal, who would need to get a new job?
Software developers, filmmakers and musicians, mostly.
If you think about it, the only reason why musicians/software developers make any money at all is because threat that we will be thrown in jail if we pirate the product (and the culture that "piracy is bad"). Given, there are trivial ways of getting around this barrier, but the fact of the matter is that nobody can officially sponsor a centralized service that you pay for that pirates content and make it extremely convenient.
If piracy was legal, the free software movement would have the most ground, because most people wouldn't be making any money off of the software anyway. Microsoft would go bankrupt. Apple probably would suffer a huge hit, but they would probably survive due to the fact that they manufacture their own hardware. So both would likely release the source code to the public if they want to hold any market share at all.
People would be able to legally sell jailbroken iPhones and Android phones with cyanogenmod installed by default for a fraction of the cost. And provide support.
Nobody would be making these shitty iPhone game apps like Candy Crush because there would be no money in it. Instead they would be making software for individual companies that are solving actual problems, like those self-checkout machines at the grocery stores for example. Most software development would instead be a hobby instead of being completely overvalued the way it currently is.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Data Shows Google’s Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You or I
I did not get any new information out of this article. Not only does the title basically tell you everything that the article is going to talk about, but the statement is obvious. Of course an autonomous driver is safer than a human.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Google turned my iPod touch into a free wifi phone
This has been available in the form of Talkatone (on the App Store) for at least 3 years. This is nothing new.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Google turned my iPod touch into a free wifi phone
I think it really would have taken off if the MMS deals went through with the big carriers. But, alas, that never happened. :/
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
That won't work, it could be prevented by a man-in-the-middle attack on the victim's own computer. Just spoof the blockchain signatures required as if the payment was sent on an ad-hoc network and the program would unlock itself.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
Not really. My story is kind of unrelated to that little anecdote.
I started coding at like, 12. It was mostly fun little "side" projects like game addons and personal websites. I was praised amongst my friends as the "programmer genius" and I built a reputation online.
Eventually I ended up landing myself a web programming job when I turned 16, ended up hating it. Got another internship offer at 17 at a legit web search company. I hated that too.
I eventually decided I hated programming and stopped going to the search company (eventually got laid off for truancy). I spent my senior year of HS and freshman year of college partying a lot getting bad grades with no real direction.
Then I discovered C.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here
Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money
If anyone is missing Bread, my friend made a service that is exactly like it: https://shrinkonce.com/
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: NSString + Ruby
#define RGB(r,g,b) RGBA(r,g,b,1)cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
...I realize I kind of sound like a dick there. Good on you for the internship and all, but if you think of it as work you're gonna burn yourself out.
Ah who am I kidding you're not gonna listen to any of this, lol. You'll figure it out on your own, I guess, and then take a 4 year break from programming, partying and doing a lot of drugs. And then come back to it after realizing that you liked programming the whole time.
..or you'll just burn out. Or you might get hit by a truck or something.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old
> Interning is a way for me to use my skills in the outside world versus just working at home.
> working at home.
> working
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
I'm all for games on Linux, but the reason why he's saying "Linux is the future" is because the MS Store is threatening Steam's business model if it stays on Windows.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon
Yeah, I installed Ubuntu on my computer illiterate dad's computer and he prefers it to Windows 7. He says its faster and easier. He doesn't even know how to copy and paste.
Couldn't really say that 10 years ago.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview
It makes me sad that Garry's Mod was not at the top of that list.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Water found to be an ideal lubricant for nanomachines
The computers of the future will just be blobs of flesh.
cheesylard | 12 years ago | on: Skeuocard
This is really good.
However, there is a few things that makes me not want to use it.
Firstly, no security code.
Secondly, it's hard to tell which fields aren't being filled out. Especially the YOUR NAME in particular. Maybe you should make these fields red, or when you complete a field it automatically goes to the next field. For example, when you finish typing in your credit card number the cursor automatically goes to the expiration date, and when you finish typing the expiration date it automatically goes to the name. Just a suggestion.