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weazl | 1 month ago | on: Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

This is untrue. Apple was fighting EU the entire time trying to avoid a switch to USB-C on iPhones. EU representatives were publicly critical of Apple, eventually Apple was forced to give in.

weazl | 2 years ago | on: AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET

It's super fast if you use Native AOT. My entire application starts up in 0.3 seconds, that includes Avalonia and all my code too. It does use more memory than I'd like though, about 200 MB.

weazl | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)

Not really, Spotify was founded just 3 years later.

weazl | 3 years ago | on: How they filmed The Last of Us arcade scene

Actually, the great thing about this show is that it doesn't focus so much on the actual zombies, that just gets boring fast. This show is story driven and I really like that.

weazl | 3 years ago | on: Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

Way back many years ago Spotify used to be GREAT, the client was super efficient and easy to use did everything necessary, really.

But then they started butchering it more and more and now it's almost completely unusable.

I've been a paying customer since 2009 and I'm thinking of cancelling, I don't use it any more because it's just a mess.

weazl | 4 years ago | on: .NET Myths Dispelled

Why Scandinavia? I live in Sweden and senior developers around here make less than half of what it seems like junior developers make in the US, and that's before taxes.

weazl | 9 years ago | on: KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features

> Given all these great options, it's not clear to me why anyone would go back to a separate GUI tool?

For me it's the easily clickable URLs. Copying and pasting URLs in other CLI-environments on Windows is cumbersome at best.

weazl | 10 years ago | on: Microsoft and Red Hat partner

Try their xplat cli [1], it's built on node/npm. I'm on Windows but still prefer this one over the PowerShell one.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/azure-cli

weazl | 12 years ago | on: Google Video Quality Report

> We pick the shortest, most direct route.

Eh, no. I'm sure they try but more often than not my YouTube is streaming from Amsterdam according to http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping, I live in Stockholm and have a 250 MBit connection. So instead of blazing fast speeds I get buffering like I'm on a modem.

I've found no way of reporting this issue, my ISP did not know either. I worked around the issue myself with hundreds of lines like this "74.125.163.38 r1---sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com r1.sn-5hn7ym76.googlevideo.com" in my router hosts file. This finally made videos buffer pretty much instantly.

weazl | 12 years ago | on: Masscan: scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, 10 million packets/second

2^128 ip-addresses / 10 million packets a second = 7.8 * 10^13 times the age of the universe [1]

To actually scan the entirety of ipv6 address space in under 6 minutes you would need to send 1 billion billion billion billion packets a second [2], or 100 octillion times faster than 10 million packets a second. [3]

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128%2F10%5E7+second...

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128%2F360

[3] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10%5E36%2F10%5E7

weazl | 13 years ago | on: It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day

I've been waiting for over a week to get my account verified so I can start using my account (I'm not in the US), but they only seem to verify a few hundred a day and there are still 5000 people ahead of me.. quite frustrating.

weazl | 13 years ago | on: Google Now's smartphone is the real deal

The commute card would actually be useful if only it would show public transit departures I can make, as it is now whenever I see the card it mostly shows subway trains that have already departed or a few that I can not possibly make it to in time.

Clicking the card only takes me to Google Maps where I get tons of irrelevant suggestions. Not helpful.

I do love the idea though. I'm hoping it will improve!

weazl | 13 years ago | on: Create your own local Dropbox with AeroFS

I've been waiting for an invite for well over a year, maybe two years, don't really remember. Frankly I'm more than a little annoyed. Why even bother having an invite feature if you never send out invites? It's just being dishonest.

weazl | 13 years ago | on: The Future is not Real-Time

There is a world of difference between push notifications and a service that presents a real time view of some state.

weazl | 13 years ago | on: Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released

That is not all, there is also a distinct lack of contrast in both brightness and color all over, also all icons look pretty much the same so they're essentially useless.

In an effort to "focus on the content" everything else have taken a back seat, to hell with useability and a visually pleasing experience.

weazl | 14 years ago | on: Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels

How much do you make per listener if one of your songs is played on the radio? Honestly, I'm asking because I want to know.

In any case, you can not compare Spotify's subscription model to direct sales, it is just not the same thing.