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Amazon Wants to Buy Slack for 9B

Facebook’s Working on a Negotiating Bot

Apple needs to clamp down on App Store abuse hard and fast

A quite stunning story came to light over the weekend of a scam app charging people a staggering $400 per month through an in-app purchase disguised as a free trial – for an app that does nothing in the first place.

Botkit

Mike’s BotKit Demo

Mike’s Call for DevOps in iOS 11

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Vaporware on the Server | CR 224

chris — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:36:32 +0000

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Why is Super Mario Run coming to iPhone before Android? –

“One of the reasons we focused on iPhone first was the stability of the platform and being able to get the level of response that we want out of the games,” said Miyamoto. “And that’s not to say that Android devices don’t have the same level of responsiveness. But because there are so many Android devices, trying to engineer the game to work across them all requires quite a lot of time.”

Feedback

Java 8’s Underplayed Success

Is the development press ignoring some of the gains in Java 8 in favor of covering Swift and other new things
Java 8 Adoption in important projects
[Apache Camel / Spring Boot] (https://www.nicolaferraro.me/2016/09/25/apache-camel-meets-spring-boot/)
Android

Buccaneer Sponsoring Vapor

Mike has lost his mind
What advantages might Swift have as s server-side language over say Ruby?

Google has gone crazy

Non-blurry photos of the Google Pixel and Pixel XL leak

Today is apparently Pixel leak day. After getting some new details on pricing and spotting the phone in a Nest ad, some actual photos of the phones have emerged. The image above (and another below) show both phones side-by-side. This marks the first time we’ve actually seen the phones in the flesh—er, metal. Whatever.

Pricing for the smaller Google Pixel phone could start at $649, but financing will be available

Previous rumors pegged the larger Pixel XL with a starting price of $649, but our source says that’s not the case. It’s the smaller, cheaper 5-inch Pixel that will start at this price. This will most likely be for the base storage model, presumably 32GB but we can’t say for sure.

Given the historically low adoption of the Nexus line of phones, how will Google drive sales of a $649 new brand phone?

Exclusive: Google is planning a ‘Pixel 3’ laptop running the ‘Andromeda’ OS for release in Q3 2017

Two independent and reliable sources have confirmed to us that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop to be released in Q3 2017. The project, known internally as ‘Bison’ and by the informal nickname ‘Pixel 3,’ will likely be the first brand-new device to showcase Google’s combined Android / Chrome OS ‘Andromeda’ operating system in a laptop form factor.

This sounds like an entirely new platform. Or will it be killing off ChromeOS? What about all the OEMs? What about the new Pixel phones, two separate Android based OSes?

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A Look Back On Feedback | TechSNAP 251

chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:02:40 +0000

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Since Allan is off being fancy at FOSDEM, we decided that now would be a good time to celebrate the audience & feature some of the best feedback we’ve had over the years!

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Lousy Lollipop Adoption | TTT 202

chris — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:27:09 +0000

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A fresh version of LibreOffice hits the web, another Flash attack in the wild, this one uses “malvertising”. What the heck is malvertising? We discuss.

Plus what the state of Android looks like in 2015, another OS X bug & more!

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Google’s Tech Tease | Tech Talk Today 176

chris — Wed, 27 May 2015 10:37:35 +0000

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There is some major smoke around the Google I/O fire, we dig into an in depth discussion about the big Google Picture. Plus Vox buys up Re/Code in a move that consolidates tech news & OnePlus teases us with a new device!

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Vox Media Adds ReCode to Its Stable of Websites – NYTimes.com

Comcast, investor in Vox Media and Recode, could end up buying them both – Quartz

One reason for the renewed discussions may be Comcast’s role in encouraging Vox Media’s acquisition of Recode, the technology news site with a small audience but growing events business. Sources say Comcast, which owns minority stakes in both companies, gave its blessing to the deal several months ago. David Zilberman, a managing director of Comcast Ventures, its venture capital arm, sits on Vox Media’s board. He didn’t reply to a message seeking comment.

APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000

The thieves accessed a system called “Get Transcript,” where taxpayers can get tax returns and other filings from previous years. In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address, the IRS said.

Microsoft partners with LG, Sony, other OEMs to sell Android tablets featuring Office, OneDrive, Skype

In total, Microsoft has now partnered with 31 global and local OEMs (11 in March and 20 today) to preinstall its apps onto Android devices throughout this year. Only time will tell if Microsoft’s apps end up actually being used more because of these deals.

OnePlus teases next smartphone announcement on Twitter

OnePlus says it is “Time to change” in its latest tweet, teasing a possible smartphone announcement for June 1. Chinese smartphone maker, OnePlus, relies heavily on Twitter for making announcements and promoting products and now the company would like to shake things up according to its latest tweet.

Update on Extension Signing and New Developer Agreement

Next week, we will activate two new features on AMO: signing of new add-on versions after they are reviewed, and add-on submission for developers who wish to have their add-ons signed but don’t want them listed on AMO. We will post another update once this happens. When this is done, all extension developers will be able to have their extensions signed, with enough time to update their users before signing becomes a requirement in release versions of Firefox.

Google I/O 2015 Preview: We’re doubling down on Android M, Chrome, Wear and more

Obviously Android M(arshmallow?), Wear updates including the next Moto 360 are at the top of the list. I’ve been hearing whispers that the new 360 is smaller, uses more modern/efficient SoC and a better OLED display. I’m praying to the robot dog overlords at Google that they have these as developer demo units (read: presents) at I/O. Use on iOS as has been found in code would also be nice for us who use both platforms. I’ve heard Samsung might have something round for us to feast on soon, and who knows, maybe we’ll see a $1,400 Tag Heuer Watch somehow with Intel Inside.

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Why Mike’s Disgusted by Android | CR 145

chris — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:44:27 +0000

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Chris shares what he’s loving about Android from a users perspective & Mike goes into what is driving him crazy from a developer’s standpoint.

Plus redefining DevOps, starting a multi-user database & more!

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Hoopla

Cyanogen said to be hoovering up cash, but NOT from Microsoft • The Register

Bloomberg reported on Friday that Cyanogen is close to an agreement that would see it raise $110m from a group of financiers including PremjiInvest, the investment firm of Wipro chairman Azim Premji.

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Best of LUP 2014 | LINUX Unplugged 72

chris — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:58:09 +0000

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We look back on some of the rants and events of 2014. Whether it’s systemd, mir, tox, ubuntu or anything else, we covered lots of major events this year!

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Unifying Linux Software | LINUX Unplugged 62

chris — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:03:58 +0000

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We discuss how one software center for all distributions would work & which existing solutions are the closest.

Plus looking forward to some new Ubuntu apps & how Linux bit Lightworks right in the memory manager.

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VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt — and It’s Better – Slashdot

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Ubuntu Next Gen apps on Ubuntu 14.10 – YouTube

A Lightworks developer talks about the kind of issue you meet when coding for an NLE on Linux

In recent weeks, some of Lightworks’ Linux users started to report reduced performance in both new and old versions of the software. After some investigation, it appeared that the slow-down was only affecting systems with a Linux kernel newer than 3.13. In tests, kernel performance in 3.14 did seem to be slightly worse than earlier versions, but nothing that could explain the symptoms being experienced by users. So what could possibly explain the sudden change in behaviour?

Seattle GNU/Linux Conference

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Fragmentation Timebomb | LINUX Unplugged 39

chris — Tue, 06 May 2014 17:28:10 +0000

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In the not too distant future the Linux desktop will face a landscape comprised of users running Wayland, Mir, and X11. Ubuntu will be rolling out their first generation Qt based desktop environment, and developers are crying fragmentation.

But how would we shape the future if we could wave a magic wand? And is fragmentation a real problem in practice?

Plus: Our thoughts on Magea, producing video content on Linux, and much more!

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Fragmentation Challenges

Two big ways to look at this, the core, and the desktop.

Linux distributions are also unified at the core library level. In addition to the kernel, you have projects like X.org, glibc, gstreamer, Gnome, QT, webkit, CUPS, clutter, etc. These are all example of core libraries that generally are included in almost every variant of mobile Linux; Chrome, Android, MeeGo, WebOS, LiMo, etc. They all use these same “base” components.

The core is fairly predictable, not perfect, but not the wild west some might have you believe.
Linux and the Internet of Things [LWN.net]

Bird gave a thought-provoking talk with a conclusion that will probably surprise some: he thinks a \”good\” fork of the kernel is the right approach to meld Linux and the \”Internet of Things\”.

Ubuntu Challange:

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Paranoid Android Developers | CR 94

chris — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:45:19 +0000

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Android growth is exploding, and showing no signs of slowing down… So why are big players still avoiding the platform? We’ll challenge some common misconceptions on why developers avoid Android.

Plus big Silicon Valley tech companies get busted colluding to keep wages low, the contractor fudge factor, your feedback..

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Why don’t designers take Android seriously?

Hack Programming Language

Hack Isn’t PHP – Marco.org

PHP has always been poorly designed and poorly stewarded, but it\’s appealing to developers because it\’s easy to learn (and tons of programmers already know it, so it\’s easy to hire for), it\’s everywhere and runs on anything, it\’s very fast, and it\’s very simple to host and maintain server-side. In short, it\’s extremely practical.

Since Facebook is migrating its own code to Hack, pure PHP will become a less-tested second-class citizen on HHVM. This could devalue HHVM to the outside world, throwing away the benefits it’s bringing to PHP programmers everywhere. The closeness of the two languages will probably prevent this from becoming a significant problem, but it’s a problem nonetheless.

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FUD for Thought | LINUX Unplugged 24

chris — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:29:24 +0000

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The battle lines have been drawn and the assault against upstart is in full force. We’ll discuss the heat being put on Canonical, the CLA, and upstart with our virtual LUG.

Then we’ll bust some Linux switching FUD that’s been popping up with more and more Windows users fleeing the sinking ship.

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Nest always thought of itself as a robotics company; the robot is just hidden inside this sleek Appleish case.

Look at who the company brought in as its VP of technology: Yoky Matsuoka, a roboticist and artificial intelligence expert from the University of Washington.

The Innovative Little Guy Results

The War Against Upstart

Linus Torvalds: Any CLA is fundamentally broken

\”To be fair, people just like hating on Canonical. The FSF and Apache Foundation CLA\’s are pretty much equally broken. And they may not be broken because of any relicencing, but because the copyright assignment paperwork ends up basically killing the community. Basically, with a CLA, you don\’t get the kind of \”long tail\” that the kernel has of random drive-by patches. And since that\’s how lots of people try the waters, any CLA at all — changing the license or not — is fundamentally broken.\”

Matthew Garrett: Not all CLAs are equal

So why do people object so much when Canonical do it? I\’ve written about this in the context of Mir before, but it\’s worth expanding on the general case. The FSF\’s copyright assignment ensures that contributions to GPLed software will only be distributed under GPL-style licenses. The Apache CLA permits the ASF to relicense a contribution under a proprietary license, but the Apache license allows anyone to do that anyway.

In contrast, Canonical ship software under the GPLv3 family of licenses (GPL, AGPL and LGPL) but require that contributors sign an agreement that permits Canonical to relicense their contributions under a proprietary license. This is a fundamentally different situation to almost all widely accepted CLAs, and it\’s disingenuous for Canonical to defend their CLA by pointing out the broad community uptake of, for instance, the Apache CLA.

Lennart Poettering – Google+ – Shutting down is hard.

Shutting down is hard.

I am sorry for piling on, but here\’s an interesting aspect of Upstart I\’d like to shed some light on. Not necessarily because it is hard to fix, but simply because it is quite interesting.

Upstart (as it stands now) will eat your file system.

Lennart Poettering – Google+ – So it appears that the Debian ctte discussions are now…

The existance of mountall on Upstart, and the non-integration of /etc/fstab into the Upstart rule set, results in a lot of additional shortcomings: mountall is a one-time thing for the boot process, all context of file systems, devices and mounts is lost, after it ran, and the file system state is henceforth assumed static. Which of course is not how systems work these days…

This design flaw is one of the things we noticed when we looked into Upstart in detail before we decided to start systemd. 4 years later, nothing has changed, the Upstart design still cannot cover this…

FUD Busting:

fm87 comments on Microsoft employees reportedly call Windows 8 ‘the new Vista’

Linux is not a replacement for Windows for 99.999% of users

Blame FUD for Microsoft\’s Dominance in Schools

\”It might even be illegal for us to remove Microsoft Office or Windows from previously purchased computers, due to the vendor agreement the school district signed with Microsoft.\”

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Me Oh My I/O! | CR 50

chris — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:59:09 +0000

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Google I/O has wrapped up and the guys have two very different takeaways. Has Google addressed our pleas from episode 49, or did we only see half the answer from I/O? Mike and Chris debate.

Plus: How Google’s focus on G+ could be great for developers, the new guy challenge, and a batch of your emails!

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Nick\’s email: Is ASP outdated?
Your Google IO feedback
Keith wants to know what we think of an all you can eat option for apps

Me Oh My IO!

Google I/O 2013: 10 Key Takeaways

There weren\’t stunts at Google I/O 2013 resembling the Great Google Glass Launch of 2012, and there wasn\’t nearly the same level of hard news as there was in 2012, but nonetheless it was a significant event for both software developers and users.

Google I/O Nexus 7 HD No-Show Does Not Cancel 2013 Release, Hints in Promo Video [WATCH] – International Business Times

A Google I/O Nexus 7 (HD) announcement is one of the most highly anticipated development at the annual Android event. When the device was a no-show, Nexus tab enthusiasts refuse to give up hope.

Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console, Including Beta Releases And Staged Rollout | TechCrunch

Today, during Google\’s I/O developer conference, the company announced a group of tools for app developers, including a new developer suite called Android Studio. It\’s an IDE based on IntelliJ.

Android this week: Google I/O recapped; Better Bluetooth; Galaxy S 4 Google Edition — Tech News and Analysis

Google also introduced its music subscription and discovery service called Google Play Music All Access. For a $9.99 monthly fee — $7.99 if you start a 30-day trial by June 30 — you get unlimited access to stream tracks thought the Play Music app and on the web.

Google App Engine now supports PHP!….

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License to Kill | CR 42

chris — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:01:28 +0000

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Mike and Chris contemplate how to gracefully kill a project, end a contract, or quit a job. Then they debate the merits of Google killing Reader, the challenges of Android, and reservations about open sourcing your code.

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Stephen asks how feel about mobile websites packaged as apps.
Mike has a two-parter: do you know Binpress? and is starting to have some reservations about open-sourcing his code.
Alex shares “High Performance Javascript”
Mike is having issues with Android fragmentation that is resulting in one stars.
Michal shares his Ubuntu Pomo app

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2012: Too Scared to Touch | CR 26

chris — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:40:42 +0000

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Mike and Chris take a retrospective look at mobile in 2012, the good, the bad, and the really bad. Plus we promise Mike doesn’t hate Java, online learning, a bunch of your emails…

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Ted’s Email
Mike knows that Minecraft is written in Java
Brian wants to know why I hate Java
Chris, the developer of White – Storm Lightning, says I am missing the beauty of C++
Tushar needs to buy a Mac to submit his HTML App.
Timothy’s E-mail: Needs help self starting
James from England is trying to find a programming group
Zach, the developer of Day Journal shares that he wrote it in Vala
Adam wants to know what we think of CodeAcademy and the like

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

2012 In Review

The Mobile Space / Development Story
Maluuba: Siri Alternative – Android Apps on Google Play

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The Javascript Problem | CR 18

chris — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:34:16 +0000

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Mike and Chris take a walk down a dangerous and controversial road — the state of Javascript in modern web development.

Plus a frank look at TypeScript, blaming developers, your emails, and much more.

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Jay wants to know how the Android update cycle and the device manufacturers’ different versions of Android affect developers.
Carlo’s email
Isak asks what we think about Typescript
Charles writes in with some more info on Haskell
Matt shares an interesting article about Adobe
Matt (diff Matt?) is working on an iOS app that will have a server backend component and is wondering how to make a profit on the app — given the hosting costs over time.

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

NCEES licensing exam for Software Engineers
Windows Phone 8 SDK oddness
TypeScript / The Javascript Problem

The Language Itself

No classical inheritance.
Too loose

Developers

Too stupid / lazy??
Too sloppy??

Tool of the Week

Typescript

Book of the Week

Basic Category Theory

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