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Small bruise on arm that doesn't hurt. by fangirl100in Health

[–]trebonius 2 points3 points ago

Bruises last beyond when the blood vessels have healed. Your body is still working on reabsorbing the dead blood cells. So it doesn't hurt because it has healed.

You are fine.

Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains by ttruth1in Health

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Don't eat food contaminated with the feces of infected people and you should be fine.

Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains by ttruth1in Health

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

They don't. They just lodge in the capillaries.

Five Months Ago Today the Galaxy Nexus was Released on Verizon, It Hasn’t Been Updated Since by steinman17in Android

[–]trebonius 1 point2 points ago

Seattle. And they are still fairly rare.

Five Months Ago Today the Galaxy Nexus was Released on Verizon, It Hasn’t Been Updated Since by steinman17in Android

[–]trebonius 1 point2 points ago

I use Google Wallet all the time. Mostly with vending machines. I have a stock CDMA Galaxy Nexus.

Android Fragmentation Visualized - The many faces of a little green robot by chrisarchitectin Android

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Screen density hasn't been an issue for me. I always use dip instead of px, never use absolute positioning, and just generally designed for density independence. I wish it were this easy on the web.

I've had much more trouble with bugs introduced by carrier customization and custom roms.

How the psychology of colors may influence you! by Shortfilms_in psychology

[–]trebonius 7 points8 points ago

While some of this has been found to be true, a whole lot of this is culturally ingrained. In fact, western culture used to associate blue with femininity and red/pink with masculinity until it reversed. Many cultures have have totally different color associations.

It's actually quite funny how often I've seen people try to do serious, scientific study of color associations, then completely forget to survey people from other parts of the world.

Of course, the linked image is just a collection of impressions and a few random points of trivia.

Does anyone know the best way to maximize your internal memory? by tomeyoin Android

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

I'm fairly certain that whether an app is stored on the SD or not doesn't impact where it stores its data. That's a choice made by the developer. My app, for example, does not allow itself to be moved to SD because it needs a background process. But I do all my caching and data storage on SD if one is available.

Does anyone know the best way to maximize your internal memory? by tomeyoin Android

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Hmm. Interesting. I didn't know that.

Does anyone know the best way to maximize your internal memory? by tomeyoin Android

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Don't force apps to your SD card. Or rather, don't be surprised if they stop working correctly if you do. Your phone also needs to be rooted in order to do that.

In particular, anything that needs to run a background service, like a messenger app, is going to stop working reliably if you force it to move to SD.

I know that doesn't help solve your space problem. Really, all I can recommend there is for you to consider uninstalling apps that you don't use on a regular basis. For example, I like to use Tripit when I travel, but I uninstall it when I'm not traveling.

Uninstalling apps that run background services will also improve your battery life and overall performance.

Build your own log cabin. by MattNotoin howto

[–]trebonius 2 points3 points ago*

I spent my teenage summers building a cabin exactly this way and with these tools. We had to buy the log turners, scribes, and draw knives from antique stores and replace the wood handles.

This is not the Lincoln-log type cabin building that makes for gappy, ugly walls. The logs end up looking like they practically grew together.

We had lots of nice straight logs due to a forest fire that killed off loads of aspens without damaging the wood. It also burned the existing drafty, crummy cabin we had, thus necessitating the new cabin building.

Being the standard-issue teenager, I hated it. But I'm incredibly glad to have done it, and the place is gorgeous now. My parents now live there full time.

app ideas by atlrudeboiin androiddev

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

This is what worked for me.

Has anyone succeeded with a donation based payment scale on an Android App? by darkspot_in androiddev

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

In a really good month I made as much as $100 in donations. I was just barely breaking even since I have some monthly server costs associated with my app.

Has anyone succeeded with a donation based payment scale on an Android App? by darkspot_in androiddev

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

I did both for a while. Buying the donation token disabled the ads. Then I got rid of the ads entirely since the income wasn't worth the negative impact to users.

Has anyone succeeded with a donation based payment scale on an Android App? by darkspot_in androiddev

[–]trebonius 9 points10 points ago

Yes, but it depends on your definition of success. What worked for me was being extremely available and responsive to my users, and being super transparent about who I am and what I'm doing.

But it certainly didn't replace my day job. It brought in slightly more than ads did.

wifi question by ScubaSteve1219in Android

[–]trebonius 1 point2 points ago

Yes. (Mostly)

There are a few system-level things that my still use data, but they are generally tiny and rare.

App Devs: Why do you ignore the fact that Bluetooth inputs exist? (Keyboard/Mouse) by kehrkin Android

[–]trebonius 2 points3 points ago

Input is not generally something most apps concern themselves much with. Most apps use the standard UI widgets and rely on them to handle input as they should.

It's also not a trivial thing to make a UI work well with both mouse and touch. For example, Android doesn't have MouseOver or ScrollWheel events. In fact, I'm not even sure how one would capture a scroll wheel event, or know where the mouse is when it happens.

In any case, the short answer is really that support needs to be baked into the OS.

How many redditors pay for apps? by necrosxiaobanin Android

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Perfectly reasonable. I'm not advocating that people should spend more than they can afford. People generally only have a handful of regularly-used apps in any case.

How many redditors pay for apps? by necrosxiaobanin Android

[–]trebonius -1 points0 points ago

Relative to the cost of the phone and service, apps are dirt cheap.

I don't know how to send my match a gift... by Zander_aqin secretsanta

[–]trebonius 6 points7 points ago

You could always send the game yourself, via the post office.

TIL The Pirate Bay has a torrent category for 3D objects to print. by jayurbzzin todayilearned

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Have you read The Diamond Age? The "matter compilers" in that book can only make like 2 kinds of bad food, but they put free, public food-only compilers out like phone booths. That itself is a fairly minor point in this excellent book, but the compilers are quite central.

TIL The Pirate Bay has a torrent category for 3D objects to print. by jayurbzzin todayilearned

[–]trebonius 4 points5 points ago

I don't have millions of years to wait, so I must begrudgingly rely on some intelligent design to help things along.

/r/Android - Lets start Project Clean SD by edruin Android

[–]trebonius 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, I think this has been fixed in nearly every version currently in the wild.

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