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by 6ren 13y ago
It sounds better, but is ARM actually handling the 64 bit ISA transition better than Intel's Itanium fiasco? (AMD's ISA won). Also, odd that Gruber doesn't mention graphics, and likelihood that this has an Imagination serie
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by 6ren 13y ago
xbox360's Xenos GPU has 240 gflops. Maybe iPad 5 will reach this, by x4 the iPad 4's 76.8 gflops. The series 6 rogue GPU has a lot of headroom.
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by 6ren 13y ago
7. "If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're t
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by 6ren 13y ago
Another way to visualize this is if you had a perfectly flat planet with no atmosphere, you could orbit at head height. You could sort of do this on the moon, but mountains.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Because http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck unified Germany (I guess). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin%27s_wars_of_unification of China was more significant, I think, but via war. Coun
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by 6ren 13y ago
PC's are modular. You can mix and match (at least, until a new motherboard standard); you can replace parts (at least, while they're still made). One problem with mobile phones is that they haven't been fast enough - by tight
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by 6ren 13y ago
You can live cheaply, by opting out of the rat race. Though you do need to be pretty resourceful. e.g. http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi... It's just that most people don't want to,
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by 6ren 13y ago
I guess this "software is eating the world" explains github's $1 billion valuation (which doesn't make sense to me otherwise, developer tools aren't as large a market as say, the TV-replacing youtube, bought for aro
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by 6ren 13y ago
In Australia, it's common for students to share a house, and all go on the lease. This favors the landlord, because each tenant is liable for the entire rent.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Java 8 lambdas might shorten their approach too.
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by 6ren 13y ago
I think it's simpler to tribute Sinatra in Java by annotating methods: @get('/hi') String myMethod() { return "Hello World!"; } I made a prototype of this (including extracting arguments Sinatra-
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by 6ren 13y ago
well, documentation and reality easily get out of step - plus, documentation is a form of advertising. Unit-tests, that you can run yourself to verify, are better documentation. Static typing is another form of reliable documentation.
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by 6ren 13y ago
User-defined static types are a theory of a solution. But mostly we don't know what the hell we are doing, so we don't have a correct theory. And this is right, because instead of perfecting our theory, we should be adding the nex
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by 6ren 13y ago
Going by http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html , I wonder if the forprofits will become more like the nonprofits rather than vice versa
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Be Good (pg on startups as nonprofits)(paulgraham.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Whew, nothing to worry about! All you need is massive publicity for paypal to do the right thing. Missteps create opportunity - e.g. does stripe facilitate crowd-source payments?
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by 6ren 13y ago
I would expect nano-printers to have the same effect as essentially free digital reproduction had on music, print and video. There'll be free stuff, and stuff you'll pay for. Why do people pay? Partly to be part of a community; pa
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by 6ren 13y ago
He may soon be incorrect about them not being interested in the content of your calls, only "who you speak to". Before long, always-used speech recognition will be plausible, if it isn't already. Yes, imperfect, but more info
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by 6ren 13y ago
Unfortunately, as calculator prices collapsed, so did Sinclair Radionics' profits, and the company was broken up in 1979 after heavy losses. He fought Moore's law, and the law won. But this whole thing reminds me of Woz&
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by 6ren 13y ago
Oh, so they name those not yet discovered/synthesised by their number, as Ununtrium (113), Ununpentium (115), Ununseptium (117), Ununoctium (118). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#Layout
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by 6ren 13y ago
I wonder about this. Why can't a person have some criteria to narrow the pool, and from that subset select for love? It would be different if they took the first person who came along with financial stability, if that was the only th
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by 6ren 13y ago
Two words: white noise. My favourite is the linux SoX (Sound eXchange). sudo apt-get install sox with this command (which varies the sound, rain-like): play -t sl -r48000 -c2 - synth -1 pinknoise tremolo .1 40 < /dev/zer
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by 6ren 13y ago
Maybe android tablet + ubuntu + keyboard?
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by 6ren 13y ago
I think that's the closest (also asus transformer), but the ARM Chromebook is a lot bigger than an eee 701 (though similar weight). It's more like a super-light laptop - a macbook air.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Historically, netbooks were exploding in popularity because they were cheap and good enough. One factor to their cheapness was they didn't run Windows, but linux instead. MS then did something very insightful, courageous and (to me)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Well. This made me install Firefox 23, to get asm.js. I got a speed-up of x5 on his Mandelbrot code. Wow. (I had Firefox 20 before. I checked a few websites and didn't notice any speed-up in general.) PS: of course you can write modul
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by 6ren 13y ago
I think this is very true for the consumer-web (and therefore also web development), but not if you're purely using ancient unix tools that were fast on ancient hardware. They are incredibly fast on modern "low-end" hardware.
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by 6ren 13y ago
I keep being surprised that there is no real ARM netbook (samsung's chromebook and asus transformer come closest). I think the reason is because ARM is significantly less performant than x86. You don't notice it on a phone/ta
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by 6ren 13y ago
Not necessarily - if you verify your account with (your real) email, that can be used to connect to the rest of your network. I don't believe reddit is doing this right now... but the future is long. (Of course, you can simply not veri
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by 6ren 13y ago
The fundamental problem with visual programming methods as opposed to linguistic methods is that abstraction doesn't work as well. I agree that we'll get glue programmers, who just stick modules together. We already do: they are t

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