achiang

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by achiang 14y ago
I go to meetings so my team doesn't have to. As an engineering-driven company, both daily tactical decisions and our overall strategic decisions are (usually!) based on technical data. This requires our management team to understand enough
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by achiang 14y ago
Oops, I posted this in a different thread elsewhere on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707925 ), but figured it would be relevant to this conversation too. --- Hi, I led the team that shipped this image, and I'm pretty proud of wh
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by achiang 14y ago
Hi, I led the team that shipped this image, and I'm pretty proud of what we did. A few thoughts about our goals for this release. The entire point of Ubuntu core on the Nexus 7 is to highlight our desktop's performance and resource issues.
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by achiang 14y ago
We did think about adding 'fastboot oem unlock' to our installer script, but decided against for UX reasons. Asking the user to do some ugly looking terminal commands hopefully scared away the folks who least understood what they might have
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by achiang 14y ago
You will need a USB OTG cable to use USB peripherals. This is mentioned in the wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/UsingTheDevice
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by achiang 14y ago
I will simply say that we've got a broad portfolio of current and future products, spanning the entire range from the data center down to your personal devices, and we are working hard at commercializing all of them. Sorry for the platitude
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by achiang 14y ago
freerdp runs well in Ubuntu today. Additionally, we've baked thin client support into Ubuntu Desktop starting with the most recent release (12.10). Ubuntu for Android is positioned as a fully functional desktop on your phone. I'll leave it
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by achiang 14y ago
Ubuntu for Android is a separate, but related effort. Again, quoting Mark: "We have two short cycles before we’re into the LTS, and by then we want to have the phone, tablet and TV all lined up." [speaking individually, not representing Can
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by achiang 14y ago
I wouldn't expect any huge departure from the existing sound architecture (PulseAudio, ALSA).
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by achiang 14y ago
The people making comments about Unity on this device have some valid points, but are missing the forest for the trees. One of the major themes of 13.04 and the entire point of this demo is to fix the core of Ubuntu, as was referenced in
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by achiang 15y ago
Don't forget ctags too. I feel physical pain when I see people navigating C source trees with grep.
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by achiang 15y ago
“[Our] goal is 200 million users of Ubuntu in 4 years. We’re not playing a game for developers hearts and minds – we’re playing a game for the worlds hearts and minds. and to achieve that we’re going to have to play by a new set of rules.”