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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm faintly bemused that the study used an iPhone app to prompt volunteers. I got rid of my iPhone precisely because I thought it was leading me to not enjoy the times when my mind wandered.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Right, sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you'd decided to jump on some kind of "Steve Jobs is evil" bandwagon. The story seems balanced, probably more balanced than it would have been if you'd written it back in 2003 (I'd wager.)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Reading this in 2003 It looks like it was published just now, so the author is looking at it in hindsight, knowing Apple's current reputation. (I still agree with your comment, just thought that warranted consideration.)
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by angusgr 16y ago
At least part of the "fun" on a loosely modern operating system is learning the nuts and bolts of the executable format and loading conventions. I've never spent much time there, but some of the ideas are laid out well in this two part post
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think it's great this phone has been "rooted" and the protection bypassed. I think it's sad if a single person buys this phone from T-Mobile/HTC because of this, because it ultimately perpetuates the business model of selling locked down
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by angusgr 16y ago
new accounts/submissions until I hit a gold mine, something that generated a ton of karma. This would make my initial HIndex very high, and give me 2nd, 3rd, and 4th posts a much larger edge. I think this is exactly what the HIndex is des
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by angusgr 16y ago
Apparently he's quoted as saying it's not the OITC. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/security-bullet-in-10000166/lor... Although why a more mainstream news organisation hasn't picked it up, I do not know (too wacky?)
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by angusgr 16y ago
unnecessarily left a great many users vulnerable on sites Except that Firesheep didn't expose any new security problem. "Hey everyone, in a few weeks I'm going to make it easier for people to exploit long-known security problems that you
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by angusgr 16y ago
There's a few of these kicking around. The next stage I'd love to see is a timeline animation, where time passes and various vertices appear/disappear around the graph. :)
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by angusgr 16y ago
OK, I see the point now is to have some structure around your stream of ideas (also, to get them out of the back of your mind.) FWIW, I really like drawing mind maps. Either on paper, or using a tool like FreeMind.[1] It doesn't scale to q
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by angusgr 16y ago
Doesn't really seem like that many thoughts. In fact, it was only 11,156 words. I guess the emphasis is on quality rather than quantity, the specific quality being "writing everything down." I don't think that's especially uncommon, though.
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by angusgr 16y ago
With Vista, 16bit code was broken (ie some Win9x and WinMe). This is the thing, though: it took until 2007 to break support for code written as far back as 1993. Microsoft allows Windows to run in virtual machines To me, this definitely
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by angusgr 16y ago
I see, thanks. It always seemed odd to me that they took that approach to solve the problem. Simply because so many minor tweaks to APIs do cause problems with old apps, or cause massive headaches when various quirks have to be maintained f
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by angusgr 16y ago
Apple hasn't just done Rosetta, they have a consistent pattern for "the burden of the past". A new technology bridges back to the old architecture or API, and then cuts it off after a transition period: Universal Intel & PowerPC bin
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by angusgr 16y ago
Interesting, thanks for explaining. :)
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by angusgr 16y ago
I implemented a Python->CUDA compiler Wow, interesting. Is it released somewhere? Googling found me the Copperhead project[1], was that what you used? I'm not sure if "implemented" means you implemented your code for it, or you implem
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by angusgr 16y ago
It seems the post has wounded your ego, and I guess that's fair enough given it makes such sweeping generalisations (and "pop-psychoanalysis", as it were.) However, I'd be really interested to hear your comments on some of the other points
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by angusgr 16y ago
I was interested to find some discussion of how the performance characteristics compare to PyPy/Unladen Swallow/RPython. Quick googling only found one comparison: http://jaredforsyth.com/blog/2010/jul/21/cpython-vs-pypy-vs-... The routine
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by angusgr 16y ago
virtually no additional project complexity Was there an increased complexity within the two modules you rewrote? Do you have an estimate on how long it would have taken you to reimplement the two modules (or their critical components) com
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Designing For Jedi(theferrett.livejournal.com)
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by angusgr 16y ago
but the term 'Linux' is commonly used as a shorthand for GNU, X, GNOME, the Linux kernel and more. I know, I use that shorthand myself. But only one of the components you mention (GNU) was created for the explicit reason that the article
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by angusgr 16y ago
WildUtah made the main point I had (that Apache Harmony represents this very concept), but I also can't help but address the concept of a "Linux moment" GNU is the real project to talk about here. It was started in the mid 1980s in response
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by angusgr 16y ago
I only have an M001, which has the advantage of being popular so there are people modding it, and some people working on a clean implementation of the linux kernel (groups.google.com/group/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel) If you want to do some
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by angusgr 16y ago
If Walgreens are distributing (ie selling) a product containing GPL licensed software, my understanding is that they are legally responsible for GPL compliance. Of course, in practice, it's really the Maylon Group or whoever that will have
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by angusgr 16y ago
So, to eyeball it: This is an ARM9, probably @ 350Mhz[1], hand-wavey-performance around 1.1DMIPS/Mhz, minimal video acceleration. BeagleBoard is a Cortex A8, 720Mhz, 2.0DMIPS/Mhz, with video acceleration (probably not via a USB video output
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by angusgr 16y ago
As it's a WM8505 based system then I'm sure these two things will be fairly quickly worked around. The modder community around this device's predecessors ($99 Eken M001 & others) is fairly strong and there are a lot of custom firmwares,
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by angusgr 16y ago
I wonder if Walgreens is complying with GPL by including a notice for source with the device, and some way for customers to access it. Certainly Maylon Group doesn't seem to have anything on their site. (Sorry to sound like a broken record.
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by angusgr 16y ago
It's funny you say that because the version of Android developed for the WM8505 (the SoC in the Walgreens) silently phones home to a company in China for "license verification". Or, at least it did a few months ago. http://projectgus.com/2
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by angusgr 16y ago
The WM8505 Android 1.6 release has some custom hacks in the UI library layer to work with their video hardware. Since VIA released Linux kernel source for this SoC a few months ago, some other people have successfully worked out more about
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by angusgr 16y ago
Unfortunately, it won't run any of the most recent versions of Ubuntu because it's an ARM9 (ARMv5). However, people have a minimal-esque Debian installation running on its other WM8505-based cousins fairly well: http://www.slatedroid.com/e

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