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by angusgr 16y ago
Android runs on it, but (as noted in the review) Eken (and the other OEMs) haven't released any sources, so as yet there's real way to build other kernels that will boot, or support the built-in peripherals in the SoC. I saw the video revie
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by angusgr 16y ago
You could try this: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.39670 It's nowhere near as open, and nowhere near as cute, but it does have a larger screen & keyboard, and 128Mb of RAM. A debian port appears to exist. (I reviewed a very
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by angusgr 16y ago
Depending on who you believe, the scale on the Niger Delta might be slightly out. Not that it changes the overall validity of your argument. One estimate from Google said 1.5 million tons of oil in Nigeria over 50 years. So that's something
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by angusgr 16y ago
This is an interesting one, because I think you're entirely right. The tough question I see is this: would exaggerating, downplaying or relativising the severity of the BP Spill increase or decrease the chances of more catastrophes like Che
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by angusgr 16y ago
Um, you can see it on the surface of the entire earth. How many other man-made things can you see at that scale? At a small enough scale, even pretty small is pretty big.
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by angusgr 16y ago
(Sorry if this was submitted already.) The genius I see here is that the relative size of a large area is really hard for people to actually understand. Until you show it relative to something they know intuitively (like where they live.)
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If It Was My Home (Oil spill visualization)(ifitwasmyhome.com)
49 points by angusgr 16y ago|23 comments
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by angusgr 16y ago
To some extent, it seems that it's something the community can self-regulate against. Read it and don't think it was worthwhile? Don't upvote it. I actually don't mind sensationalist linkbait titles like this, as long as what I'm clicking o
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by angusgr 16y ago
Screen's OK, probably as good as any cheap photo frame. If you want a non-cuddly chumby then it'd probably do the trick with a bit of work. :).
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by angusgr 16y ago
The submitted title is pretty much linkbait for "Mark Zuckerberg sweats under lights during interview, gives company line on privacy" Which seems to be nowhere near as exciting as either the HN submitter or the liveblogger ( "could this be
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by angusgr 16y ago
You're correct, I believe 2.1 will run on the same kernel it currently has, albeit sans graphical acceleration. IIRC, 2.2 will at minimum require someone to build a newer kernel, which AFAIK noone has worked out how to do (see my post above
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by angusgr 16y ago
Over the BeagleBoard (and like), the appeal for me (given I'm ditching the screen) is that I don't live in the US. The price of the BeagleBoard plus shipping to Australia makes a big difference. The M001 is $99 including shipping anywhere i
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by angusgr 16y ago
No Debian yet, all I've done so far is put in a serial console to watch it boot (only had it 3 days.) There's a photo of it running debian here, and some details for running debian on another device with the same SoC architecture (WM8505):
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by angusgr 16y ago
Noone has 2.1 running on the M001 yet, and the speculation I've seen is that it doesn't have the RAM (128Mb) or enough graphics acceleration to do it well. I was thinking about trying it myself, but I mostly bought it to put debian on it, a
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by angusgr 16y ago
I wonder if the iPed name is part of the '16-point program'. The manufacturer must demonstrate 16 differences between his product and the original From http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=139
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by angusgr 16y ago
Apart from the name and the outward apperance, this doesn't look too different from other cheap Android tablets like the Eken ones ($99-$130US shipped): http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.39169 http://www.dealextreme.com/details.d
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by angusgr 16y ago
I've never tried them, and I'm not even sure how I feel about them, but you might want to try some of the 'Executricks' mentioned in this article: http://blog.trailmeme.com/2010/04/four-hour-workweek-or-exec... " “retire at work,” develop
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by angusgr 16y ago
Is it possible the OP 'cannot' (or more specifically does not want to) switch because they're waiting for options to mature, or something similar? That's one reason I've seen people stick out jobs for a few more months.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Maybe it's a non-issue, but I wonder what the legal/regulatory implications for this kind of thing are? A member at our hackerspace (makehackvoid.com) has a cheapie CNC laser engraver that he's modified for GCODE and used to cut out some st
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by angusgr 16y ago
Lazywebs googling shows Finland doesn't have a universal minimum wage, but that in 2008 salaries for the lowest paid jobs averaged €1600/mo. So €2000/mo is not too far from what you'd expect "minimum wage" to be, equity notwithstanding. ht
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by angusgr 16y ago
Another advantage is that nearly everyone in Indonesia speaks at least two languages, Indonesian being a second language to whatever local language is spoken in your home region. You're certainly correct about the alphabet though. In my exp
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by angusgr 16y ago
Although I don't disagree with anything specific in this article, there's an uncontrolled variable here that seems pretty crucial: - The Korean was living in America (albeit a fairly Korean-influenced part of America) when studying English,
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by angusgr 16y ago
When I lived in Indonesia I met a housewife who told me she learned English entirely through diligent application of this method, no formal language education. She told me that I was one of only a few native English speakers she'd spoken to
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by angusgr 16y ago
Although these seem like useful (and impressive) baseline benchmarks, won't the really important benchmarks come from measuring actual dynamic content generation, and/or caching performance for generated dynamic content?
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by angusgr 16y ago
If you think emacs lisp is hard to read now... ;)
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by angusgr 16y ago
I fear this is another one of those interesting pop psychology articles that draws socially-oriented conclusions far above what the study itself actually shows. It seems like an interesting result that the test subjects tended to mix up dif
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by angusgr 16y ago
FWIW, I'd be really interested to see this reorganised as LOC per component.
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by angusgr 16y ago
According to Wikipedia the full linux 2.6 kernel tree is now around 12 million LOC. So I'd be guessing a good chunk of the 2.8 million lines of C in Android is the kernel. It'd really depend on how many lines the "core" parts of the kernel
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by angusgr 16y ago
Of course, you can get an external keyboard for the iPad, and that comes with Ctrl and Meta keys. It's a fair point, though.
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by angusgr 16y ago
FWIW, the iPhone Terminal app for jailbroken users has similar gestures like this for the common control sequences. They work pretty well, it just takes a while to remember which one is which (early on, trying to guess the Ctrl-C swipe can

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