angusgr

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by angusgr 14y ago
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-king... For the lack of a nail, throw new HorseshoeNailNotFoundException("no nails!");
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by angusgr 14y ago
How does the Pebble Watch fit into your understanding of the difference? They have a small team, single designer. Although they built a consumer electronics product before they seem to run on fairly limited funding. Although I don't know of
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by angusgr 15y ago
Short answer: No and I don't think so, respecitevely. (though there are lots of C#-based boards running the .NET Micro Framework if you bend that way.) EDIT: Oh, just remembered you can program Lego Mindstorm in Java. Although I don't know
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by angusgr 15y ago
There's Jody Culkin's "Introduction to Arduino" comic as well: http://www.jodyculkin.com/comics-2/introduction-to-arduino A friend & I used this as a teaching resource for the first part of a 3 hour workshop for non-programmers gettin
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by angusgr 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I admit that I was very put off when I downloaded the Nexus drivers and had to scroll though all the legalese just to use them (I was actually messing with a Samsung S5P SoC on a different board and I was hoping that
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by angusgr 15y ago
Well, I didn't even mean source code (although that would be great.) It's hard enough just to find binary GL blobs that you're legally allowed to pass around. With respect to the source code, I suspect you're right - and I'd also suspect FU
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by angusgr 15y ago
The Mali (GPU) kernel module source is there, but not the proprietary userland libraries. So the situation is as you say. (AFAIK the only Android manufacturer to secure binary distribution rights for GPU drivers was Google with the PowerVR
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by angusgr 15y ago
Download is still going, but isn't this just the standard GPL parts - ie kernel & some libraries? ( EDIT: it is indeed just the GPL parts .) In which case, can someone explain how it's really newsworthy? Samsung have been exemplary in a
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by angusgr 15y ago
I think sqoot should also reconsider autospamming their "apology" message to anyone who mentions them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/sqoot (Not because they shouldn't apologise, but because there are better ways to do it than spam.)
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by angusgr 15y ago
... but not the interactions of google's users with google's services.
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by angusgr 15y ago
This one is $18 I think the operative word here is "stylish". Obviously taste is subjective, but my first impression for that one was "home detention bracelet"
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Edging toward the fully licensed world(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
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by angusgr 15y ago
Where does it say that Apple approved the cable? It seems to me like they're deliberately avoiding any step that requires Apple approval.
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by angusgr 15y ago
Do you actually think that the appropriate "male version" of sexy is handsome? Sexy is a non gender-specific adjective. The male version is this: John’s one of the smartest guy I know, and I thought that he was a perfect pick for the role
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by angusgr 15y ago
To be honest, not as much as I'd initially hoped. - Fitting a USB interface is possible, but it's a bit fiddly, so not many got added. - I ported OpenWRT, as a good Linux distribution, but I haven't used it for anything after! :/ - There ha
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by angusgr 15y ago
That's fair enough. Then again, some companies do similar things, like Dropbox with the Dropbox Challenge: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges
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by angusgr 15y ago
Seems to me that Upverter are solidly aiming to be a "github" in this space, after all their business model is nearly identical. Github generally have a pretty good standing in the open source community. The reason seems to be the early ope
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by angusgr 15y ago
- This seems to almost invite abuse. - Surely a better challenge would be to publish a brief but involved spec, then say "implement this API that returns your job application details." Then they can retrieve the job application from the app
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by angusgr 15y ago
For anyone interested in a similar, slightly higher specced, hackable ex-consumer device for next to nothing: ZipIt Wireless have been clearing their old "ZipIt Z2" messenger range for some time now. http://linux.zipitwireless.com/ ARM9 ~
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by angusgr 15y ago
Hi mjg59 - I saw it here as well, downloaded the source, and posted to xda-developers. It kind of feels like it could possibly be user error at this point: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21226212&... Maybe I'm misunder
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by angusgr 15y ago
This is pretty exciting for Makerbot. The Thing-O-Matic (previous model, mostly sold as a kit) was described by them as: a hot rod style device on the cutting edge of 3D printing technology and like a hotrod, you'll have to oil it and do o
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by angusgr 15y ago
they are good value if you know what you want I bought two of these[1] for hacking on[2] and, in my experience and opinion, the ones I got are appalling value for most people. The remote control works like a combination of a mouse (wiimot
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by angusgr 15y ago
Not this time, this project was written from scratch in Java 6. :) It's possible they learned Java at some earlier point in their lives, but my understanding was the team came from embedded/systems C backgrounds and I think they just did wh
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by angusgr 15y ago
> Foreign Concepts ... I can't see how it's especially dangerous since just about everyone will use list instead. I think it's potentially dangerous if/when Python newbies from other languages pick up old idioms and (ab)use them thi
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by angusgr 15y ago
Another way to "Find Hackers Near You" is to find a Hackerspace near you, and find out when the best time to visit is: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces :)
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by angusgr 15y ago
There's a debian hardfp port as well (arch "armhf", as opposed to "armel") in the current debian testing release (aka wheezy.) http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort Not all packages have been successfully ported yet, but it seems to be
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by angusgr 15y ago
This is something that might change soon, given recommendations made last month by the Book Industry Strategy Group: http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/australian-book...
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by angusgr 15y ago
In the kernel tree this is clearly Linus but in other parts of the system it isn't always clear whether or not there even is someone in this role. In the case of Ubuntu I think this definitely happens, although AFAIK the high-level design
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by angusgr 15y ago
EDIT : OK, I misunderstood. That paragraph is there even in the original blog post, but the author didn't pick up how to get their desired behaviour until they read the code. Also, there's the "boot time regen" vs "login time regen" change
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by angusgr 15y ago
It's interesting that MIPS are getting behind this one, I assume they're hoping they can steal some share back from ARM in this space. However, as it's a marketing video there are approximately 4 seconds of "actual device" footage on there.

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