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by angusgr 15y ago
FWIW the Xerox Alto (1979) called them windows, even though you're right that they didn't overlap like the Mac/Lisa ones did. http://history-computer.com/Library/AltoUsersHandbook.pdf EDIT: The Alto could run SmallTalk as one of its envi
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by angusgr 15y ago
Some people have talked about "crypto" and I can see lot of ways you could add some level of encryption or auth to make things slightly more obfuscated (perhaps require pre-registration of your car), but I can't see a any way that would cha
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by angusgr 15y ago
Well, to start with they could lock the API down correctly so you had to supply a number plate to get 2-3 likely matches. And fuzz the photos they send a bit more so it is legible enough to identify your car, but not to read the license pla
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by angusgr 15y ago
Thanks. :)
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by angusgr 15y ago
I expect a Westfield developer thought they were being very clever. "Oh look, ParkAssist already has a full API! I'll just put it on a public API and I don't have to do any backend development at all."
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by angusgr 15y ago
I hope there's authentication on the signs.json PUT update API, or Westfield's signs are probably about to go crazy...
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by angusgr 15y ago
This looks like a really neat interface. I know it's just a developer preview, but the article left me with a few big questions: - Is this going to be the interface on all Windows 8 variants (desktop, tablet, professional & home - or wh
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by angusgr 15y ago
Totally. Although the M3 has its share of weird proprietary stuff aimed at the hobbyist, like the closed source "cloud" compiler platform mbed.
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by angusgr 15y ago
Dangerous Prototypes are pretty well-known in the OSH/Maker scene, I wouldn't call them "some guy". More importantly, adafruit ran it on their blog which means it saw an even wider audience. With ChipKIT, Microchip are undoubtedly trying to
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Microchip proposes prize for open sourcing "their" proprietary libraries(adafruit.com)
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by angusgr 15y ago
Neat, thanks. :) I have a hardcopy of Paul Carter's "PC Assembly Language" book at home that I started reading once but never finished. Some day... :/
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by angusgr 15y ago
Any chance someone who knows more assembly than me can explain how the symbol names for dlsym() are retrieved? ie I would have expected to see 'ptrace', 'scanf' and 'printf' in the strings output, but they must be obfuscated in some way (ot
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by angusgr 15y ago
For free (as in beer) you can get IDA Pro 5.0 (an older version than the latest.) Not sure what architectures that version supports outside of x86 (the latest commercial version does ARM and the Advanced variant does MIPS.)
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by angusgr 15y ago
Thanks. :)
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by angusgr 15y ago
Can anyone tell me how the new and old prices compare to running a similar app on AWS, Heroku or other competitors? ie was GAE ridiculously cheap before compared to other options, and now comparable? Or was it somewhat cheaper than competit
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by angusgr 15y ago
I have a Huawei Sonic (successor to the Ideos), cost $180AU unlocked and I like it very much. My previous smartphone was an iPhone 3GS. http://projectgus.com/2011/08/huawei-sonic-review/ . Specs are not high end like the phone mentioned i
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by angusgr 15y ago
I think the argument is less "noone but power users would need this" and more "only power users will know how to apply 'Invert Selection' to get the behaviour they want". ie there's an inductive leap between "I want to delete all files exce
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by angusgr 15y ago
that's actually very surprising to me considering each user has their own temporary folder To extrapolate, I found it unsurprising not because it's either Windows or POSIX individually, but because it's both together. It's been many years
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by angusgr 15y ago
I agree with the various other commenters on the blog post - that treating the wrapper function like an unacceptable amount of redirection is insane premature optimisation at expense of clarity. Not to mention the wrapper can be inlined in
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by angusgr 15y ago
I think you're both saying the same thing, the parent just worded it a bit oddly.
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by angusgr 15y ago
This is also the major disadvantage for anyone new coming into this space. Apple got to launch their incomplete-but-solid product and then spend a year or two refining it and incrementally adding features. That's the advantage of redefining
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by angusgr 15y ago
Ah, I missed that, sorry. You can get them locked to Virgin for $80 from DSE, or on ebay unlocked for around $120. I recently bought the next model along in this series, the Huawei Sonic, which DSE sell for $188 unlocked. Very happy with it
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by angusgr 15y ago
When the choice is between "no smartphone" and "smartphone with suboptimal/clumsy layout", guess which one gets picked? Not to mention that screen res and "looks good" is a specs geek problem not a real problem, anyhow. It somehow isn't sto
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by angusgr 15y ago
EDIT oddly, they are priced $176-249 here in Australia. That was at launch 18 months ago, $99AU now. http://dicksmith.com.au/product/E7324/vodafone-huawei-ideos-... (that's with a 12 month statutory warranty, change of mind policy, etc.
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by angusgr 15y ago
$80 in Kenya, with probably market-rate voice and data (ie, reasonably cheap) will never see the light in the USA. Newegg sells it for $140. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875606... I'd be surprised if it's not av
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by angusgr 15y ago
This. In particular, I'm concerned by the little switchmode power supply on a non-user-servicable board potted into the depths of the bulb. If that 5c capacitor dies, a $40 bulb gets scrapped even if everything else is still good. Hopefully
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by angusgr 15y ago
It's not fair to compare just on price like that. Did you read the list of included components in the starter kit? Well, as I also said "the FEZ does have a ton more features than either" and "This stuff is several levels up in terms of a
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by angusgr 15y ago
Oh wow, I hadn't looked at the price. $119 for the FEZ spider mainboard, and $249 for the starter kit. Education market, I guess? The Netduino is $39 (admittedly, GHIs other smaller "non-gadgeteer" FEZ products compete with that), Netduino
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by angusgr 15y ago
See also http://netduino.com/ for a very similar project that's been around for a while, albeit not with Microsoft sponsoring it. At this point it seems pretty much another "me-too" Arduino[1]. The noteworthy fact, I guess, is that it's c
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by angusgr 15y ago
This seems an exceptionally interesting & exciting idea. Is this the first time something like this has been run institutionally in an emerging economy or developing nation?

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