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by aroman 10y ago
Instagram was the first app of its kind to make phone cameras social. At the time, about the only thing you could do with pictures you took with your phone was sync. Instagram was released at a critical moment in history when phone cameras
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by aroman 10y ago
But they weren't on the brink of death before the iPhone. They were doing very well, selling lots of Macs, and had already rebounded.
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by aroman 10y ago
What sorts of applications/domains need or benefit from having 128 bit integers?
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Overclocked smartwatch sensor uses vibrations to sense gestures and objects(techcrunch.com)
1 points by aroman 10y ago|0 comments
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by aroman 10y ago
Thanks for replying! Just to be clear, was this a text-only install, or a graphical/GNOME one? I'm not sure what Debian's defaults are.
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by aroman 10y ago
Awesome! Was hoping something like this would come along — has anyone used this and can speak to their experience with it? In particular, what about graphics performance?
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by aroman 10y ago
You just described elementary (fwiw, it is a for-profit LLC). I think you're massively underestimating the magnitude and difficulty of what you're seeking. elementary has been at this for 5 years and made an immense amount of prog
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by aroman 10y ago
What's the thinking behind such a strategy? Increasing the overall size of the market?
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by aroman 10y ago
Not sure why this is down voted — the demo literally does not work in my browser (Safari 10) because of the (mis)use of setInterval.
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Elementary OS Loki Released(elementary.io)
2 points by aroman 10y ago|3 comments
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by aroman 10y ago
> Besides, with only Apple earbuds currently supporting the Lightning audio connection This is just factually incorrect. Even before today's announcement lightning headphones have been available from multiple independent headphone
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by aroman 10y ago
That VC money is given to Spotify on the expectation that eventually Spotify will stop operating at a loss. Otherwise there is no reason to give them money at all. If and when that expectation no longer holds, the money will stop.
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by aroman 10y ago
I definitely agree with you — I think interacting with the environment is an important part of "processing" it. The motor/action feedback loop (cf. artificial motor control in monkeys) is exactly what I had in mind when I sai
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by aroman 10y ago
Can you elaborate a bit more on this? I'm fascinated by consciousness, and I've often wondered about how it arises in biological systems and how it might do so in artificial ones. My basic intuition is that consciousness arises as
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by aroman 10y ago
This is known as Betteridge's law of headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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Microsoft Edge WebGL engine open-sourced(github.com)
361 points by aroman 10y ago|97 comments
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by aroman 10y ago
You're right, thanks for fact checking. I was conflating snappy and click. I've updated my original post.
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by aroman 10y ago
I believe you're massively overstating the problem. Not all of the libraries you use are embedded. Only the ones you need that aren't part of the platform you're targeting are. For example, if you're building an app on
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by aroman 10y ago
Update: never mind. I was mistaken about the timeline, click definitely predates xdg-app. If you're implying that Canonical shouldn't be blamed for creating Click as an NIH solution because they released it first, I'd disagre
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by aroman 10y ago
And apparently the two students even endorsed the letter.
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by aroman 10y ago
That's not what the link shows. It seems from that thread that IBM never contacted them, they just changed the name preemptively and out of an abundance of caution.
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by aroman 10y ago
Coincidentally, I recently had lunch with the department chair of CMU's Philosophy department. Like many people, I assumed philosophy was all about (in his words) "the dead white men". What I was calling philosophy was really
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by aroman 10y ago
Very interesting, and very exciting! How will this relate to VPRI? And are these researchers joining full-time and collaborating together directly, or are they just "part of the project"?
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by aroman 10y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
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by aroman 10y ago
Am I missing something, or was the demo on the Mac just a pre-recorded QuickTime video? The menu title bar said "QuickTime Player" and the title of the window was "Movie Recording". I don't doubt it works for real,
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by aroman 10y ago
To those of you who are dismissing this because AFS/NFS has had this for years, the point is that this is running over the Internet , not your local network.
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by aroman 11y ago
>they've marketed it better than Siri really?
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by aroman 11y ago
Reminds me of the plot of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home!
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by aroman 11y ago
On Linux, there's Geary (now pantheon-mail): http://blog.elementary.io/post/139731273161/re-geary
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by aroman 11y ago
Not which; if any, I think. Node's tight coupling to JavaScript seems like more of an exception than a rule — look at Java, Ruby, Python, etc.

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