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by edderly 13y ago
The problem with the argument is that it conflates choice with consistency. What every mobile vendor including Apple is principally attempting to do is to create a feature which a user will miss if they switch away, and for a lot of people
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by edderly 13y ago
I thought this was an interesting insight in to that: http://ootbcomp.com/docs/belt/index.html
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by edderly 13y ago
Since the original article was posted, it occurred to me that an issue that is rarely raised is that most office spaces are far too small to make any imaginative decisions when it comes to workspaces. The best office environments I worked i
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by edderly 13y ago
On mobile devices it would seem sensible to also run your benchmark until the battery is "flat", it might be a crude heuristic but it probably the best you can do with product devices where you can't easily break out power ra
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by edderly 13y ago
Realpolitik. Although Wayland 'could' support Android based/styled graphics drivers Mir should be able to work easily with these drivers. My understanding of the GPU vendor world is that generic Linux GPU support is way below
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by edderly 13y ago
I disagree with your first point if I understand it correctly. Even relatively right wing or libertarian economists like Tyler Cowen consider that the low hanging fruit for most businesses is now gone. There is a dearth of investment opport
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by edderly 13y ago
No worries. Perhaps as a long time reader it's easier for me to forgive this guys short hand. It is a blog not a academic paper after all.
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by edderly 13y ago
I'm fairly happy that the author as a former investment banker and a current journalist for the Investors Chronicle understands capitalism pretty well. I've read Chris Dillow's blog for a long time. If you scratch away the Ma
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by edderly 13y ago
I don't think you get any guarantee that just because you pay for software that it works well and is not buggy.
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by edderly 13y ago
I can't just help thinking that if this software was truly both non-trivial and useful that it would be relatively easy to pick up $30k "after" open sourcing it via consulting or customization work.
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by edderly 13y ago
A relatively recent Nexus device is a good proposition, Google are pretty good at providing the latest OS revisions on the devices and if needed you can flash it to older versions of the OS. https://developers.google.com/and
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by edderly 13y ago
It doesn't sound like anything new. The current SoC specific solutions typically have dynamic firewalls configured on a per IP block basis interacting with some crap in trustzone. I suppose the thing that is new is ARM offering this kind of
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by edderly 13y ago
I would recommend Yourdon's book, "Death March" as mentioned in one of the answers. Although it feels a little dated it is a well reasoned analysis that at worst can give you perspective on a bad situation. When I was in a true Death March
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by edderly 13y ago
Very cool. There seems to be a lot of very detailed posts from the Wayland/Weston developers recently, is this coincident with the Mir (for want of a better expression) fork? Still, the synchronization and swapping between GLES and using ha
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by edderly 13y ago
I had the same experience, this time around I'm going to give it an extended try and hopefully it will be worth parting with some cash for.
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by edderly 13y ago
Pretty good background here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13626046 TL;DR Jersey Shore (sometimes minus the tan).
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by edderly 13y ago
The GPU used in an SGX530 which is an earlier generation of the GPU used in the iPhone 3 (SGX535). TI traditionally use their own IP blocks for video processing but this is absent in the AM335x, and the GPU lacks any dedicated video process
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by edderly 13y ago
They'll be IMGTec blobs for the SGX GPU then edit/clarification: These won't be blobs in the kernel but they'll be IMGTec binary libraries. So in practice it's slightly less annoying for kernel hacking.
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by edderly 13y ago
I haven't looked but I think you'd find the config file be in their kernel source under arch/arm/configs/.
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A People's History of the FPS (2012)(rockpapershotgun.com)
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by edderly 13y ago
Of course. I think a lot of companies don't want to offshore some engineering jobs, however, if push comes to shove they'll do it. I'm not sure a government mandated limit helps this not occur.
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by edderly 13y ago
It's a rather naïve conclusion. If the job is relocatable the supply of workers who remain abroad will also reduce wages too.
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by edderly 14y ago
This reminds me why I hate real names on public social networking when talking about these types of issues. Whatever this woman's original motive was got immediately lost in the shallow exchanges which follow, but the commentary becomes imp
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by edderly 14y ago
Google isn't deprecating Reader, they're eliminating it. Perhaps it is unfair to Google. However, there is just a rising level of distrust about the kind of company that Google is, or is becoming. Arguably that trust has underpinned much of
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by edderly 14y ago
I'd agree that SurfaceFlinger is pretty minimal as a compositor. However, because of the power / performance limitations on mobile devices. you're losing if you're compositing with the GPU rather than say overlays, which SurfaceFlinger does
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by edderly 14y ago
Here's the original link that SurfaceFlinger (and other Android services) are running: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwO... It's a very pragmatic choice in the short term. Most if not all ARM SoC GPU stacks are
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by edderly 14y ago
It's worth being careful with the provocative title. You should consider that innovation can involve in recycling existing businesses, and the point here is whether they are either generating growth or productivity. So what this means is th
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by edderly 14y ago
That observation about work as transactional vs social is great, thank you. It has summed up a problem which I hadn't found an adequate definition for. It tallies with my experience that remote workers, integrated into a mostly office base
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by edderly 14y ago
Funny thing is, the different facilities are probably more problematic than remote workers. It can be more prone to politics and the organisation as a whole pulling in different directions. The exception is where the remote does have some w
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by edderly 14y ago
Maybe this tells you more about Mayer's lack of trust of Yahoo's (maybe former) managers that she wouldn't trust their recruiting decisions. Personally, I do believe that remote employees can work well but it is a very selective decision.

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