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3D telepresence with 2 kinects (video of virtual light saber battles included)(engadget.com)
2 points by fredliu 16y ago|0 comments
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by fredliu 16y ago
If they are going to issue a smartphone to every soldier, I guess they are probably expecting the phones being used under combat environment? If that's the case, i'm not sure if any current smartphones can endure that environment, not to sa
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US Army Considers a Smartphone For Every Soldier(mobile.blorge.com)
2 points by fredliu 16y ago|2 comments
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by fredliu 16y ago
That's true. But I'm still a little bit underwhelmed by the raw horse power packed into NS, at least not as impressed as when N1 came out. Hummingbird may be the fastest on the market right now, but I'll probably bet on the next dual core 1
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by fredliu 16y ago
I'm not sure the perceived "improvements" (especially regarding to the speed) is due to hardware or software upgrades, as NS is still the only official 2.3 game in town. Hardware wise, Nexus S doesn't have a spec that can totally blow you a
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by fredliu 16y ago
Major premise: Startups won't be killed by competitors but only by themselves (ref to pg?). Minor premise: Facebook is still a "startup" (well... in some sense). Conclusion: Facebook won't be killed by anyone but themselves.
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by fredliu 16y ago
Ya, starting up a company in our home-country is another option we are thinking, but we are targeting the US market, not sure how complicated the international business thing could get...
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by fredliu 16y ago
Thanks!
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by fredliu 16y ago
Thanks for your advice. We've heard similar stories before (about how to find an US resident as a co-founder to do all the "work"). Working on our OPT may not be an option for now though, as we are not near to graduation... But what if we d
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by fredliu 16y ago
Thanks! Ya, our problem is we are all F1 students, from what we learnt, none of us can officially "work" for the company... please do share more about your friend's experience (his role in the company, was he only a "consultant" of the comp
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Ask HN: anyone here founded a company in the US while on F1 student visa?
11 points by fredliu 16y ago|12 comments
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Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon MSM8960: 28nm, dual-core, 5x Performance Improvement(anandtech.com)
2 points by fredliu 16y ago|0 comments
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by fredliu 16y ago
Sounds great~ happen to be in town that day~ count me in if there are still seats~
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Will you lose more when there are lots of people at the casino?(bakadesuyo.com)
1 points by fredliu 16y ago|0 comments
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A robotic ball controlled by a smartphone(feld.com)
4 points by fredliu 16y ago|0 comments
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by fredliu 16y ago
I'm wondering what google would like to say about this... Apparently their SPDY is intended to do more and "better" than what http pipelining can offer. But if these modifications of pipelining do get into the standard and got large adoptio
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by fredliu 16y ago
Great article! (it surprised me that I read the whole article in one shot without evening noticing it was that long!) One question (maybe a bit sensitive): all the glory of successful YC startups aside, what are the "failure rate" for YC fu
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by fredliu 16y ago
We are doing that, but another issues is you may not even be aware of the existence of these "phantom apps", if the cloner can pay a little extra efforts.
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by fredliu 16y ago
Agreed, we still love Android, and it has higher market share now, but we are seriously considering iOS now (although no widgets there...yet)
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by fredliu 16y ago
I've done manipulations of binary executables myself (on Windows). For release level software, where debug info such as symbol names is totally no where to be found, all you can use is a disassembler and a hex editor. A slight mistake in ch
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by fredliu 16y ago
That's definitely true, technically it could be done, similar to some plagiarism detection software used in academia to tell the level of similarities between publications. But I still think tweaking on the client side would be a more cost-
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by fredliu 16y ago
Interesting question... but we are not exactly petitioning Google for anything here. We just point the problem out and maybe they care enough about it and will fix it. otherwise we'll just have to live with it, or leave to other platform...
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by fredliu 16y ago
Yes, this is possible, and was among one of our "solution list" (not necessarily checking against google's server, but could be our own server), but it's not much harder (if harder at all) to take out the authentication code than just chang
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by fredliu 16y ago
Maybe they should. Despite its success in market share, Android is still a "baby" in many ways, and still too young to "live on his own".
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by fredliu 16y ago
That could be one way Google could handle it, but if they do it this way, they have to maintain a huge byte code DB of all Apps, not seems to be a very efficient way. Providing obfuscation support in the build package or adding extra securi
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by fredliu 16y ago
Absolutely, and that's what we as Android devs are hoping for. or if Google won't provide system level support, maybe someone can provide a solution, and even make a business out of it? maybe that's some YC11's material~ ;)
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by fredliu 16y ago
There's always some way to do it, but in general, java itself is pretty easy to be reverse engineered (although DVM has a different bytecode format than the "real java"). Another problem for obfuscation is, the time spent on protecting the
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Phantom Android Apps: they don't copy your ideas, they steal your code(anddoes.com)
38 points by fredliu 16y ago|31 comments
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by fredliu 16y ago
I think they have to be using OpenGL, as they are "coming back to Mac" and AFAIK directx is no where to be found on Mac. Also with the simultaneous release for both the Mac and the iOS version, I'd think there must be lots of reusable code
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by fredliu 16y ago
I agree AutoCAD might be hard to use on a tiny screen per se, but the more important message here I guess, is that 3D object modeling/manipulation capability on mobile device (hardware and software) has come closer to what a desktop could o

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