hermanhermitage

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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-it... Has some more details.
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Open Source ARM userland(raspberrypi.org)
219 points by hermanhermitage 14y ago|58 comments
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
I followed and watched the youtube video links and gleaned a greater understanding than I had before. I dont doubt the site is in Kim's 'enlightened self interest' as Aldous Huxley or Alexis de Tocqueville would say. But I found it useful t
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Worthless? Matters of international law are at stake. I've sat and watched USA ring fence "illegal" online gambling, in a massive display of protectionism. I've sat and watched Guantanamo bay. I've sat and watched the Weapons of Mass Destr
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Doesn't the problem with imaginary things like gods, beliefs or intellectual property begin when someone tries to claim they are real and you must obey them?
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Shouldn't that be var to get the right scope?
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Work with say Khronos group to establish an OpenCPU standard with a source code and possibly intermediate representation. Socialize amongst CPU vendors, and interest platform makers in the mobile and desktop space. Watch it absorbed by web
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
See Xax for another approach. The issue here is that NaCl and Xax are proprietary approaches done inside companies coupled very tightly with existing ISAs and not developed entirely in the open. They are both brittle with their own particul
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Good points. A possible approach is to consider the file system the image - consider a UI for managing a VM image and processes within that image. The difference is then essentially deciding what is the center of the system. The older image
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
It's great to see Chris write this up. It's always refreshing to see someone explore the work of those who have had similar concerns or solved similar problems. Whether they have independently chosen a similar direction or are standing on
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Yes but some shops wont know it under that name. Its common nomenclature in the scripting and web space, but less so in other areas. It was called design normalization and factorization when I was introduced to it in the early 80s.
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Yes. I'd prefer to change the semantics than introduce new keywords. Of course there are two schools of thought - I favour a small language over backwards compatibility. (And interim tools for migration). Where I do favour extensions is fo
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
No. This is a fantasy. A trademark does not take ownership of general words or phrases from the people.
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
This looks excellent a nice restrained effort. Hasn't fallen into the trap that ActionScript3 did with too much ceremony, and its nice to see a syntactic super-setting approach rather than Dart's. Now what I'd like to see in Javascripts ev
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Still runs as well? I'd love to know what set up you've got. Since iOS 5 my iPad 1 has been utterly unusable - many multi second lags and endless application quits. Even brand new out of the box the iPad 1 and also the original iPhone were
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
I like the approaches of both webOS and Firefox Mobile OS. For sure Javascript might not be the language one would choose to start with if one was re envisioning the web today with all the last decades learnings. And perhaps a fresh start
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
This is an excellent observation. Might I also suggest that having some things closed or out of reach is also a fine way of encouraging people to dig in. Some of the best young minds will search behind doors they are told not to look. Its
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Sure the original idea was that along with a recruitment drive for tools such as LLVM and so forth. But I'm tied up launching a startup right now... Definitely want to build a community / set of projects around it. (EDIT: Let's also be clea
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
For what its worth, I along with some others have reversed engineered the Scalar, Vector and QPU instruction set of the VideoCore processor in the Raspberry Pi. Some documentation is at https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv It ha
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Agree, I like the article. It would be a pity if the stock0-pics put people off.
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
I think the mascot is stunning. Its even balanced with the playful sense of minimalism of the language itself.
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
"Comic Sans II" - The Return of the King! :) [Ok not quite, not close?, but thats what I feel].
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Hopefully you'll ignore my opinion - its all in the eye of the beholder from my perspective :) (The basis of that not being UX - thanks to whomever raised that random distraction, but about Beauty / Ugliness as cited in your headline). You
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
I think its in the eye of the beholder. The Go site looks fine to me, whilst https://github.com/404 is downright ugly. EDIT: I notice how the OP link is a horrid design too. This has to be a troll.
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
I'm wondering if you can analyse the problem of Patents from a game theoretic point of view. The problem is this, those that don't Patent or were unable or disincentivized to Patent (different country, or different time period) cannot compe
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Terrific stuff. I still think there is a use case for a static C like language (with explicit memory management) for some kernels. The same way that WebGL has HLSL, it would be nice if there was a WebCPU API with C as the 'shader' language.
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
VideoCore version anyone? :-)
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Thanks for the heads up on HyperDex - I'd missed that. Do you know of a good web reference that tracks new datastore implementations? I've got the book - its good heads up for someone like me who is mainly working in non DB areas and needs
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
Seems like a rushed presentation perhaps to get enterprise markets to hold off on iPad acquisitions. Balmer and Sinofsky underwhelmed - the other presenter was excellent I thought. Design needs some work, looks more like a 3 month project r
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by hermanhermitage 14y ago
I've delivered a paid contract that would say otherwise =) (Not OpenGL ES1.1 but a similar narrow API. One frame latency penalty in my case as the calls enter a staging area for analysis one frame before tiling and dispatch). Dont forget t

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