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Android Performance Case Study(curious-creature.org)
269 points by jkn 14y ago|31 comments
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by jkn 14y ago
Interesting! Most things I tried cannot be introspected though (e.g. DSolve, LaplaceTransform) and it's of course a far cry from a commented source file or notebook. Still, more than I thought was possible with Mathematica.
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Sergey Brin was only working on open sourcing the "pure language" part of it [1]. I share the dream of an open source Mathematica. It's so rich, elegant and powerful, using it would be a no-brainer. But in its present state? Nope. I've been
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I don't see any justifiable reason why this shouldn't be illegal Because sharing is good and it's not our problem if the currently dominant business model has troubles with it? Even if you think that sharing music freely should not be all
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Nice list, thanks. I would add some more fundamental issues: You may not do what you want with the software you bought (EULA terms, DRM protected by DMCA anti-circumvention clauses). You may not freely share books, songs, software, etc. wit
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by jkn 14y ago
I had a similar thought after they released Google Now. Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. all collect user data, but Google stands out in how hard they try to bring value to the user from all the data they have.
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by jkn 14y ago
Looks like Wikipedia is on track to become a big server of HTML5 WebM videos. The absence of H.264 support (assuming they hold on to that) might finally push Microsoft and Apple to support WebM out of the box. Maybe we will also see more ha
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by jkn 14y ago
You might as well say that Douglas Crockford is not morally obligated to be nice. Yes, I suppose he is entitled to behaving in ways that are harmful to Free Software, but we are also entitled to criticize him for that. The post criticizes b
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Looks like a very bad idea to me, since people who know more are more likely to think they don't know enough (e.g. Dunning-Kruger effect).
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by jkn 14y ago
That is of course a matter of taste, but early OS X versions were very unappealing to me. Here's a screenshot of 10.3 (Panther): http://iindigo3d.com/macos/macosx103.jpg
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Then vote for someone who wants to remove all forms of taxation? But I can't tell if you seriously think society would be better without taxes. Would you like to have private police, a private army, private courts of law, a private environm
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Indeed, acting like someone who doesn't care is not exactly sending a loud signal that you disagree with the system.
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To clarify, this bionic leg is not directly mind controlled[1]. Instead, the leg uses EMG electrodes on the tigh that record muscle activation signals, i.e. motoneuron discharges in the tigh muscles[2]; these neurons are presumably activate
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by jkn 14y ago
Mayer's answer actually starts at 44:34 and gives the proper context: she's talking about the order of links in the OneBox (the area at the top that shows the current stock price and a plot), not the order of links in the main results. Dann
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Note that the policy of protecting local cell phone manufacturers predates the iPhone (according to malenm's reference).
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Excellent news. I have always been surprised by the opposing philosophies guiding hardware vs software design in Apple products. They consistently offer beautiful hardware designs that emphasize simplicity, sometimes at a cost in usability
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Also, interestingly, Open Source would not work without copyright. That's right. The GPL, (to some extend) the Apache License, and many other licenses only work because of copyright, which grants the owner the right to license software to
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by jkn 14y ago
Ah indeed I read more in your comment than you actually wrote. Regarding free samples, it's a good point that I overlooked. According to reference [3] above, free samples account for 28% of marketing expenditures. The remaining 72% still re
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by jkn 14y ago
That's a rather one sided view of the problem. Just because patents presently allow the pharmaceutical industry to fund R&D costs (estimates of which might be inflated[1]) does not mean they are the only way. If the cost of patents outw
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I don't think it is likely at all even in decades, and if they did they would be sued by loads of contributors for violating their binding promise to adhere with free software spirit in future licenses. You get some guarantees when you assi
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I very much blame them for their effort to ensure they can prevent users from modifying Free Software utilities on their own machines. What else would be the purpose of avoiding GPLv3? And breaking compatibility with user scripts and removi
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To people reporting that this works on other devices such as HTC phones, this doesn't mean your phone is vulnerable: First, the hash-star code to display the IMEI number is standard, while the reset code is device specific. Second, as I und
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by jkn 14y ago
True, but the article makes the point that the causality doesn't go only one way.
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it led to the company making many articles free for public for viewing That is a nice result indeed, do you have a reference?
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The funny bit here is that we have people who do manage to tell apart two products that are actually the same.
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The author used a smaller radius for the Samsung phone... Is it a mistake or is the the picture on the right at a smaller scale?
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There is a category of patents called "design patents". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent In Apple v. Samsung, Samsung was found to infringe some of these, see e.g. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/ban-this-apple-lists-8-...
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The funny thing is that the same can be said of Linux distributions. If you discard the huge driver support and some cool technologies that underlie some things we expect both from Android and Linux distributions, the kernel becomes irrelev
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Thanks for having a look! I guess I was not clear... The point of the first video was to show that the moving image is the only thing missing from the Neonode prior art. The point of the second video was to show that moving an image on a to
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Well here is a video of the Neonode prior art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... It's unlocked with a left to right swipe. Contrary to the iPhone there is no image moving with the finger. I don't think that d

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