jordskott

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by jordskott 9y ago
The same way you can build anything you want on your own, I also can say it's crap and I don't want it. And that's fine, you don't need my permission and I don't need to be your public target. But it's a bit od
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by jordskott 9y ago
The problem with Mir, Unity and all the convergence ideas was that they were poorly communicated. They didn't really engage with the community and kept all the discussions and development behind closed doors, releasing dumps of code on
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by jordskott 10y ago
But ARM cannot, and won't, officially support the OEM's devices and start releasing updates for them. The process is a bit more complex than you might be imagining.
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by jordskott 10y ago
If there is a reason on why ARM's GPU drivers are not updated on your device, it's hardly ARM's fault. ARM doesn't ship the SoC or the device directly to you, it ships it to the OEM. And it's the OEM who states the
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by jordskott 10y ago
Open sourcing commercial products like hardware architecture and algorithms to the public is not exactly an easy thing to do. There are millions of registered patents and the chances that your clean-slate ideas were already invented and pat
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by jordskott 10y ago
I already made a comment about Apple's GPU here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14021814 Apple actually has its own mobile GPU, built from scratch. The Tile-Based Deferred Rendering GPU is an advantage from the G
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by jordskott 10y ago
No, I can say with certainty that they are working on their own mobile GPU. They have been hiring a lot of graphics people and putting a team together. And another thing that most people are not really aware: Apple had a lot of saying in th
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by jordskott 10y ago
The beauty of orgmode is that you don't need to learn everything to start using it, actually, you can just start with your typical workflow and look for stuff as you need.
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by jordskott 10y ago
To be honest, Yubikey was never really open source. Sure, they open sourced _some_ compomnents before but you coulnd't do anything with the source.
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by jordskott 10y ago
I guess it mostly boils down to Moxie and his ridiculous claims of how much more secure Signal is when compared to other solutions (like XMPP and anything based on PGP). Don't get me wrong, I understand the design and user experience d
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by jordskott 10y ago
I have some reservations towards Open-V, I would be careful before backing it: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5ekuck/openv_the_wor... https://www.reddit.com/r/cpudesign&#x2F