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by maheart 9y ago
Do you have a reference? What industry, what technologies, what city? I find established businesses in Melbourne, paying permanent senior software devs $120k-$130k, so I find it hard to believe that mid-level developers are getting paid $15
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by maheart 9y ago
There's more to bottlenecks than throughput. Latency also needs to be considered. A 5MB webpage will load much faster when served from a 100Mbit connection with 10ms of latency, than a 1000Mbit connection with 300ms of latency. Especia
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by maheart 9y ago
If you don't mind me asking, which country/state are you located in?
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by maheart 9y ago
I think this is Google shooting itself in the foot. TechAltar on YouTube provides a very good explanation of why Samsung (and probably other phone manufacturers) are cautious of Android[1]. This is especially true when Google acts as a hard
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by maheart 9y ago
You say the GPLv3 is too aggressive on requirements around patent defense, but the Apache 2.0 is okay? The Apache 2.0 license requires a patent grant. How do they differ in the patent grant? I'd speculate that for many companies the GP
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by maheart 9y ago
Error by me in the last sentence, I meant to say "former", not "latter". > It's infinitely more efficient to build and ship 1 VirtualBox OS Bundle, v.s. building and maintaining at least 3 different cross-compila
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by maheart 9y ago
I think you're nitpicking, and your comment does nothing to add to the discussion, but I'll say this: If I'd said "Linux-on-the-mobile", you could just as easily have said "Linux (kernel) is already on the mobi
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by maheart 9y ago
> Jolla has always used (and continues to use) outdated hardware But Jolla has shipped. Jolla 1, Intex Aquafish, Turing Phone, Inoi R7[1]. Limited runs of Jolla C, Tablet. Sony Xperia X should be coming soon. This is a startup of (these
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by maheart 9y ago
Most likely not. However, I think Canonical should have used Wayland instead[1], and invested their time/effort/money elsewhere. [1] granted Mir may have kicked Wayland development into gear
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by maheart 9y ago
The libhybris situation for the time being is "good enough". Sony last year announced their intention to "mainline" their Xperia devices (their main phone brand)[1]. This could eventually mean running Android on the late
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by maheart 9y ago
I'd prefer not to disclose the name of the app, as it would tie this account to my real name. gPodder ( https://openrepos.net/content/thp/gpodder ) is perhaps the most popular SailfishOS app written in Python a
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by maheart 9y ago
> Can anyone comment on what the development story is like? I can. I've developed and released an app for SailfishOS, and am currently in the process of developing a second one. I do all my app development in emacs, and VirtualBox (
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by maheart 9y ago
Another real-Linux-on-the-mobile project, SailfishOS, has community ports onto popular Android devices[1]. Jolla, the main developer of SailfishOS, is set to announce an official port of SailfishOS, to the Sony Xperia Z sometime this month
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by maheart 9y ago
Cross-post of what I wrote on /r/linux: I definitely think Canonical bit off more than they could chew: Mir Not making use of existing Android drivers (I think they resolved this issue later on) Building their own ap
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by maheart 9y ago
There is SailfishOS[1]. It's real Linux. It has proprietary parts (e.g. Android drivers, UI widgets, core apps), but Jolla (the developer SailfishOS developer) has contributed a tonne to Linux on the mobile[2]. I use it as my daily pho
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by maheart 9y ago
I was curious to see how well OpenStreetMap (OSM) had these locations mapped: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/37.77620/-122.42455
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by maheart 10y ago
This is interesting, given Canonical's announcement today to abandon Ubuntu Touch. SailfishOS is one of the few alternatives to Android and iOS.
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Jolla licenses SailfishOS to Chinese consortium (with plans to invest $250m USD) [pdf](jolla.com)
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by maheart 10y ago
That's for the "unstable" repo. I was quoting for the "testing" repo (see [1]).
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by maheart 10y ago
Debian developers have been working on Reproducible Builds for a number of years[0]. Currently the Debian amd64 distribution is ~93.7% reproducible[1]. It's possible that Debian amd64 systems will be fully reproducible in Stretch+1 (~2
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by maheart 10y ago
How credible is this source? I don't understand half the decisions outlined in the article. > I also have to imagine the Android update problem (a symptom of Linux’s modularity) I seriously doubt the Linux kernel is anything but a m
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by maheart 10y ago
That's correct. Currently both Android and iOS provide better security features than SailfishOS. The only security "advantage" that SailfishOS currently has, is obscurity. I use SailfishOS because: 1) I prefer programming for
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by maheart 10y ago
> That's not the problem with Firefox OS. The problem was installing it on regular phones, and the subsequent lack of apps. You're right, I misinterpreted your question. I cannot see how Jolla can overcome the difficulty of get
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by maheart 10y ago
> How do you have a phone alternative if they can't be bought? I think that's the reason for the shift stated in the article. P.S. Try having a look on eBay. That's where I bought my Intex Aquafish. Alternatively, if you&#
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by maheart 10y ago
> So what device are you using to run sailfish? My daily driver is a Jolla1. I also own the Intex Aquafish, which I'm keeping as a backup. > I wonder how easy to install it on snapdragon 821 devices. You can find information on p
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by maheart 10y ago
> Anyone have experience using Sailfish OS? Yes, I use SailfishOS as my daily driver. I should note that I'm a Linux user, and developer, so I am technical. SailfishOS satisfies all my technical requirements. Admittedly there are th
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by maheart 10y ago
I honestly don't know what's happening with Tizen these days -- Samsung has invested money into it, but it has (IMO) very little to show. Again, my bias is showing, but I think Jolla (SailfishOS) and Canonical (Ubuntu Touch) have
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by maheart 10y ago
>> Android is Linux on the phone. It's Linux kernel with stuff on top. Android is just the Linux kernel on the phone -- that's the issue I have with it. It comes with none of the other stuff that makes GNU/Linux great:
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by maheart 10y ago
I do not work for Jolla. I am in no way affiliated with Jolla, other than being part of the Jolla/SailfishOS/Maemo/Meego community. I try to support SailfishOS development (by buying Jolla devices, developing software for the
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by maheart 10y ago
I develop for SailfishOS. As I described in one of my other comments, it really is just "regular" GNU/Linux underneath: >> I develop software for SailfishOS. It's like the Linux desktop. I SSH into my phone. zypper

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