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by personZ 12y ago
This is orthogonal, but the AOT versus JIT difference between ART and Dalvik is hugely overstated. Dalvik attempted to AOT compile, and when that wasn't possible it also maintains a pre-compiled cache for subsequent runs. Similarly,
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by personZ 12y ago
Your reaction to this is exactly what is wrong with the discussion: I can stomach the person who talks down climate science because they fear for their job at the oil refinery or whatever, but when someone so viciously responds to someone s
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You'd think if this was a known technique Isolating the key for security/control purposes is a well known technique. It's what ssh-agent/putty paegent does, where you can even forward key usage over the network to diff
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by personZ 12y ago
But it's already fairly obvious how it works. It is obvious, and they effectively implemented a custom approach for PKCS11/ssh-agent. Yet the narrative implies some brilliant period of insight and innovation, when really it kind
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by personZ 12y ago
Now you don't want to hand over this private key to Cloudflare if you don't need to, because then they can read all traffic. Generally the key you would give them is for, and limited to, the resources that they cache/revers
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by personZ 12y ago
After reading the beginning of the piece, I was expected something more...profound. Some deep mathematical breakthrough or something. Instead they separate the actual key signing, delegating it to the customer's device. That's nic
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by personZ 12y ago
Indeed, the submission itself is phase detection. That comment was the contrast detection for, humorously, contrast. Though the iPhone 6 and other devices still feature contrast detection (which is generally a function of the image processo
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http://www.dpreview.com/articles/2151234617/fujifilmpd That was the first on-plane phase detection, and it is the technique used by the iPhone 6 and GS5.
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In contrast - http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178/applets/autofocus... This is of relevance given the phase detection offered on the iPhone 6 (and previously released on the Galaxy S5).
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There is a bit of a negative reinforcement recursion going on in the industry, and this is a great example of it. Make lots of pieces claiming sources and reasons for why Apple is going to do something big and new and innovative. Endless pa
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by personZ 12y ago
It's also worth noting that ABP is an absolute pig, on either Firefox or Chrome. I found that memory consumption and machine churn significantly dropped when I simply removed it and lived with ads. I've done no empirical measures
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Autofocus: Phase Detection (2010)(graphics.stanford.edu)
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by personZ 12y ago
Interesting, though Excel most certainly does use floating point numbers for storage and calculations (both at the time of its writing and now), and has some infamous calculation errors as a result. Maybe I misunderstood the slide. EDIT: I
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by personZ 12y ago
a colleague and a manager both frowned upon me or even scoffed when I admitted I didn't do much (or any) programming in my spare time Did they actually scoff or did you, essentially, "scoff" yourself. There is often a subte
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by personZ 12y ago
Nothing has demonstrated that it's referrals by friends -- it saw a small amount of attention on HN, and from that the inevitable reposts on Reddit. Further if the definition were so limited, then we could say that everything has &quot
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by personZ 12y ago
but the overhead for I/O is much higher Hardware virtualized I/O is a thing now as well, and in that case as well the overhead has shrunk to marginal. Add external storage (iSCSI), and things get much more complex. Much of the a
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by personZ 12y ago
Why would anyone ever virtualize or containerize ping? In the real world, we use containers for largely the same things that we use virtualization -- the web server, the database server, the VPN host, and so on. The overhead is negligible t
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by personZ 12y ago
While people contemplate things like containers, it's worth noting that modern hardware virtualization imposes a performance overhead of low single digital percentage points, and with some technologies like deduplication of storage and
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Information Security and Client Certificates(dennisforbes.ca)
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Having portability to Windows Phone is a concern, and it is something that I am increasingly considering because it looks like an emerging, important platform. I prefer techniques and tools that allow me to cater to a multitude of platfor
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by personZ 12y ago
This article is a bit like postulating "Why you might not eat steak for dinner", and then positing reasons that all orbits the assumption that steak is your default choice, and alternatives must therefore have extenuating circumst
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by personZ 12y ago
Everybody said it was stupid and nobody would buy it, and now the sales figures speak for themselves. The reception to the iPad was overwhelmingly positive (if we really need to go to archived press and reviews, we can do that, but this
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I'm curious what your defense is to their success with the non-Apple faithful Defense? Why do I have to defend or explain anything? Are we waving flags? Why do I have to defend the things other people say? I was specifically replying
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I would be really surprised by that. The gross 30%, presuming it always applied, would be about $6 billion per year, which would be an enormously expensive online store. Of course Apple's cut is often lower than 30% -- I can frequently
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by personZ 12y ago
Exceptions that Apple has negotiated "card-present" rates from banks for apple pay Somehow this has taken off as a talking point, yet all NFC secure element payment solutions qualify as "card present". Google Wallet, f
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"The 30% IAP cut equals billions of dollars in yearly revenue. But being in this commission business is not in Apple’s DNA." I would say it is entirely in Apple's DNA. Apple has aggressively tried to inject themselves between
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_ipod_sales.svg Very few bought the iPod in the first two years, and it was a commercial failure. It was iTunes on Windows that brought it mainstream.
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How did this suddenly get redefined to "when released"? If that is the case, Taco's widely criticized assessment was dead on - the iPod was initially a failure. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_i
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by personZ 12y ago
Apple still encourages developers to have UIs that are specifically tailored to the iPhone or iPad experience. You mean exactly like Android . Pretty remarkable having clueless people telling me that I don't know what I'm talki
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Its... it's a consumer electronics brand Of extraordinary social and technological importance. I work in technology, and shifts in mobile technology have significant impacts on my life. I can understand if this were a knitting board

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