petra

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   by petra 11y ago

   Thanks for the chronicle article. Great one.
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   by petra 11y ago

   I agree. I wonder though - why all the rust projects go bare metal, instead of integrating a c based RTOS using rustbingen ? Seems like the fastest way to get cross-platform, which is key for many developers - and speed rust's adoption
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   by petra 11y ago

   So Apple had great vision, but lets a startup take the risk. Isn't this what the article is talking about ?
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   by petra 11y ago

   While Apple designed the phone well, the key breakthrough was touch based interfaces and Apple got the technology(capacitive touch sensing) for that by acquiring fingerWorks. Even though Jobs knew that touch based sensing is key , Apple was
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   by petra 11y ago

   Yes ,i meant the iPhone as something Apple built.
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   by petra 11y ago

   Not a serious article. Google is investing billions yearly in r&d for far reaching, very risky innovations. As for Microsoft and Apple ,we really don't know. Could we have predicted the iPhone in 2005 ? Do we know what kind of car
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   by petra 11y ago

   Interesting lecture by DARPA. It also refers to their secure UAV project, which is as anexample to embedded system: http://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/SMACCM/ They also released a formally proven real-time
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   Ask HN: Who will win the ad-blocking fight, long term?

   7 points by petra 11y ago|7 comments
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   by petra 11y ago

   I though Google's search advantage really speeds up software development. I wonder if they use the same principle in alphabet across other engineering disciplines - creating some unique knowledge tools, and how do they look.
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    by petra 11y ago

    Its easy to aggregeate transactions in order to hide most of the detail.
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    by petra 11y ago

    Well this guys build a wireless guitar interface, they talk about ~2.5 ms latency, 15 hours operation per charge. But it's expensive 430GBP. http://www.stageclix.com/images/stories/PDF-Files/Performing...
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    by petra 11y ago

    I agree. Just out of curiosity ,at what price the egg minder will sell well (if possible) ?
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    by petra 11y ago

    Healthcare is currently ~20% of the economy and rapidly growing. But the end game is probably highly effective drugs, highly effective diagnostics, high degree of automation ,and maybe even life extension - and those will probably offer gre