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by pieter 17y ago
I think that's changing in the iPad SDK
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by pieter 17y ago
Lots of mobile browsers have iPhone in their UA strings to work around browser detects that obsessed web developers have set up. Do all traffic market share reporters work around that problem? Most probably do, but we can’t be sure. Which
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by pieter 17y ago
Except that most modern mobile devices DO have a hardware h264 decoder, but aren't fast enough to run theora as a plugin -- if they even have support for plugins.
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by pieter 17y ago
That's GitX
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by pieter 17y ago
The gist thing isn't a good solution at all. You're now dependent on github to be up to receive crash reports (...) both when they're generated and when you want to look at them. Furthermore the user doesn't have an option to first look at
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by pieter 17y ago
Because g++ has its own problems that won't be solved by switching backends, like unclear diagnostics. Then there's the license issue, which can be important for some. Clang is also built as a library, so you can link to it and JIT c-code a
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by pieter 17y ago
Yes, on Windows Flash performance is quite acceptable. Try living with it on OS X for a few weeks.
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Adobe CTO on Flash for Mac(blogs.adobe.com)
26 points by pieter 17y ago|34 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
Here is one link: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/09/16/ARMCortexA9SMPDe... Also Anandtech on the Cortex A9: http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3714&p=3 and the pages around that.
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by pieter 17y ago
A fourth option is to submit the app in advance, but release it to the store at a later time. On release date of the iPad, get one, drive home, test your app, and if it's running well enough, put it online in the store.
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OmniGroup: iPad or Bust(blog.omnigroup.com)
1 points by pieter 17y ago|0 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
It might work with a bluetooth headset. But Apple agrees, and sees the iPad as something in addition to your iPhone. It's not intended to replace it.
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by pieter 17y ago
it's not just the development environment app writers care about, but also the app store infrastructure: an easy way to charge for your application and in-app content, availability of user reviews and ratings and possibly free advertising a
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by pieter 17y ago
The postbank (in the Netherlands) still have case insensitive passwords, decreasing password complexity by orders of magnitude..
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by pieter 17y ago
That's per year
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by pieter 17y ago
At the end of the article, the author suggests to look at proxytunnel and http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling if you want to do this under Linux. I just want to point out that this last option does a lot more than what the arti
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by pieter 17y ago
Just add a little (python?) script in the repository root that sets everything up; then in the checkout instructions tell people to run 'python setup.py' to install the extensions needed. I don't think you need to add VCS-level support for
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by pieter 17y ago
I think the conclusion ("Apple tablet is for healthcare industry") is a bit too eager; I can imagine Apple pitching the idea to healthcare professionals as they have a clear usage pattern and apparently already use similar devices, but I fi
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by pieter 17y ago
People would die for their iPhones, people would die for their BlackBerrys – and they feel like their lives are in there. People feel connected to their BlackBerrys. Some sleep with them next to their pillow. No one gives a crap about thei
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by pieter 17y ago
Gruber had an article about iSuppli a while back: http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/isuppli I wouldn't put too much into this.
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by pieter 17y ago
A lot of USB sticks with 'encryption' have serious flaws, similar to the fingerprint USB sticks. Most of them use encryption only to check if the password is correct; if it is, they send some kind of initialization string to the usb stick w
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by pieter 17y ago
I can't help but be very excited about these Cortex A9 boards coming out. The ARM processors are getting better really fast. The power / performance ratio compared to the Atoms is just so good, it's almost ridiculous. A few years ago we had
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NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2 (anandtech.com)
5 points by pieter 17y ago|1 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
Even more notable is that the Intel-based netbook is running at 1.6-GHz clock frequency the dual-core Cortex-A9 development is running at 500-MHz. I don't get why people keep saying this. One is x86-based, the other is ARM-based. Why shou
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by pieter 17y ago
I've been looking for one too. The Google Groups interface is really bad, Google Groups is riddled with spam and Google seems to make no effort to do anything about it. I've looked at librelist.com, which seems OK, but they subscribe you as
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by pieter 17y ago
I don't think the on-screen capabilites of OS X have ever been designed for (multi-)touch screens, but rather for tablet devices like the Wacom's.
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by pieter 17y ago
Some of the pages are refreshed, so most data should be cached locally. I'm not sure if web browsing really is a good benchmark for cpu comparison -- I can imagine that Firefox isn't really optimized for ARM.
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On the Apple Tablet, the iPhone and the ARM processor(frim.tumblr.com)
23 points by pieter 17y ago|8 comments
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ARM demos the Cortex-A9's web browsing skills on video(engadget.com)
13 points by pieter 17y ago|3 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
I hope this means bazaar performance has improved a lot. With the first imports they created, running a 'bzr log' command could take more than a minute before showing output. Funny enough, the developers didn't seem to mind, because 'it's o

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