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by randallu 14y ago
Maybe all the hard work they did to disk cache the layouts of list items is not resilient to OS updates and changing metrics (only joking, I have no idea why it would crash and then work, though it could be because someone posted something
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by randallu 14y ago
Hey, some people learned programming with BASIC on Z80...
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by randallu 14y ago
Oh, so I just noticed the "Whitepaper" link, and that has lots more good info in (I wish the blog post was the whitepaper!). So does Pareon depend on running an instrumented build? If so, wouldn't you need a sample data file (map, demo, w
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by randallu 14y ago
So looking at the patch: 1. The allocator was a bottleneck; wonder if tcmalloc would have done better? 2. Computing what to draw? (idInteraction) was reduced to a for-loop and parallelized 3. ... lots more pre-rendering stuff ... Unfortunat
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by randallu 14y ago
I wonder how frequently used the accounts which are used for fraud are? But I guess it's tricky -- maybe I'm signing in from a remote location after many months of inactivity to post some vacation photos, and can't receive texts on my phone
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by randallu 14y ago
I recently had cause to log in to facebook (first time in 6 months) because my account had been compromised and was used to place a bunch of ads ("find hot guys in your area") which they had apparently approved (and ran to ~$100 in a few ho
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by randallu 14y ago
If you went to 28nm (current TSMC size, used by Qualcomm and NVidia for a few quarters already) from 45nm (size of A5X) then maybe not.
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by randallu 14y ago
A6 is 32nm, A5 was originally 45nm and then was reduced for the new iPad2 to 32nm. Intel might be fabbing at 22nm, and probably some DRAM and NAND is on 22nm, but nobody is doing anything complex on 22nm right now. The rest of the ARM indus
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by randallu 14y ago
So they're going head-to-head with iPad on price and they have few third party apps or games. Obviously this was a wonderful strategy for Palm, RIM, Android (before 2012), Fusion Garage (ha!), HP's slate, etc. Also, the T30 is seriously lon
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by randallu 14y ago
So Yahoo should buy IFTTT to help people migrate from Twitter to App.net? There are probably some good products to be built on integrated social experiences (or internet glue), but Pipes+IFTTT doesn't sound like an actual end-user product.
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by randallu 14y ago
Isn't this already invented and called an iPad or Android? (Or more seriously, this is called NaCL). But you want to have OpenGL (with shader compiler security bugs you could drive a truck through!). You want to read from cameras and disks,
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by randallu 14y ago
Does it actually make any difference? As a pixel size decreases, grid fitting becomes more accurate too.
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by randallu 14y ago
Can't wait to see CSS Shaders land, then we can do this and correctly deform the HTML to make it look like it is on the "paper" (instead of being clipped to the paper). Still, with the curves they use it looks pretty good as is. It's nice t
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by randallu 14y ago
I don't think that's a very reasonable thing to say. Samsung-LSI (which is the "Samsung" in question here) consistently makes better BSPs than, say, TI or nvidia (with their big WinCE-like layer inside the kernel). Samsung Mobile has a repu
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by randallu 14y ago
This is great, except the Nest thermostat's learning mode doesn't work (for me; kept coming on at 3am, no amount of button pushing would make it not do that except for disabling "learning mode" which is what I did), so you have to use its U
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by randallu 14y ago
Mostly on the radio I hear about Apple and Chinese labor, so they seem like a multinational company more than an American company even though they do "command and control" from the US. Also they don't employ a huge number of Americans compa
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by randallu 14y ago
Might have some pretty major security flaws... https://github.com/openwebos/core-apps/tree/master/com.palm....
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by randallu 14y ago
The WebKit LayoutTests is huge and almost certainly covers this. Maybe a bad rebaselining of rendering results, or maybe this is the correct behavior and other WebKit ports will start exhibiting it...
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by randallu 14y ago
So maybe The Verge's whole freakout over it was completely unwarranted? Maybe Nokia knew what the effect of OIS would be when they made the ad -- after having done the R&D to develop the camera in the first place?
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by randallu 14y ago
This is also JSC vs V8 (and V8's x86 backend is very mature and well optimized; JSC's ARMv7 backend is pretty good, but nobody's ARM backend has had the same time and effort poured into it as their x86 backends).
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by randallu 14y ago
Ok, so I upgraded Twitter for iPad, and I don't think I'll ever use it again. So that's one annoyance taken care of!
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by randallu 14y ago
Twitter for iPad (at least prior to today, I haven't updated) uses the same "Share" icon at the top of an embedded webview and at the bottom (so the same icon on the screen in two places at the same time) and they also summon different menu
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by randallu 14y ago
Time to start more acquisitions?
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by randallu 14y ago
So does that mean that only the prescribed "methods" for accomplishing a goal can be patented? If so, could you ever have a UI patent (such as the rubber band effect), or just patent methods to accomplish a rubber band effect? If it's just
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by randallu 14y ago
"Binary Compatible with Android" sounds a lot like "a fork of Android"...
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by randallu 14y ago
WebOS was written in C++, eventually with a lot of Qt (the window manager, the dock, system dialogs, etc). The apps were written as web pages, though. FxOS is all web pages (even the IME!) though currently has the same basic PalmOS launcher
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by randallu 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Tegra2 got firmware updates during its lifetime, and I know that TI do updates for OMAP. Those updates might not make it through to consumer devices, but that used to be the case for things like GPU drivers too. Google pushe
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by randallu 14y ago
Why would you say that? Most "hardware" decoders are DSPs that run software loaded onto them at runtime. This goes for anything with an OMAP, Tegra or Samsung (Samsung's own decode block) SoC in (that I know for sure) and probably almost ev
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by randallu 14y ago
You can't do it on a tablet right now, but it's a software problem, not a hardware one. The Galaxy Note 10.1 ships with 2GB RAM and a good SoC. It's more powerful in every way than the PC I was using 5 years ago to write media player UIs. I
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by randallu 14y ago
That is nice, thanks for the link :). It's a pity the touch events don't include finger velocity -- you can confuse the velocity tracker in that example by swiping back and forth quickly before releasing. Android has a whole bunch of veloci

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