randallu

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by randallu 14y ago
It appears to, or has some other trick... My coworker has a huge monitor, and his MBA doesn't hit 60 FPS on any of the fullscreen animations, but individual window contents can go at 60 making me think they don't repaint the world every tim
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by randallu 14y ago
Hey, at least it keeps TI in the consumer SoC business. It's not like they've had that many OMAP4 design wins, OMAP4 is long in the tooth at this point, and OMAP5 isn't with customers yet (to the best of my knowledge). It feels like it take
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by randallu 14y ago
With a similar processor (though better GPU) and a much lower resolution display...
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by randallu 14y ago
Apple's engineering group is much smaller than Microsoft's (or probably anyone else's). What's the GDP per engineer at Apple vs any other product company (like MSFT, Google or Samsung)? EDIT: Which is to say, I believe bureaucracy is more l
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by randallu 14y ago
I thought they didn't believe that people would actually use ObjC compared to newer managed languages (pretty safe bet IMO, but wrong in this case it turns out).
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by randallu 14y ago
So they ended up doing (what sounds like, or may as well be) a complete rewrite and it's taking them much longer than they expected? Shocker! It sounds like they're running the WP7 apps in a compatibility box. Is that right? One issue devel
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by randallu 14y ago
I wish that unoccluded or maybe just the frontmost window could be unredirected too, even if it's not fullscreen. The decorations and shadow could still be drawn in the Compositor Overlay Window. I work on Linux on a program which is entire
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by randallu 14y ago
Good start, but it'd be nicer if the swipe gesture was tracked live and the transition performed once the touch point was released (taking velocity into account for bonus points). This'd be more like the iOS home screen switch gesture (imag
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by randallu 14y ago
It supports GLES2 very well, so probably. It's used on various Samsung SoCs so was in some GS2 and GS3 variants.
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by randallu 14y ago
"Organic matter" always makes me think of "fertilizer" or "compost" (ha ha). But I do like the ID designwork Nokia have done. I don't see how the new phones will change the game for them, though; they're incrementally better than the old on
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by randallu 14y ago
or mask-image with the image being a url to some SVG... I think in this example the image is an SVGImage as well. mask-image would work on arbitrary HTML content (such as video, etc). This example clips video to a path in a PNG, but it ough
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by randallu 14y ago
It would be interesting to see these run against a "null" canvas backend to understand how much of the time is JS dispatch versus draw. Also, I think recent Chromium doesn't perform the drawing directly, but records the commands and plays t
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by randallu 14y ago
It would have completely sucked to have been on the jury for this one. You don't get paid while you're not at work; you have to listen to expert bozos who have been paid millions for their testimony and who say some strange things under cro
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by randallu 14y ago
Like libc, or libX11 and apparently ld-linux. Why not just ship a chroot jail to run it in in case some of those statically linked system libraries read config files which might be under a different path or in a different format?
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by randallu 14y ago
I thought the Lumias were pretty well marketed in the USA (I don't have a TV and tend not to look at web ads [though I don't block them] so I could be wrong...). It's hard to see WinPho (sounds tasty!) gaining due to an Apple patent shakedo
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by randallu 14y ago
At least for the optimization work I've done I've always had "real-world" test cases, and "drive the current bottleneck really hard" synthetic tests (I profile the real-world case, identify some bottlenecks, make tests that target those bot
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by randallu 14y ago
You'll always have to deal with hairlines, so we won't stop caring about device pixels just yet.
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by randallu 14y ago
Maybe science just isn't the thing his daughter wants to do. I hope that the problem isn't really him forcing his daugher to be someone she isn't (like the stereotypical "you can be any kind of doctor you want" parents...).
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by randallu 14y ago
I am vegan, have been for five years, I don't eat faux meat and never would. However, good for them. Meat is environmentally unsustainable and is unhealthy (for both givers and receivers).
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by randallu 14y ago
I've written embedded browsers based on Gecko (ages ago), Chromium and WebKit. Gecko was a big pain (they were redoing graphics at the time, moving to "thebes/cairo"). At some point the GNOME guys were complaining hard about not having a st