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by rys 14y ago
However you can't supplant Safari as the default app you, and as such the app in which other apps without any knowledge of the rest of the system, can send links to. Granted it's possible with custom URL schemes, but that means apps wishin
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by rys 14y ago
In this context, all search engines are "3rd party".
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by rys 14y ago
Surely the headline should be, "How Tweeting Nearly Ruined Obama's Secret Trip to Afghanistan"? The headline makes it sound like Twitter the company had something to do with it other than running the service.
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by rys 14y ago
You're right, clear can sometimes be quite slow on some hardware. Fast clears tend to only be limited to all 0s or all 1s and only full screen. In the worst case, the hardware has no support at all and has to setup and rasterise a full-sc
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by rys 14y ago
Actually, the N82E16814102960 is dual-link DVI + DVI + HDMI.
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by rys 15y ago
Aren't there a number of publications covering this space that are run well and provide ethical coverage? Just read them instead.
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by rys 15y ago
Facebook doesn't value an Instagram user at $30 at all. Dividing sale price by user count gives you a totally useless number in the wider context of the acquisition.
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by rys 15y ago
Is the technical approach any different from G+'s circles, where you can limit which circles can see certain content?
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by rys 15y ago
Why should the UI or API get involved with filtering what's inherently the human's problem?
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by rys 15y ago
I started programming aged 6, in BASIC on an Acorn Electron, back in 1986. That means I've been hacking for fun and profit for over 25 years now. Can't imagine life without code, despite doing less and less of it for profit as time goes b
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by rys 15y ago
Hilariously off topic, but the background image to the website made me think my computer screen was dirty.
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by rys 15y ago
If the interviewer had a problem with your open source contributions then I'm sorry, since that really shouldn't be any problem for us whatsoever. There is absolutely no feeling at the company that open source equals the leak of secrets, a
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by rys 15y ago
Purely technically, it wouldn't be too difficult for us to release something. The driver tends to be coupled to the SoC, rather than the graphics core (and core revision), due to integration with the SoC's display hardware, so we'd release
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by rys 15y ago
We're not paranoid; that resistribution restriction on our driver didn't come from us (I work for PowerVR). As a rule of thumb, it's the device or SoC vendor that calls those shots and controls redistribution.
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by rys 15y ago
I've never really understood why you'd want to burn around 100W if you don't have much need for 3D performance and all you want is good desktop performance. Surely there are cheap alternatives at less than half the total board power?
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by rys 15y ago
You shut it down because nobody should give a fuck about it, yet you tell us what computer you used to develop your website? I don't get it! Also, don't you feel a bit selfish for removing something that other people obvious find value in
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by rys 15y ago
The D3D bytecode IR generated by the HLSL shader compiler in the runtime isn't verified for security concerns before being passed to the driver, so there's no real extra protection there, so ultimately D3D makes it no harder to lock the GPU
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by rys 17y ago
I think most people will gladly pay more for a better cable, but they'd like to pay something comensurate to the engineering effort, and production and material costs. The markup is insane (nearly $200 apparently). One has to wonder if Mon
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by rys 18y ago
I've not had a really detailed read of all the comments, so apologies if I missed it somewhere, but how do you justify it as "a policy that would cost nothing"? Or am I confusing monetary cost with something else? The rest of the idea seem
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by rys 18y ago
It's not quite 960 cores. There are 960 main ALUs across the system, but they're 8-way per item you'd maybe call a core (the stream multiprocessor) and run the same program instruction per clock. There are multiple partitions to execution