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by terminus 14y ago
> Where google's clearly winning? Ideological propaganda. The whole "open vs. closed" campaign has people actually believing that Google is good and Apple is evil. Apple which has never spied on its users or sold them out to advertisers
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by terminus 14y ago
Not particulary fond of Flash myself, but: > Flash was installed with a bit of vomiting involved. If you don’t use ClickToFlash you are insane. Flamebait.
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by terminus 14y ago
Or your .bash_history might be very large.
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by terminus 14y ago
> You cannot read about the errors in Apple Maps without realizing that these maps were being visually examined and used for the first time by Apple’s customers and not by Apple’s QC teams. Wasn't iOS6 in public beta for a few months?
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by terminus 14y ago
Then again, being Exxon hasn't harmed Exxon's bottomline. Granted, consumer goods might be a whole different ballgame.
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by terminus 14y ago
Wouldn't be too sure of that. There's a world of fan-fiction (canon and otherwise) that exists for Harry Potter. One (rather excellent one) by HN frequenter less-wrong: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2269863/Less_Wrong .
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by terminus 14y ago
Your comment seems reasonable at first sight. However, your argument presumes there being an "Apple aesthetic." Rounded rectangles, bounce-back, swipe to unlock are refinements on what existed already. That does not imply they are novel. A
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by terminus 14y ago
> On this site I've seen many claims that Apple's patents are covered by "prior art" but the "art" cited is generally nonsensical (eg: 2001: a space odessy having square tablets) I'm curious, why is the Space Odyssey tablet "obviously n
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by terminus 14y ago
So South Korea is an "obscure remote country?" Wow.
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by terminus 14y ago
> Funny how the Samsung apologists have gone from saying "of course it's not a copy, they had these designs before Apple" to "what else could they do?". This defence of plagiarism as being somehow in the better interest of consumers is
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by terminus 14y ago
> So let me get this straight: rich kid at Harvard gives his bright friend some money to rent servers to run a service that gets popular. Rich kid doesn't contribute any more. Not terribly different from Seed/VC funding.
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Anti-WiFi wallpaper lets cellular and radio through(arstechnica.com)
7 points by terminus 14y ago|0 comments
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by terminus 15y ago
Quite disingenuous to state that "Android is open" is bullshit and at the same time the article finds no mention of Apple's overarching "closed is better for you" attitude. (Yes, the article hints at Apple's closed-ness. However, only rela
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by terminus 15y ago
Just to add to what you said: RMS and the FSF worked up the GPLv3 in response to this "Tivoization" of Software. Linus and the kernel crowd at that time were on the other side of the debate. Linus' quote: "" [Stallman] calls it "tivoization
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by terminus 15y ago
Yeah. That would be a whole interesting can of worms. Would need PCI/USB/whatever bus your ethernet card was on. Plus emulation of the selected ethernet card itself. Loopback (which is present) is so much simpler.
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by terminus 15y ago
Neat. You can mount sysfs like so: # mkdir /sys; mount -t sysfs /sys /sys That would allow you to look at the emulated hardware that is present. Looks like only virtual devices are present -- ram, loopback network etc. Makes sense to
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by terminus 16y ago
I'm getting this too. Chromimum 8.0. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10.
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by terminus 16y ago
Not mine. But, a nice detailed writeup here: http://valerieaurora.org/lasik.html (Valerie Aurora is a kernel programmer)
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by terminus 16y ago
I'd say that being a startup founder is less about code hacking abilities and more about hacking real-life (product, market, customer, code, whatsit.) Personally I'd go with GeneralMaximus.
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Evolution, not revolution: a look at AMD's Bulldozer(arstechnica.com)
2 points by terminus 16y ago|0 comments
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by terminus 16y ago
Yes I have read the article. It is in the seven or so parts. You seem to be talking only about the first page. Part 5 deals with cache optimization. Part 6 deals with multi-threaded optimizations. Other parts deal with various layers of the
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by terminus 16y ago
How are you so positive about the lack of value to the programmer? What if you are programming at a low level? Performance-optimization/OS kernel/HPC inner loops/Power-sensitive code (think mobile devices)?
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by terminus 16y ago
That's a false dilemma. Higher level thinking, more expressive languages and tools don't preclude you from looking at low levels of your abstractions. Edit: Looks like we were talking past each other. I was talking about the complete articl
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by terminus 16y ago
Well, part of the faster-than-DRAM is because the cache is limited in size. Addressing 512 MB (and keeping it close enough to the CPU) would require a lot more address lines/multiplexing and CPU die real estate [1] that it would be prohibi
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by terminus 16y ago
You are welcome. We could extend your observation about the earth to the universe: the universe is the way it is because had it been any other way, we wouldn't be there to observe it (and to comment on intelligent design or the lack of it!
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by terminus 16y ago
Sounds like a clear case of Survivor bias: http://blog.asmartbear.com/business-advice-plagued-by-surviv... . The analysis on the article details goes into the odds and is actually quite good.
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by terminus 16y ago
Already. The article mentions read, write ordering. That is essentially about in what order other processors see reads, writes being done by this processor: thus if procA does a bunch of writes will procB see them in the order (program orde
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by terminus 16y ago
For freighters take a look at http://wikitravel.org/en/Freighter_travel and findacrew.net
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by terminus 16y ago
This looks like cumulative lines of code for all the projects that go into Android (across all the platforms that they are supported on.) For instance C#, DOS Batch, IDL etc are listed. I don't believe that Android has a runtime for any of
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by terminus 16y ago
Could you try the same query after deleting all the google cookies?

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