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by weland 13y ago
They are an impressive feat of technical prowess, no questions asked there. Whenever I look at the innards of an iPhone or a Galaxy I am not only impressed, but -- with all the wear and tear of the EE that's buried inside my soul -- I
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by weland 13y ago
> The fact a programmer will fuck up an app boils to the fact twitter will use HTTP, which is text, on top of SSL. This can't be blazing fast for such a low powered device, especially if it's a library API thing you use to make
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by weland 13y ago
> Yet, because it runs in the browser and is available everywhere, that's why I use Google's Docs. And GMail's web interface is better than any email client I tried until now. IMHO, this is a case of solving a problem at a
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by weland 13y ago
> their code doesn't "suck" its fine for desktop its just not good mobile code IMHO, code that is not adequate for a platform on which it is intentionally deployed, by definition, sucks. There's no such thing as good
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by weland 13y ago
If we ever end up in the same part of the world, we should grab a beer :-). I share your worries.
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by weland 13y ago
> That said, compared to actual CPU- and memory-starved embedded systems, mobile is a freaking race car. If you measure your memory in multiples of megabyte, you need not apply. Given that, the performance situation on mobile is rather a
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by weland 13y ago
> Sounds to me like you've never developed seriously on an ARM chipset. You're selling cucumbers to the gardener, I was actually one career choice away from designing chips, and wrote ARM assembly before there was anything such
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by weland 13y ago
> Those CPU don't have as much cache memory (which is vital for a CPU to be fast), are very low powered, and not cooled by any fan. They are, nonetheless, far more powerful than computers which ten years ago ran comparable applicati
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by weland 13y ago
I think this paints a rather meagre picture of software development in 2014: > More or less everything is expected to talk HTTP, and it’s really easy to make things talk HTTP. A lot of things that shouldn't talk HTTP are expecte
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by weland 13y ago
Oops :). Yeah, no H in Vitus Bering's name.
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by weland 13y ago
> I am tired of this perception around the world that americans do not know geography. A lot of people, all over the world, suck at geography, but the degree of suckiness itself does make a difference. I took a similar test back in high
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by weland 13y ago
> The structure of formal proofs is taught in geometry. That's pretty much the only course where students are expected to prove theorems about the subject via proofs. In most of the other courses students are taught the formulas and
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by weland 13y ago
I don't know if this is Facebook's case, but when I've seen stuff like that happening, it was because a bunch of (otherwise smart) developers were far too arrogant about the quality of their own work, too derogatory and, to s
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by weland 13y ago
> And I don't think that it is a programmer error if you use the defaults... but sure: These days you would probably just use a framework or take care of these details... It's usually a programmer error when you write code that
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by weland 13y ago
If I understood it correctly, the problem isn't that Oracle is using the Microsoft libraries and compilers incorrectly, it's the other way around. The two applications that are broken when using Oracle's ODBC drivers are actu
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by weland 13y ago
This was a major culture clash for me when I ended up working at a company that mainly sells Windows software. I do my best to stay objective about it and not jump to the conclusion that it's incredibly broken because of its hairiness.
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by weland 13y ago
> oh yeah right, the government actually want to block these topics!! Of course they don't. Britain has one of the worst teenage pregnancy rates in Europe and successive govs have spent a huge amount of time and money trying to corr
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by weland 13y ago
> We've had rules and regs and laws for decades on pornography, these were/are no more an attempt at "censorship" than this attempt is. Except that these rules explicitly targeted only that: the actual distribution of
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by weland 13y ago
On the other hand, the prosecutor will often take their views into account when deciding how to conduct his activity and, especially, what charges to press, what bargains to offer and what stance to adopt during the trial. Making a stand in
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by weland 13y ago
Same here. In highschool, I really struggled with classical mechanics. A lot of things didn't click, because they were taught to us before we were taught calculus, and a lot of what I was seeing in class simply didn't make much se
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by weland 13y ago
I'm bashing someone for being an asshole. The fact that there's a religious touch in his assholeness is quite irrelevant to me.
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by weland 13y ago
> Whether the project is so distinct in terms of code or philosophy, it is a genuine question. Anyone should be allowed to ask question. All the downvotes are either because (1) some bigot mind can't appreciate question, or (2) peop
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by weland 13y ago
> For instance it does not seem beyond the realm of possibility that firmware in your webcam could communicate over the PCI bus with firmware in your ethernet card to transmit video. IMHO, it does. The PCI bus isn't something that g
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by weland 13y ago
Aye, I don't get all this widescreen crap either.
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by weland 13y ago
Frankly, I don't have too much to offer with regard to the support issues. I only helped my GF with it, and it was a while ago. If it improved in the meantime and my comments are no longer representative, I'm really sorry. I shoul
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by weland 13y ago
They also tend to do it quite badly in some non-trivial cases. I've seen Wolfram spewing a three-line result which could be further simplified to a simple expression. It also doesn't always help to simply know the result; a lot of
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by weland 13y ago
> Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment ! OP isn't stupid. He has no problem comprehending the wrath of your imaginary friend, nor the imaginary nature of the aforementioned wrath. He lost a de
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by weland 13y ago
> WiFi firmware can in theory allow passive monitoring and forwarding of data. This is because the WiFi card is a small self-contained embedded system. On the other hand, it would typically be detectable and would generally fail to work
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by weland 13y ago
I'm one of the programmers to whom this laptop is just perfect. Common hardware that's well supported on almost any platform, good reliability, excellent keyboard and, IIRC, a clit mouse, which I would prefer over the fanciest of
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by weland 13y ago
Happens everywhere :-).

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