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by wonko1 10y ago
This popped up yesterday, I guess we really do have short memories... here's what I said then: Feels like we'd only just forgot about Posterous. At least Posthaven is already there to accept the fallout? Nice to see ten times as m
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by wonko1 10y ago
How about: Despair Driven Development - It's clear the project/company is going to fail anyway, so hack on anything you want, it doesn't really matter.
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by wonko1 10y ago
Prior to the NHS 111 service that this article mentions they offered a helpline called NHS Direct. This was staffed by trained medical staff. It was excellent. They were able to assess issues and escalate them as appropriate. So, if you had
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by wonko1 10y ago
Yes and to be honest I wouldn't go so far as to call a lot of these "Concrete" tasks. But it is an interesting and throught provoking list. And makes me consider more quantitive metrics for qualatitive things like how good a
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by wonko1 10y ago
I think it's nice to see order stuff that people might not be aware of on HN from time to time. I'd not heard of it, and it looks great. Wonder how feasible a iOS would be? (Currently supports Windows and Mac so at least somewhat
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by wonko1 10y ago
I hope AM doesn't end up going the same way too. It would be sad if it wasn't possible to throw a radio together using a few discrete components.
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by wonko1 10y ago
It seems like a neat idea but their use case is: "interactive refrigerators and smart kiosks to security cameras and IoT gateways." I can't see a strong advantage for Intel here. I don't think there's anyway a modul
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by wonko1 10y ago
Reminds me of recent results using 40Hz blinking LEDs to treat Alzheimer's: http://news.mit.edu/2016/visual-stimulation-treatment-alzhei... I often fall into the trap of thinking that light at normally encountered
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by wonko1 10y ago
Oh neat! I've always wanted this. When I last tried hacking my Moto360 it was possible to get Debian running in a chroot reasonability easily. The trouble came mostly with video access. The userland graphics libs are all compiled again
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by wonko1 10y ago
50USD for what I'd guess is about 1USD of components. Not that this isn't justifiable... just the way it goes when most of the cash goes into development perhaps.
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by wonko1 10y ago
That appears to be the case on RedStar OS. But on Woolim you can only few government signed or self-signed content, nothing else. That was my understanding from the talk.
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by wonko1 10y ago
Feels like we'd only just forgot about Posterous. At least Posthaven is already there to accept the fallout? Nice to see ten times as much money was raised this time though. Such a shame though, would be nice if there was a better way
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by wonko1 10y ago
I feel a bit sad to read this. The CCC is a super-cheap conference. It costs 100Euro (about 100USD currently?) to attend a 4 day conference. The venue is massive, and roughly 13,000 people attend. There are often 3 or 4 talks going on at th
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by wonko1 10y ago
I'd imagine it's because little effort is put into optimizing games for Linux. Overall, I'd guess the Gabe (having worked at Microsoft) is pretty comfortable with that platform, but likes having Linux their as a hedge (with p
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by wonko1 10y ago
Reminds me of Lenovo's dual display laptop, and its truly awful advert: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGkxkzmPbQ
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by wonko1 10y ago
I'm constantly impressed by the effort the DPRK is putting into securing their devices. I've just skimmed it, but: The talk describes what is really an extreme form of DRM, the tablet can only open media created and signed by the
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by wonko1 10y ago
I think it's partly that if you're not looking for speed improvements then C, as a language, begins to look less attractive. There are certainly safer alternatives, but not faster ones. I'd probably agree though, in most case
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by wonko1 10y ago
The 6502 is actually still in production. However... Modern assembly x86, or even modern ARM assembly, is significantly more complicated than 6502 assembly. Starting with the 6502 will let you write working code more quickly and introduce y
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by wonko1 10y ago
Reminds me of Toshiba, and their project to repurpose semiconductor facilities to grow vegetables: http://www.cleanroomtechnology.com/news/article_page/Toshiba...
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by wonko1 10y ago
Based on my experience of Google interviews, they seem like one of the companies least likely to discriminate based on age. Their interviews tend to be very tech/algorithm focused. To the point where they disregard almost everything el
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by wonko1 10y ago
It's interesting to note that the 6502 is still in production in 40pin DIP and surface mount variants. No doubt, a number of old stable designs still rely on it (I'd guess medical/scientific equipment).
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by wonko1 10y ago
But the problem is that everyone really wants their builds to run with -O3 (which should, and is, -Ogoforit). It's really common for bugs to only appear when compiling with optimization. Reasonably, when those bugs appear, people go fi