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by wzdd 14y ago
The LPC1102LVUK is a microcontroller, just like the KLO2. 8K SRAM, 32K Flash on-chip, ADC, UART, SPI, built-in oscillator, GPIOs, etc.
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by wzdd 14y ago
As someone who recently came out of a long-term relationship where there was no desire on either party's part to get married, I can confirm that, yes, this attitude is a generation out of date. And somewhat offensive.
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by wzdd 14y ago
Whatever qmail might do wrong, I always smile when I get a mail bounce from a qmail server explaining that it tried everything but couldn't send my email, and that it's sorry. Just an anecdote, but I think a friendly tone humanises things a
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by wzdd 14y ago
I would say it is a very well-defined word which means "the type of thing that I am implementing is typically very large and complicated, and I don't yet understand why".
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by wzdd 14y ago
Weird article. "Try taking a screenshot, scribbling some notes on it, and emailing it." Well, sure, styluses are good at things suited to styluses, such as handwriting. Try taking a screenshot, writing 500 words of commentary on the UI, and
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by wzdd 14y ago
I'm sure the author is right about IO, but these sorts of articles always include such trivial examples that they do the opposite of the intended job. The one code snippet is from a dictionary look-up function. Here it is in Haskell:
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by wzdd 14y ago
Well, Safari used KHTML, and the big KHTML-based browser at the time was called Konqueror...
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by wzdd 14y ago
It's not really about GPL violation, it's about laziness. There are plenty of things Samsung could have done to work around the GPL without opening a massive hole. For example, they could have created a user-space server, which either mappe
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by wzdd 14y ago
I picked your first example and googled it. The first result is a study demonstrating a positive correlation between divorce likelihood and IQ for people born in the 1940s in the Netherlands, a negative correlation between divorce likelihoo
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by wzdd 14y ago
What do you use for mail? I've tried many mail apps for my Android tablet, and none comes close to the mail app for iOS. The one exception is the Gmail app -- but I don't use gmail (ironically, for lock-in reasons).
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by wzdd 14y ago
With this in mind, the "never fit into the culture of Apple" line in the WSJ article is telling. Jobs never fit into the culture of Apple either -- rather, the culture of apple fit into Jobs. It sounds like Forstall wanted to be like Steve,
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by wzdd 14y ago
The bit about Jazelle is particularly weird, given that it's deprecated (though not deprecated enough for Raspi to support its successor) and of fairly niche interest: only to a subset of Java developers (Android doesn't use Jazelle).
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by wzdd 14y ago
It's actually a common misunderstanding of evolution to assume that it is optimising anything other than suitability to a particular environment (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_evolution#Definin... ). So no, it doesn't make
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by wzdd 14y ago
Yes, but this is a problem with the source language and/or the host system libraries, not with LLVM IR itself. There is a broad domain of applications for which it is portable.
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by wzdd 14y ago
Fair enough, that was too strong a claim. But it is more portable than an extension module compiled with the system compiler.
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by wzdd 14y ago
I addition to cdavid's comment: LLVM IR is system independent. So if you had a deployment over heterogeneous machines you could write the extension code once and have it run everywhere without recompilation.
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by wzdd 14y ago
Neither do I, but to be fair to the author this particular magic is encouraged in Python (see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0302 ). To parse headers for field names would require a complete C preprocessing and parser. That wouldn't be
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by wzdd 14y ago
Your headline (which you toned down from the original, to be fair) implied that we can't link to the Olympics website. This is, strictly speaking, wrong. His post suggested that you could do so, if you used text and not a copyrighted image.
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by wzdd 15y ago
The iPad doesn't support Flash and plenty of less-than-technophiles use it as an everything computer.
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by wzdd 15y ago
It's true that The Legend of Zelda has 25 carryable items (see http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda01-the-legend-of-zelda-item... ). But it also has a bunch of other items: hearts, heart containers, fairies, pieces of Triforce, blue and red r
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by wzdd 15y ago
Or the most interesting part of that early story, which was Apple picking khtml over the (at the time) more-capable Gecko engine---which turned out to be a very good decision.
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by wzdd 15y ago
The tplink wr703n is a 400mhz MIPS computer with a USB port, an Ethernet port, and wireless networking which sells for about $20 (on volumerates.com, which is unfortunately down at the moment). It has a completely functional Linux port and
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by wzdd 15y ago
Thanks. If this helps anyone else, the realisation I was missing was that the compiler must treat any write based off a pointer as a write to the thing pointed at. Which is conservative if there is no aliasing.
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by wzdd 15y ago
There must be more to it than that. For example, if something in the loop body writes to s, then the result of "strlen" could change and the optimisation will be wrong. So, it must know a bit about what strlen() does, mustn't it -- otherwis
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by wzdd 15y ago
I'd add that the pie charts you converted in this post are actually the sorts of pie charts you were okay with in your first blog post, where you said "pie charts are really only useful when a small number of categories of data are far, far
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by wzdd 15y ago
There is a good argument to be made that Google is a more influential company than Apple, but this article doesn't present it. Once you take away the unsubstantiated (at least in the article) fluff, such as "Google preaches openness because
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by wzdd 15y ago
The examples you give are always so consistently different from Jonathan's Card that I can't help but wonder if others feel the same way, with the same examples, and that this disconnect between made-up examples and the reality of Jonathan'
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by wzdd 15y ago
Thank you for the response! I was quite disappointed with the downvotes. The examples you give do not convince me that my statement, "this only works because it is novel", is not correct. People obey traffic signals out of habit and / or fe
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by wzdd 15y ago
I completely agree with Sam's analysis here. People were not interested in the experiment qua experiment, but were attached to one particular outcome. The most interesting part, for me, was reading people's angry reactions afterwards, phras
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by wzdd 15y ago
One of RMS's motivations for GNU was frustration at a closed-source printer driver ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Decline_of_MIT... ). Given the challenges involved (patents, proprietary protocols, programmer tools), you

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