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by drivebyubnt 6y ago
Consensus is that the first ARM devices will be 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and a new redesigned 24" iMac, based mostly on Ming Chi Kuo's report from just before WWDC2020. https://9to5mac.com/guides/ming-chi-kuo&#x2
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by drivebyubnt 6y ago
A 3 chip solution was very common for that era. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge_(computing) The only unusual thing here is that the GPU and Northbridge are the same chip.
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by drivebyubnt 7y ago
HP also was a leader in device ergonomics. Their devices were pretty and easy to use, as well as reliable. I don't think anyone had offices. It was all cubicles. (I worked at HP Labs in the 80's and met both Bill and Dave a couple
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by drivebyubnt 7y ago
I'd be careful about giving too much credit to the original ARM design. In retrospect, like many early RISC designs, it was over-optimised for its original application. Most of the unique/novel features of the original ARM archite
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by drivebyubnt 7y ago
Register renaming was IBM 360/91 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm
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by drivebyubnt 7y ago
The main reason Google launches popular products by invitation only is to manage server load. Otherwise you get situations like the Pokemon Go launch, where the service was unreliable for the first few months.
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by drivebyubnt 8y ago
It was a dig at Palmer Luckey, who wrote a scathing review of the MLP. https://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/
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by drivebyubnt 11y ago
One of the early pop-culture mentions of googol was Peanuts, 23rd Jan 1963 http://www.peanuts.com/search/?pubdate=&sort_by=bydate&seaso...
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by drivebyubnt 11y ago
He was a fellow at Atari too, without helping them very much. Alan's a great guy, a great speaker, and he made fundamental contributions to OO with Smalltalk. But probably his single biggest contribution was that he funded the creation
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Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone(bazel.io)
625 points by drivebyubnt 11y ago|174 comments
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by drivebyubnt 12y ago
Have you read the mini-Msft blog? The big problem for msft employees is the up-or-out review system. If you don't make partner, the review process seems designed to kick you out of the company.
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by drivebyubnt 12y ago
FWIW Java based mDNS libraries works fine on stock Android. I believe mDNS is the standards body name for the protocol that Bonjour uses.
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by drivebyubnt 12y ago
Consider a ubiquity networks edge router lite. It is $99 and has 3 gigabit Ethernet ports and dual core MIPS CPU and hardware packet forwarding. Runs Debian Linux. Active community.