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by inversionOf 11y ago
Run fast and go to sleep has always been the primary power policy. A sleeping core is obviously the most efficient core, however you have said nothing to discount what I said. Putting a core to sleep is a very costly activity, which is ex
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You don't want A53's "handling the majority of the workload". Yes. You do. If I'm casually browsing non-intensive web pages, e-reading, or watching a Netflix movie, or even encoding a video, the background is doin
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The 808 is also a big little architecture, with two A57 cores and four A53 cores. The A53 cores will likely carry the vast majority of every day use, and redouble the battery savings. As a Nexus 5 user I'm pleased with most of the chan
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by inversionOf 11y ago
I pay $30 for 6GB of LTE data per month (Rogers, via a promotional plan that they've offered countless times). And I generally use about 200MB in an average month as I'm virtually always around WiFi of some sort. Which is exactly
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Updates to Xcode added what Android's tools have had for years, which is the notion of generating multiple binaries for different devices/profiles. Xcode then signs those independent sections and packages them together in an archi
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Google announced smart updates and then enabled it (they had already been using this for Nexus system updates). There is absolutely nothing any developer or user has to do, so there is no documentation on it because none is needed. If you a
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by inversionOf 11y ago
What does "too little, too late" mean? Is Android now doomed? Android updates have been incremental updates for three years now (introduced at the 2012 I/O, and immediately enabled). Your point on that is confused in any ca
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The other comment about electronics is completely off the mark as well -- people often see financial transactions that don't seem to make logical sense (whether pricing bots that recursively keep pricing off of each other, as in the li
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by inversionOf 11y ago
I worked for years on AML systems for banks. This isn't money laundering. Indeed, I don't believe I've ever seen a "this is money laundering!" comment on a social news site that wasn't entirely and completely o
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by inversionOf 11y ago
And the vehicles in question -- the ones that are causing VW these issues -- do not have any urea injection system. That's the whole point. http://ask.cars.com/2012/11/why-do-some-volkswagen-diesels-u... VW
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Both of those platforms use Urea systems, as do larger and more expensive VW/Audio vehicles. The issue is purely in the small, inexpensive vehicles. The NOx problems were mostly resolved through the injection of urea into exhaust gases
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by inversionOf 11y ago
i.e. incompetence and not malice The primary revenue source of many of these sites are ad clicks (impressions often don't matter). If the function paying the bills are ad clicks, and site stickiness really isn't a thing anymore
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Aside from bot traffic, a significant percentage of "legitimate" traffic seems, anecdotally, to be engineered accidental clicks -- the mobile site that is constantly pushing content around in the hopes that one of your screen inte
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The GM issue was enormous for literally years. Further the GM issue -- where key assembly had less torsion than expected, leading to the possibility of heavy keychains or unintended hits turning off the vehicle -- was never shown to be anyt
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The same comment appeared regarding Stagefright as well. It has no place on a site like HN, and is just people repeating cheap comments. http://www.androidcentral.com/list-devices-stagefright-patch... The vendors and carrie
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by inversionOf 11y ago
After my post has been moderated down to the abyss, Marco has announced that he has given the app code to Ghostery, who'll certainly release an app in short order. And for which all logic states Arment will receive financial considerat
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Hats off to Marco for putting his ethics first, not the money. I find this sentiment, and the moderation supporting it, incredible and almost a demonstration of the Stockholm Syndrome.
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by inversionOf 11y ago
especially if you expected this app to be not very popular in the first place The anticipation about adblockers on iOS has been fervent and growing for a while now. Marco went and setup an agreement with one of the larger purveyors of blo
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Makes sense, really, even if some posters can't seem to fathom giving up money to sleep soundly at night. This is like kicking kittens and then announcing to the world that you're going to stop kicking kittens. Then why kick kit
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by inversionOf 11y ago
and doesn't enjoy controversy So he went all in on something that was already hugely controversial (for weeks regarding iOS, and for years on other platforms). That adblockers would be controversial was blatantly obvious to any of
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by inversionOf 11y ago
I think people irrationally get offended by swearing As you said, there is nothing particularly offensive about what the person said (it certainly doesn't seem to be homophobia. It doesn't discount it at all, but by itself is es
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by inversionOf 11y ago
it doesn't guarantee that the data in the DB itself has stayed constant By definition, snapshot isolation is supposed to guarantee that all reads are the consistent, committed data as of the begin transaction, and the commit will fai
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by inversionOf 11y ago
It's going to redouble the obnoxious tendency of sites to push users to their own apps where they can do essentially whatever they want. I doubt this was an unintended consequence. Those that remain will eventually move to a model wher
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by inversionOf 11y ago
By completely ignoring existing rules and regulations that restrict everyone else from providing a "better product at a better price". In virtually every market you can conceive scenarioes where a startup can provide a "bette
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Yes, both have large legal and political staff now . They entered markets and gained a foothold by completely ignoring established law and regulations. There is nothing, whatsoever, false about what I claimed, and your comment is extraordi
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Yup you're correct: named pressure rather than force (the specific function you linked was not in 1, but pressure was in the legacy methods since version 1. Search the page for pressure). It is live on most devices, and reflects pressu
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Theoretically it means that the screen senses pressure in addition to location(s) (note that all capacitive screens do this already, where pressure is proxied by size of touch, which is useful with big meaty fingers but is arguably less pre
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by inversionOf 11y ago
He was talking about the iPad at the time. Further his statement was the existence of a stylus, not the necessity of it. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/jobs-if-you-see-a-stylus-... He specifically refer
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by inversionOf 11y ago
This is an aspect of several of these startups that amazes me: So many times I've had discussions with peers about possible business ideas, and we get mired in the realities of legislation and compliance (it's very easy to get cau
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Given the overhead of context switches, is it possible to take a general purpose application like nginx and use a user-mode TCP stack? For instance if I had a network adapter that is solely dedicated to nginx, and don't need any of the

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