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by kux 13y ago
Am I the only one that prefers Holo to KitKat/Kennedy? Kennedy seems a closer to iOS than Holo was, so I expect this to make cross-platform themeing easier for app makers, but I'm sad to see Matias Duarte's work diluted
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by kux 13y ago
I just tried out the f.lux for Philips Hue feature and it is highly impractical because it arbitrarily adjusts the brightness of all Hue lights in your house... Disclaimer: I'm the creator of LampShade.io, an Android app for the Hue th
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by kux 13y ago
Shameless self promotion: I'm the creator of an Android app for the Hue called LampShade.io that also supports this (and a ton of other features!)
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Ask HN: App renaming dillima
1 points by kux 13y ago|0 comments
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by kux 13y ago
Why not assign something like http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 as homework instead?
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by kux 14y ago
Battery replacements are around 10k/decade[1]. Quite a bit less than the 30k/decade estimated petrol specific costs provided by the author. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S#Battery
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by kux 14y ago
Is this just about being able to reuse components beyond the original use case, or also being able to split the product and let hackers drop in existing Arduinos we have laying around?
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by kux 14y ago
Unfortunate side effect of decreasing the barriers to (e)book publishing?
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by kux 14y ago
Despite the problems Google had initially shipping physical products over Play/Wallet, I suspect this will be more polished. The showroom they have for the Google Fiberhood appeared well run when I encountered it.
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The Internship Movie(theinternshipmovie.com)
1 points by kux 14y ago|0 comments
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by kux 14y ago
I grew up around the energy industry and spent my childhood focused on engineering and history. I was converted through my high-school's strong computer science program. Next I picked up Android development. Now I'm a CS & EE undergrad.
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by kux 14y ago
I just got a 16GB model after hitting refresh on and off for the past hour
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by kux 14y ago
why aren't they taking pre-orders and/or back-orders?
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by kux 14y ago
engineers solve problems too
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by kux 14y ago
Yes. Google 'Mud Pulse Telemetry' Low bit rate as in < 30 bits per second (As of when I interned for a major oil services company this past summer)
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by kux 14y ago
the Nback Progress page doesn't appear to be working
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by kux 15y ago
was App Inventor ahead of it's time? In my experiences using App Inventor I found it, like Scratch, useful for rapid prototyping of simple apps and games. The problem was that it doesn't produce efficient enough apps for complex games than
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by kux 15y ago
one of the biggest reasons Apple would switch to ARM for laptop-like products is to reduce their dependence on Intel's effective monopoly!
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by kux 15y ago
Intel has an effective monopoly on x86 high end mobile chips, and those chips are now provided graphics and require Intel motherboard(southbridge) chips as well. Intel is also in the SSD and wireless chip market. In short, Intel parts are a
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by kux 15y ago
This rumor was first addressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2519858
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by kux 15y ago
The transition would occur in 2014 or later. By that point in time we will have quad core 64-bit ARM A15's or better. x86 will have have lasted 8+ years at Apple, which I think is reasonable when you consider how much Apple products have ch
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by kux 15y ago
Apple has significant motivation to ditch x86 now that Intel has an effective monopoly in high end x86 chips. Intel's fab process is 2+ years ahead of the fabs used AMD and ARM competitors though, so Apple switching architectures will only
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by kux 15y ago
Keep in mind Microsoft is also working on porting Windows to ARM. Ideally there would be some form of Windows 8 able to run on the new Mac's by the time the architecture transition occurs.
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Apple dumps Intel from laptop lines(semiaccurate.com)
16 points by kux 15y ago|13 comments