mru

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by mru 17y ago
Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114804
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by mru 17y ago
I guess you hadn't noticed that git has a very nice gui.
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by mru 17y ago
He seems to be saying that svn is better than git because _some_ git users have a central repository they work against, and because they are planning on adding some features that might to some extent allow them to mimic a few things git alr
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by mru 17y ago
I read somewhere that the A4 has an ARM MALI graphics processor, not an SGX.
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by mru 17y ago
The Beagleboard has a very friendly and helpful community with mailing list and IRC channel. The Hawkboard is newer and as such doesn't have quite the same following, but you should have no trouble getting help with it either.
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by mru 17y ago
I would recommend getting a Beagleboard[1] or a Hawkboard[2], both low-cost single-board systems with somewhat differing capabilities. [1] http://beagleboard.org/ [2] http://hawkboard.org/
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by mru 17y ago
Will they no longer keep restricted items at the guard station outside the embassy? It's a couple of years since last time I was there.
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by mru 17y ago
I think he means C doesn't require a framework or VM of monstrous proportions in order to do its thing.
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by mru 17y ago
Amen to that.
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by mru 17y ago
Qemu is pretty good, but ARMv7 emulation isn't quite complete yet. Anything compiled by gcc will probably run though.
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by mru 17y ago
True, but there's nothing to say future implementations will not be faster. Adding more execution units is "easy". Fixing an instruction set is not.
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by mru 17y ago
ARMv7 has a SIMD unit (NEON) that easily outshines SSE and Altivec. Floating point support is also good nowadays.
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by mru 17y ago
ARM core sales are measured in billions per year.
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by mru 17y ago
That's the point. It's not science.
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by mru 17y ago
Clever indeed. Does that mean I can offset my carbon emissions by buying some shares in a coal power station?
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by mru 17y ago
In Win95/98 an autorun CD would defeat a password-locked screensaver. We had loads of fun with that...