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by scottchin 11y ago
Thinking about this topic some more, it seems hard to gain the critical-mass of contributors for such an open-source tool. Place-and-route for example, requires a very specific set of knowledge in both optimization (comp-sci), and hardware
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by scottchin 11y ago
First, just wanted to say that I find this topic really interesting. I'm trying to understand who the target user is for open-source FPGA tools. For many hardware companies, the risk of using an unproven tool is too severe. Unlike so
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by scottchin 11y ago
Having done my graduate studies in FPGA architecture and software, I can definitely see where the author is coming from. In fact, it seems like the entire hardware development industry has to face the issue of most tools being closed-sourc
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by scottchin 11y ago
One of the major challenges in creating a competitive FPGA architecture is tuning the architecture. Commercial vendors do this tuning through direct insight into their customer's designs. And since the vendors have a large portfoli
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Next Xbox: Microsoft sets big reveal for May 21(news.cnet.com)
2 points by scottchin 13y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Phone? Android Event Teased(m.techcrunch.com)
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Wachowskis of 'Matrix' fame bring sci-fi series to Netflix(news.cnet.com)
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by scottchin 14y ago
Congrats on the release and thanks for open-sourcing! I downloaded it and left a positive review!
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by scottchin 14y ago
Thanks for the links. I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to imply that what the source was saying is not possible. Since I wasn't familiar with the credibility of RPS (which I now hear is very credible), I just felt like reading the article didn
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by scottchin 14y ago
Although I'm not thrilled with the launch experience and DRM of SimCity, I don't think that this article adds any validity due to everything coming from an anonymous source.
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by scottchin 14y ago
> And to get us back in your good graces, we’re going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio. I can't help but think of the "20$ off your next purchase" pre-order bonus. Which, if you read the fine print, must be use
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by scottchin 14y ago
Looks great! Congrats on the release! Did you work on this game by yourself or with other people? Did you use any existing game frameworks like Cocos2D or Unity?
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by scottchin 14y ago
Congratulations! And thanks for writing this post. I find these types of post from developers extremely insightful and inspiring. I particularly found your experience with improving Chinese SEO very interesting. Keep up the good work!
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Why Amazon wants its own currency(theverge.com)
2 points by scottchin 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottchin 14y ago
I have registered three developer accounts on the App Store (two for companies and one as an individual). Disclaimer: This was some time ago though. If you have already registered a developer account, you will have already decided on wheth
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by scottchin 14y ago
Great to hear! How did you get started? Any comments/thoughts on how things are different now in terms of getting started?
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Apple hiring Texas Instruments engineers to boost chip operations in Israel(thenextweb.com)
2 points by scottchin 14y ago|0 comments
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Curiosity completes analysis of soil samples, finds no sign of ‘organics’(washingtonpost.com)
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by scottchin 14y ago
Does anyone have insight into any of the following questions? 1. Which Chinese Android App marketplaces are the most popular? In other words, if I wanted to target Chinese Android users, which app stores should I focus on submitting my app
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by scottchin 14y ago
Interesting idea! I only had a quick look around the website but still have a couple questions: 1.How does the poster verify a solution? 2.If verification involves looking at the code, what's stopping the poster from just copying the code?
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by scottchin 14y ago
Wow! Nice job! I haven't had a chance to download it, but just by looking at App Store page, the app looks fun and makes me want to download it! How much time did you spend making it?
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by scottchin 14y ago
Some of the top (grossing) apps in the Entertainment section are Emoji apps that have been around for a long time (dating back to before native iOS support). Those devs must be reeling from this.
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Emoji Apps No Longer Welcome in App Store Following Native iOS 6 Support(macrumors.com)
2 points by scottchin 14y ago|1 comments
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by scottchin 14y ago
One of the key comments made by Jon Stewart: What we need to do in this country is make it a softer cushion for failure. Because what they say is the job creators need more tax cuts and they need a bigger payoff on the risk that they take.
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by scottchin 14y ago
I'm quite excited about a new SimCity game. One thing I do wonder about is whether there will be an 'In-App-Purchase' type marketplace in the game. EA, on mobile at least, seems to have fully embraced the freemium model, and has been quite
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by scottchin 14y ago
As mentioned by someone in another thread, one possibility is that Surface is partly meant to set the bar for third-party manufacturers. It's high enough make the competition (Dell, HP, etc) put out good products that won't tarnish the new
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by scottchin 14y ago
That's a very interesting article. I wonder whether search, in general (as measured by traffic on the major search engines) is declining, or whether people are using more specialized search websites/apps (this was kind of touched up in the
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by scottchin 14y ago
I'm interested to see where Siri will lead to in terms search. Will it eventually divert significant traffic from Google's mobile search marketshare (on iOS at least)?
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Apple Hires Amazon Search Exec to Run Siri(allthingsd.com)
28 points by scottchin 14y ago|12 comments
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by scottchin 14y ago
One thing that I find incredibly fast and easy to do on iOS6 vs. iOS5 is implementing post-to-Facebook (and Weibo) using the new Social Framework. In iOS5, you would have to - Register your app on Facebook - Integrate the FB SDK (or maybe a

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