John Gruber (MacRumors): The first is an entire BlackBerry-style phone: Clicks Communicator. It runs Android but ships with a custom launcher that emphasizes messaging and notifications; it has a hardware mute switch and a side button with a color-c…
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Lees meerPaul Thurrott (Slashdot): “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s larges…
Lees meerThe only way Pickle could sound *more* like a cult would be if their “employees” (are any of them actually getting paid?) all shaved their heads and wore Hare Krishna-style robes.
Lees meerBrent Simmons: We’re dropping the Slack group as the NetNewsWire forum and switching to Discourse — here’s the new forum. Slack’s been pretty great for us, but it does have some limitations: conversations are automatically deleted and they’re not fi…
Lees meerMichael Kennedy (via Hacker News): For example, how fast or slow is it to add an item to a list in Python? What about opening a file? Is that less than a millisecond? Is there something that makes that slower than you might have guessed? If you have…
Lees meerJonas Bonér (based on work by Peter Norvig and Jeff Dean from 2012): L1 cache reference 0.5 ns Branch mispredict 5 ns L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache Compress 1K b…
Lees meerRyan Jones: Can anyone explain why there’s no “Clear Documents & Data” button? Reinstalling the app just to clear it is dumb. I can see why Apple doesn’t want to make it easier for users to accidentally delete data that they meant to keep. But I wou…
Lees meerI just love the chutzpah of these guys. They started with a good minimal launch product and are back two years later with what looks like a *much* better idea for a phone keyboard accessory. But they’re also now making their own whole goddamn phone.
Lees meerI just love the chutzpah of these guys. They started with a good minimal launch product and are back two years later with what looks like a *much* better idea for a phone keyboard accessory. But they’re also now making their own whole goddamn phone.
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