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There's a bit of a 'reboot' as such (I forget what it's generally referred to) that contributes to this. By that I'm referring to the way that microcomputers reset progress in soft…

The funny thing about that is that my MacBook Pro boots in a few seconds to a full desktop OS, just as my Windows 10 machine does. The cold-boot time of Android is pretty terrible.…

I've never understood the point of Chrome OS's existence as a separate thing from Android. So I'm glad it's an Android device.

That's certainly not a fair assessment. APIs like Metal & Vulkan (and AMD's Mantle which arguably started the trend on the PC) are the correct technical direction to go and not an …

The latest Oculus SDK (0.7.0.0) on Windows _absolutely_ fixes this mess. I have nothing but praise for the latest software and this is coming from someone who couldn't use his Rift…

People don't quite get it until they've tried it. The most surprising thing is the way that the 3D stereoscopy of the environment combined with the head tracking in VR conveys scal…

This is excellent. I know many people for whom this would be cheap enough to just add on to their next phone contract, who otherwise wouldn't have dipped their toes in it. As an as…

I'm curious about this, because I read your response but think I'm missing something. Non-techy people routinely consume digital content on YouTube or on their Facebook feeds. Most…

I wonder if part of it is that some techies who aspire to management do so because they don't actually like developing software. As an individual contributor I can't imagine giving…

What do they mean by "....with the government and with each other" (emphasis on the 'with each other' part)? The one I can understand - companies being compelled to share with the …

That doesn't really explain anything. I had a read of the article that was linked to from that Quora answer and I still couldn't glean 'evil' from that -- potential to become evil,…

Exactly this in the opposite way too - I don't see how Shred Video could hurt Smule. The way I see it there's no problem with them both coexisting, it's not like it's a tiny market…

Can this be a problem on mobile? I have a long master passphrase - too long to type on a touchscreen keyboard in any convenient amount of time and where there's a non-trivial risk …

For those 'hard to reproduce' issues, it's about knowing what debugging and forensics tools are out there and making sure that the systems you deploy support postmortem debugging a…

It works really well if you only type on the right side of the keyboard?

Closely related I think: breaking into software / hardware / networks. A course that has people doing basic and maybe not-so-basic exploits on real systems. Including attendance at…

The way posts work on HN is a bit puzzling and not immediately obvious - I'll post something and then refresh the front page and won't even see it. The Reddit model seems simpler -…

I've always found a strange dichotomy in this. On the one hand, we're supposed be these extremely socially-driven creatures. Yet on the other hand, it seems like we very easily gra…

This really blows my mind if it's what's happening. Are you saying that kindergartens are getting rid of 'nap times'?!?! Why would they do this?!?! I thought it was obvious that ch…

I've started down that road with Philips Hue lights. Admittedly expensive, but nice and I can build up the system over time. They're Zigbee and Philips are very very open with them…

I've been out of the PC building game for a few years and coming back into it to build my latest rig, oh boy.... What the hell is going on with product segmentation? It seems like …

This is the most epic hardware-related thread I think I've ever seen. Fantastic! :) I have an FPGA dev board and have wanted to do something like this; start with VGA generation an…

I can't wait to get home from work to try this, looks awesome!! I've been looking for something that gives a modern, live-coding-ish experience similar to how you used to program i…

I had one of those "I must be getting old!" moments (I'm not that old, but still!). My niece is four and she's had iPads pretty much forever, so it was funny watching her sit at my…