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Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114804

I guess you hadn't noticed that git has a very nice gui.

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 m…

I read somewhere that the A4 has an ARM MALI graphics processor, not an SGX.

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 shoul…

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://hawkbo…

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.

I think he means C doesn't require a framework or VM of monstrous proportions in order to do its thing.

Amen to that.

Qemu is pretty good, but ARMv7 emulation isn't quite complete yet. Anything compiled by gcc will probably run though.

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.

ARMv7 has a SIMD unit (NEON) that easily outshines SSE and Altivec. Floating point support is also good nowadays.

ARM core sales are measured in billions per year.

That's the point. It's not science.

Clever indeed. Does that mean I can offset my carbon emissions by buying some shares in a coal power station?

In Win95/98 an autorun CD would defeat a password-locked screensaver. We had loads of fun with that...