Hacker News: Einherji

New comment by Einherji in "RFC 6920: Naming Things with Hashes"

Einherji — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:15:01 +0000

Sounds similar to Joe Armstrong's ideas[0]. Very interesting.

[0]: https://joearms.github.io/2015/03/12/The_web_of_names.html

New comment by Einherji in "Unikernels are unfit for production"

Einherji — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:52:17 +0000

Yup, in fact I met him recently at a conference, looked great.

New comment by Einherji in "An interesting data structure with search time O(sqrt n)"

Einherji — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:12:42 +0000

Agreed. I love that this came from noticing a "gap" and coming up with something to fill the hole. I wish I thought like this more often!

New comment by Einherji in "Perfect – Server-Side Swift"

Einherji — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:45:41 +0000

I've had the complete opposite experience with Titanium, to the point where it was completely unusable.

New comment by Einherji in "Perfect – Server-Side Swift"

Einherji — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:42:39 +0000

Swift's concurrency story is pretty much handled by GCD. IMO a fantastic set of APIs that make it pretty easy to deal with worker threads and queueing tasks and such.

New comment by Einherji in "I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse, until now"

Einherji — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:19:12 +0000

Does anyone know of any good resources or papers related to bacteriocins as antibacterials? How much work has been done on developing something clinically relevant?

New comment by Einherji in "Outlook.com DNS records disappeared"

Einherji — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:00:37 +0000

Yup. I'm in Iceland and every microsoft service is unreachable, except my regional version of microsoft.com

New comment by Einherji in "iMessage for Android"

Einherji — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:22:26 +0000

Um, I can send both video and photos through MMS all through the same messages app as SMS. I don't think there is an inability at all.

New comment by Einherji in "Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung"

Einherji — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:00:02 +0000

TSMC ships huge volumes, and that is indeed where apples manufacturing is rumored to be going. IIRC they recently signed a huge deal with them too. In this business though a mature process like samsungs 28nm High-K metal gate is quite valuable over a newer one like TSMC's 22nm.

New comment by Einherji in "Apple iBeacons"

Einherji — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:55:28 +0000

This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a while, thanks a lot for the tip.

New comment by Einherji in "Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung"

Einherji — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:53:51 +0000

Keep in mind that the ARM processor space operates on razor thin margins, and Apple's iPhone business does not. Also it has been rumored for a long time that apple is moving most of its chip fab business to TSMC, but I suspect their waiting for the next process node before making the jump. A company that values reliability like apple prefers a mature process.

New comment by Einherji in "Apple iBeacons"

Einherji — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:39:34 +0000

Correct, it's also not based on RFID like NFC is, and so can in theory be used for a whole lot more.

New comment by Einherji in "iOS 7, thoroughly reviewed"

Einherji — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:40:46 +0000

I've been using iOS7 on my daily driver since the first beta release and never had any problems whatsoever with battery life. In previous betas I've noticed this problem, not this time though, and certainly nothing close to what you were describing

New comment by Einherji in "The iPhone 5s Review"

Einherji — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:22:40 +0000

I really doubt that will ever happen. If anything I think it will end up being the other way around with x86 CPUs in phones.

New comment by Einherji in "At Twitter"

Einherji — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:42:13 +0000

I've been thinking this too. Would love to know what they do all day?

New comment by Einherji in "Why Apple's 'indoor GPS' plan is brilliant"

Einherji — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:10:58 +0000

I agree 100%. First of all, I highly doubt that one of the largest tech companies in the world would blatantly _lie_ in their marketing material. Apple claims that fingerprint data never leaves the SoC and is not even accessible by the OS. I don't think they would say this if it wasn't true. Second, what use would the government have for a persons fingerprint anyway?

With regards to this iBeacon tech, my main concern is not being able to walk down the street without being bombarded by push notifications and offers from nearby retailers, although if used correctly this technology could enable a great deal of novel use cases that NFC can't due to it's short range.

Can we for once just be excited about a new piece of technology instead of hypothesizing how the government will misuse it?

New comment by Einherji in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I"

Einherji — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:55:33 +0000

I know how you feel! I started reading it on a plane, and I remember feeling cheated when the plane landed and I had to put the book away. Didn't the airline understand that reading Surely You're Joking is more important than their petty schedule?

New comment by Einherji in "Stanford scientists use DNA to assemble a transistor from graphene"

Einherji — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:29:18 +0000

This does indeed look awesome, but the article doesn't fully explain what it is that prevents us from scaling ordinary transistors further. If I understand correctly electrons start tunneling when transistors shrink to around 10nm (correct me if I'm wrong here) however Intel has 6nm process on their roadmap. Is Intel doing something magical to prevent tunneling or is my physics way off?

New comment by Einherji in "DigitalOcean raises $3.2M Seed Round"

Einherji — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:47:15 +0000

Been using their services for a while now. Highly recommended, great hardware for the money.

New comment by Einherji in "Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip"

Einherji — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:33:41 +0000

I agree, these claims seem incredible, I would love to see things like this backed up with a demo.