Hacker News: hclee

New comment by hclee in "Apple Finds Surprising Growth Market in Japan"

hclee — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:30:40 +0000

It is not just because of service plan resembling US market but Japanese's favor to Western stuffs. Japanese have been particularly obsessed with European luxury goods (accessories to bags), western cultures, musics, goods and whatever the fancy to them. iPhone of course.

New comment by hclee in "Core Secret – Secret sharing between Bluetooth LE peers on iOS"

hclee — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:28:39 +0000

Airdrop can choose a device to share. Isn't Airdrop secured??

New comment by hclee in "Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?"

hclee — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:59:55 +0000

Haha. They can't resist hormones and desire. Platonic love forever is lying. Japanese could do better as they have highly advanced porn and sexual industry.

New comment by hclee in "How Samsung inflated its performance scores"

hclee — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:16:11 +0000

People still buys. In business sense, it is funny. They cheated and impressed as much as they can and made really large volume of sale. Media reporting like this does not seem to make much difference. Other than few hackers/engineers/programmers, majority of consumers don't give a thing on benchmarks. Too bad.

New comment by hclee in "Qualcomm backtracks from Apple A7 marketing gimmick comments"

hclee — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 04:11:25 +0000

Agree. Going 64-bits in general can benefit that more instruction sets, more data sets per instruction, memory access at repeating process. What's in this article is just quote by CMO that is a claim without benchmark evidence or whatever.

New comment by hclee in "New US $100 bill to debut Tuesday"

hclee — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:45:13 +0000

It can contain much more dollar value at same sized locker.

New comment by hclee in "RegEx101.com now offers a debugger"

hclee — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:19:47 +0000

I mean it does its job and it is good. I would use it. But look at this case; test string inout [123:0] Asdfg

Exp (made it wrong in purpose) ^inout\s+\[[0-9]\: It just display "No Matches".

It would be cool if it kind of guide what exp you want to use to match test string. What you put in Test string is what you want to get.

New comment by hclee in "RegEx101.com now offers a debugger"

hclee — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:50:32 +0000

Not bad. You don't have to jump around your regexp reference and editor. It does not exactly tell you why your exp & string does not match. It just show what typed reg exp will do.

New comment by hclee in "HW startup: A journey from (Arduino) idea to product"

hclee — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:20:58 +0000

Great advice. I will keep that in mind. Thanks

New comment by hclee in "HW startup: A journey from (Arduino) idea to product"

hclee — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:57:26 +0000

This is really inspiring. When choosing most optimized parts, is there a better way than parametric search in catalogue like Mouser, Digikey or something??

New comment by hclee in "The shittiest project I ever worked on"

hclee — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:26:15 +0000

I could see why development service team always want to get more and more information about a project. Open it more, then you get better return. Fun reading.

New comment by hclee in "The Ph.D.-Industry Gap"

hclee — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 00:56:06 +0000

Same thing goes here in hardware industry. Having Ph.D. does not indicate how good they are. It really depends on individuals and their mindsets. Ph.D. with specialized major anyway have learn things over at new workplace. So whoever catch up fast and do hard with 'i will contribute this' attitude makes better results.

Someone may argue about this but people with less advanced degree tend to obey more to management.

New comment by hclee in "Amazon’s Music Download Site is Cheaper Than iTunes 78% of the Time"

hclee — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:57:16 +0000

Here in Korean market, streaming service dominates. Many iPhone users have not even used iTunes. Why? $5/month music service gives you access to most K pops. Thats it. $5/month subscription for most musics. Depending on market conditions, a little lower priced downloading seems pointless But I use iTunes (iradio) as i have U.S. Account.

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

hclee — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:44:52 +0000

In terms of income ratio of Samsung, it is so focused on mobile business. Samsung mobile business income may beat rest of all samsung conglomerate incomes. Apple has been the biggest customer for Samsung FAB. As Apple were pulling out, it became like factory without running. Not sure why Apple chose both TSMC and Samsung fabs, may be gaining some bargain power, TSMC is one of the best. Qualcomm takes on the most advanced process with TSMC. AP is designed by apple and they can always choose which fabrication facility to produce. Samsung FAB and mobile business are not in the same boat

New comment by hclee in "How to Write Safe Verilog: Become a PL Troll"

hclee — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:03:22 +0000

In ASIC RTL, two really important things should be considered. DFT implementable and synthesis friendly. Verilog with those two can only compete. In that sense, ARM is one of the best at it.

I am not sure if a static checker meant 'lint' but Verilog writer can be better being good at static check and static checker at next end.

New comment by hclee in "Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen"

hclee — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:30:11 +0000

Phone like phone we see today uses very highly complicated chips and its connections to each functional modules. Something that can be detachable easily can be really surprising.

Mobile phone SoC chip (Application processor) is heading into very uncertainty area as fabrication process require too small transistors now. Hope that dealing super sensitive chips, can be guided by chip experts.

Putting everything physically close in one chip is also cost and integrity issues. More functions in a smaller area = less die cost. Blok based components would have to consider how to compete cost where $10 everything possible SoC is ready.