Hacker News: mendocino

New comment by mendocino in "Talos Secure Workstation"

mendocino — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:23:19 +0000

> NO signing keys preventing firmware modification

Not really a "secure" workstation if you can't have a secure bootchain. An open, secure platform would allow you to fuse your own root key.

New comment by mendocino in "Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve"

mendocino — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:19:28 +0000

Looks more like an issue with the VM rather than xhyve. Serial console does not seem to get respawned.

New comment by mendocino in "Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve"

mendocino — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:09:31 +0000

Not sure how useful OS X containers would be. Are you deploying on OS X?

New comment by mendocino in "Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords"

mendocino — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:35:42 +0000

If your objective is to sell a stolen iPhone then you still have to know the owners Apple ID and password due to activation lock. Being able to bypass Touch ID isn't going to help you.

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

mendocino — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 01:37:11 +0000

The last SoC where this has been the case is the A5 (using the the ARM Cortex-A9 MP). The Apple A6 and A7 don't use ARM cores and neither does Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.

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

mendocino — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:40:50 +0000

"so what's left to steal?"

The CPU? ARMv8 isn't a thing, it's an instruction set specification, just like x86, implemented by various micro-architectures. Samsung doesn't do that (yet).

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

mendocino — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:28:53 +0000

The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?

New comment by mendocino in "New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering""

mendocino — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:11:30 +0000

> Learn the engineering skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up.

"Learn the engineering skills needed to build a web startup from the ground up." FTFY

New comment by mendocino in "I ported LaTeX to Javascript"

mendocino — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:43:00 +0000

Strange, seems to work fine on iOS.

New comment by mendocino in "What I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco"

mendocino — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:19:15 +0000

> I have no idea how anyone who isn’t working in a high tech role that pays an above average salary can live here.

I wondered that too. Anyone care to share how to get by with a non-tech salary in the bay area?

New comment by mendocino in "Is Apple failing to understand family users?"

mendocino — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:35:39 +0000

> You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account.

Not necessarily, you could have separate iCloud accounts for each family member and one shared iTunes/App Store account. You can use a different account for iTunes and the App Store, so you don't have to change accounts all the time. At least that's what we do.

New comment by mendocino in "Google Disabling Exchange Sync for Free Accounts"

mendocino — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:20:13 +0000

Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.

New comment by mendocino in "Samsung Exec Admits to Using Apple Products"

mendocino — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:19:31 +0000

Q: "Have you played with the Surface or Galaxy?"

Cook: "I have, yes. Both of those—and some others. What I see, for me, is that some of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs [user interfaces]. They steer away from simplicity. ..."

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85550-tim-cooks...

New comment by mendocino in "Minecraft augmented reality app announced for iOS"

mendocino — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:20:33 +0000

> I assume this mojang app uses markers too?

No! That's what makes it so awesome. It analyses the scenery and infers your position as you walk around.

New comment by mendocino in "The amount of crap Windows users have to put up with is incredible"

mendocino — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:04:29 +0000

> Not computer users, just the windows users.

Well, on a new Ubuntu installation the first thing I have to do now is:

  sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

But still way better than the crap windows users have to put up with.

New comment by mendocino in "Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes"

mendocino — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:43:59 +0000

The Galaxy S II has a proper RGB matrix. Galaxy S and Galaxy S3 are pentile though.

New comment by mendocino in "Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone is Dying"

mendocino — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:20:39 +0000

> we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform

> FAQ: Will you open source the Epiphany chips? > Not initially, but it may be considered in the future.

Well, that makes it a lot less interesting than I hoped it would be.

New comment by mendocino in "0x10c (Notch's new game)"

mendocino — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:51:27 +0000

Oh, I see. Thanks!

New comment by mendocino in "0x10c (Notch's new game)"

mendocino — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:41:06 +0000

> Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.

Mh, looks like he is off by a factor of 256 :)

New comment by mendocino in "Has Apple Peaked?"

mendocino — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:40:53 +0000

> Has any company in history been so large and yet so reliant on a single product?

Google? (AdWords)