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compilercreatoron Twitter.com Domain Seized by Syrian Electronic Army

I see it is still registered to Twitter Inc. in San Francisco? Anyone have a screenshot?

compilercreatoron Numba - JIT specializing compiler for annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM

Newer versions of PyPy also support a subset of numpy.

Is it CUDA only or can we submit code written in OpenCL, DirectCompute or C++ AMP etc?

Don't disagree with you overall, but I do have one nitpicl. There is nothing proprietary about the Boost license. Boost license is quite similar to MIT license.

compilercreatoron Huawei Plans Firefox OS Phone

About the N9, there is almost no relationship between Meego+Maemo hybrid on N9 and Tizen, except for use of the Linux kernel, despite some claims otherwise. APIs and most of the libraries appear to be very different. For example, Qt was the primary native API the N9 but is not supported in the official SDK for Tizen. Tizen is instead supporting Bada's native APIs.

Further, the critically acclaimed UI on the N9 was a proprietary solution developed by Nokia and Tizen has a different user interface.

compilercreatoron Google Now's smartphone is the real deal

The submitted title is somewhat non-sensical. Google Now smartphone makes it sound like there is a company/team called Google Now building a smartphone.

compilercreatoron Octave for Android

Which BLAS though? The reference BLAS implementation? That will have terrible performance. Would be interested to see if something better like ATLAS or OpenBLAS can be compiled for it. Recent versions of ATLAS do work on ARM Linux, so wondering if those can be easily ported to Android.

compilercreatoron Get 50GB of Box free for life

Has anyone used Box for personal data? How is the reliability and sync speeds compared to the competition?

compilercreatoron CSS 3D Clouds

Works great on my blackberry z10.

compilercreatoron Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never

I don't think it does out-of-the-box, but applications can hook into the Hub (the unified inbox) so it is possible to write an app to do that.

compilercreatoron Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never

I was using galaxy s2x. A variant of s2 with a 4.5 inch screen. That was hard to use single handed. This is my first blackberry so no idea how it compares with previous blackberry handsets.

compilercreatoron Review: BlackBerry 10 is better, much better, late than never

I got my Z10 yesterday and I can confirm that the phone (and all the gestures) are completely usable with just one hand. The phone size was selected pretty intelligently. I don't think the UI design would have worked with a bigger phone.

compilercreatoron KDE 4.10 has been released.

Qt Quick has many advantages over traditional Qt widgets:

1. It provides a simple JSON-like declarative syntax for defining UI layouts, and is quite easy to write new layouts for different use cases (desktop, tablet, netbook etc)

2. Very easy to do animations

3. Qt Quick is fully OpenGL accelerated in Qt 5 and beyond. While this KDE release is not using Qt 5, it provides a good transition path for the future.

compilercreatoron Android Renderscript from the perspective of an OpenCL/CUDA/C++ AMP programmer

Awesome. Thanks. Is there an email ID where I can send you a small note at? Or perhaps I can send you a PM on B3D forums?

compilercreatoron Android Renderscript from the perspective of an OpenCL/CUDA/C++ AMP programmer

Hi. Author here. Your name is quite famous in the GPGPU community, and it is great to hear that you now work on RSC. My experience does not compare to yours and I do hope my post is seen in a positive light. Would love to discuss the issues in depth sometime.

Anyway if you were to ignore everything in the post except one item, that would be to please fix gather/scatter in RSC. A parallel computing API without proper gather/scatter is simply not very useful, irrespective of whether it is on desktop or mobile.

I will keep following RSC and look forward to the developments you are hinting at.

compilercreatoron Building Firefox OS

Blackberry 10 Cascades is also based on QML syntax, though they implemented their own rendering engine instead of the QML implementation in Qt4.

compilercreatoron Namecheap Makes $44,000 Donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation

May I also recommend Nearlyfreespeech.net, an excellent registrar and host with a good record of upholding free speech?

One example of upholding free speech: http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2012/10/06/official-uk-gove...

compilercreatoron The Firefox OS marketplace is brilliant

Prior to 4.x, the "highly optimized JVM" you speak of was fully interpreted.

Slight correction: JIT compiler was first introduced in Android 2.2

compilercreatoron Now Google is blocking Windows Phones from accessing maps.Google.com

Relatedly, see also the Youtube access blocking on Windows Phone http://www.wpcentral.com/youtube-access-and-windows-phone-mi...

compilercreatoron “256 cores by 2013”?

Well it is about to be available in about 2 months. From Intel: "The Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor 5110P is shipping today with general availability on Jan. 28 with recommended customer price of $2,649."

compilercreatoron “256 cores by 2013”?

Well, about the 80 core Intel chip, you may be interested in the Intel Xeon Phi that has about 60 cores.

compilercreatoron AMD dismisses numerous open source developers

People may also want to check out the official response from AMD over at the Register. Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/amd_closes_german_os...

Part of the response: " We will continue to support the Linux kernel, and the software development work happening at the OSRC is being consolidated and will be performed at other AMD locations."

compilercreatoron GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes

I disagree about KDE4 not being customizable. While the earlier iterations of KDE4 (such as 4.1) were lacking in options, newer iterations like KDE 4.8/4.9 are really customizable. See also Linus Torvalds' recent post where he also praises the configurability of KDE4, saying that it may even be too configurable.

compilercreatoron Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM

People interested in the Pi may also be interested in the Parallela board kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...

$99 board with dual-core ARM Cortex A9 and a 16-core accelerator chip

compilercreatoron Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

Sorry apparently I was wrong about OpenMP support, not there right now but there is a C/C++ compiler with OpenCL.

compilercreatoron Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

OpenCL SDK support is provided. They also have a C/C++ compiler with OpenMP support.

edit: No OpenMP support.

compilercreatoron Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

Prepare to be surprised. The die size estimate for the Epiphany IV is 10mm-sq according to Adapteva. It is more appropriate to compare it to embedded GPUs than desktop GPUs in die size, power and performance.

For example, one particular embedded 40nm GPU design that I know about can deliver about 25 GFlops or so in the same die area.

compilercreatoron Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

I have backed this project. This is an interesting startup, with some good solid technology behind it. They have managed to design and tape out a chip with just a 2m dollar budget so far. The main draw of their architecture is not its peak, but rather its efficiency, both in terms of perf/watt and perf/die area. You can look at their manuals on the site.

Hoping their funding drive succeeds. I am liking the fact that ISA is being fully documented and we will have a fully open-source toolchain to work with the system.

(Disclaimer: Not associated with Adapteva in any way).

compilercreatoron Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone

Their attempts at marketing talk are indeed very bad, but their technology is pretty interesting.

compilercreatoron Ask HN: Do you prefer to use your real name or pseudonym for domains?

I use a pseudonym as the domain with my name was unavailable. If my real name was indeed available, I would use domain with real name.