It’s great to see how the simplest things we take for granted are engineered and improved. Case in point: Facebook’s std::string replacement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk
It’s great to see how the simplest things we take for granted are engineered and improved. Case in point: Facebook’s std::string replacement.
Keine Totenmesse am Frühstückstisch!
Hat mir meine Frau verboten. ?
A brief and entertaining talk by an obviously excited presenter. 🙂 It goes into the same directions as Jim Weirich’s talk about the Y combinator.
The Rowhammer class of exploits never stops to amaze.
After almost three years I the glass of my OnePlus One broke. A repair shop in town refused to repair it, because it was a “not so common” model (i.e. no Apple or Samsung phone).
The good thing is there’re several tear-down/screen replacement guides on the Internet. Also the screen + touch digitizer assembly + tools can be ordered from Amazon (for around 40€).
The phone is fairly easy to disassemble, and there’re tons of videos showing you the step by step (dis-)assembly.
There’s not much adhesives and it’s not very strong, so they’re not much of an issue (except the one for the battery, see below).
There’re still a few points to look out for:
In the end I managed to repair it, but the ribbon cable coming from the display is 3-5mm to long so it’s pushing on the display from below. After a few days one side of display separated from the adhesive tape below opening a gap. 😕
Sadly WhatsApp will start sharing your account information with Facebook. You can’t prevent Facebook getting the data, you can only opt-out of them using it for ads.
It seems ad networks have reached a new low or as the author puts it:
This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it.
The maker of the mega processor has a series of videos describing the basics of how transistors are used to create logical gates.
An interesting read from a doctor of philosophy with a consulting firm who went through a huge pile of management theory books to see what he missed by not having a formal “management education.”