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I feel the same way about the chips reaching their physical limits. But I keep waiting for a new way we use them. We used to just churn out MHz and that was the metric. Then we got hyper-threading, multi-cores, GPU and other specific processors and new ways of programming to go with it all. I imagine we'll see the same. Just like the brain has different areas of processing, I'm hoping we'll see the same in silicon chips. Just like how we offload work from the general purpose cpu to the more efficient purpose build gpu or sound card etcs. Not saying every computer is going to have a GO chip in it, but maybe someday we'll have machine learning processors or who knows what. But yeah the advancements will be new designs and new ways of processing instead of more power.

I can just imagine a sql server team meeting where they discuss sql server's effect on laptop battery life. Given sql server's intended environment, I almost wonder if its activity is intentional.

Attempt to answer the question, or don’t comment at all. Don’t tell them to RTFM, Google it,

I think the point is that if you're going to tell them to RTFM or google it. you should also attempt to answer it or point them in the right direction. but don't tell them RTFM or Google it and nothing else. That doesn't help. A lot of time people have already tried that and don't know enough to know where to look or what to search. At least tell them to try googling XYZ or tell them check section whatever in the docs.

There's enough people out there hacking the echo and looking at the data getting sent back and forth that anything suspect would be all over HN and reddit within hours of the update that caused it. It has some closed source bits but watching the traffic is pretty trivial. Not saying they're not doing or won't do anything sneaky, but there's a good chance it'll get noticed if it does. Hell amazon already has so much info on me just from what I've willingly given them in account details and activity I'd almost be interested to see what more they think they'd get from eavesdropping and my everyday life. Maybe my ads will start being for things i want instead of things i just bought.

works great. lots of features. easy to use. I like it.

Simmer down comment section. So what if it's not the most perfect thing ever. This is neat. Good job by all that worked on it. I'll bet they learned a lot in the process and had fun doing it. thanks for sharing it with us.

From the article, “I started calling them identical twins because they are like identical people,” he said. “They are too similar to just happen by chance, but not absolutely precisely identical to the last molecule.”

geexbox is the closest thing i can think of. You can even use http://www.geexbox.org/iso-generator/ to put the movie and the os on disc/usb and boot to the movie basically.

people who are not you are confused by it and don't understand it

This is the history of computers and users. So many technologies that seem completely intuitive now started out just like this. being confused by it and don't understand it is only a problem if stays that way like shortcut key combos. Hamburger menus are like "right click". it's not that bad and when people have seen it a few times it won't be some confusing.

...I guess i just misunderstood the nature of your question. Yeah there's no way to tell if the history is everything they send or just the commands it heard. But at least it's something. Guess you're looking for something more along the lines of this type stuff

https://www.piettes.com/hacking-alexa-the-new-amazon-echo/

http://echo.amazon.com/js/eb25f-app.min.js

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_l...

But who knows. they could still be hiding stuff. time will tell

// TIL about JTRIG. neat! HN wouldn't let me use TravCav. Search that if you're curious.

You can go to http://echo.amazon.com/ and see the entire history of recordings with the option to delete any.

well obviously not. Don't let the article's title get you too riled up. This tool won't be replacing anesthesiologists completely. But this will help with this part of the job. Machines are useful tools and should be though of as such. An anesthesiologists shouldn't worry about this machine anymore than an airplane pilot worries about the autopilot.

I've been using AIDE since the early versions and it just keeps getting better and better. It's actually very usable given it's form factor. They've taken a lot of the environment's constraint into account. I wouldn't do all my android development solely from the phone, but I wouldn't mind it too much if I had to. It's a pretty solid IDE with a lot of great features. Using hacker's keyboard helps a lot because of all the special characters but most of the time I get by with the character bar they have above the keyboard. Just depends on what's being coded. I also have a dock for my Note 2 so i can use a regular keyboard, but I rarely bother. I use dropbox to sync the code and usually I'll do the heavy lifting on the computer in eclipse and then make small changes while I'm away from the computer in AIDE. Also being able to compile and run right from the phone is huge for me. It's not for everyone I'm sure but it's a great tool to have in your toolbox.