Re:Large uptick in Qt usage?
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On the startup issue I think it was many times applications and not Qt that were slow. For Arora (
http://arora-browser.org/) I spent time making it startup very quick. I wanted to be able to launch the browser from nothing whenever I clicked on a link. Feel free to check it out yourself and see how fast startup can be. Qt 4.5 has improved performance across the board and no doubt some of that will help on startup also.
Re:time to port gnome!
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Should be out before summer, on #qt people are saying March.
Sounds like it is pretty core to the company. If that is so it is probably worth paying a developer to fix the issues that you need fixed. Even something on rent-a-coder, the cost of the developer will no doubt be cheaper then the MS office license price and you get to be in control.
At least for Linux I wrote up a bunch it two months ago here:
http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/11/status-of-chromium-on-linux.html
Summary: It didn't even compile on anything but a very specific windows compiler when it was launched in September. Chrome was done by a Visual Studio team entirely on Windows. Now they are discovering all the fun of not planing ahead for cross platform.
On 32bit Windows even if they have 4GB of ram, they can only use 3GB of it. And being Windows that 3GB doesn't last long at all. Developers, gamers, lots of every day people (i.e. not servers) will be itching to move to 64bit Windows so that they can actually use 4GB+ of ram or even go out and get 8/16GB of ram. While it might be easier for Linux or OS X users to move to 64bit the every day user doesn't need to, but the Windows users will be eying it in the hope that it works.
Looking on dell.com, the budget Windows desktop computer comes with the maxed out 3GB of ram.
Note that those who buy a HDTV will still discover that they DVD look _much_ better on the new tv then on the old one. Sure they might start buying bluray dvd's, but only if they get a player and until then dvd's will still look good, not to mention be cheaper.
Same here. I went over to a friends house and tried out a dozen demos that he had from XBox-live. I found several of them to be very fun and then went out and bought them. Other then that the only games I have bought in the past few years have been from me working my way through a 25-top games for the ps2 list. So unless you are writing a killer game you need to give me a demo. The one exception being that I absolutely refuse to buy a single player game that requires a net connection for "conformation" because one day I know it will screw me over.
Yah mozilla keeps destroying my names. I have been icefox sense 1997 and could usually get that nick everywhere I went, but ever sense firefox came out it has been harder and harder to get the nick icefox. And now this:(
This will no doubt lead to confusion with the Arora webkit browser.
http://arora-browser.org/
Sigh... I spent a good chunk of time finding the name and making sure there wasn't any conflicts out there. And then comes along not only a software application, but a browser...:( Should I change my name or ask them to change theirs?
-Benjamin Meyer
The first part yes, the second part kinda. A number of the new recommendation algorthms such as pearsons (an implemention of it I have coded here http://icefox.net/programs/?program=NetflixRecommenderFramework) can deal with two seperate personalities sharing the same account. I am not justifing the actions just saying that the new algo's kick the old netflix one and they can actually deal with this problem reasonable well while before they couldn't.
We don't have nightly binaries, but the Arora browser does build against webkit trunk: http://arora-browser.org/ And it is not a wrapper, but it has enough that I can use for the majority of my browsing.
"Importing bookmarks is a core feature of a beta."
Importing it is a core feature period. I am hacking on a webkit browser (linux+mac+win) http://arora.googlecode.com/ and one of the first things I did with bookmarks was implement importing. (Granted it was only xbel importing, but that was because it was easy to export all my existing bookmarks from all my browsers to xbel.) This was so that I could migrate to using Arora as my primary browser. As long as your bookmarks are in your old browser your new browser will never be your primary browser and basic performance problems will never be found/fixed from eating your own dogfood.
Haha you are thinking way to slow. Most everyone on the top list has already being contacted for jobs, not be Netflix, but all sorts of other companies.
Most everyone who tried was able to beat Netflix's existing system. I put together a little framework to help people get up and running faster. A lot of people seemed to be spending time just getting all the data into memory before they got to play with any algorithm ideas. I include a few algorithms including Simon Funk's which should be enough to get you started. http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=NetflixRecommenderFramework
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On the startup issue I think it was many times applications and not Qt that were slow. For Arora ( http://arora-browser.org/) I spent time making it startup very quick. I wanted to be able to launch the browser from nothing whenever I clicked on a link. Feel free to check it out yourself and see how fast startup can be. Qt 4.5 has improved performance across the board and no doubt some of that will help on startup also.
Should be out before summer, on #qt people are saying March.
Sounds like it is pretty core to the company. If that is so it is probably worth paying a developer to fix the issues that you need fixed. Even something on rent-a-coder, the cost of the developer will no doubt be cheaper then the MS office license price and you get to be in control.
You could do something like trolltech and make a dual license library.
At least for Linux I wrote up a bunch it two months ago here: http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/11/status-of-chromium-on-linux.html Summary: It didn't even compile on anything but a very specific windows compiler when it was launched in September. Chrome was done by a Visual Studio team entirely on Windows. Now they are discovering all the fun of not planing ahead for cross platform.
On 32bit Windows even if they have 4GB of ram, they can only use 3GB of it. And being Windows that 3GB doesn't last long at all. Developers, gamers, lots of every day people (i.e. not servers) will be itching to move to 64bit Windows so that they can actually use 4GB+ of ram or even go out and get 8/16GB of ram. While it might be easier for Linux or OS X users to move to 64bit the every day user doesn't need to, but the Windows users will be eying it in the hope that it works. Looking on dell.com, the budget Windows desktop computer comes with the maxed out 3GB of ram.
A few weeks ago I wrote up a summary of the status of chromium on linux. http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/11/status-of-chromium-on-linux.html Summary: You can run it, but a full chrome will be no time soon.
So what does that make FireFox hmmm?
Note that those who buy a HDTV will still discover that they DVD look _much_ better on the new tv then on the old one. Sure they might start buying bluray dvd's, but only if they get a player and until then dvd's will still look good, not to mention be cheaper.
Was the deduction more then $80?
Same here. I went over to a friends house and tried out a dozen demos that he had from XBox-live. I found several of them to be very fun and then went out and bought them. Other then that the only games I have bought in the past few years have been from me working my way through a 25-top games for the ps2 list. So unless you are writing a killer game you need to give me a demo. The one exception being that I absolutely refuse to buy a single player game that requires a net connection for "conformation" because one day I know it will screw me over.
Fresh screenshots: http://code.google.com/p/arora/wiki/Screenshots
Yup, been working a little bit on a page with lots of screenshots. For right now you can find some on the blog: http://arorabrowser.blogspot.com/
Yah mozilla keeps destroying my names. I have been icefox sense 1997 and could usually get that nick everywhere I went, but ever sense firefox came out it has been harder and harder to get the nick icefox. And now this :(
This will no doubt lead to confusion with the Arora webkit browser. http://arora-browser.org/ Sigh... I spent a good chunk of time finding the name and making sure there wasn't any conflicts out there. And then comes along not only a software application, but a browser... :( Should I change my name or ask them to change theirs?
-Benjamin Meyer
What if you work for an open source company? Would you reject code I have done in Qt?
Another edit, BSP a Quake level editor from the mid ninties (The BSP Homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bernier/). The application is no longer in development and has been given to me by the author to do with what I wish. The original code along with my modified GPL'd version is located here: http://icefox.net/programs/?program=Archive/BSP
The first part yes, the second part kinda. A number of the new recommendation algorthms such as pearsons (an implemention of it I have coded here http://icefox.net/programs/?program=NetflixRecommenderFramework) can deal with two seperate personalities sharing the same account. I am not justifing the actions just saying that the new algo's kick the old netflix one and they can actually deal with this problem reasonable well while before they couldn't.
We don't have nightly binaries, but the Arora browser does build against webkit trunk: http://arora-browser.org/ And it is not a wrapper, but it has enough that I can use for the majority of my browsing.
"Importing bookmarks is a core feature of a beta." Importing it is a core feature period. I am hacking on a webkit browser (linux+mac+win) http://arora.googlecode.com/ and one of the first things I did with bookmarks was implement importing. (Granted it was only xbel importing, but that was because it was easy to export all my existing bookmarks from all my browsers to xbel.) This was so that I could migrate to using Arora as my primary browser. As long as your bookmarks are in your old browser your new browser will never be your primary browser and basic performance problems will never be found/fixed from eating your own dogfood.
So KDE or Gnome? We sure know how to choose standards alright.
Haha you are thinking way to slow. Most everyone on the top list has already being contacted for jobs, not be Netflix, but all sorts of other companies.
Most everyone who tried was able to beat Netflix's existing system. I put together a little framework to help people get up and running faster. A lot of people seemed to be spending time just getting all the data into memory before they got to play with any algorithm ideas. I include a few algorithms including Simon Funk's which should be enough to get you started. http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=NetflixRecommenderFramework
In one of the videos they show Quake running so there must be some way to compile c/c++ code.
I used KTouch to learn how to type on a dvorak keyboard and found it to be a very good app.