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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. DRM-free, of course. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments.

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Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage

The Morning Paper

This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) joins) during query processing. Workload characteristics.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

.” Basic understanding In order to understand segmentation fault, it is necessary to understand memory management methods for processes. When a program leaves the memory, space becomes available; however, the OS may or may not be able to allocate vacant memory space to another program or process as it has some issues.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

I’m personally interested in this topic since I am a professor who researches human-computer interaction, user experience design, and cognitive science , so AI voice interfaces are fascinating to me. I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance.

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

The design of the HTML5 Web Worker interface turns out to be a great match for migration – Workers are already designed to work on a separate thread communicating via message passing, and are typically used to offload expensive computation that you don’t want to do in the main thread with the user waiting. in the cloud).

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