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Howdy Pierce The Continuing Devaluation of “k” Video By Howdy Pierce The digital video industry seems destined to make resolution confusing. I just got back from NAB last week, where “4k video” was everywhere, and I want to tell you a story about video resolutions. (This is all using the resolutions that are common in the NTSC world, which basically means in the U.S. and Canada…. View Article Details
Google Is Feeling Creepy Outsourced Engineering By Ben Mesander When you enable location access, Android says Allow Google’s location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running. This seems both fair and harmless, so I didn’t think too much about it. But it turns out to be a little creepier than you might think. Details
Howdy Pierce I Wish More Engineers Could Write Outsourced Engineering By Howdy Pierce Over a year ago, a computer science faculty member asked me what skills I wished CS programs would teach their graduates. I’m sure he expected a response along the lines of “teach Node.js” or “teach more networking” or “teach operating system theory.” (And for the record, I do think they should teach those topics.) It’s… View Article Details
Beating Your Internal Estimate Outsourced Engineering By Chad Scates Recently, we’ve had two potential customers say to us, in so many words, “My internal engineering team has estimated this project to take X months, and I think that’s too long — can you do it faster?” There are two ways to interpret this… Details
Mike Perkins How Low Can You Go? Video By Mike Perkins Last night I went to the Denver IEEE meeting of the Signal Processing Society. I was particularly interested in this talk because it was given by Gary Sullivan, the co-chair of the recent international standardization effort to create the High Efficiency Video Coding Standard (HEVC). Details
what is CRC networking blog What is CRC Networking? Understanding the Cyclic Redundancy Check Software Development By Ben Mesander CRC stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check — an error-detecting code used to determine if a block of data has been corrupted. The mathematics behind CRCs may initially appear daunting, but don’t have to be. Our engineer presents an alternative explanation useful to the software implementor of CRCs. Details
TI’s Video SoC Dilemma Outsourced Engineering By Mike Deeds We’ve had the pleasure to work with Texas Instruments’ high-end video processor families (DM8168 and DM8148) over the past few years on a number of different projects. These are highly integrated Systems-on-Chip (SoC) that contain many independent subsystems such as an ARM Cortex CPU, a DSP, video compression/decompression engines, a 3D graphics accelerator, and a… View Article Details
Howdy Pierce My Threads Question Outsourced Engineering By Howdy Pierce If we interview you here at Cardinal Peak, we’re going to assume you’re competent to use Google, and we’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you can look up answers to weird corner cases. What we really want to know is how deeply you understand how a computer works. Details
Howdy Pierce I Want Widgets that Come With an API Software Development By Howdy Pierce Aside from the glut of “UltraHD” televisions at CES this year, I saw two other trends that seem noteworthy to me but that have not been highly reported in the tech press: There is a huge number of Internet-connected home sensors of all kinds, and also a much large concentration of smart or connected fitness… View Article Details
Cardinal Peak Develops Blockbuster App Software Development By Chad Scates I’m proud to announce the release of the Blockbuster app for Android, developed by Cardinal Peak. The app launched this week in the Google Play store. It allows subscribers to manage their Blockbuster By Mail queue as well as find nearby stores, check a title’s availability in a store, and more. Check it out! Details
Howdy Pierce Computing Primes in Python and C++ Software Development By Howdy Pierce Explore prime number computation: Python vs. C++. Discover speed insights between these languages using the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. Download Python and C++ code here! Details
Howdy Pierce Keep That Product Simple! Outsourced Engineering By Howdy Pierce When it comes to bringing a brand new product to market, keep it simple. The important thing is to get to market quickly, with low development costs, and get feedback from your customers about how to make the product better. Details
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