Story: Android's Unlikely Success
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Launcher's Taking Up Too Much Memory
The web browser group was working weekends to try to get the memory usage down. Brian Swetland came out of nowhere with a simple fix. He made a little one line change in the kernel that freed up 32 megs and so he basically hid the memory. Some teams were very unhappy about this because they'd put in a lot of effort trying to cram things down into a fictionally small space.
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