10ren

56 ms·

451.
by 10ren 16y ago
The tablet looks pretty cool - though the multi-touch seemed a bit glitchy, not always picking up gestures. But it is alpha
452.
by 10ren 16y ago
Positronic? (the brains of asimov's robots). CPU with data is a bit like objects - except asynchronous, with true message passing. Like smalltalk or Erlang (or web services for that matter). Brain images, with parts lighting up depending on
453.
by 10ren 16y ago
I think that's partly because that was the focus of the talk. I believe that Drew (for example) had a working prototype of Dropbox before applying to YC, and he'd been thinking about it for years. Then, after funding, it was quite a while (
454.
by 10ren 16y ago
Here's video for a different talk, by Drew (Dropbox). There's a fair bit of overlap: http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510 (story here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303 )
455.
by 10ren 16y ago
The modern sense of a romantic character may be expressed in Byronic ideals of a gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his inspiration rather than the mores of contemporary society - http://en.wikipedi
456.
by 10ren 16y ago
I went alpine camping for a week once (Tasmania), and crossing a stream, the water was so cold it was physically extremely painful. But others in the group didn't mind as much, so I decided to adjust to it. At the end of the week, I was swi
457.
by 10ren 16y ago
The article talks about wireless power transmission, which relates to your point. I think as a mathematically capable physicist, he would be well aware of the inverse cube law (volume of a sphere with distance). I wonder what he was thinkin
458.
by 10ren 16y ago
Alas, you're right. I get 2.5-3.5 hours from my eee PC's 4400mAh battery; they have a 850mAh. Even though they have a much smaller screen and slower CPU, which will draw less power, a x5 smaller battery is definitely tiny. Still, to get it
459.
by 10ren 16y ago
I expect this thing has incredible battery life, but it doesn't seem to be on the website.
460.
by 10ren 16y ago
I like the JS bytecode idea, but it won't be as powerful as Java or .NET in terms of performance. Pertinent example: Flash improved its performance enormously from AS2 (ActionScript) to AS3, and one thing they did was add type info. Pertine
461.
by 10ren 16y ago
Why not have more than one row of alt-tabs; use the cursor keys to select which one. But in fact I do this already, just without the visual representation, and it's confusing too: - alt-tab between firefox and vim - ctrl-6 within vim - ctrl
462.
by 10ren 16y ago
It's interesting that the article said human recognition is up to 98%. We're not perfect. So perhaps another tack is for the computer to correct mistakes in a more natural way. eg. by asking; by checking what the word makes sense in terms o
463.
by 10ren 16y ago
It's 16GB. Flash is incredibly cheap now, you can get 4GB for $12 at the supermarket (that's AUD; pr $10 USD)
464.
by 10ren 16y ago
Google purchased the creators (On2 Technologies) of the basis (VP3) of Theora. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-will-open-so... Now, just because you create something doesn't mean it doesn't infringe on someone's patent (re
465.
by 10ren 16y ago
This is The Innovator's Dilemma, of mainframes to minis to workstations to PCs... when a small portable device is "fast enough", its other benefits enable it to beat a desktop (even though a desktop remains more powerful - just as a mainfra
466.
by 10ren 16y ago
The low framerate (24fps) became very noticeable for foreground objects for me, I think because their apparent velocity caused insufficient overlap between successive images. But I haven't noticed this in conventional movies - was it due to
467.
HP ARM netbook, AirLife 100 (android, touchscreen, 3G-always-on)(linuxfordevices.com)
33 points by 10ren 16y ago|12 comments
468.
by 10ren 16y ago
It's partial adoption. Instead of RESTful, why not the more accurate RESTy or RESTish? Because it doesn't sound good.
469.
by 10ren 16y ago
And way before that it had the HP200LX, a 300g DOS computer that ran for 35 hours(!) on 2xAA batteries (monochrome LCD). The closest today is the eee PC, which has heavier batteries, worse battery life [I'd have said the iPhone - but no key
470.
by 10ren 16y ago
Mathematicians mostly study the surprising consequences of what others create; and it's often easier to take action than know the consequences, as the latter requires perfect understanding. Poorly understood automation is the Frankenstein f
471.
by 10ren 16y ago
Sounds similar to pure science, which often ends up finding a use (you know that mathematician who deliberately choose an abstract area with no applications so that it would never end up being used for military purposes - and it was) It's t
472.
by 10ren 16y ago
And it's also not a jet, but a fan. A fan-strap? Nomenclature aside, it's still cool though.
473.
by 10ren 17y ago
> What does it mean to model the cat brain? They don't seem to have a way of testing it. Sounds like Dawkins' computer models of "insect" evolution: fun, interesting and even beautiful, but not falsifiable. Visual art rather than scienc
474.
by 10ren 17y ago
Sweet, but no demo yet: http://blog.dextrose.com/en/2010/04/09/dextrose-startet-aves...
475.
by 10ren 17y ago
My netbook (900MHz, 512 meg RAM) is blindingly fast for unix; but Eclipse was unusably slow.
476.
by 10ren 17y ago
If evolution is constantly changing, how can a creature be caught off guard? The answer is that in a closed system, it is possible to reach a stable point that it is difficult to jump out of: in the search space of genotypes, there is a loc
477.
by 10ren 17y ago
Note that I was talking about closed ecosystems. How do you explain the specific example I gave of the dodo? There are many other examples from similarly closed systems, such as New Zealand birds, before man (since we opened them). I woul
478.
by 10ren 17y ago
I don't quite follow your second sentence, but I agree that their staying at home doesn't necessarily mean they're peaceful (we're not); I was just noting one way that they might be peaceful. But if they are traveling around, our own histor
479.
by 10ren 17y ago
Closed ecosystems seem to reach a stable equilibrium of peace and natural harmony, eg Mauritius's dodo, so we don't need to fear aliens (er, unless they come here .) But earth itself is a closed ecosystem and it's not in harmony - for peac
480.
by 10ren 17y ago
Watching the video, he discovered 4 steps to the epiphany via Marc Andreesen's blog (this post, I guess: http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/book-of-the-week-best-bo... ), but in the context it seems more retroactive reassurance than gui

More ›