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SIGGRAPH 2013(reddit.com)
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Reddit AMA: Bob Metcalfe and I invented Ethernet [now over](reddit.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
> 1080p camera... 60 FPS. Field of view increased by 60%.... > motion tracking... detect skin pigmentation changes related to heart rate In soviet russia, home entertainment system watches YOU! Seriously, imagine being a
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by 6ren 13y ago
> Without communicating with the field’s experts, Zhang started thinking about the problem. After three years, however, he had made no progress. “I was so tired,” he said. > To take a break, Zhang visited a friend in Colorado last s
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by 6ren 13y ago
char* a = "PHP"; while (*a) putchar(*a+++7);
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by 6ren 13y ago
Emacs is so good, it's listed twice to dilute the votes and give other editors a chance.
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World of Just Cause 2 - Using Creative Technology to Build Huge Open Landscapes(gamasutra.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
How long til you guys found a new company, that creates y-combinators?
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by 6ren 13y ago
my tl;dr : the magic of Silicon Valley is making it *safe* to work on *risky* things. reduce the risk of failure by having a lot of people around who will hire you next
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Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain(wired.com)
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Google I/O 2013: Keynote [NOW](youtube.com)
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Google I/O 2013: Keynote, when this post is 10 min old [LIVE](youtube.com)
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Go rejects helper idioms, UAP, op overloading, default parameters, exceptions(backstage.soundcloud.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
I didn't say Erlang was kool-aid, but that the claims that concurrency have been "solved" are kool-aid.
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by 6ren 13y ago
I looked into Erlang in some depth, and found its concurrency ability was due to shared-nothing modules (which smalltalk also has), which I think you refer to with "messaging". Race conditions can still occur, which I guess you include wit
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by 6ren 13y ago
Yeah, the limitation isn't hardware, but utilisation thereof. Maybe Go will change that; but I don't see it touting concurrent code as becoming trivial - just easier . (maybe I'm wrong?) Server loads are typically embarrassingly paralle
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by 6ren 13y ago
I was thinking they'd use motion blur - humans are good at seeing through that. But they don't blur. Each frame is crystal clear. Giving the bot 20 data instead of one, as you say.
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by 6ren 13y ago
Theory: when a language is often hyped, it means few are adopting it. Consider: lisp. In contrast: PHP, objective-C. I'll be interested in checking back in 5 years, to see what happened. But I admit, fast startup times and coroutines are bi
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by 6ren 13y ago
The Middle Way works for a lot of things (aka goldilocks, all things in moderation).
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by 6ren 13y ago
$1000 is an exaggeration, but chromebooks really are significantly cheaper than netbooks/laptops: $250 ARM and $199 Celeron. But you know, just now considering the restrictions that Apple, Google and Microsoft put on their mobile machines,
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ISS emergency spacewalk to repair ammonia leak [live video](nasa.gov)
57 points by 6ren 13y ago|13 comments
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by 6ren 13y ago
The design is not just functional, it also indicates origin - like a trademark. They aren't copying Apple for the design, but because it is known and valuable in the market. It's like making fake Coke, in a fake Coke can. i.e. it's a mar
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GPU sound synthesis(queue.acm.org)
9 points by 6ren 13y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 13y ago
> state-of-the-art-circa-1998, text-centric user interface Said like it's a bad thing... reddit works great on less powerful devices, and doesn't crash my browser, unlike mainstream websites usually do (actually, almost always). Dear "M
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by 6ren 13y ago
or shorten your window
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by 6ren 13y ago
48 DAYS (because I didn't pick up on it at first, even with your comment, it's so unexpected).
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by 6ren 13y ago
It also works in Melbourne (just tested my daily ride) for when you get back. NB: you can change the endpoints graphically. Though it's gotten caught up on an unnecessary roundabout, as if it were a way-point (even retracing the route to i
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by 6ren 13y ago
Me too. I've also heard of one instance of postnatal depression where it was hoped that having a child would solve problems the parents were experiencing, both personally and in the relationship (I have no idea if this is a common cause of
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by 6ren 13y ago
I've felt far happier moving towards success than actually having success. There's many aphorisms supporting this: the journey is the destination; it's better to travel than to arrive; getting there is half the fun. People are enthralled
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by 6ren 13y ago
Thanks! I didn't realize so much latency came from the device itself, but it's good to see confirming evidence that decreasing it would tremendously improve the experience. That's worthwhile research to measure how much improvement makes a

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