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by 6ren 14y ago
A "language" in this context, is a set of strings. (a string is a sequence of symbols, e.g. a program). A grammar defines a language. For example, the regular grammar (a|b)(x|y) defines the language {"ax", "ay", "bx", "by"} U
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by 6ren 14y ago
15. (Shea's Law) The ability to improve a design occurs primarily at the interfaces. This is also the prime location for screwing it up. So true. Parnas' paper on information hiding and decomposing into modules is of course also a
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by 6ren 14y ago
Maybe, a (typical programmer's) toolbox.
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mouse, touchscreen, eyetracker(engadget.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
I think you're exactly right: the danger isn't outright theft, but inspiring something even better. As you say, that's progress. SOTSOG. But it would be nice to reap some reward for your blood, sweat and tears; to at least have your day in
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Why is programming fun? (Brooks)(grok2.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
10 years is an interesting test. Moore's Law predicts density increase of 100-fold ( 2^(10/1.5)= 101.6 ). Cost and processing power usually follow. 100x faster phones overshoots most demand for desktops, so not only would desktops be repla
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by 6ren 14y ago
Looks like you need to bookmark the url that is generated when you save. It's probably still in your browser history (with the same title of as your post).
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by 6ren 14y ago
When I first heard about java applets many years ago, I had an irresistible intuition that they were somehow related to Apple.
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CFG grep, wc, diff(github.com)
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Chromebook (Exynos 5, 2GB) Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon(amazon.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
"books" appears 3 times on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canada
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by 6ren 14y ago
3D printing is disruptive, not to industrial manufacturing, but to the retail value-chain. As mail-order is currently disrupting retail, 3D printing will disrupt both retail and mail-order. "Ink" will be sold as a commodity at supermarkets
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by 6ren 14y ago
cute idea, but most hits are a year old. Search by date instead: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+just+r...
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jq: sed for json(stedolan.github.com)
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Intel in Talks to Build ARM Chips for Apple(tomshardware.com)
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$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB(hardkernel.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
My theory: many disorders are stress-related. Receiving care - even if it's a sham - relieves stress. Going deeper: we human animals have limited physiological resources. Are they channelled into healing or surviving? If you are in a dang
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's amazing how well my eyes reconstruct the original image from the demo http://persistent.info/web-experiments/temporal-dithering/ I had to blink (to capture a "screenshot" in my eyes) to see that the distorted frames were really there
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by 6ren 14y ago
Which makes PSY hitting a billion all the more impressive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
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by 6ren 14y ago
A market would also fix this, in effect averaging over the entire population. Given players' anger at pieces not dropping as often as they "should", the market would converge approximate the true ratio between drop frequencies of different
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by 6ren 14y ago
So expensive, this would need to be targeted extraordinarily well for it to be worthwhile for advertisers. Which is possible, because fb knows so much more about you than even google. When ads are targeted well enough , they stop being spa
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by 6ren 14y ago
Great analysis. Yes, cost structure; yes, ARM is the incumbent with all those forces in their favour, such as being tuned to the upgrade rhythm of the phone market. A way out for Intel is their world-leading foundries, with process shrink a
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by 6ren 14y ago
To be fair, process shrinks, the driving force of computing power, are measured as lengths e.g. 32nm.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Second, it assumes that the USPTO's search actually works well (it does not). Google Patent Search may help https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts
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Though not for coining it.
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There's no need for the spider to know what itself looks like. If it builds something that increases survival/reproduction, that trait will be selected for. The spiders’ webs were crafted around face-height, near the trail This make
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Interview with Bill Joy (1984)(web.cecs.pdx.edu)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Moore's law is not decelerating - transistor density is doubling on schedule, with process shrinks happening like clockwork. Smartphone performance has actually been doubling yearly - better than Moore's Law. If there are fewer transist
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It's as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/douglas-r-hof... I see what DRF means, and

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