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841.
Self-control is contagious, study finds(sciguru.com)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
Reports indicate Siri computes primarily in the cloud (the whole sound file is sent), and that it's not on iPhone 4 for other reasons (e.g. reduce server load, increase 4S sales)
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by 6ren 15y ago
It's things like bandwidth between components ( EDIT and, in general, "fit" between components, and fit with the end-goal rather than with intermediate interfaces). I don't know Apple's internal design details, but they consistently out-pe
844.
by 6ren 15y ago
A nit: Hardware isn't just industrial design. Apple manages to squeeze a lot more performance out of the same components as others, because they do design in an integrated, interdependent way, rather than modular. This gives less flexibilit
845.
by 6ren 15y ago
Unfortunately, they need to license his level; and if it is sold with the official game, they arguably should pay him. This issue wouldn't occur if they coded his map for him as an independent modder's map - but a big part of the coolness o
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Ordered planar polymers created for the first time(physorg.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
847.
Gene Therapy Can Restore Vision, One Eye at a Time(theatlantic.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
kid seems to be down: http://www.kid-templating.org/ Here's wiki on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_%28templating_language%29
849.
by 6ren 15y ago
Awesome, but repeats pretty quickly. Idea: extend vocab with pitches of actual startups. Bonus: by chance, it will occasionally regurgitate those; and perhaps some good, not yet existing ones... EDIT not exact repeats, just the same keywo
850.
by 6ren 15y ago
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens That's the link to list the apps that have access to your account, but for the life of me, I can't work out how to get there from any of the other settings pages... EDIT it's second fr
851.
by 6ren 15y ago
I've been playing with CoffeeScript and Ruby lately, and was very weirded out by the lack of parentheses in method calls, til I started to see them as bash-like (but more sophisticated of course), where you just add the arguments. Ruby used
852.
Samsung Exynos 5250 (cortex A15) mass production in Q2 2012(anandtech.com)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
853.
Regexp finding longest common prefix of two strings(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
It's getting old, but the early editions of O'Reilly's "Java in a nutshell" (by David Flanagan) books were targeted specifically at C/C++ programmers learning Java. In my opinion, it's extremely well-written, being correct, clear, concise a
855.
Retina, dual-core, thicker: photos of iPad 3 backing(idownloadblog.com)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
856.
Ubuntu 12.04 ARM Performance Becomes Very Compelling(phoronix.com)
65 points by 6ren 15y ago|13 comments
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Mac OSX's kernel ported to ARM(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
I like how programmers target other programmers at different levels (and also that the more advanced you get, the more able you are to target less skilled programmers). Not sure that's fully correct, and lots of details to disagree with
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Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil(physorg.com)
4 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
860.
by 6ren 15y ago
I think it may also be related to a historical experimental/mathematical difference. Edison (US) admired Lord Kelvin (UK), who believed in constructing physical models of theories. He thought you had to be able to see it. Whereas Laplace
861.
by 6ren 15y ago
As a rough guide, you might factor in another 8-10 hours, because, according to Fred Brooks, a proper programming "product" takes about x3 as long as a "program". Taking a wider view, there's an appeal to "cloud components", where all comp
862.
by 6ren 15y ago
Curiously, rates for Italy and Germany are separated from other developed countries by about .5% http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
863.
by 6ren 15y ago
No. The site is a selling document, to potential developer-users. It sells the uptime and the honesty/integrity/trustworthiness of stripe. It should also be selling the simplicity, transparent communication and ease-of-use of stripe.
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by 6ren 15y ago
1. The graphic exaggerates your downtime (1 minute/day looks like a day - x1440 worse than it is). 2. (On the site) please explain what each status is and how they relate (or link to rel docs). I understand the website uses the API; yet
865.
by 6ren 15y ago
Stripe is intimidatingly good. A test mode that you don't need to sign up to play with. Excellent sinatra sample code for webhooks. Then, I read their background, which is also intimidatingly good: funded by PayPal founders; one co-founde
866.
by 6ren 15y ago
Ugly now beats beautiful later. An elegant solution requires a deep understanding of a problem, and that understanding takes a lot of data (awareness of cases), and then a lot of time and effort to create a simple theory of it and to create
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Swarm of Nano Quadrotors [video](youtube.com)
2 points by 6ren 15y ago|0 comments
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Beautiful Apps, Ugly Code(prog21.dadgum.com)
77 points by 6ren 15y ago|45 comments
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by 6ren 15y ago
From the referenced SO question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-c... on apps costing $50-150-250K to develop. Is there really enough money made from apps, to justify this cost?
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by 6ren 15y ago
Is ability to break compatibility due to being embedded? I recall that MS ships with each game the exact version of DirectX it need, so they are free to improve it without being hamstrung by back-compatibility.

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