BoppreH

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by BoppreH 15y ago
When learning new languages, by far the best project I've seen is the minimalist task manager. It accepts only command line parameters, and just actions to add, edit, remove and print. But it covers: - control flow - strings - array
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by BoppreH 15y ago
There's flash a game that does it, but you have to buy the progressive upgrades with in-game money: http://armorgames.com/play/3955/upgrade-complete Except it doesn't end at anything near photorealistic.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Awesome. My only concern is the time to set up the wings, which seems quite a work. He says the wings are under a zipper, and there's the big mast that needs to be raised, this can't be quick.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
I think it's about the Kinect and how Microsfot isn't suing the guys who made PC-drivers.
845.
by BoppreH 15y ago
People have said it many times before, but there's no such flag in this version of Chrome (11.0.696). Is it OSX specific?
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by BoppreH 15y ago
Tested with Chrome 11.0.696 (couldn't find the Web Audio flag), Opera 11.10, Firefox 6.0a1 and even Internet Explorer 9. No sound at all. Can someone give a description of what's supposed to happen?
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by BoppreH 15y ago
I think the problem is that the user may want to seek parts of the movie. Maybe downloading just the next minutes and lowering the quality for a few seconds after a seek could help. Not so much wasted data and still acceptable seek time.
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by BoppreH 15y ago
http://www.wolftronix.com/tail/ Video: http://www.wolftronix.com/videos/PA010005.MOV They have a full furry suit, if you are into that.
849.
by BoppreH 16y ago
If they can be trapped using photons for this long, I guess they don't react?
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"I have Dissociative Identity Disorder. AMA"(reddit.com)
9 points by BoppreH 16y ago|0 comments
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by BoppreH 16y ago
The TiGr is our titanium lock system, it’s secure, versatile, elegant, light, easy to use and easy to store. A really secure bike lock that’s actually sexy. I think that's a good enough elevator pitch.
852.
by BoppreH 16y ago
Can we get a user preference, as the case with show_dead and topcolor? I don't see that could be bad for anyone. "Show score on posts: (yes/no)"
853.
by BoppreH 16y ago
There's also a "turtle" module that came included in my Py3k distribution. Not sure about 2.x versions. Giving commands like "turtle.forward(10)" opens an asynchronous tk window showing the "turtle" (an arrow, really) and a line where it ha
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Your 3G plan, in your country. Please don't be so quick to dismiss movements that could help other people but not you. Here, a 3G plan with 1 gigabyte cap costs 90 bucks per month. The 8 GB plan is almost half the minimum wage. I would kill
855.
by BoppreH 16y ago
Last I checked, downvoting posts was 500 karma, and articles couldn't be downvoted, only flagged.
856.
by BoppreH 16y ago
Electronic voting?
857.
by BoppreH 16y ago
Wait, are you talking about articles on HN? Because only comments have their score hidden, you can still see how many points each article has. My point was comparing newspapers brands/articles to HN comments , not articles, since you don't
858.
by BoppreH 16y ago
A better example would be choosing which newspapers to read based on your friend's recommendations, versus choosing by yourself. All articles from the same newspaper share a source and it already ensures some quality.
859.
by BoppreH 16y ago
Maybe using the "top color" from the user's settings?
860.
by BoppreH 16y ago
Question: for the random number generator, instead of changing the internal prime numbers, can't you use a seeded generator (e.g.: mersenne twister), using the "i" value (the function number) as a seed?
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by BoppreH 16y ago
It might not be lawful, but I see it as somehow less wrong than stealing cables in use, or starting the trend. Related video, though I don't endorse this guy's actions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkLI2ywzRsA "I steal copper, not [fr
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by BoppreH 16y ago
If the story was about a dog that dug some wires I would agree, but people are capable of a lot of things, even at old age. God knows how long she'd been digging. Also, on the Guardian article: The cable is owned by the Georgian railw
863.
by BoppreH 16y ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c... "An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neig
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by BoppreH 16y ago
The guardian articles seems to explain it better: Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cab
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by BoppreH 16y ago
She was digging for copper wires, and not even in her property. The photo you see with a small scissors is just a stock photo.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
The thing that always bothered me about cloud computing is where the cloud gets its resources when everybody has a spike, such as during holidays.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Curious about hearing the expression before, I went to search and discovered that "embarrassingly parallel" seems to be the correct technical term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I'm under the impression they fitted only the most basic operations, and the surprise was that the bigger picture followed too, as if the program and the human brain were following the same steps.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
30 ms doesn't seem possible. Check the Human Benchmark for statistics, the fastest ones are around 100 ms: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/stats.php Maybe light delay was not randomized and people were just predicting whe
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by BoppreH 16y ago
You think that's bad? Try a third world country, like Brazil. Not only the services are not available, but the hardware itself costs 4x more. I loved the initiative, but it could be much better if it weren't tied to just Canada.

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