Dav3xor

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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Woohoo! Now I don't have to tear my web game apart for IE support. They were hinting at doing SVG a few months ago, it's nice to see they're stating it officially.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
(And to get things started -- we got a Skype interview with Harj, who is a super nice guy.)
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Mostly working on the Awesomization Process. Out of curiosity; if you applied early, did you get some preliminary contact from Y-C?
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Welcome -- to Zumodrive Pay no attention to the Cylons behind the mirror. It's impressively quaint that they think they can protect your data by not telling you how it's encrypted.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
The US Patent System has just been owned by Kurt Godel. and Halliburton -- oh crap.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
A friend of mine used to work for a local television station. When a local business wanted to run an ad, they had an internal form that got filled out that had a field that said -- "Customer has expressed an interest in having his (pet, sm
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
"I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principal of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their p
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Yeah, she she's spent a lot of time on setting it up to work (mostly) without a keyboard -- She says Quickscript is really good (but has some bugs). I want to play with it more myself, but it's one of those "you can have it when you pry it
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
My wife has a modbook, and it is made of unmitigated awesome. It's a little heavy, and the display is a bit dim because of the glass screen cover... But it's awesome. And the price is very reasonable. The stylus works really well (and c
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Hehe, Lisp is oatmeal, Perl is Lucky Charms...
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
That's a 0xFA1AFE1 lot for 4 bytes.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I suppose the theoretical limit is 1 bit -- if you define the program in terms of a virtual machine that takes 1 instruction -- "play a game of chess".
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
You need some sort of related technology called 0xDEADBEEF.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
errr, Battleaxe.. not sword. obviously.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Nothing says "I would never want to work there" more than a giant bronze compass with corpspeak at the cardinal points and a sword wielding maniac riding a spiky cat in the center.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
A little bit of all those things -- it worked just fine, on the device, for 2 years, including the occasional eastern hemisphere TFR. It only happened with a TFR that was close to the international date line which made the ascii -> flo
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I work on avionics. It's a great job, except you have no idea when or how things can go drastically wrong. We had a bug in our weather data parser that didn't surface in 2 years of constant testing. The weather receiver is only supposed
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Sad about the Difference engine -- I was there on one of the days when they turned the crank (totally by accident). If you show up on a 3rd Saturday of the month(I think it's the 3rd Saturday), you can see the PDP-1 run and meet one of the
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Portland is beer obsessed.. The owner of Hopworks (the brewery in the clip, makes a brief appearance) is my backyard neighbor -- super nice guy. Makes totally Organic beer, and owns a very nice bicycle powered bar.
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Yep, that's the entirety of the circuit. This will work with any drum brain I know about (but it's been a few years since I did it, so YMMV...) This worked with an old Alesis D4 that I bought at a pawn shop. And I know it'll work with a
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I looked at the map, and it struck me, when did we bomb Mississippi? The answer? [1964]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Uniform )...
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Cool! BTW, if you're interested in doing this sort of thing -- 2-wire piezo buzzers from radio shack make good velocity sensitive sensors. I built an electronic drumset out of PVC pipe and plywood and taught myself how to play drums with i
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I haven't looked, but it should be fairly easy to convert. Unless the data is in one of the proprietary GIS formats, then you're in for a late night hellride. GDAL/OGR may be your friend, or may not. It looks like a nice dataset, but only
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I once calculated the amount of power that could be generated by solar cells on the wings of a small light plane. 3hp, at 100% efficiency. I'm totally unsurprised that they had to make something with the wingspan of an Airbus to get this t
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I interviewed 2 recent college grads about a year ago, and they both had the same problem. Both had a demo they had made (this was for someone to help with OpenGL work), and seemed to be reasonably competent and intelligent. What I worry a
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
My mom had a business were she took a sketch from a (couture) designer, and made patterns for production. There's all sorts of value added there you can exploit (designing a pattern that someone can actually wear is a learned skill that no
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
This can also help performance -- you get much better cache coherency by putting the components in arrays (an array of bounding boxes, an array of geometry...), and then you can do all sorts of cool data transformation tricks on these array
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
I built an aviation mapping engine that used fixed point math for lat/lon representation. It basically used an entire 32bit signed int and gave a guaranteed minimal resolution of 3 feet. It would quite often go to the ragged edge of what
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
Those are all very fair criticisms, but by simply running gnome-panel with Xmonad, you get 80% of what you want. Apologies for the evangelism. :)
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by Dav3xor 17y ago
You've probably had 20 other people tell you about this; but switching to a tiled window manager will remove that whole 'careful placement of windows' thing from your life in a very positive way.

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