DeepDuh

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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Here's how the Japanese high speed trains deal with earthquakes: They have emergency break systems (I think its small ceramic globuli or something of the sort) and a really good forewarning system. 2011-3-11 all Shinkansen were at a halt wh
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
well ok, with imessage it doesn't work, but you also talked about phone calls. I agree, blacklisting should be there.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Integrating, assembling and perfecting existing technologies and ideas is what they are. Interface demos with similar or identical gestures existed before. Capacitive touch screens existed before. These two devices have been big leaps, yes,
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
well to each his own. In case of the cleanup phase before return I find it to be much cleaner with goto, since usually it's sub 10 lines and you'd have to program a function that gets pointers or objects passed that then get freed/destroyed
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
"Oh, so your 10.4 has indexed search and Expose? Well look at what my pimped XP can do.." "So you have hardware accelerated video filters? Well look at what I can fetch, hack and compile my Gentoo into.." I'm not saying Android is bad, but
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
One note on your point about changing return behaviour: That's the ONE case a goto is IMO warranted. If I have to choose between a dummy function, code duplication and a goto, I choose goto.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
As a Swiss I have to say: I hope you're wrong. Unfortunately, all indicators say you're right.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
How is HD resolution on an external display the same thing as DECODING IN SOFTWARE a HD flash video? Please keep in mind that Flash decoding is still not GPU supported on ARM devices (at least as far as I know). And concerning a target mark
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I actually think that besides performance issues on older macbooks, Xcode has developed quite nicely in the recent updates. At least for obj-C it's a pretty productive and powerful environment. I definitely prefer it over VS2008 and lower,
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Can't you just blacklist on your provider?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
yep. "How close to an Apple keyboard can you really get" seems to be one of the questions they have asked themselves. About the idea - it's kinda neat but I think it's 2-3 years too early. Graphics, ram and networking are ok in today's smar
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Could you elaborate? Why shouldn't two script engines run alongside each other, as long as it's not at the same time on the same data?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
That's really a fun example. It took me a while to even find the definition of f after having been distracted by all the comment clutter. Point taken.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I've heard about that Nvidia project. I think they are on the right track. The only thing that's missing is enough programmers (und thus software) for this model. As an example (and I'm saying this as a layman in terms of databases) I think
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Interesting. I'm currently using TestFlight for my first iOS project. This app doesn't really change the current workflow of registering new tester devices, does it? Btw. one thing that annoyed me about your service, is the lack of transpar
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
That being said, the Atoms themselves are nor a good benchmark in performance / Watt. I'd rather be interested in a comparison vs. current gen. xeon or interlagos systems. Sounds silly, but ARM has been making progress and I could see them
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Let's do some math here, shall we. Oil has an energy density of 45MJ/kg. Water has a specific heat of about 4.2 J per gramm-Celsius. So if ambient=20C and heated water=100C we have 4.2*80 ~= 340 J/gramm => 340kJ/kg. These zeolites are c
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Having used Vista and 7 side by side (test environment for a customer) I can say that you're spot on. It's many small things but they add up quickly. One example: network adapter settings are completely misnamed in Vista, a major pain to fi
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Well, your description is more or less how it works where I live (Switzerland). Downloading for yourself is not illegal here (it's in a legal grey zone, there have never been convictions against private downloaders and the government recent
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Avoiding processed food might be what's keeping you healthier in general. Not because processed food has bad nutrition but because the additives are tricking our bodies. I feel that if you stick to basic ingredients (at least nothing with t
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Here, let me give you a tranquilizer a day. Lower blood pressure is always good, right?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Ok. How about if I'm blind AND deaf? Can I get TV for free?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
It's hilarious that they apparently need to specify "colour" ;).
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
What I'd like to see are some hard scientific studies on whether vim, emacs or something like eclipse with pydev are more productive for python. I have a strong feeling that people who emphasize on the editor so much are missing the point:
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Does that mean an Air can run SC2?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
This reminds me of an anecdote from "The Codebook" from Simon Singh (highly recommended book btw.). One of the reasons, why the British could crack the Enigma code, was that German officers introduced rules on how to use the system. For the
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I'm trying to follow you as a (very interested) layman, so excuse me if I'm being stupid. Couldn't the failure to build quantum gravity be BECAUSE torsion has been excluded (which is I believe what the author suggests)? Maybe this is someth
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Yep it seems like it has grown quite a bit since I've looked at it last time. I still think a platform like this should be bigger - as in a substantial fraction of school children big. Every child should try playing with something like scra
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I see. I usually never let execution continue and log + exit instead, but you're right, an assert is easier in that situation.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I read the comments just expecting yours. Something must obviously bad if Dijkstra says so, right? We don't have to think for ourselves anymore if the god of CS himself has banned something, right?

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