DrSprout

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by DrSprout 16y ago
Open source only works when you have massive competing companies contributing.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>It works great for them on their Neckbeard 9000 Triple Quad Dual X Neon Nvidia NIOPIATE computer with SSDs in RAID-26 configuration. That sounds a little more epic than my Core 2 Quad with 4GB of DDR2 and an Nvidia 9800GT, but I can't
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Which ones do you keep around? The yes men, the indifferent, or the naysayers?
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Provide only high level access to the graphics capabilities of your platform In other words, no.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Is there really a way to make OpenGL development simple and consistent across a wide range of GPUs and screens? It sounds to me like he's complaining more about how hard low-level cross-platform graphics programming is, not Android itself.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I would say it's a tribute to Android that it has such wide applications. It's a cheap and mostly functional device. Android devices aren't fashion statements; they are commodities.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The entire planet would have been with them. You want to die lonely, you can do that anywhere.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Redirect. Not link.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Personally, I prefer raw elisp to calc.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Increasingly their users are going to be using Macs and Android, and I really do expect Linux distros to start to see an upswing as data becomes accessible on more and more devices.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I prefer having unobtrusive ads for everyone. I'm not a "no ads" person, just a "ads should not get in the way of the content." The worst thing for me right now is that when there's a question, there's an ad located right where the header s
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I wish Google would take this one step further and redirect to maps when I enter a string that looks like an address.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I don't necessarily have anything against ads, but less obtrusive ones would be nice, and more importantly the core data should be free. I don't see why something closer to Reddit (but with a slightly more evolved interface) couldn't functi
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by DrSprout 16y ago
What really turns me off to StackOverflow is how much the ads flow into the content and are really difficult to ignore. I know that they've got a user-base that needs some extra coaxing to look at ads, but it really diminishes the site's ut
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by DrSprout 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383596
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>We aren't talking about the "rare" individuals. The linked article specifically talked about a case where the woman's doctor told her there are genetic reasons for her obesity. Also, there is a limit to where losing weight is an unques
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Naturally, if you consume 25% fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. However, you will be less healthy as a result. There's a very narrow band where you can actually lose weight in a healthy manner. It varies from person to per
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It's a lot more complicated than that. The human body is not a simple engine with a fixed metabolism. Even if we switch to a more variable metabolism model, simply scaling your eating to your activity will not necessarily cause you to lose
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>The reality is that distributed decision making in many instances yields better decisions. And hopefully fewer instances of people getting rich on the cheap. Like charging millions of dollars per megabyte of text sent over cell network
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Universities are the last place where people actually attempt to expand human knowledge through research and are willing to teach you their subject. It's the one place where you can go study something entirely and totally useless like
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Well, they would have better battery life if someone would build one. The ultimate coding/writing machine for me would be a full-size Lenovo chassis/battery with a 7 inch screen and a 500mhz arm CPU. Plus maybe some solar panels on the back
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I like how the 1940 census lists "Indian" and "Hindu" as separate races. I'm pretty sure I know what they mean, but just the same...
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The key value of Facebook is mass-opt-in messaging, including photos/videos as a sort of message. So if I'm going to such and such a party, I don't need to seek people out, I just post it on Facebook and people will know what I'm up to if t
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by DrSprout 16y ago
HN needs to scale up the voting arrows for mobile. That was supposed to be an upvote.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Yes and no. I just made the mistake of looking at /r/pics, and it's a sty. That said, there are a variety of good communities on Reddit.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Tynt was the primary thing that drove me to install NoScript.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
They were talking about this spill on NPR the week the spill came out. There are plenty of news outlets doing good journalism and it would seem that you yourself are not paying any attention to them. So stop blaming the media. In any case,
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Well sure, if you go to a big degree mill. I went to a small liberal arts school in the States, and classes were participatory, and it was very difficult to attend without changing the dynamic of the class. I think the lesson is choose your
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I think my favorite character of this variety is John Francis, dubbed planet walker. [ http://www.planetwalker.org/ ] That he spent years under a vow of silence never once setting foot in a motor vehicle and still managed to get a PhD and a
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Yeah, I'm saying that from what I'm reading they must have intentionally been looking to create a completely native app that is worse than the Flash-compiled one. That or the descriptions of the app are somewhat overcritical.

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