Erwin

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by Erwin 14y ago
CrowdEyes (or alternative, EyeBay or GlassBay). Crowd-sourced public surveillance auction platform. It's legal to take pictures in public, right? After installing CrowdEyes on your Google Glass, your Glass will automatically take pictures e
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by Erwin 14y ago
There's this esoteric programming language: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html where the source code are images similar to works of Piet Mondrian. And there's ColorForth where the colors replace some of the punctuation normally
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by Erwin 14y ago
When you bought it one year later, did you pay the full price of it as it cost 1 year ago when you actually played it, or did you buy 2 licenses at a highly discounted rate on one of the frequent steam sales? If you have 200 game developers
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by Erwin 14y ago
I pay, effectively, a recurring fee for PyCharm. The personal license is €89 and comes with 1 year of upgrades. As they've been able to release upgrades after that year expired that looked interesting, I paid another €50 for it the next yea
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by Erwin 14y ago
Yes, less personal contact, perhaps a less meaningful job at the time meant more time brooding over everything due. Now that I do something people depend on and no longer live alone, I haven't felt the need to reminiscence.
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by Erwin 14y ago
This reminds me a bit of this first-person piece of autism-related sci-fi: http://www.amazon.com/The-Speed-Dark-Elizabeth-Moon/dp/03454... I used to keep a diary, where 13 years ago my entries were long monologues similar to this. There w
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by Erwin 14y ago
I liked the dig on the perversion of gamification here. "Achievements" have become very popular in games -- you might have fully complete a game level, but there's a bonus if you use a specific weapon or not kill people or not do something
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by Erwin 14y ago
The interesting part here was the minors were charged with disturbing the secrecy of corresponding: you are not allowed to intentionally open someone else's physical mail, if personally addressed to that person. The prosecutor claimed this
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Two Danish minors convicted and fined for "facerape" on Facebook(dr.dk)
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by Erwin 14y ago
The recorded videos' have a strange voyeuristic feel, probably due to the POV being so close to the wearer's eyes. That you can use the glasses do do a hangout in real time and broadcast seems novel though. There's no shortage of sci-fi sto
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by Erwin 14y ago
This was a reply to tmartiro's thread, where he says "You can also open 1 million connections using one linux box" and describes how you could do it a single instance rather than 50 separate ones; adlpz asked "what would be the point of t
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by Erwin 14y ago
OS/2 was another one using multiple rings. Interestingly VirtualBox takes advantage of x86's multiple rings: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html#idp12629776 (which contains other interessting details about VirtualBox, like the disa
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by Erwin 14y ago
An TCP connection is uniquely identified by a {local IP, remote IP, local port, remote port} tuple. So if you are on 192.168.1.1 and want to connect to a specific port on 192.168.1.2 there aren't enough free port numbers to get 1 million co
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by Erwin 14y ago
The minimum hourly wage for an 18+ employee with no education and no experience the area in Norway is 152 NOK which is 28 USD. That's what you might get if you were to help building a house. So the only way you might get a $40k/year in Nor
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by Erwin 14y ago
I converted from many years' of using xemacs to pycharm (which is really a subset of the full if Intellij IDEA) and I'm mostly happy. When I started with xemacs in 2000 or so I made a few minor modes and tweaks but with years things started
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by Erwin 14y ago
I remember forking an open source game library around 1985. Well, typing the source code in from the magazine so I could make my own game with sprites. I don't think I made it because of those awful rubber keys and it was not my computer an
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by Erwin 14y ago
I read that as "Crime" for a moment, thought it would be some kind of real-time notification centre for when a crime is happening near you. I suppose police radios are encrypted these days, otherwise it could be interesting to recognize loc
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by Erwin 14y ago
How does SSL compression work together with Apache's ordinary zlib support? Is it redundant when you're already deflating text/html pages? Looking at a page fetched from my server, Apache respondents with Content-Encoding: gzip.
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by Erwin 14y ago
BBT has a UCLA processor on staff as a fact-checker who fills in the realistic science parts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saltzberg -- when interviewed he said his fellow scientists were at first wary of the show but then wildly en
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by Erwin 14y ago
Visit any thread on reddit that mentions BBT. It'll be full of highly-upvoted hate comments. It's a a close third hate object after Justin Bieber and "Twilight". I wonder if the psychology student message boards also raged same way about "
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by Erwin 14y ago
That site doesn't seem at all useful in Europe -- it does not include "discount" airlines like EasyJet or Norwegian which are half the price of a BA or SAS ticket. Perhaps they're not paying Google enough to appear in the search results. Th
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by Erwin 14y ago
In every of the European countries I've been to, every time I go to a nice restaurant I've been asked whether I wanted my mineral water plain or fizzy. The less nice places might bring you tap water by default (which is generally perfectly
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by Erwin 14y ago
I fill up my SodaStream with bottles from AGA here in Denmark (they have a "get the 6th one free" special so the effective refill cost is about 15 USD). There's also this system: http://www.wassermaxx.com/ -- again compatible. Perhaps Sod
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by Erwin 14y ago
The actual amounts were 1500 MM SEK revenue (236 MM USD), and a 640 MM SEK (100 M USD) licensing fee/royalty to Notch, leaving that 580 MM (92 MM USD) profit. So that's 92 million on top of 100 million in effectively dividends to Notch (by
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by Erwin 14y ago
Sounds like a perfect business opportunity. Offer the author, say $50,000/year in exchange for being allowed to port and support the editor on Linux/ARM and take all the licensing profits from there. You only need to sell a few $79 licenses
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by Erwin 14y ago
I find I use it most in multi-level data structures, not unlike Perl's auto-vivification system: logins = {} for user, date in getLogins(): logins.setdefault(user, []).append(date) Here you login ends up having one key pe
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by Erwin 14y ago
A good practice there is to do tricky DELETE/UPDATE inside a transaction. In e.g. Postgres, executing DELETE/UDPATE tells you number of affected rows, so if you see 1243 rows were updated rather than 1 as you expected, you can ROLLBACK.
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by Erwin 14y ago
Fortunately GNU tar has gotten smarter. You can do just "tar xvf" now and it will do the right thing whether the archive is compressed or not. When creating the archive, you still have to use your favorite compression method (XZ aka LZMA, a
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by Erwin 14y ago
Regarding the presentation part of this, even if you don't use it for exchanging data, serializing JSON to YAML can output a nicely readable and terse structure. The example JSON ends up looking like this: http://pastebin.com/gw6SGz4U
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by Erwin 14y ago
Depends on your application. Ideally you want to change your code so as much computation as possible can happen in pure-C code and pure-C data types (using Cython). If you have a big class tree with many callbacks and work spread over hundr

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