abstractbeliefs

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   by abstractbeliefs 11y ago

   Remember though that the brain seems to be a rather modular structure. While the total area is quite big, we could probably get a lot of mileage out of much smaller subsystems taking care of only, say, visual pattern recognition, or speech
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   by abstractbeliefs 11y ago

   Those squares can be mapped back to regular lat/long and navigated by regular GPS/SatNav. I guess the main thing here is that we can now express "GPS coordinates" in easy to remember and human-friendly phrases.
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   by abstractbeliefs 11y ago

   Yes, it feels much more like Computer-Science Fiction.
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   by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

   This server is supposed to be generating and managing certificates, but it only has only 1/3rd test coverage (34% at time of writing). Do others feel this is reasonable?
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   by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

   Thank you for your feedback. I have also spoken to me peers who agree that the original title was not in the correct spirit.
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   by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

   Could you explain the reasoning why? I'm not offended, but with the new title there's very little context without having to follow through the link/read the comments.
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   by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

   arduino/arduino is the legit software from the majority of the arduino team. arduino-org/arduino is a hostile fork from 1 of the 5 original founders who was put in charge of the manufacturing spinoff, as a result of the other 4 me
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   by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

   When Arduino got popular, the original team of five spun off a manufacturing company, Smart Projects, to handle the manufacturing and distribution tedium, with 4 of the 5 partners staying in the Development arm. When push came to shove and
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   by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

   You can opt-out of notifications from a particular issue with the "Unsubscribe" button. Based on the timestamps, it can also be observed that only a couple of posts have been added since this submission. (There was about 20 before
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    by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

    Forking these days is mainly friendly because of the ecosystem that Git has fostered, but until relatively recently, forking was generally hostile, to force development to move in a certain direction away from the original intent. In this c
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    by abstractbeliefs 12y ago

    There's more info, including backstory, here: http://hackaday.com/2015/04/06/arduino-ide-forked/
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    Arduino-Org: “Rename this fork and use less confusing versioning”(github.com)

    186 points by abstractbeliefs 12y ago|74 comments