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by adatta02 17y ago
it's been awhile since I played with Mindstorm but I remember that you could write the apps in C++ and then target the Mindstorm platform. presumably you'd be able to set this up in Linux but don't quote me on that.
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by adatta02 17y ago
you could probably write a Greasemonkey script to integrate other search results into one view (ie mix in Bing results into Google results ect)
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by adatta02 17y ago
Bears more than a passing similarity to Greasemonkey (which is awesome). Looks like it would let you do things in that gray area between stuff Greasemonkey can do and stuff you really don't want to start messing around with XUL to do. My
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by adatta02 17y ago
Hmm things will get interesting if the Android netbook distribution is closely compatible (or totally) with the phone version. If you can easily run apps built for phones on a netbook and vice versa then I'd totally whip out Eclipse and sta
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by adatta02 17y ago
I didn't actually watch the whole video but eh do we really need to keep re-inventing the wheel so that there can be yet another [insert language] interpreter? Scheme has a natural tree structure to exploit anyhow, show me a C++ interpret
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by adatta02 17y ago
someone going for a fishing trip?
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by adatta02 17y ago
I don't get it. Do we really care if Microsoft and a bunch of incompetent developers enjoy epic fail on the Azure platform?
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Ask HN: Optimal algorithm for Bananagrams?
2 points by adatta02 17y ago|0 comments
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by adatta02 17y ago
@optimizing why not do something like a fresh fruit/vegetable cart that rolls through every morning at say 8am. The cart is actually backed/financed/supported by some bigger "rich folk" store (Shaws/Krugers/whatever) and is only available f
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by adatta02 17y ago
<disclaimer> I'm pretty drunk </disclaimer> So what happens when you graduate? is it proper form to go through and un-friend everyone? Or do you just let the connections sit around stale? And then to add to the confusion my
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by adatta02 17y ago
It seems like this should be a huge opportunity for someone to come in and optimize things. The "pay day advance" stuff seems particularly wasteful and generally awful. Even my credit card company won't charge me $50 to front me $300 in cas
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by adatta02 17y ago
get yourself a discrete math textbook (I can't remember what I used). A sprinkling of things that will come up: set theory, probability (Bayesian), Big-O notation and associated meanings, worst/best/avg case analysis, amortized cost, induct
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by adatta02 17y ago
I'd vote for the irony because I can't opt out of signing in, I can't sign in with fbconnect, I can't use OAuth, I can only enter the walled garden that is NYT for no apparent benefit. I guess it could be worse - all the NYT content could b
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by adatta02 17y ago
and the irony is now I can't even read the article without logging into NYT.
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by adatta02 17y ago
Second this. Go to some fund raising events, shake the right hands, hand out some cards. Depending on how big your town is, you may be able to just contact a local lobbying group and ask who to talk to. As tin foil hat as it may sound - bri
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by adatta02 17y ago
If you are talking about using MySQL like memcache (so persistence isn't an issue) check out MYISAM MEMORY tables - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/memory-storage-engine... Super fast but if the server dies so does all your data...
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by adatta02 17y ago
this sentence struck me as particularly shocking: "Most of the profits generated by the Big Three in North America came not from manufacturing vehicles but from financing the sale of those vehicles." how could anyone think that was responsi
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by adatta02 17y ago
I can only speak to my personal gold card (which is pretty new) but I've also had issues with my card being frozen unexpectedly for charges they thought were illegitimate. I think the big rub here is that American Express will freeze your c
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by adatta02 17y ago
I noticed that also - even at 5k/license that is buying at least 2 more dedicated boxes to throw (name your FOSS RDBMS) on
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by adatta02 17y ago
the obvious problem is that it's going to take a generation of browsers before everyone has native <canvas> support along with a respectable Javascript engine. IE6 market share is still 17% with IE7 at ~25% (source: http://www.w3sc
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Monkeys and a typewriter: string evolving GA(shout.setfive.com)
1 points by adatta02 17y ago|0 comments
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by adatta02 17y ago
Being 21 I'd say the last point about 'Give the big middle finger to the good or bad opinion of others' is really solid advice. Every time I tell a parent/relative/family friend that I'm working for myself after I graduate I get this blank
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by adatta02 18y ago
Use a WYSIWYG? I mean if you seriously can't wrap your head around HTML/CSS maybe you're in the wrong business...
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by adatta02 18y ago
More than the actual distro I'd say look into what kernel you are loading on there. Make sure you're running a nice tight kernel with any extra fluff turned off (or loading as modules). I can't find the papers off hand but there has been so
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by adatta02 18y ago
I'm sad to see the doors close on Wikia Search. I was an intern in the NYC office last summer. The project had a refreshingly open philosophy and was built using FOSS components. At least the index is still available at http://index.isc.or
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by adatta02 18y ago
Boston here to
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by adatta02 18y ago
I'm calling bullshit. The whole article sounds like it came out of the NY Daily Post. There are what maybe 10-15 hedge funds that have enough capital to make something like this stick? On the other hand, fake internal memos cause APPL to fl
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by adatta02 18y ago
Not sure about this. I've tried to use OpenDNS behind a "buy my wireless for 24 hours" at an airport and I still got the page requesting me to buy a page. Also, even when I pinged servers the IPs were resolving to their "purchase" page. Unf
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by adatta02 18y ago
I might be wrong, but wouldn't this not help the situation at airports where the AP resolves all DNS requests to a page that is like "pay for service!"? I was under the impression that in those configurations the AP intercepts all the DNS p
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by adatta02 18y ago
The point about text editors is absurd. One because comparing TextMate to vim or emacs is almost apples and oranges. And secondly because writing something Java without completions is going to be horrendously slow just because of all the ar

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