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by adunk 14y ago
A few weeks ago I watched the pilot episode of Lewis, a British TV detective/crime drama that is set in the surroundings of Oxford university, UK. One of the characters in the episode was a PhD student in mathematics and the key to the myst
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Software Testing Using Easy Cases(blog.regehr.org)
1 points by adunk 14y ago|0 comments
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by adunk 14y ago
Creator of protothreads here. Protothreads are not a hack. Protothreads revolve around the concept of local continuations. Unlike traditional continuations, a local continuation only captures the state of execution within the local function
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Writing Solid Code(blog.regehr.org)
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Drawing with text(codepen.io)
5 points by adunk 14y ago|2 comments
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Telling people to leave finance(mathbabe.org)
115 points by adunk 14y ago|101 comments
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No Place Like Home – A pair of shoes that will always guide you home(creativeapplications.net)
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by adunk 14y ago
I think the author makes the argument that while Europe once was able to produce huge companies, it produces significantly fewer after WWI. Many of the European companies on the Global Fortune 500 list were founded in late 19th century to e
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by adunk 14y ago
Its not uncommon in computer systems conferences to see rejects based on comments about the system not having practical application or being too non-practical. Oddly enough, it is not too uncommon to see papers getting one review rejecting
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by adunk 14y ago
Not sure if this is true (and not sure if this counts as a big success), but from I've read [1], it appears that Android Inc was in stealth mode when it was acquired by Google in 2005. Would be great to hear more about the early history of
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IFTTT: San Francisco Startup Lets Anyone Control The Internet of Things(forbes.com)
5 points by adunk 14y ago|0 comments
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Fokus - new UI concept that emphasizes text-selection(lab.hakim.se)
143 points by adunk 14y ago|28 comments
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by adunk 14y ago
Many of these embeddeded wifi devices start in a mode where they act as a wifi hotspot/access point, with a pre-defined password. One connects to the hotspot with a smartphone and opens a web browser, which provides a simple web UI that off
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by adunk 14y ago
For a while there, I almost came up with a joke about how you cannot "code over" a lack of programming skills. Fortunately, the joke escaped me. Now, back to programming.
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What Academics Do: The Big Five(academicsfreedom.blogspot.se)
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The Citation Telephone Game(blog.regehr.org)
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by adunk 14y ago
There was a cool SIGGRAPH 2011 paper from Johannes Kopf from Microsoft Research and Dani Lischinski from The Hebrew University that presents a new pixel scaling algorithm that really takes pixel scaling to a whole new level. Check it out he
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by adunk 14y ago
I don't think it has that much to do with the size of the company though, but more with the difference between a consulting company and a product company. In a consulting company, work is time-driven: every hour of work is intended to be bi
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Why You Shouldn't Raise Money For Your Business(forbes.com)
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Kissing device lets you send a long-distance smooch(newscientist.com)
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by adunk 14y ago
I very much second this. I also found it difficult to understand what Contweets are doing - unfortunately reading the About page didn't make me much wiser either. Without knowing what to expect, I'd guess that most people wouldn't sign up.
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In Defense of the Scientific Paper(matt-welsh.blogspot.se)
4 points by adunk 14y ago|1 comments
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by adunk 14y ago
I had the same experience. But the subtitles really were something extra, would definitely recommend for a laugh.
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Home devices that connect to Twitter(mashable.com)
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by adunk 14y ago
Interesting to see how the pitch improved when the explicit problem statement and value proposition were dropped. Those are instead implied in the single-sentence pitch, which I guess partly is what prompts the "How?" question.