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871.
by almost 17y ago
Wow, the title here really down plays what it actually does. Wireless power has been around for a while, my electric toothbrush uses that. But scavenging power from existing RF in the environment, that's just cool :)
872.
by almost 17y ago
Go for it, it might work. I think there's a little more to creating a good site then just building and letting stuff happen. There needs to be something that binds the community and some way of keeping the focus. Otherwise it will just drif
873.
by almost 17y ago
The problem with this is that it fragments the community, you now no longer read "Hack News" but instead read "Stuntgoat News" which has a readership of 1. It may have some crossover with "Almost News" but I think it would be deferent enoug
874.
by almost 17y ago
Damn right. For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, it is NOT ever ok to use your phone in a cinema during a film, even without sound. I find it unbelievable that so many people haven't figured this out yet. If you can't stand being disc
875.
by almost 17y ago
Which is what the article says....
876.
by almost 17y ago
But it's written so well that it's a pleasure to repeatedly bang ones head against :) So go for it but expect to have to take it slowly... oh, and do the exercises otherwise it won't make sense.
877.
by almost 17y ago
Doesn't that just replace C-kC-y with C-cC-k? Given that C-cC-k is used by various major modes to do mode-specific killing this doesn't seem like a good trade.
878.
by almost 17y ago
This would be the editor of the incredibly awesome Princeton Guide to Mathematics. If you don't have a copy I would strongly recommend getting one.
879.
by almost 17y ago
Slightly off topic but I quite fancy playing some sort of text adventure again. Anyone got suggestions for a good one to start with?
880.
by almost 17y ago
A bug? Maybe. Worth a post to HN? Definitely not. Just email pg if you're concerned about it, it's pointless to post it here.
881.
by almost 17y ago
That looks pretty cool, thanks for pointing it out. It's certainly got a lot of what I had in mind although I think it would be more fun to make it a little more advanced. I can imagine it being aimed at more experienced programmers with th
882.
by almost 17y ago
I used to play a bit of ATRobots which is a similar thing except you program them in a "Robot Assembly" language. Lots of fun and taught the basics of ASM coding. I've been thinking for a while about a more complex form of this sort of game
883.
by almost 17y ago
Good answer :) Not for me maybe but I think I understand your point of view a little better
884.
by almost 17y ago
Totally off topic. But 500 photos in a day!! I just don't understand why people's reaction to going to beautiful places is to spend the day looking down the view finder of a camera.
885.
by almost 17y ago
There's also ropemacs for Python auto-completion in Emacs. It also supports various automatic refactorings: http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropemacs.html It's not perfect but on the other hand it doesn't require that you run a tool to build t
886.
by almost 17y ago
For those who wish their window manager was more like screen I recommend strongly recommend the ratposion WM.
887.
by almost 17y ago
Yes, you could enumerate all its characteristics and such to try and give the programmer an idea of how it will behave. Or you can just say "it's allocated on the stack" and much of that will be obvious. Seems like quite a good shorthand to
888.
by almost 18y ago
For creating graphs you might want to look into SciPy's Matplotlib. It's a graphing library based on Matlab's stuff. Pretty good if you want those sort of graphs. See: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/screenshots.html Here are inst
889.
by almost 18y ago
Seems to rely on forcing the user to make a request with an arbitrary "host" header. Can you do that from javascript or some other webpage embeddable thingy? If you can't then it's not such a big problem (although obviously it still shouldn
890.
by almost 18y ago
As explained in the article it's the top half of a playboy centerfold (there's a link to the full version in there).
891.
by almost 18y ago
An important part of Goolge Scholar is that it lets you find (almost) any article published. If they removed all the pay-protected only articles it would be a lot less useful. Note how they even show articles not available online at all, th
892.
by almost 18y ago
Because sometimes it isn't right for the job? Haskell is absolutely awesome for some things (probably quite a lot of things in fact) but for some other things it's maybe not optimal. It's a lot of fun though, and if even it does nothing but
893.
by almost 18y ago
Your right, I probably shouldn't be so quick to call someone a crackpot. But still, unless I'm very much mistaken all he's doing is done is to expand the definition of "able to compute a function" to include "able to run fast enough to gat
894.
by almost 18y ago
This appears to me to be a little (or in fact a lot) crackpotish. A universal machine with capable of n operations per time unit can be simulate a universal machine capable of n+m operations per time unit. It's just a bit slower. His argume
895.
by almost 18y ago
I doubt they're running each search as a mapreduce job. Your search is probably making use of indexes and such generated by mapreduce jobs though. I think you've got it spot on with your last sentence though.
896.
by almost 18y ago
haha, you have a point there ;)
897.
by almost 18y ago
2 weeks seems like a lot of effort to waste on something without good reason. Maybe there is some sort of magical thing that you only get after using it but it doesn't seem likely to me. I'll try and keep an open mind though, maybe I'll see
898.
by almost 18y ago
I think that's where we differ. I don't want to broadcast my thoughts like that, they'd be undeveloped and uninteresting. I'd far rather keep them in my head until they grow into something I think worth sharing. And when that happens twitte
899.
by almost 18y ago
You could start by trying to convince me. I have no interest in regular updates on what my friends are doing (I'm quite content with them telling me the interesting things when I actually see them). I also have no interest in giving anyone
900.
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