altrego99

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by altrego99 14y ago
The square root animation, slide 29-30, is incorrect. It should not tear at -i, it should tear at the direction of 1 instead. Other than that everything else looks fine. Amazing work.
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by altrego99 14y ago
The first iPhone was a bridge with a circus. Hence everybody went to see it, even though the toll was hefty. Some loved it so much, they even left their own village for good. In time a settlement grew around the circus. Now most people live
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by altrego99 14y ago
Is it because of 1:53AM?
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by altrego99 14y ago
What's the benefit of a photo-compression with animation support, compared to actual movie formats (H.264)?
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by altrego99 14y ago
> we're not qualified to do that Judging by history, we are. We created better computing machines, better chess players, better factory workers, better communication channels, better senors, than any of us is or is equipped with without
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by altrego99 14y ago
I sincerely doubt it. Then again, my standards for voice activated computer assistant is hardened by Star Trek since childhood - and nothing short of true AI will probably ever get there.
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by altrego99 14y ago
I am guessing you have liked this too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U Being a video it is not interactive, but definitely does strike something in me. It's almost the Total Perspective Vortex.
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by altrego99 14y ago
This seems common sense to me, I would most likely have done it this way if I were designing a voice operated alarm module. Hence it follows Apple is already likely to have a patent on it.
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by altrego99 14y ago
Time to divert my focus to Google+ for a few days.
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by altrego99 14y ago
Meh. We just need radiation shields.
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by altrego99 14y ago
Huh... mildly NSFW description in the page.
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by altrego99 14y ago
Both are marketing gimmick at the end of the day. And Apple (Jobs) has been leading in that department very well - Nokia had 3G long before iPhone 3G was released. Nokia had multitasking long before it was there in iPhone 4. And Nokia E6 ha
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Android Google Maps - Things broken since 6.8.0(opinions5.blogspot.in)
1 points by altrego99 14y ago|0 comments
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Google Maps 6.10.0 update breaks feature(opinions5.blogspot.in)
2 points by altrego99 14y ago|0 comments
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by altrego99 14y ago
Yes - I couldn't believe it when I read the article. This is like - "Create any random permutation matrix. Use it to permute all the pixels. Done." Or, use any encryption algorithm and set the key to be your Sudoku grid.
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by altrego99 14y ago
18 years. Obviously then they did not die of old age. I wonder then, how did the mechanism of dieing of senility evolve?
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by altrego99 14y ago
Why not go till fff in base 16? And also atleast double digit in base 127? It can turn out in both cases that the probability is way higher.
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by altrego99 14y ago
I have the same question about computer science. The fact is, without the degree you cannot seem to get into a job that you like, which is about programming. I have learned unfortunately that this is true within a company I work - and I am
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by altrego99 14y ago
What if the situation in his example was reversed? What if, his wife lay with the newborn baby, and he felt that he wanted to go visit the client, but he said 'no' instead? Would he still be wrong?
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by altrego99 14y ago
You can have performant codes?
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The Postmodernism Generator - Reload the page to get alternative content(elsewhere.org)
1 points by altrego99 14y ago|0 comments
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by altrego99 14y ago
Though some are good suggestions for writing maintainable codes, I do not see a lot of opportunities to improve javascript from this. The pieces I would like to have are a) optional arguments and b) strict type checking. They are actually s
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by altrego99 14y ago
Can it be modified for Firefox too?
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by altrego99 14y ago
I'm quite happy though - have been trying to turn it off but it keeps coming back! Their decision is unexpected but it will solve my problem.
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by altrego99 14y ago
> i don't like renting games(and requiring constant connection to server makes it renting) You could try the cracked version. I heard that removed this 'feature' from Assassin's Creed, and it is very likely then they will remove it from
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Phantom Finger Points To Secrets In The Human Brain(npr.org)
1 points by altrego99 14y ago|0 comments
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by altrego99 14y ago
I guess to win, all I need to do is to tell the robot to not win. Unless of course, someone threatens to murder a human hostage if the robotic hand does not win.
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by altrego99 14y ago
What's wrong with Maxthon? It does all these, and probably yet a lot more, but being 2.18mb in size.
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by altrego99 14y ago
I would imagine that this can be easily converted into a GreaseMonkey userscript. Since you have chosen to implement this for Chrome, the question which naturally comes to my mind is - is it even easier to write these addons for Chrome than
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by altrego99 14y ago
If some of your friends have no access to gTalk, or prefer SMS, then this might help. However this will store all your SMSes in their server from now on.

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