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by amackera 17y ago
Though it is encouraging, the consultations were almost all invite-only, and not transparent to the public. There have certainly been a few public consultations, though they have generally been not well advertised.
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by amackera 17y ago
On a semi-related note, the code for AIMA taught me a lot about Python, just from reading through it at trying to understand. http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/source/browse/#svn/trun...
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by amackera 17y ago
I suppose people push the "year of the linux desktop" meme since it generates buzz. I personally use Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows all in the same day, and feel great doing it.
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by amackera 17y ago
It would be really nice if somebody could write a breakdown of these webservers for the uninitiated like myself. I'd like to know when to use which tool.
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by amackera 17y ago
Aw, sorry. I didn't realise it was satire. I think I need my satire to smack me in the face before I notice it.
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by amackera 17y ago
A very interesting read!
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by amackera 17y ago
One of the big selling features of the Android SDK, for me, was the ability to completely replace any aspect of the system including the dialer, contacts, music, etc.
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by amackera 17y ago
Could you also add me please? amackera
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by amackera 17y ago
I get that your title is sort of a joke (I hope), but if you just go by this article then it seems to me that it's suggesting that Emacs is more "usable" than vi! Emacs uses quasi-modes like crazy. Maybe I didn't understand.
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by amackera 17y ago
I only say that because on the login screen you have to choose a "Mike" or a "Meg" with their corresponding bunny.
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by amackera 17y ago
The logo is sort of heterocentric (it looks like a male rabbit is mounting the female rabbit).
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What is the Brain Computer Analogy?(thesplitbrain.com)
1 points by amackera 17y ago|0 comments
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by amackera 17y ago
PLP is pretty good. We used it in my university course on compiler design, I quite enjoyed reading it.
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by amackera 17y ago
YES! Thank you for this clarification. I personally enjoy thinking about the implementations, instead of looking at the code itself. Knuth makes that easy (hard?) by not spoon feeding you. Plus the typography of Knuth's books is so wonder
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by amackera 17y ago
If there is one thing above all else that hackers love to do, it's self-reflect. The "Ask HN" threads are just extending this self-reflection to this special something we all love and enjoy (HN!).
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by amackera 18y ago
Dropbox is absolutely fantastic.
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by amackera 18y ago
This anecdote fills me with hope for what a determined person is capable of. Lately I've been stuck thinking credentials are supremely important. I'm happy that people can challenge this and become successful!
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by amackera 18y ago
Me neither :(
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by amackera 18y ago
HN is always on about how the community is degrading, though apparently there has been some recent evidence to suggest that it is. That's what all the ballyhoo is about. There are always lots of articles about "Rate my startup!" and "Ask HN
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by amackera 18y ago
I am enrolled in an internship program which happens to be one of the world's largest (in scope and size, perhaps not reputation). I won't go into the details, but the internships have certainly been the most valuable part of my education
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Introduction to Arduino Programming(uchobby.com)
16 points by amackera 18y ago|0 comments
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by amackera 18y ago
I am inclined to agree. The open source nature of Java and many of its tools make it a more appealing choice to me.
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by amackera 18y ago
You are quite correct; however, I think one interesting corollary to this research is the interface between brain and computer. Though we still require a method by which to translate brain function into Boolean-esque logic, at least when we
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Single neurons have RAM-like activity(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by amackera 18y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Create Logic Gates from Living Neurons(robots.net)
50 points by amackera 18y ago|14 comments
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by amackera 18y ago
You have been busy!
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by amackera 18y ago
I'd advocate GNU Emacs over Aquamacs. He did say he's an Eclipse user though so this isn't likely an issue.
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by amackera 18y ago
I'm so sick of people marketing a collection of user-level application being implemented as web applications as an "Operating System". It's absurd. Even in this article the author betrays this absurdity by claiming "you can switch over to W
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by amackera 18y ago
Agreed! I am using Remember The Milk currently, but if you can make a better GMail widget I would for sure switch it up.
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by amackera 18y ago
Title should read: 103 years later, Einstein is finally corroborated . Science doesn't actually prove anything - especially when the research is being done with computational simulations. This research gives another form of evidence for

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