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by angusgr 15y ago
One environment you might want to try is MHVLib http://www.makehackvoid.com/mhvlib - an efficiency oriented C++ library for AVR microcontrollers with a fair amount of out-of-the-box functionality. (Disclaimer: it was developed by fellow H
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by angusgr 15y ago
I'm sad the source has been compressed so there's no easy human-readable View Source, like there was on the VAX emulator that came up a few weeks ago. :( Still awe-inspiring, though. :)
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by angusgr 15y ago
I thought it was alright about from the aforementioned "super hacker" cliche. What autobiographies and books would you recommend reading?
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by angusgr 15y ago
If you ignore the "super hacker" cliche, which I agree is lazy and simplistic, then there is something arguably chilling, or at least sad, about the story. The best and brightest coming up (without alternatives, according to the article) in
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by angusgr 15y ago
A useful trick we've had at previous workplaces which solves this (and related accidental-debug-code-checkin) problems is to put a precommit hook that denies a checkin with a certain string in the text (we used "DNCI" for Do Not Check In) S
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The Faux-Vintage Photo & Society(thesocietypages.org)
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by angusgr 15y ago
If you're left wanting a high-level technical explanation, the Wikipedia page seems to be a decent one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Technology (Answered some fairly obvious questions I was left with after reading like "how do they
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by angusgr 15y ago
Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days Wow, I didn't know this info was available. For anyone who is wondering, it's under "Trends" in the sidebar. All Reader needs to do now is track how long users spend on each item, r
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by angusgr 15y ago
This would be a nice thing to put on the FAQ page (country restrictions on both subscribers & merchants.) As an Australian I assumed I knew the typical answer, but I went to double-check anyhow. (I assume also that when a merchant gets
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by angusgr 15y ago
Given this is intended to teach exposure/DoF, it'd be nice to be able to bypass the "SLR" aspect of the camera, ie provide a "continuous snapping" mode where moving a slider instantly updates the "photo" instead of showing the fake autofocu
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by angusgr 15y ago
One thing that's put me off Zotonic in the past is a lack of a "here are some sites built with Zotonic" list that I could find[1]. So I set out to try and find some: - http://erlangcamp.com/ - http://verafin.com/ - http://www.timbennik
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by angusgr 15y ago
There are some comments about experiences using Zotonic in some of the previous HN submissions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265765 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534804
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by angusgr 15y ago
Yahoo's download limit reached, here's Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:07l8NZL...
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by angusgr 15y ago
From second sentence of TFA: In October Android Chief Andy Rubin provided his first definition (links to tweet) Then: ...Today during a press Q&A at Google I/O, Rubin gave a more detailed explanation...
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by angusgr 15y ago
The "Redefining Entertainment" part of this post reminded me of this Rands one, about finding what actually relaxes you: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/06/22/chill.html (Not that I've tried that technique. Can't find the time
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by angusgr 15y ago
Fair enough Re: differences between Python & PowerShell syntax. I don't entirely agree with you on the REPL point, because I use Python in a REPL all the time (esp. with ipython.) However, I agree with the rest. Although you could alway
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by angusgr 15y ago
I worked with PowerShell in a past life, and found it quite useful and reasonably pleasant[1] (esp. when coming from standard Windows Shell), however it's this: In PowerShell you can directly instantiate .NET and COM objects ... that I th
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by angusgr 15y ago
I didn't downvote, and IANAL, but I believe I know the difference. When releasing a product with GPL/LGPL source, the requirement is to provide either the source or an offer to provide the source which corresponds to the exact version of t
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by angusgr 15y ago
At rest I'd say 50mW (we could trim this if it was really important, but it gets a bit fiddly below this point), under serious load (original XBox class graphics or 1080p30 H.264), 700mW. I wonder if this means you actually can po
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by angusgr 15y ago
Thanks for explaining, I hadn't thought of that.
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by angusgr 15y ago
I think you've missed my point a bit. My point is that if all that is needed for schools to expand CS education is cheap commodity computer hardware, it already exists. If educational "demands on the market" don't exist for P4-era used PCs
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by angusgr 15y ago
There are probably other things incorrect in your comment but the main point I want to address is the "equivalent to a pentium 3"; this is definitely not the case. Just because it is a dual core running at 1ghz doesn't mean it's slow I me
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by angusgr 15y ago
Why not? When we recently opened our Hackerspace a friendly e-waste dealer gave us 10 SFF Pentium 4 1.8Ghz Compaqs. He said they're not worth the effort of selling any more, and to let him know if we need more. He had palette-loads. Last we
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by angusgr 15y ago
After my initial excitement of "wow, cool" and "wow, tiny" and "wow, cheap" wore off, I'm also becoming skeptical about what niche this fills for educators. Why? Because an old PC with equivalent specs is essentially free (anything from ~20
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by angusgr 15y ago
what kind of quantities is he going to pull off? I don't know, I mean presumably he's thinking OLPC-esque. I could see this being at least as popular as the WM8505/VT8500 devices just on price (price having being those devices _only_ sell
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by angusgr 15y ago
not-cheap HDMI display As a few people have pointed out, their site says Composite or HDMI.
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by angusgr 15y ago
I'm guessing the idea is to provide a throwback to the days when computers were more hands-on and more nuts-and-bolts (think Apple II era). If the computer itself only costs $25 and boots from MicroSD then you can let students have their ow
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by angusgr 15y ago
I had a few vague thoughts: * How is it powered? I assume neither composite video or HDMI can provide power to it (which would be cool), in the photo it looks like some it's probably powered from that ribbon cable that's soldered to the thr
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by angusgr 15y ago
Their own page at http://raspberrypi.org says simply "The expected price is $25 for a fully-configured system."
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by angusgr 15y ago
The cost of $25 looks a bit more believable compared to similarly specced devices like the VT8500/WM8505 series <$100 netbooks/tablets[1], or the FriendlyARM Mini2440 which sells on ebay for $98 as a bells-and-whistles development board

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