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by apu 18y ago
But it seems that to "do it right," the writer must be able to pick the right anecdotes and draw the right conclusions from them. This is probably close to impossible if he's not an expert in the area. And if the writer's an expert, then he
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by apu 18y ago
Any particular reason you prefer Konqueror to Firefox? Do you feel it's faster?
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The future of photography(freedom-to-tinker.com)
4 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
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by apu 18y ago
Regardless of the merits of this campaign, I'm curious if any web campaigns have ever had any effect in the real world?
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by apu 18y ago
I'll start with one way I've been trying to find some of these ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award Yes, awards always have a component of politics in them, but it's useful to look at these for a zero'th order approximation of
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Ask HN: What are the great ideas in computing?
6 points by apu 18y ago|4 comments
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It's Caches All the Way Down(eflorenzano.com)
2 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
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by apu 18y ago
What language is your code in? If it's a curly-brace language (c, c++, java, etc.), then the following should properly indent everything using Vim: gg=G If not (or if that doesn't work right), you can use visual mode to quickly chang
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by apu 18y ago
Perhaps I don't understand it fully, but my view of dynamic programming is that you can always get the same benefits using a caching function and just writing your program naturally. This approach has worked for me for a variety of DP pro
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by apu 18y ago
Interesting idea, although my guess is that most words won't have any particular color associated with them for most people. Except, of course, for synesthetes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
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by apu 18y ago
Bug report, when doing a search for 'albums by [muse]' (btw oops is not spelled opps ;-)): Opps! You found a bug. Here's the skinny: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/data/home/apps/pycmds/1.34/main.py", line 36, in
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by apu 18y ago
For those who just want quick and efficient solutions to lots of bit-hacking problems (rather than try to become a bit-guru yourself): http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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by apu 18y ago
This happened again, more recently, in the machine learning community. Here is the resignation letter from the editorial board of the _Machine Learning_ journal, as they left to start an open journal: http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigir
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by apu 18y ago
Congrats to the Dropbox team for garnering such a glowing review on such a prominent tech site!
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How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux(arstechnica.com)
45 points by apu 18y ago|14 comments
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by apu 18y ago
That might be the logical conclusion, but I don't think Apple sees it that way. They've never been very big on this "third-party" stuff...
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by apu 18y ago
Yeah, except if you want to actually install various open source software/libraries. Then you spend hours trying to see which of the various competing mac package-management systems have some (out-of-date) version of the software. Or, you g
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by apu 18y ago
Why is Picasa data any better than Facebook (which can leverage the incredible knowledge of your social network as well as user-tags to make highly educated guesses)? or webshots (which is almost exclusively face photos)? or even flickr? or
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by apu 18y ago
It's not as if this idea was a particularly clever one -- many photo applications allow users to tag photos, tagging photos is hard work, and so it would be nice to have automatic tagging where the tags carry over from image to image. The h
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by apu 18y ago
While useful for some simple tasks, I found the old pyprocessing module (on which this is heavily based) to be inadequate for many tasks. It would often crash for various reasons, and because of its signals-based-communication, was often no
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by apu 18y ago
This is something I hadn't noticed in the earlier postings about this browser: "By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites." While t
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by apu 18y ago
Actually, I did read the article before my comment, just in case I had magically come across a "Top X" article that was actually worth reading. This one wasn't. I think perhaps this list might make more sense for 'enterprise programmers', b
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Google's Android Market: Cathedral or Bazaar?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by apu 18y ago|3 comments
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by apu 18y ago
Top X lists...
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The Student as Nigger: a 1969 essay on education(ry4an.org)
1 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
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by apu 18y ago
I work in computer vision, and there's an entire sub-branch called "computational photography" that aims to do more interesting things with cameras. The idea is that by capturing more information at the hardware level -- perhaps in some 'co
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Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost(arstechnica.com)
53 points by apu 18y ago|26 comments
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by apu 18y ago
The article takes things to an extreme, most likely to make a more 'compelling' story to read.
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by apu 18y ago
Any details available on how they're speeding up each of these steps? The only research publications I see are the original work and the new 'finding paths' paper presented last week at Siggraph.
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by apu 18y ago
I've been told by a few mathematicians that the article itself is rather nastily written -- the interviewed parties shows people at their worst and often out of context. In addition to portraying certain people (notably Yau) in a rather neg

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