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by aufreak3 16y ago
We often don't notice many "ground breaking" shifts while in the midst of them. The internet or hyper-linked docs took their time to be called "ground breaking" with hindsight. Rgd the iPad/touch I have an indicator though - my son got used
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by aufreak3 16y ago
It looks like the compute situation in Node.js can be helped with a server side web workers implementation .. with the workers doing no IO and only computes. Any thoughts?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
awaiting the haskell platform release to get the next GHC ..
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Absolutely spot on! Around the time the iPad1 launched, I told one of my close friends "imagine GarageBand on this!" and it is absolutely thrilling to see such a lovely implementation come to the iPad2. Using the accelerometer to detect the
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Look at SJ's talk as "entertainment" .. which is what practically all of Apple's products are about :) Rgd Samsung tabs, I believe the writer's choice of "last quarter" itself shows bias, 'cos the debate on what "smooth" means seems to be
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Japan Prize for Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson for the development of Unix(japanprize.jp)
2 points by aufreak3 16y ago|1 comments
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Walk the red carpet in Google Earth(gearthblog.com)
1 points by aufreak3 16y ago|0 comments
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by aufreak3 16y ago
On a side note, I wish articles would just say " guessers expect the iPad 2 to be thinner ... blah blah" instead of analysts . I'm getting tired of "analysts" who "predict" but play no role in the creation.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Here is what seems like a reasonable "explanation" to me - -- We figured out a few things about electric and magnetic fields. In particular, a changing electric field creates a magnetic field and a changing magnetic field creates an electri
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by aufreak3 16y ago
So glad to see "Stokes' theorem"! Back in college, I devoured the books "A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics" by Paul Bamberg and Schlomo Sternberg that covered exterior calculus. It was awesome to see kirchoff's laws in circuit
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Yes ... and Amazon is the new Sun Microsystems. They are profiting by selling the spades and shovels bought by the gold rush enthusiasts.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
The one thing that really surprised me in this whole "web/native" debate is the new concept of "installing" web apps (just links?) from the "Chrome web store" ... while all along hearing things like "installation is a big hurdle for most
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Cool! .. and all this discussion reminds of a line from Calvin and Hobbes - "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Anyone here who digs Qwiki's approach to presenting info? I tried it a little bit, found it mind-dumbing, and promptly went back to wikipedia. Anyone found it good for kids maybe?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
nice! .. one weird UI effect though - when you mouse-over one of the three HTML/CSS/Javascript boxes, the box label disappears!
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by aufreak3 16y ago
What is wrong with "outsourcing" things that don't fall into your area of expertise? As far as I'm concerned, a biz savvy guy "outsourcing" his tech job for a fee is not very different from buying toothpaste from the market because I don't
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by aufreak3 16y ago
It feels like the motion picture people have always known this effect. See this video for instance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA Does it matter that the objects don't change right in front of your eyes? In the silencing vid
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Monasteries in India do this apparently.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I'm surprised that the whole AI argument made in this post centers around self-driving cars, when the fact that google can recall for you very relevant results from its multi-billion page memory in a jiffy doesn't seem AI enough. As for sel
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by aufreak3 16y ago
The current search situation as described by such posts seems analogous to the search quality deteriorating during the emergence of blogging. Google stepped in and cleaned it up rather well. I'd trust them to do the same with whatever trick
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by aufreak3 16y ago
NVidia's Tesla C2050 has 448 CUDA cores. Is Intel still dabbling with 48 purely because they want each core to be totally general purpose?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
How biased is the survey likely to be? Now, it is hard to take a few hundred sample size and be unbiased by any measure. Given that, I wonder what specific kind of bias does posting a survey on mturk throws up, since the survey takers are a
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Tried checking "convertible debts" with 20% conversion premium. In that scenario, it doubles the founders' value at round 3. Is that typical?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Top level observation - the linked post was made on a blog and was shared via Hacker News. "Facebook" only features as a word in this whole multi-log. That means, to me, that there is a really solid and significant world outside of Facebook
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I've noticed that as soon as I submit a new post to posterous, it gets about 24 views. I'm quite sure those aren't people.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Put people in front of a camera and most are probably thinking "this sounds important and I don't want to look like an idiot", and all the while the petition taker's words are flying above their heads.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
HP's RPN calculator - Wrote my first fractal calculation on it. ZX Spectrum BASIC - "PEEK" and "POKE" to write into graphics memory. GW BASIC - Loved "BEEP" and "PLAY". Made first toy music program. MS Quick Basic - No line numbers! Yay! (c
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Da Vinci prototype on Xbox Kinect(vimeo.com)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
You make an important point, but public named negative reviews are common in the field of writing fiction. Then apparently, the social setup that writers live in is different from the academic setup where public negative reviews may have
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HOPL: An interactive roster of programming languages (8512 of them)(hopl.murdoch.edu.au)
3 points by aufreak3 16y ago|1 comments

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