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by aufreak3 16y ago
At the time wave came in, you already had email, twitter and facebook. I think it became one more thing to check. Given that it was supposed to be 21st century email, the fact that you couldn't switch to using wave instead of gmail is,
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Checkout Johanna Blakley's talk on how the free copy of design in the fashion industry hasn't in any way hampered the creativity coming out of it - http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio... Apprently copyright law do
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by aufreak3 16y ago
You're right. It does satisfy some of the "knowledge gaining" aspects of travel though.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
NotionInk relocated to Bangalore recently.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I've recently been thinking about whether there is a genuine role for serious computing ability at "home" (even if accessed over the air via an iPad-like device) and clicked on this article .. and was utterly disappointed. The article doesn
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by aufreak3 16y ago
If it was, HD travelshows would be a substitute for vacation. They don't substitute for vacation. They might very well satisfy that urge to travel ... just like people watching Discovery or Nat Geo in the comfort of their homes. You can
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by aufreak3 16y ago
My prediction: someone will get tired of waiting, and they'll Torvalds Arc into obsolescence before it's ever released It certainly looks like Arc has been "Rich Hickeyed" judging by the recent announcement of funding for Clojure. Think a
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Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" detailed(ubergizmo.com)
1 points by aufreak3 16y ago|0 comments
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Pitting cloud against cloud(technologyreview.in)
1 points by aufreak3 16y ago|1 comments
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I support this. Its people that make your life and family is a big deal. In other words, don't "flirt with the idea of a startup", develop a healthy enduring friendship ;)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
The contrarian in me has always been curious about how tapping "eco friendly" energy sources impact the environment. (Any here have some serious pointers?) For example, if the energy of the wind at high altitudes is tapped, the wind will (d
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I prefer silence for zoning in ... the quieter the better, not even humming air conditioners if possible. If I do feel I need some help to zone in, hip hop works best for me (Eminem's 8 mile album is my fav). I can't listen to classical mus
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by aufreak3 16y ago
.. and the "state of the art" for doing audio on the web is what? (It goes without saying that Flash and Java aren't allowed answers to that question.)
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Virtual musician learns any playing style(eetimes.com)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Even when IO bound, you might want to spend less of that precious battery when you're not waiting. So even if your perceived speed doesn't change, the battery can tell the difference.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
You're right that they could actually make an impact. Now with F# and clojure available as dev languages on .net (soon, if not now), maybe even the "cool kids" will find it fun. Cheering google over msft has been fun, but what we're really
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I must say that mathematica beats every other option hands down in terms of language power, but trails waaaay behind when it comes to price. I'm happy with Wolfram's student license though :)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
left-fold and right-fold are not the only two. If you're dealing with commutative and associative operators, you can group them up in a binary (or n-ary) hierarchy for parallel execution as well ... and is there a name for that? map is obvi
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Readability is more about consistency than some style war. If you read more code that looks like X, then code that looks like Y will look "weird" and "unreadable". The exact opposite holds for those who read more Y. Try reading a Japanese m
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by aufreak3 16y ago
On the dot. I was trying to point out that the original research seemed to come from the point that being skeptical about the absolute power of scientific method is not ok. The authors were "shocked to find" .. blah blah.
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by aufreak3 16y ago
This article has an odd futility about it I agree. Something very pretentiously meta about it. The author writes that the findings are shocking, but I'd have been shocked only if people ended up trusting "science" (whatever their notion o
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I wonder what kinds of answers you'd get from the same study group if you asked the question "what is science?". Heck, I wonder what answers that'll get on Hacker News! If you read "science" as "survival of the fittest for theories", then t
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Good move, but not enough. Though you're now more informed, you still don't have much control over using an app other than deciding whether use it or not. Its not like you can say "this app shouldn't be needing access to my friends birthday
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by aufreak3 16y ago
I think there is a large factor of "specific incentives spoil the game for me" in programming. What I'm trying to say is, the moment you put a price on something you diminish its value and decrease motivation. Just pay the folks enough to g
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by aufreak3 16y ago
> But if you know the application very well then memory management isn't too big a deal. Agreed. A related case is with Objective-C's memory management scheme which isn't a full GC, but lets you scope your memory allocations. It gets yo
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by aufreak3 16y ago
This article seems very very speculative. For instance, I don't think the blocks implementation in ObjC is adequate as a full closure implementation. It certainly looks like Apple is trying to improve the language while continuing to rema
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by aufreak3 16y ago
... and it looks like facebook will soon launch what sounds like a social powered question answer site, according to their "beta" recruitment page - http://www.facebook.com/product_application/ Will it be called FaceOverflow?
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Gimp lets you export images into HTML tables :) It even asks you whether you're sane and really want to do it!
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Securely access your files from anywhere on the net(itwin.com)
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by aufreak3 16y ago
Totally agree with both. They've taken great initiative and the criticisms that come with it. On top of all this, they create Moby which compiles to Javascript. If this were a concert, I'd give them a standing ovation.

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