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by austinz 12y ago
I like Apple a lot, but I find it more and more tiresome the fact that, if I want an OS X desktop that doesn't try to squeeze underpowered, overpriced laptop components into a tiny chassis, I would have to buy a Mac Pro. The fact that
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by austinz 12y ago
When I was in middle school, I thought SC's trigger-based map editor was the most amazing thing ever. I even built a four-mission mini campaign that I showed my friends, who promptly told me that it sucked. (It was actually pretty terr
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by austinz 12y ago
Definitely an interesting article. I do think two points are worth mentioning: 1. China's 'reserve army of labor' hasn't necessarily been exhausted yet. Wages in the inland provinces still lag those found in the coastal
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by austinz 12y ago
I had no idea. Thanks for the link!
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by austinz 12y ago
The visual language grammar starting on page 40 is fascinating.
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A Tiny Emissary from the Ancient Past(nytimes.com)
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by austinz 12y ago
I'm fascinated that there was a patent infringement warning (and an application form for licensing). Would a hobbyist building one of these things for their own personal enjoyment really have been in legal danger?
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by austinz 12y ago
Awesome! Thanks.
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by austinz 12y ago
Congratulations to the Rust team! Can't wait to start learning the language and building stuff using it. I'm looking to learn about how Rust's refcounting memory management works (and how it differs from how, e.g. Objective-C
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A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive(bbc.com)
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Mining for Antibiotics, Right Under Our Noses(nytimes.com)
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Silicon Valley Builds Up in Microsoft's Backyard(nytimes.com)
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by austinz 12y ago
It really depends on what sort of games you are trying to build. If you want to use SpriteKit or SceneKit (both of which are iOS only), you will probably need to learn Swift. But it's possible you might want to use a cross-platform thi
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by austinz 12y ago
My senior engineering project in college was the development of a GPS-guided robotic boat for recreational purposes. Our team consisted of three electrical engineers with very little machine design experience (this was just the first of man
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by austinz 12y ago
Thank you for this incredibly detailed write-up. I'm really impressed by the fact that you go all the way from component selection to board layout to digital logic to firmware and software. I have a couple of FPGA boards sitting around
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by austinz 12y ago
> Did he have any reason to believe Twitter was more likely to fail Whether or not Twitter is more or less reliable than any similar alternative doesn't really matter that much, especially if none of the alternatives offer anything
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by austinz 12y ago
From the Twitter terms of service: "The Twitter Entities make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (i) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Conte
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by austinz 12y ago
Enjoyed this article. Another good read on ADTs: http://tel.github.io/2014/07/23/types_of_data/ , and for a Swift-specific take: http://tel.github.io/2014/07/26/types_of_dat
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by austinz 12y ago
I wish someone would make a serious successor to SimCity - an actual simulator that modeled theories from the field of urban planning and allowed people to experiment with different layouts, policies, etc. This would be a very different pie
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by austinz 12y ago
I don't think big projects are intrinsically bad because they are big, but it's probably true that something of this scale would have drastic, wide-ranging effects on climate, geological characteristics, rainfall, and many other a
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by austinz 12y ago
Nifty use of grafting, a surprisingly ancient agricultural technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting
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by austinz 12y ago
There's also a blog post preceding this one that talks about call-by-name-esque semantics using "@auto_closure"; it's definitely worth a look.
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by austinz 12y ago
This is very true, which begs the question - why was a 23-year-old summer intern placed in charge of the embassy computer system, or even given access to its central console? He may have have self-taught facility with computers, but I find
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by austinz 12y ago
I just took a look at their 'About Us' page. It's basically "we're a software company, like startups, but we're better than those stupid startups because we're a real business ". Sort of off-puttin
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by austinz 12y ago
The linked Twitter post does bring up a good point: I wish Apple would make it easier for third parties to build tooling for the iOS/OS X development environment. Stuff like alternative IDEs, Xcode plug-ins, tools for instrumentation&#
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by austinz 12y ago
My recommendation is: - Download the ebook that describes how to use the language. You can get it as an iBook or a PDF, or just view the documentation on the developer site. The ebook is really approachable and will show you how to do most
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Nakagin Capsule Tower(en.wikipedia.org)
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by austinz 12y ago
> Personally I have the impression that many web programmers, especially those who has never worked with anything other than the web, are ignorant of the existence of other branches of programming. I see this again and again in the artic
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by austinz 12y ago
The possibility of the Singularity coming to pass (as its boosters depict it) depends on the following being true: 1. Human-level intelligence is sufficient for creating an artificial intelligence that is superior to human-level intelligenc
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Connect Four Robot(patrickmccabemakes.com)
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