azeirah

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by azeirah 10y ago
OP is angry because it's a common occurrence for companies in similar situation to hide behind fluffy language, while OP has the goal to understand what's going on.
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by azeirah 10y ago
:|
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by azeirah 10y ago
> Musk gets his boring tunnel machine :D
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by azeirah 10y ago
This really needs an accompanying introduction. Why this? How'd you get this idea? What's easy to do using this technique that's not easy in traditional programs? It's too far out for me (and I guess for others as well)
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Spotify acquires blockchain startup to solve music’s attribution problem(techcrunch.com)
8 points by azeirah 10y ago|1 comments
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by azeirah 10y ago
Minesweeper
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by azeirah 10y ago
I suppose you got your eichhornen from us Dutchies. The story goes that a Dutch trader went to the UK, saw a squirrel, and wondered what it was. He pointed at the squirrel, asking a local "what's that?", the local thought he
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by azeirah 10y ago
Flour sugar? I'm Dutch, we call it powdered sugar. Doesn't invalidate what you wrote in any way regardless, but still.
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by azeirah 10y ago
> In fact, they even need this for straight lines, but the function is ridiculously easy, so we tend to ignore that as far as computers are concerned Well.... If it was so easy, why does the algorithm have a name? (Bresenham's algor
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by azeirah 10y ago
I know you're joking, but come on, it's a family business c:
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by azeirah 10y ago
Ask them, not us.
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by azeirah 10y ago
Godel Escher Bach is fairly bible-ish if you ask me Another set of books I consider to be "one" bible are Edward Tufte's (1) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, (2) Envisioning Information, (3) Visual Explanations
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by azeirah 10y ago
Bret Victor (worrydream.com) is a PI at HARC, having seen his previous demos, I'm very optimistic about HARC's future.
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by azeirah 10y ago
There's another lab that was successful in a somewhat similar manner, a way larger scale, but still great results. I recently bought a book on the Philips Natlab, same idea as Xerox PARC. They invented the optical drive (cd's), th
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by azeirah 10y ago
> they know something I don't Am I weird for thinking that it's very likely that an entire company with over 100 years of experience _does_ know something that you don't?
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Write a letter to your future self(futureme.org)
1 points by azeirah 10y ago|0 comments
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by azeirah 10y ago
> But, we're a bit afraid of our app being copied and made production-ready faster than we can do. Don't worry, only the most successful apps get copied.
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by azeirah 10y ago
> Seize two meaningless constants from the void, and imbue them with meaning. Holy shit
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by azeirah 10y ago
You can achieve really nice looking syntax highlighting using only bold, _italic_ and several different scales of gray.
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by azeirah 10y ago
There has to have been a solid solution before docker or containerization in general, what do giant companies use?
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by azeirah 10y ago
If anything, increased stability for general-purpose usage would be very nice. Increased hardware support, especially drivers for some wi-fi cards need a lot of work. I really love Linux desktops, but they have too many stability issues&#x2
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by azeirah 10y ago
Yeah, the only implementation right now is in JS. They do want it to be language independent though, although I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon x]
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by azeirah 10y ago
> the people interested in "something magical that codes for me" are not the good developers No matter how much I code, I'll always have to look at documentation. This is just faster documentation, I really don't see
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Pleistocene Park: An Ice Age Ecosystem to Save the World(kickstarter.com)
1 points by azeirah 10y ago|0 comments
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by azeirah 10y ago
I remember that the Cassowary constraint system was implemented in Apple's app development framework, and people reporting that it was hell to work with after building anything beyond minimal complexity. Also, there is an actual GSS im
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by azeirah 10y ago
Ah ok, I hadn't considered that, that's quite clever really.
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by azeirah 10y ago
Comments do have a place in a data format if the format is intended to be human readable.
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Ask HN: What's your favorite book?
2 points by azeirah 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Play that color vision test game as a quad tree(martijnbrekelmans.com)
4 points by azeirah 10y ago|0 comments
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by azeirah 10y ago
Looks really cool man :o

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