bjackman

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by bjackman 13y ago
Im not a business analyst but possible explanation: Intel want their chips in embedded, low power devices, beating ARM chips to new markets. Nobody is building x86 wearables, so Intel want to start the ball rolling by doing it themselves. s
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by bjackman 13y ago
Cool - I'll set this up tomorrow, it looks good and my Music library is a mess. It would be nice to have a centralised repository on the website where people can share plugins (like Sublime's Package Control, which is 3rd party).
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by bjackman 13y ago
Are all of those true? Why is a manual toothbrush better than an electric one? I recently bought an electric one and I feel like it cleans my teeth a lot better. I've used some really great stainless steel pans, but they were evidently
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by bjackman 13y ago
22 year old working in firmware department of major silicon IP company here (you can probably guess who - obviously standard disclaimer about I don't represent them). My company selling IP rather than hardware makes it a bit easier, bu
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by bjackman 13y ago
To be violently hyperbolic; besides impressing non-tech managers who've watched too many Nicholas Cage films, what the fuck is the point of this? If you have the money to commission a set of devices that self-destruct when tampered wit
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by bjackman 13y ago
Cool! How does this compare to Gitorious?
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by bjackman 13y ago
Awesome! You should have a look at Urbit: http://www.urbit.org/
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by bjackman 13y ago
map (format "The %s thing with Haskell is that it can be extremely compact") ["nice thing", "problem"] (disclaimer: that probably isn't actual Haskell syntax.)
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by bjackman 13y ago
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding this but my ISP (Virgin Media - not recommended, by the way) has always done this.. I assumed all ISPs did that?
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by bjackman 13y ago
Awesome! How often do astronomers catch supernovae like this?
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by bjackman 13y ago
It doesn't really have any flavour of its own (similarly to Tofu), but it's normally sold "chicken-style" or "beef-style", and has some sort of very mild flavouring added. One form it comes in is frozen "m
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by bjackman 13y ago
Great summaries, thanks! I love when kernel news is made as accessible as this (thanks also to LWN). Looks like a pretty major release. I only wish I had a rackfull of cutting-edge SSDs to try out the new block layer on!
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by bjackman 13y ago
This is fantastic! I don't eat meat, and out of laziness I often get my protein from Quorn, which is a brand of Mycoprotein. People often say "but it's synthetic! It's made in vats!". This is true. So what? I was ha
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by bjackman 13y ago
I only started doing this recently. It occurred to me that I had some conception in my subconscious that natural language punctuation wasn't required in formal language code files. I think it may have simply been a cognitive spill-over
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by bjackman 13y ago
Not only did it not support secure connections (which on its own is kind of shitty, but not laughing-stock material IMO), but it also failed to fail elegantly when you attempted to make a secure connection.
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by bjackman 13y ago
There are services aimed at e.g. PR departments for enterprise that do something a little like what you've described. I believe https://hootsuite.com/ is this sort of thing, but I haven't looked into it myself. I
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by bjackman 13y ago
But when I read Sci-Fi, I'm consuming: - The author's creativity and intelligence in extrapolating the technology's wider implications - A good story, including character development - Often some incredibly clever prose - Pos
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by bjackman 13y ago
I don't think there's anything misleading here, but there's still something irritating about it. These people spend loads of time and money designing futuristic stuff and giving each other awards for it. In the meantime, we m
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by bjackman 13y ago
Fun! I've never got to know the Game of Life before, and I couldn't find one on the web where you could go step by step and step back, so I made this http://www2.cs.man.ac.uk/~jackmab1/life/ Sorry, its p
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by bjackman 13y ago
http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/08/15/enabling-device... The Linaro kernels ("Linaro Stable Kernel" is the keyphrase) boot from devicetrees (aka FDTs). Not sure how much of that is upstr
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by bjackman 13y ago
I was also more emotionally affected by the poor quality collars than I am by most films!
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by bjackman 13y ago
Bit of topic, but out of interest, why do you buy/use/need the Microsoft toolchain? (I work on open source stuff and I've only ever used GCC and Clang - I'm not asking this as a rhetorical way to say you're stupid,
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by bjackman 13y ago
I'm still astonished at this idea though. I don't understand how a student of Philosophy could live life without regularly thinking about the behaviour of the universe outside our home. Thinking about it often enough that gravity
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by bjackman 13y ago
I guess they wouldn't be able to do this for the Smartcards used by Chip+PIN as the PIN verification actually happens within the Chip. Unless perhaps the banks worked together on it, but I can't see them doing that!
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by bjackman 13y ago
What's the opposition to it? I've had chip+PIN my whole life in fact I didn't know until today that the US was different - how do your cashpoints work?
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by bjackman 13y ago
I've been spending a lot of time recently looking into and thinking about alternatives to C. I'd love to see a language as close to assembly as C is, but with a cleaner disconnect with it. As an example of what I mean: Bitfields w
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by bjackman 13y ago
Just a thought: the "Link Rot" link should really be a Mummified link. I know Wikipedia isn't disappearing any time soon, but it just seemed silly to me not to "realise" the use case! Anyway, very sexy site design I
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by bjackman 13y ago
I disagree: "We deeply apologize for our mistake". I interpret the mention of a third party as an attempt to say "this was a mistake, not just us deliberately being dicks", not "this was not our fault".
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by bjackman 13y ago
I think thats a really good one. Its s.ymmetrical and has a cool minimalism. Edit: ok actually they're all symmetrical ..
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by bjackman 13y ago
So to tell if you're dealing with a pre-render request or an actual view you have to stick a load of AJAX in your page to make another whole HTTP connection from the users browser? Am I missing something here? Because that really sucks!

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