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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
Note that Unicode includes hieroglyphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs#Unicode
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
'Always bet on text' is a catchy slogan, but the author fails to define 'text'. This is confusing because the post contains a lot of pictures of things that I don't know we would all agree are text. Let's start
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
Talk about bad PR for Google Glass. Already, the article has been amended with the notice '(This version of the story has been corrected to change headline to show recognition database software developed by police not Google)'. I
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Enable execution of Java methods on GPU(bugs.openjdk.java.net)
2 points by bluerobotcat 12y ago|0 comments
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
jdv@foobar.be Also, my homepage is http://jdevuyst.appspot.com/
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Show HN: Hype Alarm for iPhone wakes you up to the most blogged about tracks(hypealarm.com)
1 points by bluerobotcat 12y ago|0 comments
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
Location: I am an EU citizen but currently live as a nomad in SE Asia Remote: I would consider it Willing to relocate: Absolutely (but, FWIW, I appear to have a PhD in the wrong field for an H-1B visa) Technologies: Objective-C (iOS), Cloju
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
I think the subway in NYC is pretty great, though by no means perfect. Amsterdam doesn't have great public transportation. It would drive me insane when I lived there (Indische Buurt / Science Park). Their system of public transpo
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
Ah, shoot, you're right. That's what I was thinking about. It's been a long while since I actively used Java.
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
The default "internal" access mode is similar to "protected". It's less granular, but that's to be expected since Swift does not (yet?) allow partitioning of a single app or library into different namespaces.
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
> Well what is often forgotten is that humidity is just as big of a culprit as the temperature of the air. Hot but dry air can be tolerated much easier than colder but more humid air. I hear this a lot but my experience is different. Hum
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
Thanks to this research I feel slightly less weird for preferring to run on a treadmill.
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by bluerobotcat 12y ago
To be fair, that does sound like it could be a scam. Also, presumably all the police would have told you is that you should go to the nearest police station. Once, after withdrawing money from an ATM, two guys came up to me with a 5 euro no
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Mapping the International Availability of Entertainment Services(macstories.net)
20 points by bluerobotcat 12y ago|4 comments
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by bluerobotcat 13y ago
In the long run, having a more modern language should benefit Android because it means the barrier of entry is lower for programmers. In the meantime it does seem likely that Java has a non-negligible performance cost. My personal worry is
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by bluerobotcat 13y ago
One interesting use of Lua is in LaTeX. Recent distributions of LaTeX come with binaries luatex and lualatex. I'm not familiar with the exact details, but if you'll Google around you'll find many references to LaTeX internals
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by bluerobotcat 13y ago
I'm not completely sure I'm reading this proposal correctly, but at first blush it seems like it would only support lexically scoped variables. If so then that would be an unfortunate limitation. ClojureScript, for instance, suppo
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Live demo for Termcat, the illegitimate lovechild of Markdown and LaTeX(jdevuyst.github.io)
1 points by bluerobotcat 13y ago|0 comments
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Scientists explain their processes with a little too much honesty [17 pictures](twentytwowords.com)
3 points by bluerobotcat 13y ago|0 comments
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by bluerobotcat 13y ago
Was it for an iPad? Those seem to be especially difficult. I went to five AT&T shops before giving up. I also went to two T-Mobile shops before someone would help me. Other challenges: AT&T only allows prepaid SIM cards to be activa
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by bluerobotcat 13y ago
This is nothing compared to the $1,000 security deposit an AT&T employee asked me for an prepaid iPad SIM card. They wanted this deposit because I didn't have a social security number. T-Mobile sorted me out eventually, but they ha
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by bluerobotcat 13y ago
This is something I created when I was attending Hacker School. Our batch just ended last Friday and so I felt now was a good time to show it here and get some more feedback. I realize many features are still missing. However, I do believe
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Show HN: The Termcat Markup Language(jdevuyst.github.io)
1 points by bluerobotcat 13y ago|1 comments
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Britain's GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm(spiegel.de)
2 points by bluerobotcat 13y ago|0 comments
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Largest Belgian telco hacked by the NSA(arstechnica.com)
4 points by bluerobotcat 13y ago|0 comments