bockris

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   by bockris 16y ago

   Check out the source of SQLite.
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   by bockris 16y ago

   I actually want to do this in reverse. I want to do a careful read of the Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson and make a note of the location of every major character for as fine of a time period I can. Then I want to load it all in
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   by bockris 16y ago

   I came to post this exact comment. I built an pneumatic cannon to launch tennis balls and rockets etc with my kids and I want to figure out the height and speed of various projectiles and air pressures.
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   by bockris 16y ago

   Pre-cursor to IceBreakers in William Gibson's novel Neuromancer? Life imitates fiction.
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   by bockris 16y ago

   Closure. http://www.rustybrick.com/google-releases-tools-that-made-gm...
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   by bockris 16y ago

   Actually if she was an advisor, she could easily buy the stuff she was pushing before she pushed it. Are there rules (besides the ethical ones) against that?
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   Telnet to a Superboard II using Python and the cassette ports(dabeaz.blogspot.com)

   2 points by bockris 16y ago|0 comments
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   by bockris 16y ago

   http://bugs.python.org/ is running a customized version of Roundup. Source is here. http://svn.python.org/view/tracker/roundup-src/
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   by bockris 16y ago

   Thanks for the trial minutes of SL from PyCon, I still have mine and I'm having a hard time using them. :-( Most of what I want to test is internal and I don't have the political clout/intestinal fortitude to get it exposed enough for SL to
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    by bockris 16y ago

    I checked your profile briefly to see if this was your site. I wouldn't have posted a quasi-competitor if there was disclosure.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    see also, SauceLabs http://saucelabs.com/
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    by bockris 16y ago

    Various Apple ][ emulators do a fine job of playing this game if you are so inclined for a stroll down memory lane.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    For the Apple ][ fans there was Taipan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipan ! I spent many, many hours playing that game.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com... from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479107
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    by bockris 16y ago

    It's cute but it's probably not going to result in a job.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    It's the GIFT. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
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    by bockris 16y ago

    This was in 2002 and I used Python with the PIL module. It didn't really take all that long, less than a day for the whole project. Probably 2-3 hours of run time on my desktop. I wasn't actually doing anything but identifying the bad im
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    by bockris 16y ago

    Several years ago I had to do something similar (10 of thousands instead of millions though). Our problem was that we were making a composite image but sometimes the 'background' image content was shifted to the left or right. (e.g. All im
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    by bockris 16y ago

    http://stackoverflow.com/ is a better place for questions like this, IMO.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    I will give it a try.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    FWIW, I have essentially 0 stability problems with my Droid. (Can't speak to superk's other points because I haven't played with a Nexus One.)
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    by bockris 16y ago

    It's almost 4 years old.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    dup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454509
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    by bockris 16y ago

    OT: I saw a thread on Reddit or Slashdot that featured this chain of replies. >>Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb. >Spelling Tip: Its "Grammar" Punctuation Tip: It's "It's".
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    by bockris 16y ago

    Make: Electronics by Charles Platt is a very good beginners book with lots of projects. Not Arduino specific though. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153755
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    by bockris 16y ago

    I'm late to the game but you should check out 'Cog' by Ned Batchelder. http://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/ I used it several years ago with great success.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    I think the Arduino MEGA's will eventually be supported but the regular ones are too limited.
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    by bockris 16y ago

    I don't read python-dev and I could name 7 core Python devs without even thinking. (Guido van Rossum, Alex Martelli, Raymond Hettinger, Martin van Loweis, Jeremy Hilton, Georg Brandl, Fredrik Lundh) (I'm really bummed that David Beazley
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    by bockris 16y ago

    Not a direct answer to your question but I like this website for 'explain the math' type articles. http://betterexplained.com/ (The author is HN user kalid.)
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    by bockris 16y ago

    5.5 lbs! (from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleys... ) and at the price point mentioned in article, I feel it is a non-starter.