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   by brotchie 13y ago

   Heavily use xmonad. I have a single xmobar on my primary screen showing active workspaces, max cpu using process, max memory using process, cpu usage / throttling and network traffic. I do a lot of work across multiple VMs (OSX on vmwa
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   by brotchie 13y ago

   Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding of goodwill is that it is calculated as the difference between the net asset value of an acquired company and its acquisition price; that is, Google buys Motorola for $12bb, net val
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   by brotchie 13y ago

   I had the same reaction! Coffee and some good toast at a nice Cafe in Brisbane (Australia third largest city) would also run around $10.
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   by brotchie 13y ago

   The Ising model Hamiltonian that the D-Wave computer "evolves" almost directly maps to the energy equation you have to minimize to train a restricted Boltzmann machine. I wouldn't call this "uninteresting" given the
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   by brotchie 13y ago

   With the availability of free CDNs (CloudFlare setup is 30 seconds max) I'm not sure why static sites have issues with bandwidth these days...
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   Show HN: Tongue-in-cheek project to explore community voting using meme altcoins

   1 points by brotchie 13y ago|0 comments
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   by brotchie 13y ago

   A friend of mine was an early Kickstarter backer and brought his Rift around to my place try out with a few friends. We tried out Half-Life 2 and as soon as I put the Visor + headphones on I was blown away. My brain's "location ne
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   by brotchie 13y ago

   I make note of the books I read in 1-2 sittings because I can't put them down. This year these were: Five Billion Years of Solitude - Lee Billings Ready Player One - Ernest Cline Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, th
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   DNA seen through the eyes of a coder(ds9a.nl)

   8 points by brotchie 13y ago|2 comments
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    I didn't fully "get" the implications of an exo-cortex until I read Accelerando by Charles Stross, really good read! In the book a punk kid steals one of the protagonist's AR glasses and computing devices. When the kid p
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    Microsoft's latest "scroogled" advertisement - Chromebook: Everything you need?(youtube.com)

    4 points by brotchie 13y ago|3 comments
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Interesting how payments work in different countries. For example, in Australia when dealing in AUD, banks can participate in end-of-day multilateral netting. That is, all the banks' inflows and outflows to all other banks are netted a
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Each Bitcoin transaction has a set of inputs and outputs. The sum of the BTC in the inputs must be strictly greater than or equal to the sum of the BTC in the outputs. If sum(inputs) > sum(outputs) then the miner who wins the block conta
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    I wonder why the big US banks aren't on board with driving contacless NFC payments? Commonwealth Bank, the largest bank in Australia is very soon releasing native Android NFC support and NFC style "smart tags" that you stick
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    $3bb Supply-demand. If there's a suitor willing to drop $3bb on Snapchat, then that's the market clearing price is it not? Given that Snapchat didn't accept, perhaps it's worth a tiny bit more.
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    I was thinking the same thing. A full 60% of MasterCard and Visa transaction are now paywave/paypass. That's pretty impressive uptake, and I'd imagine it will be just as quick one introduced en-mass overseas. Would love to kn
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa Parser combinators for Objective-C. I wrote this ~10-11 months ago because there were no internal-DSL based parser combinators available for Objective-C. I'm not sure if the land
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    1) Diaspora - Greg Egan. Absolutely changed my world view regarding our place in the universe, the nature of conscious minds, and the potential for post-biological life. 2) Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance. Pulled this off the s
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Facebook advertising. We were struggling to get traction in the market ( http://portalcharts.com ). We did a $500 advertising spend on Facebook tailored towards our target geography and demographic. The results were excellent: CPA
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Hmm, have they changed their landing page since you posted this, or are either of the sites A/B testing? Because I don't see any similarities. Highrise: http://i.imgur.com/wbqjkUP.jpg Homejoy: http://i.
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    I made this working < 2 days spread over a few weeks. http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/ It's a comparison of the broadband policies of Australia's two opposing political parties. I posted it on the /r/Au
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Yep, and for some reason unknown to me, the Excel function for kurtosis actually calculates excess kurtosis. I guess it's a confusion similar to log and ln. In most maths packages log is the natural log and kurtosis is the by-definitio
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Damn, great idea! I love the immediacy of prompting for a voice recording. Would be very keen to integrate this with one of my apps that's currently in beta. Direct, actionable, voice feedback from beta users would be awesome.
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Portal Charts ( http://portalcharts.com/ ) Sync your MetaTrader 4 Forex charts to your phone in under 60 seconds. Beta testing at the moment. The majority of retail foreign exchange (Forex) traders trade using the MetaTrader
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    I met with him recently and chatted one-on-one for an hour about Australia's broadband policy. I was very impressed by his technical knowledge as well as the manner in which he communicated it. He spends a lot of time on Whirlpool (Aus
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    I just looked back through parts of Koch's book. He was indeed talking about IIT. The wiki article on IIT is interesting, I didn't realise IIT had such a rigorous mathematical definition! I'll read further.
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    12 months ago I would have strongly disagreed with your first sentence, but after a load of reading on Physics, Philosophy, and Neuroscience, my views have changed. I am still unable to reconcile my "internal" conscious experience
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Are the Pirate Party running candidates for the senate in this coming election? I think they have a good chance of getting a few seats is so... the youth vote is big and I foresee a lot of GenYers putting 1 above the line for the Pirate Par
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Night and day. Vim on one screen and a multitude of things on the other: Matlab, a Windows VM, Web Browser, Terminal, etc. Combine dual screens with a tiling window manager (XMonad, Awesome) and you're laughing. As far as physically ma
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    by brotchie 13y ago

    Any idea what level of medical care they can provision on-ship? I'd presume they have morgue facilities, given the negatively skewed age distribution, but no operating theatre?