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by catch23 14y ago
Almost no libraries out there have inline assembler magic. If you wrote a library with inline assembler, you'd have to write it for arm & i386 so that developers could still use it in the simulator. There are very few people out there
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by catch23 14y ago
That isn't the only chip microchip makes for recharging, but it's probably the cheapest. There are more complicated (larger) chips that do everything from overcharge protection, temp monitoring, etc. Some applications don't need all that
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by catch23 14y ago
I don't see how after a project matures, there should be no exploitable bugs? Even Java still has serious bugs on a yearly basis... The only secure systems are the ones nobody uses.
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by catch23 14y ago
I've added a readme now. Will add more soon.
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by catch23 14y ago
I've added a readme now... will add more documentation soon.
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by catch23 14y ago
I can make more. After about 3 months with no github watchers, I figured the only person reading the docs would be myself.
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by catch23 14y ago
If you need a great html parser, I also wrote a library for one of those: https://github.com/deanmao/node-hubbub It's merely an integration library for the netsurf browser. It's the html parser for a real browser. I considered using th
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by catch23 14y ago
The github project does have examples in standard javascript as well: https://github.com/deanmao/node-chimera/blob/master/example....
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by catch23 14y ago
Sure, I can make more. This post caught me by surprise. It's odd to see your own blog post from months ago on HN. I sorta gave up on the project seeing as nobody other than myself used it. (I have zero watchers on github)
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by catch23 14y ago
some fundamentals don't change though... the college classes that will still remain useful would probably be either compilers or data structures. even some of the basic operating system stuff (filesystems/scheduling) would still be useful
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by catch23 14y ago
These days you can get a single chip that nearly does all the "battery management" for you. example: http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=e...
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by catch23 14y ago
To the layman it may appear that way, but I assure you the lightpeak cables don't have any DRM logic in them, they merely mux/demux signals. I think you're just a bit misinformed, or think anytime there's chips in basic things like cables,
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by catch23 14y ago
Doesn't DRM stand for digital rights management? I think you may have confused it with something else. DRM doesn't prevent people from manufacturing cables -- it's to prevent the end user from accessing content they don't own. DRM was ne
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by catch23 14y ago
Trackpads on "other" laptops are also pretty bad. I wish there was a non-apple laptop with a trackpad at least as good as the ones on the macbooks. It's like comparing iphone's touchscreen with any android phone. All phones pre-jellybean
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by catch23 14y ago
I guess it depends what you categorize as social media. I think bloggers also fall into the social media camp. There's a very thin line between bloggers and journalists. Would you say the bloggers on huffington post talk chain-mails and
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by catch23 14y ago
Shouldn't those other 20 developers using FB in their chrome extension on the chrome web store also get the same lawsuit? I feel like this developer might be singled out, since it directly reduces facebook's profits by removing sponsored s
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by catch23 14y ago
They've always done that, the reason they're not doing so well is mostly because the margins for commodity hardware has gotten really thin. There was a time when CompUSA & Dell were thrived on computer sales.
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by catch23 14y ago
It seems like it's mentioned in the paper already (see abstract). Probably not the best name, but it is pretty catchy.
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by catch23 14y ago
well, it wasn't due to anything in phantomjs actually -- it was because qt introduced project lighthouse & their qt platform abstraction. project lighthouse was a fork that got integrated into qt 4.8 that phantomjs includes. (you can
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by catch23 14y ago
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4201/ch12-3.htm NASA denied there was political influence, but it's hard to say since the stars lined up perfectly for them.
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by catch23 14y ago
Yes and no. Even some arduinos are incompatible with certain arduino libraries. Most of the libraries were written for the most popular 328p chip at the most popular frequency (16mhz), but if you're using a Due or Attiny or even the 328p
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by catch23 14y ago
There's still the Teensy 2.0/3.0 which is smaller & cheaper than this board. The Teensy 2.0 ($16) uses the same chip (32u4) as the arduino micro, and the 3.0 ($19) uses an arm-m4 chip which also provides a DSP. The best thing about th
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by catch23 14y ago
There's one interesting quote in the article: Musk: I can’t tell you much. We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would jus
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by catch23 14y ago
I'm also guessing that developers are the hardest type of people to spam. The first time they see a weird email, they'd hit the "mark as spam" button, and if they still see stuff coming through, they'll either create a filter or track you
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by catch23 14y ago
The arduino.cc link is: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoDUE It says the page will be available on Monday, when you can buy it.
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by catch23 14y ago
I think it's 40% of the market for EU laws. At least it's 40% when they start investigating you.
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by catch23 14y ago
Cancan probably wouldn't have prevented this. It's not because someone didn't use some library. The developer probably just did a User.find(params[:id]) instead of doing something like current_user from whatever authentication system they
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by catch23 14y ago
I'm guessing you're not accustomed to the arduino parlance. Everyone knows arduino uses an atmel atmega uC, but when you say "arduino mega" it means something specific. I have around 5 different models of atmega chips at home that I use w
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by catch23 14y ago
So what happens when a packet is sent when you're in sleep mode? Does the device have to renegotiate the connection when waking up? What if you sold a separate device that plugged in the wall and had a constant wifi connection, then used B
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by catch23 14y ago
right. but it doesn't say how it is flashed -- perhaps it requires you to hook up via usb? I can understand people's fear of technology when it is used for security purposes, but if someone wanted to break in, there are easier ways than fl

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