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   by cesare 17y ago

   http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ It has tags, search, and there are many useful plugins (you may want to have syntax highlighting: http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Syntax_Highlighting ). It's all javascript so it runs locally in your browser. No nee
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   CTRL-ALT-DEL: I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous...(youtube.com)

   1 points by cesare 17y ago|0 comments
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   Steve Wozniak: How I Invented the Personal Computer(fora.tv)

   26 points by cesare 17y ago|5 comments
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   by cesare 17y ago

   Incredible, indeed! :-) Edit: it's hypnotizing. I've turned off the music I was listening to and I'm replaying this over and over.
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   The Holy Grail of the Unconscious(nytimes.com)

   17 points by cesare 17y ago|6 comments
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   by cesare 17y ago

   It's obvious, documentation is always important. It's even more important for proprietary software, since you can't even study the source. But it seems that neither of this two projects has good and extensive docs/tutorials. You could argue
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   by cesare 17y ago

   21 points? Probably this is just a troll or a lame PR stunt. Edit: Well then, it worked.
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   by cesare 17y ago

   You can't start using a brand new iPod Touch (or an iPhone) right away, either. First, you have to connect it to a PC with iTunes installed.
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   by cesare 17y ago

   Especially if you're astigmatic.
10. 160.▲
    by cesare 17y ago

    The VM image works like a charm with VirtualBox. I just had to change the emulated network adapter to Intel PRO to make networking work. Boot and shutdown are really really fast.
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    by cesare 17y ago

    The guy in the picture forgot to take off the hat before wearing the earphones.
12. 162.▲
    by cesare 17y ago

    It seem that financial backing wasn't needed for this project. Isn't the cheap cost the surprising factor here?
13. 163.▲
    by cesare 17y ago

    Top notch marketing/PR? ;-)
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    by cesare 17y ago

    True. But consider also that this has been made two years ago, with 2007 technology. Edit: Take the camera for instance. The MIT students used a Canon PowerShot A470 (they bought it used from ebay) which costs $120 new and is 7 mega pixels.
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    by cesare 17y ago

    They aren't the first to do something like this. Here's a very similar project made in 2007: http://www.natrium42.com/halo/flight2/
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    by cesare 17y ago

    True. That's why I thought the comment I replied to was kind of pointless.
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    by cesare 17y ago

    rms wouldn't approve ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134252/focus=1... ). ;-)
18. 168.▲
    by cesare 17y ago

    Is this the course that used to be taught in scheme?
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    by cesare 17y ago

    Most of the people I know who use macbooks can't tell an ethernet cable from a shoe string, let alone a bit from a byte. :-) Disclaimer: Mac/Linux user here. And my main machine is a macbook (actually a MBP).
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    by cesare 17y ago

    You forgot 'Great' without exclamation marks (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819160 ).
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    by cesare 17y ago

    I don't think that Lerdorf (btw, not Lerforf) doesn't know what he's talking about. He's just saying that frameworks like Rails are inherently slower, and all the magic (like scaffolding etc.) isn't really worth it. He also says: > Ruby
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    by cesare 17y ago

    > I honestly don't believe that if you charged for OpenOffice.org, Inkscape or The Gimp then people would prefer them over their closed source equivalents. I'm not saying this. I, for one, prefer Gimp and Inkscape over Photoshop and Ill
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    by cesare 17y ago

    You're talking about the average user? It's simple: because they can pirate proprietary software and they always perceive something which has a price tag as more valuable than something which is offered for free. Something which has more (p
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    by cesare 17y ago

    > It teaches people how to draw realistically using techniques like contour drawing among other stuff. A great book. One of the exercises is to copy a picture turned 180 degrees, so that you're drawing exactly what you're seeing without
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    by cesare 17y ago

    Have you tried Anki? (it's open source, see GiraffeNecktie comment). I've just downloaded it. There are also some decks shared by people (mostly for natural languages) that you can download from the app itself.
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    by cesare 17y ago

    Thanks. I was just wondering if there was a similar open source project. Anki: http://ichi2.net/anki/ Wikipedia entry about this technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
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    by cesare 17y ago

    Once you've finished the article, there's a lot of reading material on the SuperMemo website: http://www.supermemo.com/english/contents.htm#Articles Really interesting stuff. The website and the software user interface (at least judging f
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    by cesare 17y ago

    Are you familiar with Edward Bernays? Have you watched Adam Curtis documentary 'The century of the self'? From http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2008/8/14/3837144.h... : Edward Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. His family em
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    by cesare 17y ago

    'Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind' by Shunryu Suzuki. It's one of the first book I've read about zen (the first was '101 Zen Stories', which I recommend as well). Didn't know it was a classic when I bought it fifteen years ago. I've reread it many
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    by cesare 17y ago

    http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/31/apple-holding-rock-and-ro...