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by chewxy 12y ago
NBN. Without a doubt. I'm sick and tired of very very slow ADSL2+ internet speeds. My area was in the scheduled area for NBN and I was really looking forward to it until Tone came aboard. Ugh Tax breaks while nice, isn't as essent
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Alphabetic ballot skews votes(bbc.co.uk)
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by chewxy 12y ago
variable and property lookups do go through different processes (and hence optimized differently). variables are stored on activation records (a Context object in v8), while properties are stored in well, a magic hidden class type of thing
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by chewxy 12y ago
I could be wrong (and if so, pie my face), but I believe it's mostly due to one of the many the inline cache optimizations that v8 employs. Let's consider the receiver (i.e the `this` value) of Example 1 and 2. The receiver of Ex
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by chewxy 12y ago
Discussion from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624189 I wrote: >I wonder what OP thinks about things like the NeoNurture? >I find the site quite disingenuous - it really feels lik
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Hacker Universalis(hackeruniversalis.org)
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by chewxy 12y ago
A couple of years back I was stuck in a crappy flight, so mid flight I decided to write a simple simulation of boarding flights[0]. The flight service usually boarded from front and rear, but somehow on that day they did front-to-rear. I al
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by chewxy 12y ago
There used to be a subreddit for these things: http://reddit.com/r/ediscover I would love for that subreddit to be revived
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Metabolism appears in lab without cells(newscientist.com)
154 points by chewxy 13y ago|23 comments
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Impromptu Shanghai Meetup – 27th April, Early Afternoon
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by chewxy 13y ago
I wonder what OP thinks about things like the NeoNurture? I find the site quite disingenuous - it really feels like a First World Problem kinda thing. Yes, the prosthetic arm is lame and a poor design, but compared to having no arm, it&#x27
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by chewxy 13y ago
What could be the reason for it? Is it a "you" -> "u" SMS lingo type of thing?
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by chewxy 13y ago
An interesting typo I've been seeing in the last week around China is 什么－》神马／神么 In fact, typing this on a pinyin keyboard, I can see why this is the case
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by chewxy 13y ago
I am currently in China for a holiday. I can read chinese (learnt it since I was young), but I have never actually used Chinese - my parents simply made me learn it on the off chance I would need to go to China. I have for the first few day
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by chewxy 13y ago
I was setting up my connections before going to China. I found this guide useful: https://blog.ls20.com/ipsec-l2tp-vpn-auto-setup-for-ubuntu-1...
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by chewxy 13y ago
I used something like 4 different algorithms in the end to approximate the pixel location. A voting algorithm + smoothing algorithm is also used to find the final pixel location. What I did to measure accuracy was to draw targets on the scr
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by chewxy 13y ago
How would you market this?
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by chewxy 13y ago
http://imgur.com/1wEQJqu This is mine. 2 weeks ago I set out to learn how to write android apps, and do gaze tracking. Story here: http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/04/08/eyetracking-jetpack-joyrid.
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by chewxy 13y ago
I like the idea. The problem I see with this is, actually matching to employers. I would be willing to give this a try. Also, put this description at the top thread.
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by chewxy 13y ago
You have my attention. Now, what's the pitch?
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by chewxy 13y ago
As much as I like this idea, I do wish John talked more about HOW he did it. "No More Zero Days" is a good thing as a target, but it's often unachievable. For me at least, the context switch required between what pg calls the
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The State of In-Car UX(teehanlax.com)
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[T]hat people want to engage with brands online...[is] an infantile fantasy(adrants.com)
9 points by chewxy 13y ago|2 comments
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by chewxy 13y ago
statistical consulting. Clients so far have ranged from finance startups to soft drinks companies. Programming is more of a means to an ends than anything. Finding your niche is easy. Finding clients in your niche is like climbing Mt. Evere
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by chewxy 13y ago
I run Fork the Cookbook. I get hatemail all the time on the word "fork" This one is particularly funny (yes, everything was in one sentence and spelling errors abound): "I find your terminology offensive, imature and disgusti
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by chewxy 13y ago
well, it would take a lot of tuning of the code. But even with a lot of careful tuning, there will be limitation in form of the framerate with JavaCameraView or even NativeCameraView. Better algorithms exist. I've tested them too, but
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by chewxy 13y ago
It's not going to be terribly accurate. I have accuracy of about 80-85%. It loses accuracy towards the edges, and towards the bottom of the screen
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Metawear – Production-ready Wearables in 30 Minutes(kickstarter.com)
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Eyetracking Jetpack Joyride, Smash Hit and Dungeon Keeper(blog.chewxy.com)
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by chewxy 13y ago
There were plenty of implicit rejections for me in the last two weeks. I decided to vent my frustration by learning how to write Android apps. Ultimately, it didn't do anything for me. But I did learn something new, and wrote something

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