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by cvs268 12y ago
What do U say guys? Any yays or nays?...
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by cvs268 12y ago
Hmmm... no wonder i feel immensely satisfied at work nowadays. ;-)
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by cvs268 12y ago
about 8hours a day. 2hrs independent technical reading. 2hrs independent design/development. 4hrs code-review/training others/discussions.
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The Importance of Use-Cases in Software Development (featuring Alan Turing)(slideshare.net)
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by cvs268 12y ago
Had started nGPS - location using geomagnetic-field. But the concept never took off the drawing board. Limitations were mainly the inaccuracies with the consumer-grade sensors in smartphones. http://thecodeartist.blogspot.com&#x2
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by cvs268 12y ago
For time-tracking and task-management: - Personal Hourly timesheet. - Outlook Tasks. - Old-school post-it notes. This works extremely well for me as i get new tasks from: - Emails - Meetings More important is generating metrics about what y
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20 email templates for common social situations(cannedemails.com)
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Dark Web vendors offer up “thousands” of Uber logins starting at $1 each(arstechnica.com)
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by cvs268 12y ago
Surely "toolchain" is not a joke in this context. Basically it is "compiler and friends". For example: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_toolchain
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by cvs268 12y ago
...and fast forward few years and you have the Black-Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" happening world-wide. How long do you think it will take for advertisers to realise that people will watch "stuff" even if you
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by cvs268 12y ago
Off-topic: Going over the 100 or so comments over the pas 30mins was dare i say entertaining. It took me a few mins of self-reflection after i finished reading this on HN and thought - Why am i feeling happy after reading this? This discuss
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by cvs268 12y ago
Nice series. Waiting for an episode or two about Linux kernel on ARM.
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by cvs268 12y ago
Would you want your page to be in the results of a search query containing any/all the words in the title? If yes, then the title is good. Also, following the massive influx of visitors on "D-day" a secondary influx of visito
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by cvs268 12y ago
In terms of SEO it does wonders to the pagerank. The page continues to be placed on the first page of search results for few weeks after the viral influx of visitors. The key is to ensure that relevant keywords are part of the anchor text i
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Ask HN: How to be a good mentor?
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by cvs268 12y ago
Over the years, apparently only 1 guy has reported an issue with this definition of MAX_JIFFIES_OFFSET http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2012/07/11/222 As mentioned, this was originally discovered a
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Max_jiffy_offset: msleep() beyond infinity(thecodeartist.blogspot.com)
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by cvs268 12y ago
Yes! CUDA on ARM has been available for quite some time now. http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/cuda-arm-platforms... In fact the most recent version of OpenCV already leverages this on ARM platforms that suppor
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by cvs268 13y ago
No wonder cats and dogs don't get along very well... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apply+dog+vision+to+pho...
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by cvs268 13y ago
To go into the details, essentially, its the AHCI-driver(SATA) that handles 2 use-cases differently. The more common being the case where there is an additional VFS driver between the app attempting sync-I/O and the AHCI driver which s
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by cvs268 13y ago
The way the SCSI layer is implemented in Linux, fsync() (for that matter O_SYNC I/O) doesn't really flush data to the non-volatile platter on disk. Too much of a performance hit if it did that all the time. http://theco
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Ask HN: [jpeg] What is this "law of the eight" ?
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by cvs268 13y ago
Its the Elton SiRFstarIV GSD4e. Check out its details in this video http://youtu.be/SRRKHDsoDvk where its demo-ed on a GPS-enabled wrist watch...
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by cvs268 13y ago
Barometers measure pressure. And knowing the pressure at your location(assuming its atmospheric pressure and that U are not in a sealed chamber) one can calculate the altitude(mean height above sea-level). This further improves the accuracy
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by cvs268 13y ago
Hmmm... True. I did miss the GPS. Well i was just looking for sensors in the sense that Android defines them. GPS is in a class of its own. There is indeed mention of some sort of "Elton" GPS. Well i am on my mobile now. Travelling home aft
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Sensors on Google Glass(thecodeartist.blogspot.com)
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Shoutcast Internet radio in 13 lines of C code(thecodeartist.blogspot.com)
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Why O_SYNC does Not guarantee that data is written to the hard-disk(thecodeartist.blogspot.com)
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