damien

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MIT replacing Scheme with Python for Intro CS class(catherinedevlin.blogspot.com)
25 points by damien 19y ago|16 comments
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by damien 19y ago
Standard Emacs/terminal/Firefox on my laptop: http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopak6.png When I'm docked at work, I usually have Emacs on the monitor and terminal on my laptop screen.
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by damien 19y ago
This may seem like an obvious point, but have you tried Linux (or another Free OS) with a tiling window manager? OS X does give you a nice prepackaged experienced, but if you love to tinker and have complete control to customize anything, L
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by damien 19y ago
The way I usually describe it to friends and family: Mac OS X if you want a nice prepackaged experience. Linux if you like to tinker and completely personalize your machine. Windows if you have to (but don't call me when it breaks ;).
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Introspective Robot Learns to Walk(technovelgy.com)
1 points by damien 19y ago|1 comments
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BUG: An open source, web-enabled, modular software + hardware platform(buglabs.net)
2 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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Software for data mining publicly available information(linux.com)
1 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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Jessica Alba is Hot, Mathematically Speaking(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by damien 19y ago|5 comments
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Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps(ibm.com)
1 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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Speed up your Ajax applications while dodging Web services vulnerabilities(ibm.com)
1 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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The Open Source way to fame and fortune(linux.com)
2 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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A Comparison of Push and Pull Techniques for Ajax [pdf](arxiv.org)
13 points by damien 19y ago|4 comments
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by damien 19y ago
And MSFT becomes BSOD
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by damien 19y ago
Lack of garbage collection built into the language, you mean? I'm not disagreeing with you, just clarifying.
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by damien 19y ago
Yep, I'd say that's a pretty good choice. Pylons+Mako+SQLAlchemy makes an excellent framework.
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by damien 19y ago
You might want to consider using a distributed system like mercurial or git, since it is much more flexible than something like Subversion. It will allow you to start coding today without worrying about servers by just pulling directly from
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A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces - Very cool [video](youtube.com)
1 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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by damien 19y ago
If you are a non-programmer, give this free book a try: "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ ). As it explains in the Preface ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/preface.html#auto2 ), Pytho
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by damien 19y ago
"Facebook lets you send messages direct to email addresses" I'm sorry but... I can't be the only one that laughed while reading this, right?
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by damien 19y ago
I still visit proggit regularly. Actually, that's how I found out about the change since I had stopped visiting "Startup News" for the same reasons pg changed it.
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AMD to extend x86 instruction set to ease multicore programming(eetimes.com)
1 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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The Real Problem With Alexa (a rant from the founder of Slashdot)(slashdot.org)
25 points by damien 19y ago|4 comments
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YouTube Scalability (Google Tech Talk)(video.google.com)
16 points by damien 19y ago|1 comments
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by damien 19y ago
"And open and good is what Macs are again" I can understand "good", but "open" is stretching it...
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by damien 19y ago
Looks interesting, my girlfriend is actually trying to learn French since we plan to move there, but being Windows only means we can't use it. I don't believe in making everything a web app, but in this case it would seem ideal... is there
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Building a startup in a weekend(coloradostartups.com)
8 points by damien 19y ago|1 comments
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by damien 19y ago
Good ideas and companies are not always created by the best hackers in the world.
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Schmidt on scaling Google(wordyard.com)
2 points by damien 19y ago|0 comments
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by damien 19y ago
Having used laptops with both ATI and nVidia chips inside, nvidia support is definitely the way to go between the two, especially for multi-monitor setups. I actually returned my old laptop with ATI graphics because their Linux drivers and
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by damien 19y ago
I'm just saying... the whole "Linux is too hard" argument doesn't hold much water with me anymore, since both my wife and 8 year old have been using it with no problems for a while. =) But yea, OS X does seem pretty nice, I'd probably give

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