davepeck

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by davepeck 17y ago
By interface, I assume you mean git's command-line interface? I agree; it's terrible. My impression is that projects like grit are far enough along that it should be possible to build an entirely new git front-end/porcelain on a clean techn
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This is just a tiny toy I wrote for a class that my brother, who is a professor of neuroscience, is teaching. I love the idea of interactive math/physics/bio labs on the web. With the advent of tablet like objects, perhaps there's room for
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Neurosimulation with JavaScript and Raphael.js(davepeck.org)
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by davepeck 17y ago
I got a tiny app approved just last week. Total time from submission to acceptance: 33 hours. That's far less than I've seen on the previous three. Luck, or improvement, I'm not sure...
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by davepeck 17y ago
True. According to the USGS, New York gets 45.4" of precipitation yearly, while Seattle gets 37.2". That said, I'd like to find out how to compare the number of days with rain in both places. Seattle gets drizzle. The year I moved here we h
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by davepeck 17y ago
I tend to prefer Consolas to Inconsolata. Consolas' glyphs feel like they have more uniform thickness throughout.
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by davepeck 17y ago
This is a pretty good overview of some key deficiencies. I wish he would have left the "not backwards compatible" complaints out -- backwards compatibility is a well-known non-goal, and it's a non-issue how difficult (or subtle) porting cod
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by davepeck 17y ago
I can understand what's in it for Blippy when I grant them access to my transactions -- hell, it's a gold mine -- but what could possibly be in it for me except a little embarrassment about how often I eat at Serious Pie? The "don't overpay
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by davepeck 17y ago
> I define my heirarchy by the ability of the species to comprehend the universe and its disruptiveness to other species. This is probably equally arbitrary, but it has at least some logic behind it. I have a very similar view of the wo
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by davepeck 17y ago
Got it. I just wondered if there were standard-Django features you wanted to use, but couldn't (easily) without AEP. It sounds, however, like it was all the other in-package goodies that made AEP desirable. If there were a "GAE django start
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by davepeck 17y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you settle on app-engine-patch rather than use_library()?
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by davepeck 17y ago
I'm quite curious how you got the ROMs working. They download fine for me, but then report themselves corrupt. They are not.
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by davepeck 17y ago
Okay, I ponied up out of curiosity. Do not download this app . It does not work as advertised. It is slow, buggy (even the table display on the home screen has impressively bad rendering glitches) and, worst of all, it is not capable of lo
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by davepeck 17y ago
In keeping with the theme, there is also http://citygoround.org/ for finding transit apps that work near you.
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Precisely. This was a junior dev somewhere far away from Redmond making a terrible mistake. It's about to get thrown up to the highest level, and I can pretty much guarantee you that MSFT takes the site down.
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by davepeck 17y ago
I just updated my original post with a songite link. It's a very nicely designed tool! (I had trouble finding a sharable version of Weather Report's Palladium. Any way you can give me choices when I want/need them?)
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by davepeck 17y ago
Songite link: http://www.songite.com/#e0eecb -- Glenn Gould playing Bach. London Elektricity's Syncopated City Most pieces by Steve Reich The Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack by Philip Glass. Burial's Untrue. Fujiya & Miyagi's Transparent Thi
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by davepeck 17y ago
You might find some other Reich tunes equally powerful, then. Among the best I've found for programming: Electric Counterpoint, Tehillim [Original ECM recording], You Are (Variations), Eight Lines (the re-instrumented version of Octet), and
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by davepeck 17y ago
Love the album. As an aside, if you're an Ableton Live 8 user, you can go download Fractales (both parts) as an Ableton Live Set -- part of their 10th anniversary celebration. It is fun to tease apart the track and figure out what makes it
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by davepeck 17y ago
I think you should read it more carefully. It has nothing to do with NNTP. (Also: sarcasm of this stripe hardly contributes to quality discussion.)
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by davepeck 17y ago
You should try it. It is remarkably great, and while I can't speak to error rates I believe that it is on par or better than a good camera-based scanner. Also: using SnapTell with my decades-old textbooks in Greek religion confirms it's not
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by davepeck 17y ago
All iPhones have good enough optics to detect 2D barcodes like QR Code. Linear barcodes like UPC were trickier until the iPhone 3GS, which has variable focus camera hardware that also admits direct access to camera frames. On the 3GS, barco
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by davepeck 17y ago
Directly related to this is the BRDFDR/FETHR distributed microblogging protocol. For background and rationale, see the Birds of a FETHR talk slides & audio: http://brdfdr.com/pres/
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by davepeck 17y ago
Related: the Birds of a FETHR slide deck and audio. http://brdfdr.com/pres/ A case for distributed microblogging, and a protocol to match.
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(Warning: deleted app names can never be reclaimed .)
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The FreeType 2 font rasterizer is beautiful code. Geometric computation meets performance optimization meets just-well-written-and-commented C. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree...
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by davepeck 17y ago
I think you're echoing more directly what I intended to say. I didn't coin the term "nontrepreneur" and I doubt it's a terribly useful term. The person I mentioned is certainly an entrepreneur.
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I think even true entrepreneurs go through nontrepreneurial phases. I know someone who started and sold a company many years ago. In the past two years, he has started three "projects" all with the intention that they might become real comp
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by davepeck 17y ago
Yes, it might be a good project. Are you aware of any other porcelains that have traction these days?
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by davepeck 17y ago
I often refer to Git as "software of cruelty." I use it daily and sometimes still end up shocked by its behavior. The concepts underlying git -- a content-addressible filesystem, trees, commits, etc -- are elegant. They're nearly pure. The

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