davidhollander

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by davidhollander 15y ago
Anyone interested in NdGT, check out the show he hosts: Nova Science Now http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/ You can watch full episodes online, no commercial interruptions after they start. It does a good job at filling the popular
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Not by default in arch linux, debian, ubuntu, etc. Requires an extra module.
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by davidhollander 15y ago
I believe this is specific to OSS, which was deprecated after it went closed source for a bit and ALSA replaced it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System I'm fairly happy using the OpenAL API instead to generate audio cross-platf
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Linus Torvalds creates G+ page for Linux release announcements(plus.google.com)
97 points by davidhollander 15y ago|6 comments
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by davidhollander 15y ago
>incomethax: They could care less about what innovative businesses think >mcritz: I think the chamber of commerce could care less. I think both of you meant they could "not" care less.
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> So there are certainly uses for sync iteration tools (like _.each()) _.each() is NOT blocking, anymore than "var x = 1" is blocking, "callback(error, result)", or asynchronous_operation(callback) is blocking. It introduces NO synchr
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> I've been doing stuff like this Why use callbacks over 'return' for anything other than IO and waiting? If there's not two out of sync parties, there's no need to tell another person to call you back, and no advantage to performing
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> I understand that IO is expensive, but so is performing string interpolation on a string in memory 50 times (for whatever reason). I think you are conflating waiting and working. Both cost time, but they are not the same. Waiting can
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> Underscore.js for Iterations: each implicitly blocks ???? Blocking refers to IO system calls. underscore is not an IO library. Does a 15 year programmer with C++ experience not know what an O_NONBLOCK system call is? Blocking or non
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> Is it worth my time to learn Clojure or Haskell, when I don't even know what I'll use it for? I don't know if it's a binary decision between investing a lot of of time, or investing none. You could skim the reference manual, and if
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> Google is the real evil corporation but these geeks are too blind to see it. Okay, since there is a singular, "real" evil corporation, are the other non-real evil corporations in the imaginary-evil or fake-evil domain? edit: A bit
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Search this ArchLinux thread, lots of great tips: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97375 "o" or ":open" plus a url, "t" or ":tabopen" plus a url. "d" closes a tab. Press tab to autocomplete. "B" to add a bookmark. "H"\"L", back
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by davidhollander 15y ago
I'm very happy with Awesome running on top of arch linux. If you like the configurability of awesome, also check out luakit: http://luakit.org/projects/luakit/ It's a lua binding to webkit that allows you to fully customize your web brows
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> hatred and bigotry outside of religion, it pales compared to what religion has given the world. The 20th century is evidence enough that man is capable of resorting to the worst possible barbarism without invoking deities as justific
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MS Security Essentials deleting Google Chrome as Malware(chrome.blogspot.com)
1 points by davidhollander 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> US Treasury bills burning a hole in its pocket The Chinese central government needs to maintain its high level of reserves, because under their system they are also the guarantor for all local and provincal government debt (which is
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> I think it was either Qed, or Qoole... Ah, Qoole was the first level editor I ever tried. What I vividly remember about Quake 1 though was all the mods! I spent hours tying up the phone on a 14.4K modem hunting for new stuff to try.
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Google also fails on standards(velsheda.lateralis.org)
3 points by davidhollander 15y ago|1 comments
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> the top 20 most upvoted articles of all time I don't think that's an accurate list, as it excludes [dead]ed articles. Zed Shaw's "Programming, Motherfucker" received 870 upvotes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355427
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by davidhollander 15y ago
The "shallow mental model" most likely refers to fewer initialization files and locations. When starting out, most everything you need is in /etc/rc.conf . Also, Arch and its package manager don't use /usr/local/, instead simply using /usr.
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Escaped Pet Parrots Teaching Wild Birds to Talk(australiangeographic.com.au)
6 points by davidhollander 15y ago|0 comments
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MIT Researchers Create New Tiny Energy Harvester(web.mit.edu)
2 points by davidhollander 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidhollander 15y ago
I'm a big fan of Lua and Go's use of multiple return values, nil, and simplified error handling, (No exception 'types'). I think the problem with 'typing' Exceptions is that it means you are using it to record and pass describable\known sta
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Krugman wrote a column on BitCoin: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfett... He predicts failure by asserting its algorithmic scarcity results in an ultimately deflationary currency which will result in hoarding and
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Will Deflation Destroy Bitcoin?(bitcoin.stackexchange.com)
3 points by davidhollander 15y ago|1 comments
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> More compile time errors = fewer run-time errors. But any possibility of 1 run time error means you'll still need to manually write a test asserting the correct runtime behavior anyway. So the typical argument is that typed languages
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> Since most of my bugs in other languages stem from unwanted interactions between pieces of code via side effects, this is kind of a big deal. Is this really the case for most people? Most of my errors are syntax, pattern matching, n
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by davidhollander 15y ago
No apologies necessary, I did indeed use a newtonian object as the particular for ego in the first analogy. In regards to abstract forms and mental constructs as not existing in the same manner as objects, I'd disagree with you and the OP a
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by davidhollander 15y ago
> As for your analogy, that our thoughts and selves are an object in motion, which we must curb to reach a desirable point in space: the reality is, there is no object. Ah, how convenient, a single objective reality where nonexistence
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by davidhollander 15y ago
Premise: we are what we think about. Being nothing requires one to think about nothing. It's actually quite a lot of work to think about nothing! The brain is constantly solving problems while awake and while asleep, building up momentum. P

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