demallien

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by demallien 12y ago
Sigh. I should have pointed out that I used to be an Air Force engineer. Although my post was a massive oversimplification, it was not for any of the reasons you pointed out. No, dev time would not be more than 1 engineer, at least not for
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by demallien 12y ago
Wow. There's an industry in massive need of disruption. I'm thinking a mid-range android phone + some servos + software would do the trick. Let's say one year's dev for a reasonable engineer, so $100k + $300 in parts.
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by demallien 12y ago
I feel you in the pain of dealing with interlacing, but Carmack was envisaging a more flexible solution than plain two up interlacing. In particular his solution also made HDR imaging possible, which sounds like a worthwhile win to compensa
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by demallien 12y ago
Artificial sweeteners are not "carb rich". That's kind of the point of them...
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by demallien 12y ago
I rather suspect that it's simply because SpaceX needs less money to finalise their space flight capability. That's typically how government contracts work - suppliers make bids and the government chooses the winner based on price
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by demallien 12y ago
"Women are far better complainers than men" Why thank you drcross for giving us a demonstration of why women are going to need a little more encouragement than men to get into tech... "The exceptions to the notion that men do
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by demallien 12y ago
Ahhh, sorry John, I didn't want to put words in your mouth, but I wrote that post on my phone, so I went with a shorter version of you without the caveats / conditions that you mentioned. My bad...
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by demallien 12y ago
You uh, do realize that this was a test-bed rocket right? Designed to do experimental things? Also, I was not aware of any Falcon 9 exploding previously. What on earth are you talking about?
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by demallien 12y ago
If I was an inanimate heat engine, you would have me dead to rights. But I'm not, I'm a living creature with free will (or a good approximation thereof). If I start feeling hungry, I'm going to want to eat, and it's no
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by demallien 12y ago
So what's your point? For what it's worth, Gruber is on record as not going to buy the 5.5" version, as it's too large (the Talk Show podcasts of recent weeks). He also still believes that the smaller form factor is bett
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by demallien 12y ago
Here's the thing. Your advice has been constantly given to people wanting to lose weight for half a century. During that period, despite the people receiving the advice wanting to lose weight, the population has become massively obese.
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by demallien 12y ago
I managed to fall through an external wall and ended up underneath the map :D
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by demallien 12y ago
Async IO without the callbacks? How does that work???
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by demallien 12y ago
No, it still works just fine. I was using it just yesterday...
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by demallien 12y ago
Activate Developer Tools in the preferences of Safari. This gives you a Developer menu in the toolbar. When a site refuses to play video on your Mac because it needs Flash, you tell Safari to pretend it's an iPad. The site invariably s
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by demallien 12y ago
No, Parisians suck. They will tell you that themselves if you ask. I say this as someone that has been living in Paris since 2003, so I think I have a pretty good handle in the city.
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by demallien 12y ago
No, Paris is objectively bad for this - even French tourists from other regions will say so. Even Parisians will say so. That said, it is an error to attribute it to any racial characteristics, as French people outside of Paris (and t
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by demallien 12y ago
X = infinity?
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by demallien 12y ago
No, the mods have definitely become heavier recently. I saw one the other day which was a letter from Richard Feynman to an ex-student, explaining to him, amongst other things, how to choose problems to work on. The original title mention
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by demallien 12y ago
It's not a button, and isn't supposed to be one. It even has a shadow underneath it - I'm hoping it's just a way of quickly being able to identify that a Mac is running a beta of Mac OS X, and that it will go away wit
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by demallien 12y ago
False equivalence. Science is simply making hypotheses about how the world works, and testing thises hypotheses with experiments. Everyone does thus, not just scientists. When he plant on my window sill is looking a bit ill, I might hypothe
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by demallien 12y ago
For what it's worth, I used type racer to learn to touchtype. Took me from about 25 wpm to about 65 wpm. I seem to have plateaued there though - I actually type at around 90, but with mistakes. The game doesn't seem like a good to
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by demallien 12y ago
It's a big system, and not something that you can do piecemeal. You basically need management buy-in. So I've been busy recruiting support from other developers and lower-level managers, writing memos that describe the problem t
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by demallien 12y ago
Heh. In my last job we used Gentoo as the build system for an embedded system. It was a joy to use. In my current job we use naked Makefiles chained together. I waste somewhere near 50% of the day building things I don't need to bui
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by demallien 12y ago
The deciding factor as to whether not something is a conspiracy theory delusion is not whether or not the mainstream media agrees. It's whether the conspiracy theory has any facts to support it. Deadly influenza viruses = lots of evi
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by demallien 12y ago
Yes, because we've never seen massive casualties as the result of a flu virus. Oh, wait... Worrying about what influenza viruses are doing is not in any way shape or form similar to worrying about reptilian illuminati.
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by demallien 12y ago
Don't forget that an iPhone has sensors other than the CCD, so it knows when the camera is being twisted / translated around. You would need some depth perception to recover the image, but lucky you, that's exactly what you
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by demallien 12y ago
You're not getting down voted for not following groupthink. You're getting doe voted because you're making a bunch of assertions of your opinion as though it's fact, without actually trying to justify those opinions. On
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by demallien 12y ago
Nahhh, it was a non-story actually. The company making the new trains had actually gone out and measured the stations before designing the trains. They had then notified the entity responsible for the stations, letting them know that the st
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by demallien 12y ago
My apologies for the off-topic, but I wanted to ask how you are finding Yosemite - is it stable enough for me to switch over my dev machine?

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