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by edge17 15y ago
i heard in some talk that feature phones account for the largest segment of status updates to facebook
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by edge17 15y ago
They kinda were. I don't know all the in's and outs, but as it was explained to me, GPL v3 is not very attractive for them since they're shipping devices that are closed ecosystems. The specific issue has to do with http://en.wikipedia.org
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by edge17 15y ago
frankly, there's a lot of innovation and value that gets created by the developers and how they utilize sensors, compute, and new features. Apple gives developers some blocks to work with, and developers can use their own imaginations to or
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by edge17 15y ago
Interestingly, google's book indexing project shows that the word 'fuck' used to be a much more popular word back in the day than it is now - http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fuck&year_s... I read some place it's because g
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by edge17 15y ago
I remember stumbling on this map a while back, http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world/2 http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world The Tibetan plateau, according to it, is one of most remote places left. It'd be interestin
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by edge17 15y ago
i'm not in the club, but my friends are, and everyone has been extremely gracious by association. it's a wonderful community.
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by edge17 15y ago
funny, i've got the opposite (but same) problem. I'm an computer engineer, but interested in molecular biology and genetics
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by edge17 15y ago
your comment reminded me of this video - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/melinda_french_gates_what_... pretty amazing how coca cola's made it into the most remote places in the world
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by edge17 15y ago
this is complete link bait
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by edge17 15y ago
weird, kinda high level for a comp arch class. the undergrad one i took was mainly hardware implementation. I did this one at cmu as well; fun lab.
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Man on the Raft - 133 days lost at sea(freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com)
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by edge17 15y ago
i was never aware it was in danger
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by edge17 15y ago
if you've ever been inside the hanger at spacex, it's incredible
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by edge17 15y ago
I thought they couldn't find the plane after it was lost? Did they find where it came down?
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by edge17 15y ago
i'd hire that guy
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by edge17 15y ago
sounds interesting, care to share more of the story? :)
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by edge17 15y ago
i wish i could do that for safari
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by edge17 15y ago
am I just dense or something? I spent several minutes reading the front page but can't for the life of me figure out what the contest is?
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by edge17 15y ago
If you're just starting out, keep your job, shut your mouth, try to learn as much as you can and be nice to everyone you work with. That's great advice. There is something important to be said about being in an office environment surround
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by edge17 15y ago
Is the title of this article link bait? Yes.
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by edge17 15y ago
cool, would love to see a pic
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by edge17 15y ago
I am betting that this is well placed pr, paid for by freelancer.com. I thought I saw an article on the exact same topic several months ago, also featuring freelancer.com.
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by edge17 15y ago
great story
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by edge17 15y ago
yea, I've encountered this before while diffing outputs of two versions of the same thing (like a testbench to compare behavioral code vs netlist vs c simulation). In fact, this is one of the challenges in doing relational databases on gpu
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by edge17 15y ago
IEEE 754 floating point isn't associative
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by edge17 15y ago
that was cool for a saturday afternoon. extra points for creative packaging.
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by edge17 15y ago
I wish more people would do a little of this. Making a marginal effort makes a big difference. I run into friends applying to business school but unsure what to write their essays about because their lives are so 'ordinary.' Most paintings
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by edge17 15y ago
+1 on Cocaine Cowboys. That was a pretty ridiculous doc. It's on netflix. I suggest watching it with someone from miami.
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by edge17 15y ago
either way, i'm finding this thread highly entertaining and victorian. here is a gem - No matter what I said to him, he just disregarded offhandedly. I am so upset that I want to punch him in the face, but I would rather get the proofs and
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by edge17 15y ago
haha nice was this a hackday project?

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