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by erik 17y ago
There isn't much difference between the cpus apple is offering. The i7 has 4mb of cache instead of 3mb, higher base clock speed, and higher turbo clock speed. Here is Intel's infromation on the three chips: http://ark.intel.com/Compare.as
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Garage Biohacking(kk.org)
40 points by erik 17y ago|14 comments
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by erik 17y ago
The dupe checker only catches exact matches in the url. This version of the submission has a get parameter in the address.
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by erik 17y ago
I'm in the same situation. I was waiting for the next generation macbook pro, but now I don't want to buy it. Unfortunately, buying a windows laptop and supporting Microsoft doesn't appeal to me either. Now I have to decide if I am unhapp
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by erik 17y ago
Optiums is built for Intel's new Core i cpu's, where the cpu has a moderately capable gpu integrated on the same die. What I've read indicates that Nvidia is using a database of application profiles to determine if the dedicated gpu should
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by erik 17y ago
Read the book _MindSet_ by Carol Dweck. I suspect it might give you some insight into your problem.
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by erik 17y ago
I wonder if the hundreds of people wanting to log into Facebook via the Read Write Web search result are an artifact of Google just having such huge traffic. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126659
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by erik 17y ago
"Even if the solar cell market were to grow at 56 percent a year for the next 10 years ... photovoltaics would still only account for about 2.5 percent of global electricity" Ray Kurzweil claims a similar doubling time, but thinks that sola
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by erik 17y ago
My understanding is that the flash bytecode interpreter's performance is reasonable. Unfortunately the actionscript compiler does no code optimization. But this quake demo uses alchemy, which is LLVM based and offers significant performan
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by erik 17y ago
http://www.imageboard.net/ (possibly NSFW content) It's sort of a pixel art discussion board. You would have to check it out to really understand it. It was fun to build, but it would be hard to commercialize. Plus nurturing a communit
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by erik 17y ago
Unfortunately the iPhone isn't a great example of a hackable device. With each new hardware revision, Apple has closed security holes and made it more difficult to jail break your device.
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by erik 17y ago
I remember Stewart's Calculus as a reasonably good textbook. Though they seemed to publish a new edition every two years. Chapter and problem set numbers would get shuffled around, and so you needed the newest edition in order to do assig
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by erik 17y ago
I could be mis-remembering, but I think Quake started out with a software renderer that operated in VGA mode. So the game has a 256 color palette.
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Morale, Motivation and Startups(disruption.ca)
2 points by erik 17y ago|0 comments
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by erik 17y ago
I have two suggestions that are somewhat contrary to your question. First, learn to draw. I recommend a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. That and lots of practice. Second, learn to produce and animate p
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by erik 17y ago
I'm happy to see id software benefiting so directly from the GPL release of their source for their old games. The community got some neat code to play with. And now id has updated OpenGL ready codebases to work with for relatively easy iPh
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by erik 18y ago
Do you have a source on that? Carmack rarely updates his blog. The only info I've seen about Wolf3d on the iPhone are the development notes released a little over a week ago. Edit: The dev notes are here: http://www.idsoftware.com/wolfe
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by erik 18y ago
It's generally a bad idea to give away major plot points of a story without first providing a spoiler warning.
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by erik 18y ago
"Advertising isn't as effective online as it is in print." Is the effectiveness of online advertising the problem? Or is it the relative price? I have the impression that advertising in print is vastly more expensive than advertising onlin
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Kasparov versus the World, the power of collective collaboration.(michaelnielsen.org)
4 points by erik 18y ago|0 comments
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by erik 18y ago
I have a subscription to Game Developer magazine. It's a typical industry magazine. Very heavy on the advertising and PR, with an occasional high quality article. They sometimes offer free subscriptions, and if you search around you migh
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by erik 18y ago
Have you considered telling your new boss how you feel about his management style? It may be possible to improve the situation.
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by erik 18y ago
Not to be confused with LOVE, a procedurally generated indie MMO game that is under development: http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/index.html
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by erik 18y ago
Perhaps the author should try using an iPhone for a month or two.
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by erik 18y ago
I recall reading something from Carmack along the lines of "I find it horrrifying that I can't use my own ideas if someone else had the same idea first." It was a very succinct and insightful quote on a problem with patents, but now I can't
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by erik 18y ago
These are all mentioned in the thread the description links to, but I think it's worth pointing theme out as highlights. Aubrey De Gray on aging http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_ca... Jeff Hawkins on AI http://ww
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by erik 18y ago
If anyone is interested in trying something like this themselves, I recommend checking out: http://pyweek.org http://ludumdare.com/ PyWeek is a week long game programming competition for Python developers, and Ludum Dare is all about 48
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by erik 18y ago
I don't think that a new law is the correct way to address the problem. I think that such regulations would decrease progress and productivity by raising the bar to entry. Perhaps in the future web services will start to make user contrib
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by erik 18y ago
"a vehicle for the exurbs of both our large cities and our less densely populated rural areas. It would be easy to assemble and wouldn't require expensive new lithium-ion battery technology or exotic composite materials. It would seat at le
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by erik 18y ago
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