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by etal 18y ago
Night Shade and Shiny both stay pretty readable while reducing the total amount of light coming off the screen. On a big monitor, I don't like tons of white background, so I'm using Night Shade right now. It also has some faint similarities
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by etal 18y ago
There's a lot of research funding going into biofuels right now, but unfortunately the basic numbers don't make sense for biofuels as the world's primary energy source. You can convert solar energy into carbohydrates, extract the carbohydra
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by etal 18y ago
The blogosphere seems pretty pleased with the Tesla Roadster, from what I've seen: http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/09/tesla-v-supercharged-lotu... http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/11/17/tesla-roadst...
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by etal 18y ago
This ties nicely into the "Five Whys" series that came through here. Why is this VS customer pissed? Because VS uses a default font that doesn't match the system theme. Why is that font used? Because it's always been that way? Or did th
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by etal 18y ago
Yes, I use PyMol quite a bit. The source code is hideous, and the author likes it that way. It would take an immense effort to smoothly incorporate PyMol into a larger system like SciPy or Sage; it would be very useful if that happened, but
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by etal 18y ago
Sweet Jesus. The image-processing capability is pretty hot, as is this: ProteinData["A2M", "MoleculePlot"] It's a shame Mathematica isn't open-source; I'd love to see the code.
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by etal 18y ago
It can be a cute hack to get around the absence of static variables. Lists have other quirks related to mutability; there are other obscure Pythonisms that use this. If you want a nice magic-free immutable container, tuples are a better bet
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by etal 18y ago
http://www.google.com/ig Add the Gmail, Gcal and Sticky Note apps and set it as your home page.
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by etal 18y ago
Thanks. The choice of ;=) as the operator did make me suspicious.
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by etal 18y ago
Andy Wingo linked this on his blog, with this cryptic title and no elaboration. I read it, but I'm not sure I got it. What's the deal?
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Proof that Scheme will never be faster than C(cs.princeton.edu)
2 points by etal 18y ago|4 comments
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by etal 18y ago
A few years ago I worked for a smallish company where the repeated "why?" would consistently release untold nightmares. The turnover rate was high, but there were a few old-timers who would tolerate a historical/political inquiry, and a few
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by etal 18y ago
GvR gave an interesting answer on Google's "Ask an Engineer" app, to a question about adapting Python to multi-core architectures: http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&t=ff&q=2f40&#3... His answer: threading is not worth it, and
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by etal 18y ago
Exactly. In properly written C, about half your code is checking for errors and handling them explicitly. If you don't do that, at some point it will blow your foot off; you have to account for those errors. C programmers have generally a
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by etal 18y ago
Also, check whether you're applying the color scheme in .vimrc or .gvimrc, and check where you're turning on syntax highlighting. Remember some color schemes just look different depending whether you're in the terminal or the full GUI.
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VMWare launches mobile virtualization platform(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by etal 18y ago|0 comments
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by etal 18y ago
Adolescent behavior is a pretty trivial threat to the status quo. Most of the lashing out is justified by their acceptance of the idea that they'll have to be working stiffs later.
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by etal 18y ago
The market value is related to current assets and expected future earnings minus liabilities. If the liabilities are greater than the expected future earnings, the company could be worth more dead than alive. Pension obligations are more br
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by etal 18y ago
For languages with first-class functions, it looks like this: # Algorithms def double(x): return x*2 def square(x): return x*x def fact(x): return (x*fact(x-1) if x > 1 else 1) # Data choices = { 'A': double,
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by etal 18y ago
Done, and gets things smart.
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by etal 18y ago
In a nice coincidence, Guido van Rossum recently posted this: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2008/11/bibles-or-computers-...
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by etal 18y ago
I figured out how to get my wireless connection back, but the NVidia drivers are still a mystery. I don't care about free software idealism, I care that my shit works. Are we not seeing the connection here? This is why anyone bothers t
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by etal 18y ago
It can be a good thing the way HTML-CSS-Javascript separation can be a good thing. In the case of Clojure, it actually is possible to write the layout code in a declarative style and keep the handlers completely separate, but for most of th
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by etal 18y ago
There didn't seem to be a whole lot of point, except that the author digs H. P. Lovecraft and, possibly, thinks Ubuntu's bug #1 will eventually be fixed. But since Ubuntu went to the trouble of releasing a new version the day before Hallowe
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Consistency: how to defeat the purpose of IEEE floating point(yosefk.com)
1 points by etal 18y ago|0 comments
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by etal 18y ago
Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) has MintUpdate: http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=71 It rates packages by criticality during updates and hides the riskier ones by default. This is more important for Mint than Ubuntu proper, though, since Mint
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by etal 18y ago
You don't need a CS degree to read the API documentation. But if you do bother getting a CS degree, shouldn't you learn something beyond how to look up the cdrom API documentation? Some knowledge about OS design would be good, I suppose. Yo
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by etal 18y ago
If you look at any other field containing "engineers", the mathematical basics are not abstracted away over time. Mechanical engineers have taken courses in math and physics; that part never goes away. Technicians are the guys who may have
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by etal 18y ago
I had the impression that in the '90s, the Linux kernel was managed just by e-mailing patches around, before adopting Bitkeeper, and then git. Things are much easier now.
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by etal 18y ago
It was a little tangential, and making 100-year predictions about global warming probably set off someone's troll-o-meter (wasn't me). Don't worry about 0 or -1; it's usually just a gentle reminder to be polite in these discussions. (Note:

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