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by fooandbarify 14y ago
AFAIK, an oscillator is necessary for building a receiver. In other words, this is apparently a solved problem.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
http://code.google.com/p/raspberry-gpio-python/
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
See the guidelines [1]. One could argue that it "gratifies intellectual curiosity", and it is certainly "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" (for varying values of new; it is nevertheless interesting new evidence). [1] http://ycom
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Like all things Facebook I'm sure it wasn't always this way (and won't always be), but these days you can claim any Facebook URL you want for a new page if it isn't already taken, regardless of "Likes".
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Facebook's "Like" is surprisingly new; I found a Mashable article[0] from the day it was released in April 2010. Digg, on the other hand, is surprisingly old[1]. [0] http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/facebook-f8-2/ [1] http://en.wikipedia.o
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Is there a good rule of thumb as to what constitutes a "large number" of Views? I tend to assign Views to Models rather than Collections, partly because I hate storing Model ids as DOM attributes and extracting them in event handlers (as in
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Cross-domain POST is not possible with all browsers (I presume IE is the main culprit, as usual).
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
This is fantastic. Great, simple idea, and looks well executed. I can't wait to have a reason to use it.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I can't see it working well in a game scenario, but the vast majority of CRUD apps out there could be safely implemented using Parse's security model (as described in lacker's link).
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
Presumably it is exactly the same as in any other web application--the save method is using an HTTP request under the covers, which must be rejected if the user is not authorized to perform that action.
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by fooandbarify 14y ago
I built an almost identical system this past year as my EE capstone project. The accuracy of these systems is limited by environmental factors (large metal structural/aesthetic features of a building) which can be corrected to a certain ext
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
You're not the target demographic. Vintage clothing is a huge market.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Readability aside, I found this really interesting, so thank you. Marketing copy is so hard to get right.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I don't find this sort of post riveting, either, but I'm glad someone took the time to put it together. The browser stats from a technical audience are definitely interesting, as is the fact that HN now drives half the amount of traffic as
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
So there's still a server, it's just not mine. Or am I missing something?
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
You're not alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Crit...
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I doubt there is any objective metric for choosing "the two most famous and influential psychological experiments ever conducted" but I immediately assumed you meant Pavlov's dogs as the other.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], numbers around 100 billion have been bandied about quite seriously, and much lower estimates have been "debunked as unscientific". An interesting debate, regardless. I had no idea it could be so hard to calculate
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
You're right, I have no source to back that up and was making a flimsy emotional assertion. (I've edited my comment to reflect that.) I stand by the (desired) sentiment of my comment, though: psychiatry and the related sciences are importan
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. It seems that there are some who think mental illness is a crock of shit and psychiatry is witchcraft (admittedly hyperbolic but not enormously so) while there are others who believe every facet of human behaviour is
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I had to log in just to upvote this. Yes, diagnosing mental illness is less clear-cut than the problems we typically enjoy as programmers. Yes, mistakes are made. But for every mistake there are 9, or 99, or 999 successes (EDIT: I have no s
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I apologize in advance for being a pedant but since you do say you find it interesting, "pas besoin" is used in the context of [subject] don't/doesn't need [noun] rather than in the sense of having "no needs" which would be written "pas de
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Document Cloud doesn't strike me as a "productivity app", at least not in the same vein as Evernote and Wunderlist (not familiar with Clear or kippt). As far as I know, it doesn't incorporate "to do" functionality at all. It's targeted at j
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
The UI is very similar to a Twitter dashboard (if you are familiar with that). I don't think it's possible to search for old posts in either case, and the style of the site doesn't really lend itself to that kind of use (for better or worse
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Yes (demographic). Although all sorts of people use tumblr, it seems to be most popular among (predominantly American) high-school age (and a bit older) teenagers. It has settled into a middle ground between Twitter and traditional blogs fo
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I got the impression form the article that they were referring to passing through a technological gauntlet during the interview process (ie. complicated programming puzzles) rather than life experience. Is that also what you are referring
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I don't think you should have been downvoted, but you certainly missed something. days != seconds
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
I've played a bit with caching models on the client: https://github.com/napoleond/localmodel I'm planning to implement merges at some point, but the current implementation has still proven useful to me.
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
Depending on the other content of the page and the nature of your traffic/user data, it might make more sense to take advantage of caching by making the initial loaded resource (the HTML file) completely static and loading the bootstrapped
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by fooandbarify 15y ago
This is intriguing. I've spent a bit of time building Backbone projects that sync with the server (eg. https://github.com/napoleond/localModel ) but until now have always resolved conflicts by choosing the model with the most recent time m

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