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by foobarrio 9y ago
Youngsters have access to those kinds of experiences but they will never be the same as your experiences. For you those experiences were in access to hardware internals but for youngsters perhaps these experiences are more in software inter
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Off topic: I love VLC but can't get it to use hardware acceleration on my late 2015 mac. 4k 60fps @ 40mbps consume all CPU if I try to play a lower compression 150mbps video it studders and all my fans turn on. mpv and quicktime play t
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I have encountered this too. Some of most useful personal coding time is spent to exploring something new or solving a real problem with a quick and dirty solution. At no point do I set out to create a full polished, deliverable thing. I do
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Ha! Why in the world did I type that? A good car to see the progression of weight is a that hasn't changed market segment like a Porsche 911. Car&Driver did this up through 2011: http://blog.caranddriver.com/porsche
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Car models move upscale as they get older and newer models slide in under it. The old 80's Honda Accord is physically smaller than today's Toyota Civic. The spot that was occupied by the Civic is now occupied by the Fit. A 1996 Ho
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I am not talking about the app I am talking about the environment the app is running in. Of course there are crappy apps (I've made a bunch of them!) I remember IIS doing funky things with non-200 return codes. 5xx codes would have som
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by foobarrio 9y ago
I remember reading that ISP's and browsers can do interesting things to non-2xx responses. In that case applications do not even have a chance to handle the error. IIRC Facebook's API does this because they encountered problems wi
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by foobarrio 9y ago
If a bank is making loans at rates that do not cover defaults they should go out of business because they are crappy at their job. If I take my car to a mechanic am I expected to know as much about my car as the mechanic? Do I tear down and
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by foobarrio 9y ago
Any change in equilibrium will be expressed as "higher risk to default" and will make interest rates higher no? Seems like everything will continue to work as intended.
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by foobarrio 10y ago
I love how the shape of that new Jaguar calls back to the XJ220! Japan would be the place to field a series that's crazy without being a circus. I too would love to see an all out series but I wonder the extent that humans will be
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by foobarrio 10y ago
If it's the hypercar I'm thinking of, it's target performance is that of LMP1 car. LMP1 cars are consistently 5-10 seconds slower around the tracks where they both compete. Impressive that it can come so close to an F1 but no
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Heh heh This is a clearer picture: * http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/1355972123_12a28bd3b6.jp... Seeing that the peehole is forward would make it male no? This little toy also seems male: * https://img0.
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Catbus has balls: * http://i.imgur.com/gySIZ.png
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Then why build roads at all? If N + 1 means more traffic than surely N - 1 means less? So 0 roads, no traffic! Seriously though isn't this a related rates problem? Adding roads adds capacity and also induces demand. Are the two in lock
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by foobarrio 10y ago
I agree with this sentiment of weighing short vs long terms needs. However, if you are working in a medium to large place not everyone is benevolently doing things just for the sake of the company. Many times managers demand to sacrifice so
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by foobarrio 10y ago
This is where experience comes into play though. Not every bit of software is totally unique and built on first principals. If you're working at some place and built similar software at a previous place, part of the up-front design is
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by foobarrio 10y ago
What about all the people that work hard but are not successful? I know people that no matter how hard they try they won't be software developers (not that this is the only well paying job). They do all those things you are talking abo
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Running isn't easy for everyone. Runners seem to be a self-selecting group of people who have good biomechanics or a naturally good running form. I had to teach myself how to run. Even though I was careful with my mileage ramp up, stre
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Humboldt squid are considered to be as intelligent as octopuses. They're also pretty huge.
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by foobarrio 10y ago
+1 For Ghost in the Shell. Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig was great. I'd recommend Diamond Age. The shows shows almost the death of Cyberpunk (poor people) into Victorian Style Steampunk (rich people).
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Some European swords do show a degree of differential tempering and differential hardening. I don't know what technique they used though. IIRC correctly if you polish some of the swords the same way you do a JP blade, you get hamon-esq
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by foobarrio 10y ago
If you could somehow graph the amount of work it takes to program something on a line, that line would be very rugged like a coastline. These "big picture" views and estimating programming work is like trying to estimate the lengt
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by foobarrio 10y ago
I think there are two situations here that account for this. [1] Technical barriers to entry. Photography had huge barrier to entries when it first started. With wet-plate exposures you had to be at a high level of technical ability in mult
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by foobarrio 10y ago
I don't know if this is what GP means but for one, Disney is one of the driving forces behind extending copyright periods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Yes. Shazam has a bunch of patents and has sued people before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(service)#Patent_infrin... The core algorithm is well known and fun to implement: https://www.ee.columbia.e
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by foobarrio 10y ago
GUIs allow things to be done by people who otherwise would not be interacting with a computer. They are huge enablers! This is true of the arts with computer graphics, music software. Granted really advanced users of computer graphics packa
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Such a small code snippet! I wrote coloring using the triangle inequality in JS a couple years ago for someone on reddit: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Ircav Amazing that we can write these things up so quickly in a
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by foobarrio 10y ago
I thought it "not obvious to a practitioner of the craft" was a requirement for a patent no? Give 10 programmers the task to write "rangeCheck()" and you'll end up with very similar looking code.
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by foobarrio 10y ago
Isn't that exactly the point that Tesla made electric cars desirable (not practical)? Not sure that can be easily dismissed. They took a class of car that usually seen as weak and put into the same class as Porsche. That is no small fe
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by foobarrio 11y ago
I make my own post cards by printing out a photo that I took on the trip. This lets me practice my local language skills trying to find a printshop and getting a photo printed and mailed. It is definitely loads of fun.

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