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by gghh 14y ago
sounds amazing. Thanks for the recap.
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by gghh 14y ago
Hi all. I could not follow closely the DCPU-16 movement, and now I am having troubles to put the pieces together; can anybody put together a brief explaination of what is going on? I can see from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCPU
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by gghh 14y ago
I owe so much to IRC. I learn a huge amount of things everyday just having discussions on the various channels in freenode. The company firewall is no more an obstacle, thanks to http://webchat.freenode.net/ . I often have collegues com
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by gghh 14y ago
I'd like to upvote this with all my heart, but: I wanted to browse the source with no downloading (ala Github so to speak), nope. Ok, let's follow this link to a zip file: http://jordan.trudgett.com/tetris_73.zip . 404. oh c'mon.
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How does IBM Watson find answers(ivan-herman.name)
1 points by gghh 15y ago|0 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
Does it actually make sense to use an QR code for that alone? for me a QR code is a bookmarking tool. I am at a restaurant with friends, I like the place and want to keep a note. What's cooler / more practical: (a) take out a blocknotes,
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by gghh 15y ago
duckduckgo's Gabriel Weinberg isn't missing the beat: https://twitter.com/#!/duckduckgo/status/191926962120425473
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Russ Cox puts images into QR codes. Here's how(plus.google.com)
88 points by gghh 15y ago|12 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
I received lots of comments privately. Basically there are two schools of thought: native desktop app and HTML5 browser-based app. The former would be done using gstreamer for streaming and encoding/decoding http://gstreamer.freedesktop.or
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Ask HN: Multi-streamed video puzzle. How to?(ks3097767.kimsufi.com)
2 points by gghh 15y ago|1 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
I agree on the relevance of the novelty factor. It also came to my mind that this kind of childish MS Paint graphics are becoming somehow pop-culture, a meta-internet-meme if you want. Yesterday I spent half an hour on Christopher Poole's
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The best donuts have a small hole(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by gghh 15y ago|0 comments
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ICFP programming contest 2012 announcement(icfpconference.org)
6 points by gghh 15y ago|0 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
One of my friends had an interesting weekend figuring out why his brand new ASUS motherboard with the Z68 intel chipset didn't want to cooperate with the SRT technology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Response_Technology ). Well, he
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SRT technology (x50 I/O speedup with SSD aux disk) works only after dirty hack(communities.intel.com)
3 points by gghh 15y ago|1 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
Hi all. I am competing to the challenge. The interviestreet team is setting up Amazon EC2 virtual machines for the partecipants; I gave them my pubkey, but the thing looks somehow broken (couldn't login to my instance). Apart logging bots,
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Microsoft patent on web page ranking system (2010)(google.com)
1 points by gghh 15y ago|0 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
Is it just a trick to get immunity (italian here, I know something about that)? Or is it substantial? I guess only time will tell. But knowing the man, I'd trust him. And anyway, the surprise-sex thing was a joke since the beginning. Immuni
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Assange to run for Australian Senate(twitter.com)
4 points by gghh 15y ago|1 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
So have you read HN's website code? Do you know where to find it? It must be somewhere, since I remember seeing a sort of "Quant Finance News" website whose appearance was identical to HN. They must have used the same codebase -- where to l
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by gghh 15y ago
Ehy, "Hacker News" was "Startup News" at the time http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi... . I didn't know, and thought that Russ Cox was joking here https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/h95SSbSJ...
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by gghh 15y ago
I found a good introduction on unix memory caching in chapter 3 (The Buffer Cache) of 'Design of the UNIX Operating System', http://www.amazon.com/Design-Operating-System-Prentice-Hall-... . At least it was good for me (mathematician by t
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by gghh 15y ago
That already hit HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3362163 . Nonetheless, the commoncrawl foundation is a big thing.
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by gghh 15y ago
sometimes you do have to resort to it, especially if you aren't from US. Having said that, Randall Munroe is one of my favorite -- wait for it... -- writers.
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by gghh 15y ago
checking out from mercurial and compiling Golang from sources was too much of a barrier to make it my afterdinner play. But now is quite straightfoward to set it up: wget, untar, export $SOMEVAR, compile, run. Nice! > cd $HOME &
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Golang last build soon to be tagged RC for Go 1(plus.google.com)
5 points by gghh 15y ago|1 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
Hi JonoXia. I was already using collusion since quite a while, I guess I got the pointer here at HN some time ago: http://collusion.toolness.org/ So what is happening? is the "new" collusion somehow more "official", i.e. released by Mozil
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by gghh 15y ago
Cool project indeed. I didn't have time to read your graph viz library, but I noticed the link to D3 in your github page. I realized then that all beautiful graph stuff I have seen in JS are made in D3, thank you for adding the ref to it. J
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Ask HN: feedbacks on the 2600 magazine, aka "The Hacker Quarterly"?
3 points by gghh 15y ago|0 comments
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by gghh 15y ago
A while ago I truly enjoyed his talk at CMU: https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61 both as an introduction to high frequency trading, arbritage and stuff, and to FP in industry too. EDIT: it was already posted below.

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