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   by greendestiny 13y ago

   You might also enjoy reading about this experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
2. 92.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   I find changed titles to better whenever I happen to notice them. I also think its a great check on the kind of mob mentality a social site can develop. Having said that, I think it would be an unequivocal win for the site to show titles ha
3. 93.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   I have worked in the field before and I know 3D reconstructions get used for serious work - albeit rarely for the purposes of redisplay. Besides an overworked applications section of a paper? I'm shocked and horrified :) The work you&#
4. 94.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   Wow tough crowd, this is actually extremely impressive if you're interested in the subject. The fineness and complexity of the reconstructed depth field is unparalleled.
5. 95.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   Yes, but if you prefix the title with 'Show HN:' it's considered better form when its your own work.
6. 96.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   I don't think that Rockefeller Education board quote supports your position. Education had previously only been necessary for the professions and callings listed - and its not like simply having more schools meant the economy was sudde
7. 97.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   Interesting suggestion - I was surprised to see such a direct competitor to cocos2d, and despite the development budget of Apple I'm a little skeptical of their commitment to building a game engine. Maybe it'll form the basis of a
8. 98.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   There are is support for physics effects in the UI now, I'm not really sure what navigational changes he could be talking about though.
9. 99.▲
   by greendestiny 13y ago

   The idea that would be just as subject to surveillance using Australian hosted servers is pure speculation and not supported by the so far leaked information on PRISM.
10. 100.▲
    by greendestiny 13y ago

    In the same way that Americans are in a stronger position vs NSA snooping Australians are in a stronger position vs our own snooping.
11. 101.▲
    by greendestiny 13y ago

    But as an Australian citizen we have our courts and public opinion to try and fight for us. Not to mention the people doing the snooping have far less incentive to pass commercial information along to a competitor.
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    Was Eric Schmidt attempting to warn us of PRISM in 2009?(en.wikipedia.org)

    5 points by greendestiny 13y ago|1 comments
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    Thanks, I'll check that out.
14. 104.▲
    by greendestiny 14y ago

    Have you guys seen syncpoint? Although having said that, syncpoint seems to have been removed from github.
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I came here to make nearly that exact comment - but about the article rather than the comments. A friend who is a psychologist recommended these resources on the topic: http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/infopax.cfm?Info_I...
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I would have thought the big contribution to this kind of dynamic balancing would be the eventual ease of piloting it would give. It still might not make sense efficiency wise though.
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I agree, I think the fuzzy feeling sums it up. Celebrity AMA's are some of the most unenlightening things I've ever read. You get some obvious questions about obvious subjects and the answer is usually some variation of 'yeah that was great
18. 108.▲
    by greendestiny 14y ago

    And I'd rather they didn't think about going on HN as doing some media. Maybe we've reached that point anyway, but that would be a shame.
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    >Well, that should be obvious: the car stops. Yeah but does it stop on zero? Does it brick the car? As it turns out Tesla knows what they are doing, and there is a reserve, probably that's pretty disappointing as a car journalist. But h
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    It hasn't. Hackernews is usually pretty good like that.
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    If I was a car reviewer and rocked up at a charging station with 0 miles range showing, I'd want to know what happens if you push it for a little bit more. It would definitely be an exaggeration for the story but we're talking about half a
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I don't know that this is quite the refutation that everyone is saying it is. I'm not sure what a reviewer driving in circles at a charging station proves? I imagine he wanted to find out what would happen - after all he was at the station
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    In fact for a while you could only have adhoc views, but my knowledge is 6 months out of date. Yes definitely do that. I bundle the sqlite in the app store updates and then mount that as an external db and pull from itself - its a bit awkwa
24. 114.▲
    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I think each document is a row and it parses it to native structures on load. I think I saw something on the dev list about that being improved - but its something to check if it matters.
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I love couchdb for its replication, not only did I use it for a previous company I worked for and still contract with, I'm using it for my 'big idea' project. Once you have data replication you do need some kind of different approach to use
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    Yes I have a framework that splits itself into 3 databases and has quite a lot of attachments. There isn't a big overhead as far as I can see. Does couchDB do what you need with per-document access permissions? It seems to be the biggest do
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    Hey yeah I've used TouchDB on iOS quite a bit. It syncs reliably to Couchdb - I actually haven't tried couchbase. Conflicts are handled in the default couchdb way I think - I haven't really touched on this much. TouchDB syncs to native stru
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    That is interesting. Personally I didn't find framing the original problem as monoid enlightening at all, but that's what I thought the author was getting at.
29. 119.▲
    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I don't think the point is the implementation itself, just what the author finds interesting in a problem. After all the 'plus' operator just does a series of ordered comparisons like the minBy solution does.
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    by greendestiny 14y ago

    I agree. My point is that from Apple's perspective they have no interest in an apps internal age restrictions system. If it says 4+ it has to be 4+ for the life of the app.