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by hammerdr 15y ago
I feel really bad for the engineers at ANGEL Learning. They were acquired by Blackboard a little over a year ago and now that they are just getting settled in there is sure to be more sweeping changes. As cut-throat as this seems and as pis
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Alternatively, we could all just use UTC+0 and never worry about time zones again! :)
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Books and code have different usage patterns. In books, you typically start from the beginning and read to the end. You consume the book serially and the only breaks you are concerned about are pauses (period, comma, colon, etc.) and page b
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Can't tell you yours, but I can tell you about 200 million others: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=bob
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by hammerdr 15y ago
The way that DepthJS works is through three technologies: libfreenect[1], OpenCV[2] and then a simple Tornado (push) server. libfreenect is what grabs all of the data from the Kinect device and OpenCV is the 'interpreter'. This translates t
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I have no video, but I was able to get a WebGL-powered game world running that was controlled through a Kinect using DepthJS. This was done in just over a day of playing around. Was pretty cool when it worked. The source code is available o
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I believe that in augmented reality programs you need a target. The piece of paper is that target. It allows for the AR program to know where to place the video and also how to rotate the camera as he is walking around to the side.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
This seems to indicate that the score has been around for a while because it is closely tied to GMail+GChat instead of Circles usage.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Proof that online protests and ALL CAPS ANGRY EMAILS are useless and that competition is the only way for companies to take things that you care about seriously. If you want to make change, build something.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Execution may be poor, but this is definitely something Google has needed to do for some time. They have many services which serve niches but the popularity of those services is, in part, bounded because no-one knows about them!
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by hammerdr 15y ago
While I think you're just making a joke and may already know this, it is important to keep in mind that Microsoft's involvement with this is probably very minimal and seems to be a no-win situation for it (edit: them? Interesting. It seems
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Because the attribution in the article wasn't nearly visible enough. Sorry about that!
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The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme(underpaidgenius.com)
174 points by hammerdr 15y ago|167 comments
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Software delivery is changing. Heavily influenced by web-based software and easy delivery mechanisms (App Store, Steam, soon-to-be-Windows App Store), we are moving into a software delivery and support system of latest and greatest only. Th
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Am I the only one that is skeptical of the quote in Mike's post [1]? "Managing 500,000 corporate users" seems a bit outlandish to me considering that only one corporation in the world seems to have more than half a million employees period.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Not sure about all of the charging stations listed, but a Level 3 charging station takes about 30 minutes. Obviously, there are improvements to be made. But the infrastructure to support electric cars is quickly being stood up. Much of that
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by hammerdr 15y ago
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/fuels/electricity_locations.... Every major US city has electric power stations. From that map, you could very easily make a continental road trip in the United States. And, this map is out of date. Chicago
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by hammerdr 15y ago
For a short time there, it was: site.com/dashboard/alerts We should get back to that. There need to be better ways to do SEO than polluting URLs. Slapping this information on a URL is a misuse of the purpose of URLs (permanent locators for
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by hammerdr 15y ago
In my mind, the value of this benchmark isn't to prove that V8 is absolutely faster than C but that there is intrinsic value in doing runtime compilation instead of / on top of compile-time optimizations. It's a demonstration of why run t
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Sounds like they still need the space. 20% Increase with 13000 current employees. IL1 will be needed to house everyone.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Huh? I'm trying to get my head around today being less 'classically literate' than in the early 1900s. For example, in the United States, 10% of the populate was flat-out illiterate. Only 50% of people were enrolled in primary education (re
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by hammerdr 15y ago
It's truly remarkable that a $60B company is able to make these sort of bets and execute on them. It's easy for smart individuals to make off hand remarks but it is different for a company to rally and gather around a single idea like this.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
While much of vender software has migrated to the web, purpose-built IT is still heavily reliant in old applications that date back decades. Even something as simple as a time management system may take several years and tons of money to tr
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by hammerdr 15y ago
A quick way to distinguish these in web apps is that integration tests typically are going to cross IO-barriers like calling a web service or accessing a database. If you're writing a layered architecture, this will be across those layers.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Good article. I disagree with making "Corner case identification" a major element of your sample coding session. While its great for developers to consider "what happens when X goes wrong", I've definitely spent time with programmers who sp
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I think you might be surprised at how much you can contribute and recognize in a collaborative design environment. If just one person spoke up at an architectural design session (well.. meeting..) about how they hate how they cannot tell
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I only alias git commands that have typical flags that I use over and over. For example, "git log --pretty=oneline -10" is aliased to gitlog. Basically, any command that I have to even passively think about the parameters which is used ofte
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Maybe you use trust-level master passwords. E.g. Financial institutions you type in: 'myfinancialpassword' Other sites you type: 'myrelativelysecurepassword'
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Commits aren't dangerous until you push them. You can very easily rebase out a committed patch after you've tested it.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I don't disagree. Though, the post is about a new language that compiles down to an existing VMs instruction set :) That's not been done before in Coffeescript (as far as I know) but its also noteworthy because a PEG (which facilitates tran

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