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by ibrahima 13y ago
Hmm, this is pretty much getting into impulse buy territory (for a 3D printer), and it even helps with my #1 problem justifying getting one which was that I haven't really learned any 3D modeling, by being capable of scanning (though I
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by ibrahima 13y ago
By engineers, for engineers, I might add. No offense, but most writers on tech sites tend to be writers who are interested in technology, whereas AnandTech is full of engineers who are interested in dissecting and explaining technology. Not
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by ibrahima 13y ago
> Newell has the ulterior motive of killing Microsoft's app store, which he clearly sees as a direct threat to Steam. I honestly think that's all there is to this, because otherwise how is Windows 8 any more or less open than W
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Hmm, I've noticed this on the Raspberry Pi, but I'm curious, do you know if this is a problem for desktop PCs as well? I recently built a mini-ITX PC sort of for fun as a change of pace and then realized that the apartment where I
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by ibrahima 13y ago
> > Removing all but the mov instruction from future iterations of the x86 architecture would have many advantages: the instruction format would be greatly simplified, the expensive decode unit would become much cheaper, and silicon c
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Holy crap, I played Desolate, that game was seriously amazing for a calculator. The graphics rivaled the original Game Boy (a decade later, but still). It was seriously smooth and well made.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Apparently this instructor was actually quite good in the past, I think this is just a really misguided attempt to make the class smaller because they don't have enough instructional staff. I feel like the only possible outcome is that
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by ibrahima 13y ago
As someone who graduated from Berkeley EECS, this is highly atypical. Something fishy is going on here.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
FWIW I tried the Truly Ergonomic Keyboard, which is similar to the Kinesis in that it has the keys in straight columns, and I found no discernible benefit. In fact, I ended up going back to my MS Natural 4000 and returning the TEK because e
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by ibrahima 13y ago
I usually use a thumb trackball, but once when my wrist pain got pretty bad I started using one of the ambidextrous trackballs with my left hand for a bit, it was actually pretty nice.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
There's a newer mechanical tenkeyless keyboard that's pretty cheap, the CM Storm Quickfire Rapid: http://www.amazon.com/CM-Storm-QuickFire-Rapid-Mechanical/dp... It's a "gaming" brand keyboard
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Interestingly, you can actually connect the Palm Touchstone coils to some newer phones that have the right connections on the back and use a Touchstone for inductive charging - I did it with my Galaxy S3 for a while, it's a pretty simp
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by ibrahima 13y ago
At least several years ago, Charlie had a really strong anti nVidia bias, and the site seemed like an average hardware enthusiast blog so it wasn't worth reading. Just checked it now and it seems pretty in depth now, though the nVidia
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by ibrahima 13y ago
The point of the app that got broken was to play media directly from your phone. The way Koush describes the breakage makes it sound pretty intentional to me. It makes sense why they did it though, and even if it's limited to Youtube a
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by ibrahima 13y ago
We probably travel less during Ramadan than usual, since it's kind of inconvenient to do so. Though maybe some people want to spend it with their families like this guy wanted to spend his holy week with his family, but most people w
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by ibrahima 13y ago
I can't believe someone misses Chrome's "Tiny Tab" thing, I think it's the single most broken thing about the browser. In Firefox I used to use multi row tabs and then Tree style tabs when I had too many tabs. In Ch
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by ibrahima 13y ago
This is just in addition to their current business of selling chips and cards as far as I can tell. I don't think anyone will want to produce exactly an nVidia chip, most likely the idea is that other vendors would want to integrate an
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Err, why would swiping to the left go back? This isn't a standard UI pattern in Android at all, and honestly I don't think it even makes any sense. The back button always takes you back to your search results in my experience, I d
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Eh, I just got an iPad for my mom, after owning several Android phones and tablets, and my sister used to use an iPod touch as well. We both agreed that the App Store is a piece of trash. It's slow, confusing to navigate around, and do
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by ibrahima 13y ago
This is wrong and dangerous. From whom are you trying to keep these variables secret? Assuming a sane sysadmin, sensitive files would only be readable by the user which needs to run the application. And environment variables can be read fro
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Also, I feel like the misunderstandings he posted are somewhat from the perspective of Ruby developers who learned CoffeeScript and not JavaScript. Which I do fall under, but I guess I quickly picked up the quirks in the language which Coff
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Huh, so can you "branch" a VM with vagrant? Like say I want to make some incompatible/lossy changes to my database schema, can I fork my dev environment, do my migrations to the new schema, and then go back if I don't li
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by ibrahima 13y ago
I'm really glad he did this, took a lot of bravery I'm sure. I almost get the feeling that he's happy to be in the crosshairs of the US government.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
I was actually referring to https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/graphs/contributors , didn't check the Authors file. It's very cool to have been a part of this.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
As someone who contributed a bit to edX last year[1], it seems that they found rake to be a nicer way to encapsulate scripts than, for some reason, shell scripts or something. IIRC it was just setting some environment variables to manage t
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Well, I feel like most of these hardware sites have pretty meaty pages so it's not terrible that they split up their articles, as otherwise they'd be very long pages. Especially Anandtech, some of their reviews are 15-20 pages long - I woul
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by ibrahima 13y ago
Agreed. Personally, I had stopped using Newegg for a while because Amazon Prime made things cheaper for me overall, but Amazon is one of the companies that just pays off these patent trolls, so from now on I'm back to Newegg completely for
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by ibrahima 13y ago
I agree that in this case it's stupid, but for some data it can make sense. But I think people use bezier curves and higher order interpolations on these types of demos because smooth lines look more visually appealing somehow.
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by ibrahima 13y ago
It's nice that there's a third party option (yay for open APIs) but it's pretty weird that Google still hasn't bothered to make a Linux Drive client themselves. This is basically the only reason I'm still using Dropbox primarily, though I'l
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by ibrahima 13y ago
There's no equivalent for the nifty tab completion where you can navigate around though. That's one of the few things I envy from zsh as a bash user.

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