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by icefox 15y ago
Almost 10% of us are mobile. On a small screen with slower bandwidth HN is a lot nicer than /. Almost annoying that even though the site is so efficient already the site icon and the logo aren't the same url or that the arrows are not uni
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by icefox 15y ago
Speaking of RepRap does anyone have a list of things that are either impossible or incredibly expensive/difficult to manufacture in traditional ways, but with a 3d printer are easy?
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by icefox 15y ago
Back in 2008 when I bought my car the used Prius's were going for almost the price of a new one. This seemed like a short term fad of near zero depreciation and unwise to bet that it would stay that way. The Prius was really the only game
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by icefox 15y ago
"Hybrid's also have the potential to be confusing" (from the grandparent comment)
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by icefox 15y ago
I am one of those in the article. A few years ago I needed a new car, running the math it wasn't a fantastic deal and I could get a much nicer car (performance, looks, style, sound, features) for the same total price. I also said "mayb
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by icefox 15y ago
Sounds like you did something similar to what I did a few years ago. During lunch I ran a Quake server and every five minutes it would generate a new random level (random layout, goals, weapons, lighting etc). Cycles and no dead ends are
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by icefox 15y ago
For several years I have been using QtWebKit to write tests that utilize the dom. Fast startup, console output etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chrome guys have a similar stripped down Chrome for JS unit tests.
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by icefox 15y ago
And it isn't to say that both are good biz models. Expensive (high margin) fast hardware that can do more things Cheap (low margin) slow hardware that can do some things The one thing we do know is that WebKit is winning. Now the
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by icefox 15y ago
Well a good chunk of it doubt is all in the Network layer which is outside of "WebKit". Image compression, dns, fetching, pre-fetching, streaming, etc. You can no doubt get tons of win just by having a proxy server that gzip's everything
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by icefox 15y ago
(personal opinion, not opinion of my employeer rim) The old Blackberry Java browser was split and had tons of logic in the cloud to compensate for the fact that networks were beyond slow and devices had no extra cpu and very little ram and
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by icefox 15y ago
The invoice for the install was 34K. You get back 33% from the fed. ~25% from the MA rebate, and another $1K back from MA taxes. I only had to write a check for the 34K minus the MA rebate (which MA writes a check to the installer before
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by icefox 15y ago
Same here, got my install finished just a month ago. The inverters we used aggregates the data (to warn us of problem) which I have made public http://enlighten.enphaseenergy.com/public/systems/TTAL25069 We also expect a payback of arou
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by icefox 15y ago
Also reduced its maintainability.
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by icefox 15y ago
For anyone interested in more discussion of this I suggest grabbing a copy of "Making Software", in particular chapter eleven on Conways Corollary which the chapter centered around this paper from 2008 http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/70
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by icefox 15y ago
Due to ClojureScript I have been going about learning Clojure the past few weeks. For anyone in a similar boat found a fun little site http://4clojure.com/ that teaches you Clojure by coding on the website which is pretty cool.
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by icefox 15y ago
Pretty much anywhere you go there is corporate infighting. Learning to deal with that in a constructive way and not let it get you down (too much) is important. The conclusion the author was trying to sell (I think) was that Silverlight di
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by icefox 15y ago
Really have to ponder why Whitman would take this job given the probability of being fired next year no matter what happens...
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by icefox 15y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I didn't mention Linux anywhere in it, but specifically talk about how when dealing with OOM you must first discuss what the kernel provides. On RTEMS can malloc actually return 0 or does it never re
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by icefox 15y ago
If anyone actually thought OnStar wouldn't be used for that from day 1 they were just fooling themselves.
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by icefox 15y ago
Well the whole article seemed silly after he said this: "First of all, you can't use heap - not when you're in orbit. Why? Because quite simply, if you do use heap, and malloc returns null... what do you do? You can't ask the user for help"
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by icefox 15y ago
What about having the heap allocation actually use the stack?
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by icefox 15y ago
"Qwikster will also now offer video game rentals through the mail" While I wouldn't sign up full time for a game rental service I would be interested in getting a game now and then rather than a dvd. Suffice it to say for my needs a dvd in
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by icefox 15y ago
So I honestly don't get it. Is this a poor mans bug tracker? A possible re-invention of a bug tracker? (something wacky and different version of a bug tracker to see if it sticks?) I have seen people mention project management a bunch, bu
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by icefox 15y ago
As mentioned in the article states are setting up programs to help you save energy. For those that live in MA head over to http://www.masssave.com/ and sign up for the free* audit on your house. They give you stuff and will chip in the
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by icefox 15y ago
Agreed, flagged. Write some catchy headline and inserting a denial by the company gets link. I just heard.... Microsoft reportedly plans to temporarily discontinue development of its Windows OS due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform
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by icefox 15y ago
I never thought I would see the day where there is OS X and Linux downloads, but only a VM image for Windows. Very cool.
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by icefox 15y ago
For simple things like build errors a local git hook was good enough to completely rid the project of those problems. For the Arora project I believe there were around 5 commits in the entire lifetime of the project that didn't build on on
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by icefox 15y ago
2nded, I haven't heard 'Slashdotted' to mean getting traffic from slashdot.org in a while, but it does seem to have stuck as the means of saying we got a ton of traffic from some other website linking to us.
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by icefox 15y ago
Yah, but what if physical goods gave you that edge over your competition? That neat wow cool factor that all of the other 'download' devices don't get because they can't change?
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by icefox 15y ago
For anyone who is looking for some code to read with I would recommended BSNES. It isn't a huge code base and worth the trip. Read through most of it last year after finding it and found it most enjoyable.

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