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by icefox 16y ago
Starting with the Torch BlackBerry's have a webkit browser and can render on the canvas. (disclaimer I work for RIM on webkit)
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by icefox 16y ago
Reminds me of a health insurance form I filled out where it asked you for your gender, but never your sex.
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by icefox 16y ago
What about when people stop of flying BECAUSE of the TSA and either don't fly or drive? How does that factor in?
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by icefox 16y ago
>50% keeping a porn collection I can only imaging what a teenager is able to amass these days with TB hard drives and what others might think when they go through it. From a security perspective if [they] suspect that [you] have a porn
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by icefox 16y ago
This is really really cool. I have ported various c/c++ code based to javascript and have thought about doing this myself. No doubt some really cool demos will come out of this. One interesting hacks to be build on this would be to optimi
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by icefox 16y ago
If I wrote an algorithm that choose Scarlett Johansson, who is to say my algorithm doesn't work.
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by icefox 16y ago
Why can't they write a test that makes sure the basic case works?
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by icefox 16y ago
Lots of fluff and no comment from companies.
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by icefox 16y ago
I have a phone line for this reason (cheaper) at the moment.
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by icefox 16y ago
TorchMobile had a good port of webkit on WindowsCE with a good browser. RIM bought them and killed the application. Lots of users were sad but the port is not dead from the webkit repository perspective.
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by icefox 16y ago
Why bottled water? What does not having fluoride do?
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by icefox 16y ago
Still doesn't answer why the public wouldn't buy the old version if it was released right now
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by icefox 16y ago
<quote> Can you explain how Azul's pauseless garbage collector works? Gil Tene: At Azul, we've been building high performance Java virtual machines (JVM)s for the past eight years now. We started the company in 2002, and we aimed to
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by icefox 16y ago
How about even just a link to your main site at the top of your blog?
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by icefox 16y ago
Even when I run them on my amd cpu?
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by icefox 16y ago
Say 10% mutate and 60% crossover, that leaves 30% to live another round and be the parents for the crossover and mutation. After the fitness function is run the results are sorted by the fitness value. The lowest get to live and be part o
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by icefox 16y ago
In mine the two options have be less than 1.0 when combined. So out of all genomes, 20% (.2) goes to crossover, 80% (.8) goes to crossover and the rest live. The two numbers have to be less than 1.0 for some to remain alive from one round
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by icefox 16y ago
A change to the code so it didn't hard code the letters, but just use ascii: http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2010/12/evolving-hello-wo...
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by icefox 16y ago
A few years ago I made up this [generic] genetic algorithm page in javascript. http://icefox.github.com/javascript_genetic_algorithm/?progr... The neat part about it was that you could put in your own problem and have it solve it. I too
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by icefox 16y ago
Just dumped the data in the wizard
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by icefox 16y ago
Used google charts to generate them and it while it probably lets you I couldn't figure out how to display the actual y values, only 0-100 which are also useless which was part of the reason I included the averaged times at the end of the a
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Running Git on a SSD Speed Comparison(benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com)
30 points by icefox 16y ago|14 comments
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by icefox 16y ago
In the transformers toy world I have been watching this and wondering what it will do. What does it mean to collectors when anyone can just print off that old toy they had as a kid? How about the brand new toy that just came out? On the
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by icefox 16y ago
If you want to hire 70,000 below average developers in no time flat you can. Realistically you are not hiring that many at once but over a long period of growth. All I am saying is that using open source as a way to find talented individua
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by icefox 16y ago
free soda is typically an indication of a place that has not yet become institutionalized. Most startups have this perk and at some point some manager comes in and kills it off for <insert reason of the week>. It is a sign that th
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by icefox 16y ago
The corp participates in some open source program (that they don't own). Then hire the best people that contribute to the project. I have seen this work several times over and it has always resulted in high quality developers.
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by icefox 16y ago
ADBE is down 23% this year. Reading their quarterly reports + other data they have been having a hard several years. Been (happily) shorting them for a while. http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/09/adobe-owns-web-an... I would neve
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by icefox 16y ago
yah, did he pay someone or did he get paid? Some context is needed.
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by icefox 16y ago
How about just trying to unlock all of the git achievements. Do that and you will discover a lot about git.
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by icefox 16y ago
rather than blinking, use morse code and output the message.

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