j-g-faustus

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by j-g-faustus 15y ago
He also says that "at low light levels, the human eye integrates [light] up to about 15 seconds".
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False confessions(economist.com)
180 points by j-g-faustus 15y ago|66 comments
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by j-g-faustus 15y ago
The REST interface is designed to be efficient for large- grain hypermedia data transfer, optimizing for the common case of the Web, but resulting in an interface that is not optimal for other forms of architectural int
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by j-g-faustus 15y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link. I guess this is similar to what non-programmers see when looking at source code: An impenetrable mess of gobbledygook where it would require months or years of dedicated effort to figure out what the differ
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Act first, research later(core77.com)
2 points by j-g-faustus 15y ago|0 comments
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by j-g-faustus 15y ago
The UK "Locomotive Act" of 1865 required automobiles to carry a crew of three, one of which should walk in front of the automobile carrying a red flag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts The law was supported by people with inte
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Some people find programming easy. I was well into my twenties when I started programming, but I found the logic very natural - if this do that, otherwise do something else. A friend of mine was skilled in natural languages (she spoke sever
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Skip the screen and go with VR glasses? Then the projectors are at a fixed distance from the eyes, and you can (in theory) go wild applying individual corrections for everyone, up to and including correcting for individual focus.
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Apple selling "experience" is more and more true. See this chart: http://www.asymco.com/2010/10/19/60-percent-of-apples-%20sal... Looks like >60% of Apple's revenue comes from iPhone/iPad/iPod/iTunes. Although you could argue that a
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Do better systems exist? A few hours downtime in several years is still better than most brick-and-mortar stores, I think.
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
I think that almost everyone is slightly deluded. The natural state of mind of healthy (i.e. not clinically depressed) people is to default to think that they are important and good at what they do. So you get things like 70% of drivers say
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
I don't know how YouTube does it in practice, but you could either - make the chunks small enough that they are essentially static images (one or a few frames) - use some form of dynamic chunking where a chunk lasts until the image is suffi
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Perhaps that's why the post is back up - I don't believe the bits and pieces described in the article are patentable. (Fourier has been used in signal processing for decades. Adding a nearest-neighbor lookup - also know for decades - is a t
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Here's a starting point, how to do it with music: http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/ You chunk a song into small segments and create a sort of "fingerprint" for each piece using Fourier analysis or similar. (So a
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Yes, that's what they are saying in the linked video, around the 1-minute mark: http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/Google+raotti+ovea+hakukon... [We will be] taking the heat outside of the building and using cold [sea] water to remo
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
The oldest I know of is with a relative of mine. He runs an accounting company, and they are using a 15 year old IBM minicomputer (a small mainframe - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer ) for the accounting. I asked him once why h
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Skill and perseverance. A "lucky break" is more likely to come along if you keep at it for a decade than if you give up after the first non-successful year. I think skill comes in two forms: The skill of making something that people want to
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
"Phone" is Greek for "voice", so perhaps a different name would be in order. But neither "mobile" nor "cell" says anything about voice in particular, so I would think they are suitable terms for "portable communication device connected to a
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
From their FAQ: We are a bunch of friends... some of us are writers, programmers, artists, .... Among our writers are two guys whom you may have heard of: Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear. http://www.mongoliad.com/faq So it soun
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
The first customer.
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
No, I implemented only the subset of the Date API I needed for the application. A fully-fledged Ruby Date would be a larger project. +1 for duck typing, a custom non-Date object can look like a date for operations that only use a subset of
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
I implemented just the subset of the Date API I needed for the application, so it didn't do conversions to other calendar formats (Julian/ordinal/commercial etc.). I don't know why their version is so slow, I can only imagine that the conve
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
I got something like a 10x performance improvement (for custom code parsing stock quotes from CSV) merely by rewriting Ruby's Date class in Ruby. The default Ruby Date implementation is awfully slow.
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Why you shouldn't switch: This reminds me of when I tried to switch to a Dvorak keyboard. The trouble was, I don't use one computer. I use all kinds of computers. I use other people's computers. I use three computers fa
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
I met someone who finished business school and applied for lots of jobs in the financial sector, but was rather frustrated after six months and several interviews but no job offer. (This was before the financial crisis.) She complained that
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Actually, rescaling pixels is part of the CSS specification: If the pixel density of the output device is very different from that of a typical computer display, the user agent should rescale pixel values. [...] It i
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
This article from 2007 might be of interest: "How Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME": http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/ It's apparently not a complete surprise, this guy in 2007 pre
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Speaking as one of the technical crowd, it is hard to adjust to the fact that all of your skills put together contributes only a few percent to the success of a product. It is obviously true, but it still takes a while getting used to :)
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
Terminal velocity depends on the drag/friction from the air, at higher altitudes the air is thinner. So less drag and higher terminal velocity. The current world record is ~600 mph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity#Examples
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by j-g-faustus 16y ago
I was interested in computers around age 17 (when I attended a vocational electronics school in the mid-80s), we made simple circuits and a few simple programs in Basic. I got more interested in my early twenties, a friend of mine was a pro

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