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by jallmann 15y ago
The media makes no pretense about providing fair and unbiased coverage. Especially bloggers. And this is Techcrunch we're talking about. If they omit covering a startup (or give it a bad review) due to staff investments elsewhere, well, tha
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by jallmann 16y ago
> His views are not utopian either, they represent a mostly lost thread of Western thought. Interesting. Does that philosophy have a name?
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by jallmann 16y ago
What IBM does is not exciting? Granted, they might not be working on self-driving cars, or motion-controlled video games, or God forbid, a tablet. But the scope of IBM is almost breathtaking. Look into the capabilities of mainframes, consid
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by jallmann 16y ago
CI is not a carbon copy of Rails, which would be quite difficult anyway given the base language, but the inspiration is undeniable. All the pieces are there -- the MVC pattern and associated features like routes, helpers, etc. CakePHP-Rail
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by jallmann 16y ago
CodeIgniter is really not that nice. Maybe it seems cool for the uninitiated, but it is just a PHP clone of Rails. CI and kin can't hold a candle because the expressive power of Rails doesn't come from the framework itself, but from Ruby. T
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by jallmann 16y ago
Agreed 100%. Algorithms and data structures provide a better guarantee of correctness than any design pattern ever will. But that's not only what SE about. It's also about taking all the various algos, data structures and design patterns in
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by jallmann 16y ago
Absolutely, CS and SE are distinct fields of study. My school offered majors for both. SE is unabashedly about software and the process of developing it. It's about design patterns, how to manage software projects, testing and verification,
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by jallmann 16y ago
This announcement has its roots in the FFmpeg/libav fork. For a long time, FFmpeg resources were hosted on the MPlayer server. (Not sure if they still are; its git has been migrated to videolan at least.) Like a number of OSS devs, people o
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by jallmann 16y ago
There is nothing stopping YouTube from running, say, a RTSP recorder and re-packaging the media to use RTMP (Flash streaming). In fact this is probably preferable, since there is no way to encode H.264 from within the Flash client.
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by jallmann 16y ago
If UI what's holding you back, then you don't need Linux. I use Linux for many reasons. The desktop environment ranks very low among those reasons.
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by jallmann 16y ago
Compiling libs in XCode (for iOS) is an exercise in tediousness. Far easier is just to write a few lines of Make. https://gist.github.com/895945 (will also lipo together cross-builds) Also here's something that will set up configure for a
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by jallmann 16y ago
I've been using ejabberd a lot lately and it's a really nice piece of software, and works very well. My biggest problem with XMPP as a whole is... well, it's XML. Not only is it heavier than it should be across the wire, it feels to me that
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by jallmann 16y ago
>This is massively ground breaking. Sounds like you're used to bad algorithms. I think there is a serious disconnect between the state of the art in computer vision and what's used in industry. The demo was cool, but the techniques are
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by jallmann 16y ago
Technical details here, with links to relevant papers at the bottom. http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html
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by jallmann 16y ago
> As the BSD license is slightly more restrictive than the GPL Other way around.
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by jallmann 16y ago
I did GSoC last year with FFmpeg, working on the RTP/RTSP layer. It was a lot of fun working on a code base like that -- multimedia seemed so arcane before starting out. One of the things I appreciated the most were the code reviews. I had
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by jallmann 16y ago
> I think its a good move but it isn't new. I think UC Berkeley moved the first CS class for CS/EECS majors to functional concepts and Scheme in 1989 and MIT even earlier, though the latter abandoned it later. Yeah, but those aren't rea
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by jallmann 16y ago
10k paid downloads of an edge filter? Well played.
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by jallmann 16y ago
> As for one strategy making more sense, you cannot simply assert that when you have no numbers to back that up. I can't give numbers, because they are simply impossible to quantify at this stage. (Note I said 2016, which is about the s
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by jallmann 16y ago
Yes. It's possible that Color could see a 100x return. It's also possible Mitt Romney will be president of the US in 2016. I think the odds are about the same for both. Yuri Milner's strategy makes far more sense. Where is the hedging of ri
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by jallmann 16y ago
Sure, you can have deterministic concurrency. But that's not what he's talking about. Concurrent operations being non-deterministic is the accepted norm. If you're talking about deterministic concurrency, then you can qualify it as such; an
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by jallmann 16y ago
Concurrency does not necessarily have anything to do with parallel programming, although the latter may need to be aware of concurrency issues if the parallel algorithm needs to manage shared resources and sequential dependencies. The gist
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by jallmann 16y ago
What advantages does MacRuby offer over MRI/YARV or Rubinius?
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by jallmann 16y ago
Am I the only one who absolutely loves the eraserhead on the Thinkpad? It's so nice to be able to use the mouse without taking your hands off the keyboard. (Why netbooks have a tiny, useless touchpad rather than an eraserhead is beyond me.)
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by jallmann 16y ago
> Perhaps many individuals all posing as a single individual Zero Hedge's Tyler Durden.
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by jallmann 16y ago
That whole thread is an information goldmine on sampling functions.
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by jallmann 16y ago
I don't think Samsung cares about software. They are primarily a manufacturing concern, and their lineup of branded phones and devices is just a way to eke out more value from that existing capacity. Could be that manufacturing capacity is
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by jallmann 16y ago
Are you trolling? > as far as i can see nokia could differentiate themselves a hell of alot more and with far more confidence with android then with ms win mobile. GP had a whole bunch of reasons why going with MS is probably a better s
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by jallmann 16y ago
Nokia should have bought Palm when they had the chance. The former has solid hardware and crappy software, the latter an inverse problem. It would have been a perfect match.

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