jamesbowman

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Delaware's Odd, Beautiful, Contentious, Private Utopia(reason.com)
2 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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A Simply Arited Concatenative Language(suhr.github.io)
3 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|1 comments
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20 more powerful alternatives to Raspberry Pi(techrepublic.com)
3 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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Hash Collision Probabilities (2011)(preshing.com)
1 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Batch color correcting images(excamera.com)
3 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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2017 CUFP Keynote – Are We There Yet?(github.com)
17 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|4 comments
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How Kroll Ontrack Recovered 99% of Data from Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster(storagenewsletter.com)
2 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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David Jones (“Daedalus”) has died(theguardian.com)
1 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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The Problem with Threads (2006) [pdf](www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
4 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways(citylab.com)
115 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|52 comments
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Oh-My-God particle(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|1 comments
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The Genius of Python, the Agony of Ocaml (2006)(brool.com)
2 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways(citylab.com)
1 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbowman 9y ago
This happened to Lance Armstrong. As one investigator put it, his 1999 urine was meant to pass the drugs tests available in 1999. But when subjected to tests developed 5 years later, it failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jamesbowman 9y ago
Using premultiplied alpha avoids this. Jim Blinn's books from the 90s give a very thoughtful treatment of the topic.
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Why I Take Fake Pills(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Compressed directories on Linux(excamera.com)
70 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|38 comments
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Clones of the Apple II(tedium.co)
79 points by jamesbowman 9y ago|31 comments
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by jamesbowman 9y ago
It's hard. Because everyone claims to be doing TDD, just asking in the interview "do you do TDD" is pointless. Example. Last year I consulted at an IC company, building a huge "moon-shot" chip. You might expect TDD
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Bent horizon photos(atlasobscura.com)
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by jamesbowman 10y ago
Some detailed analysis of the Asteroids hardware/software: http://computerarcheology.com/Arcade/Asteroids/
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by jamesbowman 10y ago
Yes, ICs age. Fissures in the subtrate expand with each thermal cycle. Delamination is a similar effect. That's how manufacturers prematurely age their parts -- by endless cycles in the oven. The biggest culprit is flash memory. It&#x2
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A History of Reverse-Engineering Game Cartridges(tedium.co)
94 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|9 comments
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Your Code is Junky(tedium.co)
2 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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Whatever Happened to BEAM Robots(techmog.com)
2 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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PET index – Killer Poke (2013)(6502.org)
2 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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Lisa Steen: The wilderness of the medically unexplained(blogs.bmj.com)
1 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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MyStorm – A $30 ICE40 / ARM M3 Dev Board(fpgarelated.com)
1 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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A Perfect Storm: A $30 FPGA+ARM Board(folknologylabs.wordpress.com)
2 points by jamesbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbowman 10y ago
Spirograph is an excellent way to introduce kids to the idea of relatively prime pairs. Because the most awesome Spirograph patterns come from the relatively prime pairs of gears.

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