javanix

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Emacs Go-mode(kai.system7.de)
1 points by javanix 17y ago|1 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
An interesting overview. I'm not sure of the validity of taking all of your statistics from TechCrunch, however.
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by javanix 17y ago
Never underestimate the power of inertia.
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by javanix 17y ago
Put linux on it. The "rabbit hole of drivers" doesn't really exist any longer, and a passing familiarity with linux can really be a useful skill to have.
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This wasn't actually inductive though. Given crude initial conditions and some indication of what variables to consider The only induction done in the whole process was done by the researchers in this step - otherwise the algorithm wouldn
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by javanix 17y ago
There are a lot of options on here - I think you might run into trouble with people not feeling like scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the list.
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by javanix 17y ago
How was this recorded? Were those "native" members of the cultures in question doing the counting, or was it the author of the video imitating? Interesting video in any case.
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by javanix 17y ago
Good business lesson? Maybe. Good parenting lesson? Hell no.
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by javanix 17y ago
It does occasionally. In my experience, however, sometimes improving a pragmatic approach requires doing things correctly from the ground up. Sometimes the performance gain is worth it, sometimes it isn't. But generally it is there.
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by javanix 17y ago
I do my best to give myself ridiculous deadlines, and then do my damndest to meet them. If I absolutely have to meet something, I will. Granted, I can only keep it up for a couple of weeks or so, but during that time I can productively co
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by javanix 17y ago
They only used a 500 student set for their model? The metrics they arrived at aren't exactly shocking, either - students who live below the poverty line, who miss 42% of their classes, etc. It almost sounds like someone just needed an offic
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by javanix 17y ago
What are you talking about? I gave a link to Wikipedia (which lists the actual legal sources). I wasn't passing judgement, just saying that what he did seems to be illegal if you accept the fact that the protests were illegal.
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by javanix 17y ago
I feel like I should point out that according to federal law, it is an illegal use of a police scanner to "use information received to aid in the commission of a crime, or disclose information received to other persons." http://en.wikipedi
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by javanix 17y ago
I agree. Sometimes exactly what kind of PR speak is used is interesting in and of itself - no need to paraphrase unless absolutely necessary.
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by javanix 17y ago
I would reccommend this Dell monitor: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/product... The key point is that it is LED backlit - this means much better contrast than similarly priced screens, as well as generally less power
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by javanix 17y ago
I think the trouble with teaching mostly Java-only courses early on in CS curricula is that it makes it difficult to catch the subtle middle ground where OO actually makes code more readable/maintainable instead of more bloated. Granted, a
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by javanix 17y ago
Prozac? I doubt it. The bulk of homicides have always occurred in the inner cities, and those people would be the last to get their hands on prescription pharmaceuticals. Its possible Prozac had some effect on more suburbanized areas of t
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by javanix 17y ago
Presenting data on the elements that aren't subject to self-bias would bolster his case - absenteeism and failure to complete homework (as opposed to completing homework poorly), from the list you gave. I'm not sure that he would have gotte
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by javanix 17y ago
I'm always kind of surprised with the sort of things my dog picks up on from time to time. She will follow a pointed finger to go get a toy that she can't see, and apparently recognizes the names of her different toys ("go get your rope" wi
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by javanix 17y ago
People younger than 54 count as "the young" these days? Is this some sort of commentary on USA Today's subscriber demographics?
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Ah, thanks for the info, both of you. Here's hoping some useful Linux uses can come out of this - packet-based multithreading seems like a useful abstraction to me, though I am an admittedly inexperienced in multithreaded programming outsid
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by javanix 17y ago
I'm not too familiar with how various Linux applications are licensed currently, so perhaps someone else can enlighten me. Does anyone know of any major GPLv2-only apps out there that would provide a major roadblock to porting this to Linux
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Apple Open-Sources Grand Central Dispatch (Snow Leopard Multithreading)(arstechnica.com)
30 points by javanix 17y ago|5 comments
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No, its not rocket science as to how it works. But, at least one of these companies is making a good-faith show of openness. As the article mentioned, the scary part of this technology isn't the technology itself - it is the potential appli
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by javanix 17y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware that Snort had that capability. However, at the very least the open-sourcing of some subset of a commercial DPI product is interesting in that it provides more information than any other company (that I'm aware of, anyway
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Open-Source Deep Packet Inspection(arstechnica.com)
23 points by javanix 17y ago|6 comments
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True, but seeing as broadband speeds are (or should be) pretty much completely dependent on market forces (unlike most of the others you mentioned), there's no reason a country with our GDP shouldn't be closer to the top of any list. I thin
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by javanix 17y ago
Quit posting this crap. Every single reader of this site is perfectly capable of finding their own music if they want.
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Of course there is overlap, but seeing as it is a press release this article adds nothing to the general hacker/start-up knowledgebase, and considering the discussion here itself seems mostly centered on what crossovers/new movies are pos
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by javanix 17y ago
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity . Why on earth is

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