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721.
Termite: Automatic Synthesis of Device Drivers(ssrg.nicta.com.au)
1 points by jdc 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdc 13y ago
"We then digitally reconstructed their cell bodies and dendrites..." Does this mean that the experiment was done in simulation?
723.
by jdc 13y ago
A family member who needs to find treatment for a relative could benefit greatly from this service.
724.
by jdc 13y ago
Valve doesn't need all the AAA titles initially. What if SteamOS were released to a group of perspective and current gaming hardware manufacturers à la Android? Despite the DirectX platform being incumbent on the mid to high-end x86 PC
725.
by jdc 13y ago
What if SteamOS were released to a group of perspective and current gaming hardware manufacturers à la Android? The DirectX platform may be incumbent on the mid to high-end x86 PCs, but if Valve were to target the Wii/smartphone gaming
726.
by jdc 13y ago
I love the last point, but there really is an argument to be made for keeping the unwashed masses ignorant of the best ways to harm people.
727.
by jdc 13y ago
$('img:first').replaceWith(function() { return $('<div id=' + this.id + '></div>') })
728.
by jdc 13y ago
Came here expecting the early history of SIGINT[1]. 1. http://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%e2%80%99d-h...
729.
#lang rackjure(github.com)
1 points by jdc 13y ago|0 comments
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by jdc 13y ago
I've found "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python" quite helpful: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest And if you're a Windows user wanting to use Python modules that are partly implemented in C, I rec
731.
by jdc 13y ago
I think pg is using the word identity differently than you (or Jung) here. He doesn't attempt to explain the source of the "strong convictions" that drive political or religious beliefs. He simply observes the connection betw
732.
by jdc 13y ago
Sorry, I realize I am being harsh, and am grateful for all the work of the Django community organizers. Let me clarify my previous remarks. The items under the "Be careful in the words that you choose" heading (which make up a sig
733.
by jdc 13y ago
I'd love to see this for a subset of laws. You could start with the law surrounding permits, for example.
734.
by jdc 13y ago
Some people just aren't down with the "worse is better" design philosophy that Vim and *nix in general share.
735.
by jdc 13y ago
These rules are blatantly patronizing, and come off a bit like a large organization's standard CYA boilerplate. Something along the lines of HN's commenting guidelines or Hacker School's social rules would be more appropriate
736.
by jdc 13y ago
That sounds complicated. Why not just make an SVG partial that draws circles that accepts the quantity, sizes and positions as parameters?
737.
by jdc 13y ago
1) I'd like to be able to go through more backgrounds at once using say, thumbnails and/or categories. 2) It would be cool if the app would compile Bootstrap (from SASS) to match the colour scheme of the background.
738.
Greenland's Glacial Melt May Slow, Study Suggests(livescience.com)
2 points by jdc 13y ago|0 comments
739.
by jdc 13y ago
Or suppose the company that built it were party to a data-sharing arrangement for the purposes of marketing. This is a weakness of SaaS in general. I remember not too long ago when ZoneAlarm would ask me if I wanted application X to access
740.
by jdc 13y ago
> While the language is wonderful I would not use it for production systems today. It is my opinion that the language came to be too early and, as a result, has not seen innovation for decades. What APL need that only more modern languag
741.
by jdc 13y ago
Does anyone know what the evidence of the "mass extortion conspiracy" Chevron provided in order to get the judge to accept the subpoena?
742.
by jdc 13y ago
This seems like a simple matter of having all the tests written under invigilators.
743.
by jdc 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
744.
by jdc 13y ago
I haven't been following Firefox OS that closely, but one question comes to mind: why didn't Mozilla fork Palm's excellent WebOS?
745.
by jdc 13y ago
Shouldn't the burden of proof be on party A?
746.
by jdc 13y ago
Only the executive branch is entitled to this data, right?
747.
by jdc 13y ago
> reducible to a single man's nuttiness, that of J. Edgar Hoover ...which demonstrates that the executive branch wields a disproportionate amount of power, does it not?
748.
Remember PadMapper? It just won a copyright battle against Craigslist(venturebeat.com)
4 points by jdc 13y ago|0 comments
749.
by jdc 13y ago
Bear in mind the USA's pressure on other countries to "harmonize" their drug laws. Some of this is purely political, but consider what happens when some regions have looser regulation on a given drug. Suddenly the drug is che
750.
by jdc 13y ago
It wouldn't be the first time an unintended party gained access to unsuspecting parties' personal information via government surveillance systems. The Prime Minister of Greece, among others, had their cellphones tapped by a hacker

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