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by jmah 16y ago
You should check out the EyeWriter Initiaiative. I found the videos really inspirational. http://www.eyewriter.org/
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by jmah 16y ago
Changes since 0.11.1: * More efficient header commits. * Use O_APPEND to save lseeks. * Faster implementation of pread_iolist(). Further improves performance on concurrent reads. * Added authentication caching * Faster
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by jmah 16y ago
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/fc10vbvsecurecode.pdf (via Schneier http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/online_creditd... )
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by jmah 16y ago
I've had my Thecus N5200 running solid for around 3 years now. When I first saw the Drobo demo videos I feared I'd made the wrong purchase, but having the Thecus as an open platform (Linux installed on a CF card; you can SSH and run whateve
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by jmah 16y ago
Would this timing attack affect Google's NativeClient as well? http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
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by jmah 16y ago
BTW going to a page with SSL (like "Try for Free") makes the chat area show "Olark: Upgrade your account". Could be a bit confusing.
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by jmah 17y ago
I found Damien Katz's talk about quitting and risking it on CouchDB to be really great (from resources): http://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me
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by jmah 17y ago
Slides from talk (PDF): http://www.pgexperts.com/document.html?id=40
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by jmah 17y ago
A ReadWriteWeb article started becoming the first result when Googling for "facebook login", and the comments were filled with confused people who think they're accordingly on (the "new") Facebook. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11191
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by jmah 17y ago
> There's only so much complexity you can pack into that structure. This makes it sound complicated to us modern folk because that complexity hasn't gone away; it's just been moved into the software layer.
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by jmah 17y ago
I've been looking into augmented reality technologies lately; vision systems are getting really good. There are some good ones here (click twice to load Flash videos, or download AVIs): http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~bob/research/research_pta
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by jmah 17y ago
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589555
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by jmah 17y ago
Slides here: http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/sentFiles/MazurTalk_1516.pdf
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by jmah 17y ago
I had to install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable to get it to run: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9B2...
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Devil's Tuning Fork: student Escher echolocation game(devilstuningfork.com)
1 points by jmah 17y ago|1 comments
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by jmah 17y ago
More oceans should get their own domains.
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by jmah 17y ago
Consider full motion video, whenever there's a jumpcut, nearly every pixel changes. There's no way to compress that data down without loss of fidelity. I think the author is proposing a non-causal protocol, where the data isn't necessaril
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by jmah 17y ago
Registered Nofib: "The native code generator offers the best performance of the three but its a fairly close race, with the LLVM back-end less then 4% percent behind and the C code generator less then 7%. While this is slightly disappointin
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by jmah 17y ago
Uses MochiWeb for web server, ErlyDTL for page templating (Erlang implementation of Django Template Language). http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/ http://code.google.com/p/erlydtl/
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by jmah 17y ago
That chart is veering dangerously toward misleading; it should be a bar, not a line.
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by jmah 17y ago
I'm in Adelaide, South Australia UTC+09:30 (although currently UTC+10:30 DST). I voted for UTC+10.
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by jmah 17y ago
"June 2009: In approximately 3-4 weeks we will publish demo-video of our gScreen laptop BETA models on Youtube.com." Are they defunct?
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MIT's Sixth Sense: Augmenting reality with personal projection(ted.com)
2 points by jmah 17y ago|0 comments
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by jmah 17y ago
I fear that an alert-style warning may be ignored by users, just as they're used to ignoring "Warning: Your computer may have spyware!" banners.
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Phosphorous, the popular Lisp (not for oldTimers)(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by jmah 17y ago|0 comments
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by jmah 17y ago
Wow, the trackpad detects at least 10 touches on my 2008 MacBook Pro. The angle property seems a bit too noisy to be useful, though.
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by jmah 17y ago
Copy the first code listing into "test.m", the second into "Makefile", and run make.
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by jmah 17y ago
CouchDB can replicate for backup, but either way this test app isn't a "service" that people will care about if the hardware fails. (Software failure can provide lessons, though, since this is a demo of said software.)
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by jmah 17y ago
Source: http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/
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by jmah 17y ago
Oh yes! I remember going through this over and over in the school library when I was in about 2nd grade, attempting to help re-fold pages so they'd pop up correctly.

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