jpace121

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The World's Most Efficient Car was Built in a Barn(sbnation.com)
6 points by jpace121 12y ago|1 comments
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by jpace121 12y ago
I disagree. Writing down the important parts of a lecture can keep you focused on what's important. If your goal is to write down the important parts of a lecture, you're going to constantly be asking yourself what's import
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by jpace121 12y ago
The lack of AirDrop integration before is probably one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently. I'm really excited for this simple new feature.
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Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi(medium.com)
475 points by jpace121 12y ago|199 comments
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by jpace121 12y ago
It's going to be interesting to watch how this competes with Blackboard. Anecdotally, it definitely looks like Blackboard has an almost monopoly on class room management stuff. Since the education market is so slow to adopt new things
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Kmel's Hexrotors Put on Autonomous Robot Spectacular(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by jpace121 12y ago|0 comments
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by jpace121 13y ago
I'm not sure I would call a false start an easter egg. It is a fairly standard penalty called all the time in real life games. The reason it was special enough to mention in the article is that he had specifically turned off penaltie
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by jpace121 13y ago
Is DDG really that much of a name brand outside nerd circles? Maybe I just have weird friends, but almost no one I know IRL has ever heard of DDG, while quite a few have heard and used Bing.
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by jpace121 13y ago
SBNation is one of the sites that spends lots of time making their site look really cool, but it definitely makes their websites kind of large.
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by jpace121 13y ago
You definitely notice the difference when dealing with mutable types in python, like lists. >> a = [1,2,3] >> b = a >> a.append(4) >> b #[1,2,3,4] This is one of the things that throws off many beginners
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Will You be Ready for the Robotic Traffic Jam in Your Home?(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by jpace121 13y ago|0 comments
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by jpace121 13y ago
In response to your last sentence, yes.
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by jpace121 13y ago
Do you guys do internships?
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by jpace121 13y ago
At what point in these ventures do you try to get funding? It seems much harder to bootstrap than a software startup because you can't expand easily to demand. At the same time, I doubt anyone would give you money without a prototype
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by jpace121 13y ago
Stuff like this is personally really cool, and is one of the reasons I learned to program in the first place/ still play with programming.
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by jpace121 13y ago
I think wearable computing is definitely the future, and Glass is probably a good first stab at it. I don't think anyone thinks glass is the perfect solution, though.
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by jpace121 13y ago
I like how both emacs and vim continue to make improvements, while still maintaining a lot of the features that make them great.
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by jpace121 13y ago
Transferring from a Community College to a state 4-year is very common in Florida. I dual-enrolled in high school and wound up only a semester short of my AA, so I stayed and finished it up before transferring. The local CC does a very g