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by jsrn 18y ago
thank you! More motivation for me to finish my CS degree:-)
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by jsrn 18y ago
IIRC, you worked at iRobot before starting TipJoy. Would you mind to share your opinion how you see the future of the company (medium to long term)?
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by jsrn 18y ago
No, the lazy choice is to have the visions of the infinite you mention and instead of trying to understand them, simply to describe them in terms of whatever traditional concepts are floating around in your culture. maybe
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by jsrn 18y ago
As the article pointed out, the adoption of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is much smaller until now than that of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). If you are interested in UGVs in the military, check out the company iRobot. I listened to a
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by jsrn 18y ago
"I[t] took me 8 years since I started blogging in 2003..." hm, someone lives in the future...
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by jsrn 18y ago
it should be mentioned that pyQT requires you to choose either GPL as the licence for your software, or purchase a commericial QT licence. http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4r... If you don't like that (for example
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by jsrn 18y ago
and, once you get a bit of legs under your business, move away from it seems to be the strategy. And as soon as someone buys your startup, the porn comes back (see nsfw reddit and Condé Nast)
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by jsrn 18y ago
Donald Knuth has a dedicated work computer, too - but apparently completely without network capabilities: I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop—it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory dr
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by jsrn 18y ago
thanks for the help, rms. I will check out the forum (your first link) this weekend. Regarding the second link: they sell Modalert, which is made by an Indian company that claims this is a Provigil generic. I have read some worrying things
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by jsrn 18y ago
Nowadays it seems to be closer to "programmer" Actually, that's the original meaning: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
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by jsrn 18y ago
I'm somewhat unsure about the 'online pharmacy' thing. Has anyone here ordered Provigil from an online pharmacy that ships to Europe? How do you evaluate these pharmacies? I don't want to get misslabeled pills etc...
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by jsrn 18y ago
I've tested some of my SVG demos with FF 3 and they run much faster than with FF 2 (I think that's due to Cairo being integrated into Firefox 3). Opera and Safari are very fast compared to FF 2, too. As for feature completeness I agree with
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by jsrn 18y ago
for the Major Method, there is an application helping with the encoding step: http://www.phoneticmnemonic.com/ (it works quite good, but only on short numbers up to 3 digits, so you have to split longer numbers 'manually', which isn't so
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by jsrn 18y ago
'I have special [...] Emacs keyboard shortcuts that make bookwriting a little bit like playing an organ.'
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by jsrn 18y ago
Just for nostalgia, here is the reddit comment thread: http://reddit.com/info/p8nv/comments/
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by jsrn 18y ago
> [...] most of the people who apply don't have kids. how do you know if you don't ask?
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by jsrn 18y ago
most people seem to use cd and ls very frequently. Very often they are used one after another. This reminds me of a trick I heard in a talk by Damian Conway: alias cdd='cd $l; ls' I can't find the original slides, here is a writeup
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by jsrn 18y ago
wow, that was quick:-)
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by jsrn 18y ago
thanks, I didn't know that! Perhaps they should say so on the page...
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by jsrn 18y ago
> [...] can't use google anymore. I think pg should just make a search link on top of the site pointing to http://www.searchyc.com/ or http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/
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by jsrn 18y ago
and http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/
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by jsrn 18y ago
> I am looking for suggestions for good books for C, C++, STL and Symbian. Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo is a very good book on C++, IMO. It's concise, it doesn't teach you everything but the 80% you will need most
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Nature's beautiful forms(draves.org)
16 points by jsrn 18y ago|4 comments
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by jsrn 19y ago
Good idea. I would suggest "> " instead of "|" (Markdown-like).
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by jsrn 19y ago
" Q. Why can I only upload 1 song per day? A. Our goal is quality over quantity. We found that limiting uploads to one song per day makes people really think about the music they are uploading and only post the best songs that they can thin
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by jsrn 19y ago
Constraints can be good. The article reminded me of the tales of 'oldschool' hackers saying that lacking resources of early computers forced them to write good and compact code. The scarcity of a resource obviously leads to this resource be
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A tunnel linking Alaska and Russia(bloomberg.com)
4 points by jsrn 19y ago|0 comments
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by jsrn 19y ago
"Given the choice, do you really think we would rebuild the whole world's infrastructure?" No - because we already have built the infrastructure in such a way that most important places can be reached with wheels rather than legs. And if
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by jsrn 19y ago
Pretty impressive! However, regarding the practical prospects of humanoid / antropomorphic robots I remain pretty sceptical. Why? Because wheels (or sometimes threads) are so much simpler and cheaper! It seems to me like a classic case of "