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by julian37 15y ago
The German company Schneider AG was working on a prototype for a laser TV in the 90s. I remember reading an article about it in c't magazine back in the day talking about an early demo where they projected an image onto a bedsheet flapping
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by julian37 15y ago
Reminiscent of the interesting life cycle of the lancet liver fluke, which also alters the behavior of ants: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicrocoelium_dendriticum#sect...
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You can set delete-active-region to t; hitting DEL will then delete the region without adding it to the kill ring (i.e. delete it as opposed to kill it.) Alternatively, you can bind delete-region to a keystroke of your choice. Regarding yo
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It should be pointed out that Emacs maintainers aren't in some kind of stubborn elitist get-off-my-lawn mindset. Making Emacs more welcoming to newbies has been discussed time and again on the Emacs mailing lists. But the general consensus
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Compiler optimizations by themselves do not cause bugs - they reveal bugs. This is incorrect. Optimizations do often reveal bugs rather than causing them, but turning on optimizations can also cause bugs in itself. See for example: http
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An alternate (and, arguably, more elegant) approach to "Parsing with Regex" and "Tuples to Dictionaries" is to use named regex groups and the MatchObject's "groupdict" method like so: logpats = r'(?P<host>\S+) (?P<referrer&#
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Getxbook, a collection of tools to download books from websites(njw.me.uk)
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Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming(arcsynthesis.org)
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Chrome Experiments - "My Robot Nation"(chromeexperiments.com)
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For a somewhat more whimsical take, see http://store.artlebedev.com/toys/card-games/36-54/space-inva... Loving these, although the Russian symbol for queens ("A" instead of "Q") took some getting used to.
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Can you pay instantly with it, just like with a card?
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But even then, how long will it take for the funds to clear? Credit and debit cards work so well online because clearing happens almost instantaneously.
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Also, debit cards pay straight out of your regular bank account. With Dwolla, funds come out of your Dwolla account and it takes 2-4 days or longer to move funds into that account. It's an interesting concept but with delays like that I d
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Also noteworthy in this context, a site owner who issues a counter-notice automatically consents to being sued in U.S. courts (a strong disincentive for sites based abroad) ( http://torrentfreak.com/the-privatization-of-copyright-lawma...
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Other articles, like this one, make it sound much more like an art project than a serious attempt to redesign the bike wheel: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/wow-bi...
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Sony “four screen” revolution to preempt Apple Siri TV(slashgear.com)
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This looks really useful, thanks! One suggestion: if you put "color" in the search box, you currently get "border-bottom-color", "column-rule-color", "border-top-color", and "color", in that order. It would make more sense to put "color",
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I love Berlin, but please let's cut the hyperbole: Beautiful nature, lakes, canals, and parks It's a pretty city, in some parts, but "Europe's greenest city" is just bullshit. And maybe technically there are more canals than in Venice and
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That sounds quite optimistic. How do you "define exactly [...] where, and when" you can have privacy when you don't know where and when a camera or microphone might be aimed at you? Anthony Bourdain's photo, referenced in the article, was p
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The article he responds to is discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202828
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I find it hard not to get the impression that with this post you're subtly insinuating Wikileaks is a highly paid one-man show, that there's cronyism on some level and that Assange's personal legal fees are being paid out of Wikileaks' fund
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Are you insinuating these numbers are implausible? (Honest question, I can't quite tell whether you're questioning the validity of the numbers or whether you are trying to demonstrate their plausibility.) I have no idea how accurate/truthfu
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The question is wrong. Any email provider will read your email, at least for spam detection. He's clearly talking about humans reading your mail. No email provider has humans reading your mail for purposes of spam detection, at least n
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Regarding your question, "how do I find good color schemes?", here are two web sites I found useful in the past: http://colorschemedesigner.com/ http://www.colourlovers.com/ Poking around Color Scheme Designer should also answer your qu
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I'm mostly with sliverstorm (and upvoted him). People often wonder why I'm working on a 13" Macbook and ask if the display isn't too small. That's when I point to my head and tell them that's where the action takes place, not on the keybo
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Don't you think Basic was the most popular language at the time because it came for free with many home computers? C and other compilers were hideously expensive at the time, no wonder these languages weren't particularly popular. And ha
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What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?(stackoverflow.com)
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Some European countries impose traffic fines relative to the offender's income. http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-11/news/17823924_1_mph-li...
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Robot Cyclist(micromouseonline.com)
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Thanks for chiming in, but now I'm confused. Antirez said: When there are this two levels, storing the first level as a Redis hash, and the second as JSON leads to very good memory usage performances, it is internally stored as a linea

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