jurjenh

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by jurjenh 15y ago
I don't disagree with that, as a language that is actively maintained should (hopefully) get better over time. The key thing is to develop new techniques for solving problems - think iterative versus recursive, or functional programming ver
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Maybe in much the same way as CoffeeScript differs from JS. It doesn't need to be that much different to be better. Of course this depends on how you define "better" and "different."
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Go seems to be doing alright. And that came from Google. And you can't get better languages without developing more...
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by jurjenh 15y ago
I think that realistically if you are looking for something like that, you already have your sights set firmly higher than a $25 device... for starters you'd need a decent screen and you'd probably like a nice set of speakers as well. I don
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Is there a transcript of it anywhere? Never mind, just found it: http://www.alacrastore.com/research/thomson-streetevents-Yah... It's at the end, I believe he was the last speaker...
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by jurjenh 15y ago
That is a bail-out salary from the tax payer! I'd say that's a pretty hefty robbery, I believe it is well above the average per-capita income, so for most people this is more than a year's wages handed to them by the government.
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Looks like they are working on a game as part of the development process: https://github.com/mozilla/rescuefox/ But I haven't looked further than that, so I don't know if its anywhere near functional, but the readme does say We expect
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Damn... and here I am trying to refactor it... I even got as far as: F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n+2) -> F(n) + F(n-3) = F(n-2) --> F(n) = F(n-2) - F(n-3) so with F(0) = 0 and F(1) = 1 it gives F(3) = 1, but then you kinda ne
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by jurjenh 15y ago
So there may be some spectacular aurora on the way, and apparently we're on track again for the next solar maximum. Seems to be relatively inconsistent where we are, one moment we're heading for a mini ice age, the next moment we're on trac
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by jurjenh 15y ago
I think it is more targeted along the lines of what Amazon does. They create new products, but do it in a way that they don't bet the house, so its great if they work, but controlled if they fail. You don't need to have epiphanies to be rem
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Before people start forgetting real-world context here: In the physical world, people can and do take photos with you in it. They then get these developed, and may put them in an album with the people identified. You would have absolutely n
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by jurjenh 15y ago
I had no idea that printing something like "\x1b[2J\x1b[H" can clear the screen - with a bit of googling I found out that this is not that unusual a command, but it still took a little reading to figure it out! [1] Looks like the rest of th
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Based on the last shot, could potentially be useful for diagnosing potential failures due to metal fatigue - the kind of vibrations that you may be able to hear, but can't see. Not sure if that's the intent, but that's what jumped out at me
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by jurjenh 15y ago
I have this exact problem even without the travel... A couple of days at home without continuous jobs / tasks needing to get done. Great, I can finally get onto doing some work for project X! Except it never happens. Seems my motivation / d
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by jurjenh 15y ago
That could become a loaded policy, one which encourages universities to crank out graduates with those degrees, not necessarily with the expected understanding. [1] I'm not saying its a bad idea, but it draws a somewhat arbitrary line in th
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by jurjenh 15y ago
This kinda looks like an apprentice-ship training system! The master adviser trains up a few keen trainees, these then in turn become masters who train more apprentices etc... Maybe it IS a pyramid scheme all along! I did have my suspicions
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by jurjenh 15y ago
I would imagine there would be a limited market for this, by necessity it would be a high-end / high-cost / high-value market, much like exclusive furniture for the rather well-off. Any idea whether there are actual Excalibur smelters aroun
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Mind you, back in its infancy you could very much have said the same thing about Google (search? how can you even begin to make money off that?) - and Facebook has been acquiring rather a lot of talented engineers. Assuming that the core pr
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by jurjenh 15y ago
The electrical disturbances don't need to be introduced into the electronics directly though - if the flare induced enough disturbance into the national grid, then all sorts of strange induced currents could appear on your mains voltage, an
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by jurjenh 15y ago
And you would have to write, unless there is significantly more tolerance in our digital network! With large solar flares there have been reports of telegraph wires having such large currents induced that the telegraph paper caught on fire
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by jurjenh 15y ago
funny you mention that - I just came across a chrome bitcoin extension about an hour ago: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhbhfoohbnjkdcndbh... - but the publisher name (bitquux) does not fill me with confidence... use at your o
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by jurjenh 15y ago
That sounds a lot like etherpad... but I'm not too sure how the offline editing would work. On second thought, maybe dropbox and a text editor would work better...
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by jurjenh 15y ago
But that's what I mean with the fleshing out of the concept... It would mean closely working with the client to define their idea and develop detailed specs, then passing these on once the client is pretty happy with the specs/wireframes or
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by jurjenh 15y ago
Seems like an opportunity for someone else to step in and sell "I will help you make your prototype for ($5000+$Fee)" where the $Fee covers the initial fleshing out of the design. Of course, this in itself is quite a black art, so I'm not q
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by jurjenh 15y ago
I read your statement to assume that entering data into Watson is going to take longer than "entering" that same data into your GP. How did data entry for Jeopardy work? This would mean that the main issue in adoption of Dr Watson (Hmmm, ha
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I tried to make a self-referencing page, but you need to be able to generate the hash of the page url that includes its own hash... Not having the time to do so, I leave the challenge here: http://bit.ly/ialoWI
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by jurjenh 16y ago
This is quite clearly covered in the actual document! > For longer documents, Hashify splits the contents into as many as 15 chunks. The chunks are then Base64-encoded and sent to bit.ly in a single request. The bit.ly hashes contained
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by jurjenh 16y ago
How about showing a short list of the key guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) below the comment box whenever someone wants to make a comment? A quick visual reminder that is "below the fold" - ie below the reply button
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by jurjenh 16y ago
yes, quite right... maybe I should go and lie down somewhere... But hey, at 75% efficiency at a half year's work at that rate I could probably afford it...
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by jurjenh 16y ago
I'm excited and impressed by it mainly because I did think of it and started implementing it, thinking to develop it as a desktop interface, or possibly a cad program interface. Lots of linear algebra involved... However, I stopped mainly b

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