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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I can't speak for other secession movements, but I lived in Catalonia for two years and some of the loudest arguments for independence there were economic. The province has the highest standard of living in Spain. There was definitely
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Definitely second your point about the styling. This is the first smart watch I've seen that I could see myself wearing (although it still looks a bit thick for something I'd be wearing on my wrist -- but that's a hard proble
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I'm no control theory expert, but I have a hard time imagining how you could control a quadcopter in 3+ degrees of freedom with only a single input (the speed of your single remaining motor) no matter how fancy your algorithms get. How
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What I Learned at Willow Garage(savioke.com)
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
An interesting article, but I take issue with the the opinion that "3D printing and robotics promises to change some of this, as companies can utilize industrial scale 3D printers and automation to manufacture parts for their products,
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I haven't played Flappy Bird, but it seems really similar to a helicopter game that was inordinately popular in my middle school 10-12 years ago. It looks like it's still up. http://www.addictinggames.com/action-ga
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
As someone woefully uninformed about these things, why can't GC be implemented as a separate thread, maybe with a lower priority than the primary interpreter? Would a separate thread not be able to count references to objects or somet
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
When I lived in Barcelona there were some low-traffic platforms shorter than the trains that went through them. I think the cars at the end of the train had big warning signs that they wouldn't open at station [X].
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Despite its imperfections, the US Constitution's very measured and explicit introduction of independent branches of government with checks and balances between them strikes me as one of the greatest political innovations of all time.
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Sure, but there are still workflows that are just plain bad[1], and articles like this one are an effective way of giving users better alternatives. [1] Last summer I interned for a company that had recently switched to git. The workflow w
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Sorry, that was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that companies like Facebook and Google that get most of their revenue from advertising tend to sell some data about their users as part of their advertising platforms. Of course, the
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
"In the modern world, virtually all of our communication involves other companies, and so if those companies can voluntarily act as effectively agents of the government in providing the government data, then the Fourth Amendment is pra
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I think they chose "post-process" based on the following feature: Taking plain CSS as an input also means you can use Myth to post-process anyone else's CSS, adding the browser support you need, without having to re-write
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Show HN: Pypeline DB, a database for data sets(corbt.com)
2 points by kcorbitt 13y ago|0 comments
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
One of the reasons email clients often don't load images by default is because when an image is loaded the server it's pulled from can track that it was loaded, and thus infer that the email has been opened. By loading images auto
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Mapping Countries in the Twitterverse(corbt.com)
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I agree that currently this is the case. But why should it be any harder to flip between bookmarks in an ebook than switch tabs in a browser?
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Data too large to fit in memory; anything that you're going to want to query relationally (as opposed to just key/value) in the future.
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
The byline must have been changed sometime in the last 20 minutes. It was a woman before.
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I know an engineer at Boeing who leans on it heavily for his research. I'm not sure exactly what his department/responsibilities are, but there's one data point anyway.
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Implementing a passable undo with a database-backed system gets a lot easier if you have an append-only record of every transaction. Rails has a great gem that adds this feature with a minimum of fuss ( https://github.com/air
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Interesting. I always assumed that as part of the Schengen Agreement there was some kind of minimum requirement for naturalizing foreigners. Given that apparently there isn't, I'm actually quite surprised that some small country
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I think the medium-term effect of this trend will likely be advertisers buying more space with services like Facebook, where you get a better guarantee that you impression was an actual person with a real profile.
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The Dark Art of Bots: How to Make $2 Million Online Without a Human Audience(theatlantic.com)
3 points by kcorbitt 13y ago|1 comments
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This is a great cause. Just one concern: I understand the desire to quantify the difference you're making in the world, but seeing the counter that (currently) says "66 redirects have been made with this extension!" actually
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I've seen a fair number of articles over the last couple of years comparing the strengths and weaknesses relational/document-store/graph databases. What I've never seen adequately addressed is why that tradeoff even has
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Another nice attribute the naive implementation has is path independence. If I grab part of the globe and release it somewhere else I expect those two coordinates to determine the transform. With the non-naive implementation I can get com
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
While I sympathize with your situation my understanding of trademark law is that it's a sort of "use it or lose it" proposition. If they can't demonstrate that they're making an effort to police their trademark the
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Well, presumably if carriers provide reduced- or no-cost access to Wikipedia that's a direct violation of net neutrality, aka charging the same amount of money for data moving through the pipes no matter what it is or who it comes from
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I wish that I could use more criteria for filtering. It's great that they make it so easy to post jobs, but as others in the thread have mentioned, that results in a lot of jobs that aren't really exciting.

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