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   by kenferry 13y ago

   They're just saying that building it is not a proof - the computer simulation is more exact than the model, and even the simulation is subject to rounding errors in what is considered "touching". Sounds like they used the com
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   So is this Silverlight but for WinRT apps instead of WPF apps?
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   What the salmon study did was make some points about statistics in a funny way, but the authors were not trying to discredit fMRI as a whole. If you look at most studies that came out before it did, they were already using statistical appro
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   > I specifically choose companies whose business I find appealing. You might try prioritizing the people you work with rather than the business.
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   Yay!
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   You know how in Keynote or Powerpoint, when you drag elements around they snap to certain guidelines? Like, if you drag a text box close to the center of the slide, it'll snap to being exactly centered. Or if you drag something close t
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   > I have no doubt that a future bottom up redo of a UI component framework (UIMS) will embrace constraints for both document and form layout. Welcome to the future! Cocoa's new(ish) layout system, Auto Layout, is constraint based. &
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   Well that was a tease. :-) Any examples?
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   by kenferry 13y ago

   Patch fixing the bug: https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/855127da290a2... Basically, the code said bool isOk() { result = someCheckReturningNegativeOnFailure() if (result &lt
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    GnuTLS certificate verification bug(gitorious.org)

    6 points by kenferry 13y ago|0 comments
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    I appreciate this article's clear explanation of the topics! I've yet to really get my head around monads et al., but I could follow this article through from beginning to end. Thanks!
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    I've been working through SICP, and as far as I can tell Dr. Racket is actually the best way to do that. You just need to use Neil Van Dyke's SICP package for Racket. http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    > foo :: (a, b) -> a > There's only one possible thing this function can do! Ah, so it scales a vector by a scalar returning a new vector, right?
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    Perhaps I should have said "threshold_height". threshold_height = bottom_of_pipe_height + 10 pixels; // or something if (current_height < threshold_height) flap else don't flap If yo
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    If you play the game, it's actually quite trivial to program deterministically. :-) Flapping is not implemented as an impulse. It's more like jumping in Mario - it instantaneously fires a canned "flap" movement that is a
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    Are you arguing that if you care about native app platforms you aren't interested in stuff like the Adobe CSS regions stuff? One of the biggest changes to Cocoa in iOS 7 was TextKit. https://developer.apple.com/Library&
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    I think you're thinking of entities like "Apple" where it is more useful to think of "the people working on WebKit at Apple". WebKit is what they do, all day, every day. They love the web, that's why they chose
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    They seem to be comparing to Peter Norvig's spell corrector. Compared to that, they have the exact same results. What they present is a faster way to find all dictionary words with edit distance <= 2 from a given word.
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    You're thinking of Jean-Louis Gassée. Bertrand is the former SVP of software at Apple, where the founder of Everpix worked.
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    I just updated it for Mavericks, for the heck of it. The code got simpler.
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    Ha. Hi Wil! Here's an updated link to the source code described there. Unfortunately it'd need some updating to compile - ObjC cut off access to the raw class structs in the runtime. http://kenferry.com/temp/W
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    The issue for me is derailment. Your complaint - which is unrelated to the content of this article - is now the top comment. I agree with you, but there are probably a lot of things we agree about, which are also not related to the content
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    "The PNaCl bitcode is a restricted subset of LLVM IR." https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/llvm-dev/lk6dZzwW0ls/J...
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    Valgrind is wonderful, but I'm more excited about the Address Sanitizer work going into clang. http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html It catches more stuff than valgrind, and only slows a program down to
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    Live right now: Wozniak, Hertzfeld, and Daniel Kottke on public access TV(johnwantsanswers.com)

    1 points by kenferry 13y ago|0 comments
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    The iOS app uses them. Nicholas Riley was the first I saw to notice and grab them - presumably he sniffed the wire? https://twitter.com/nriley/status/350144466453139457 https://twitter.com/nriley&#
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    Software for use with 3d printers. Modeling stuff for printing is really hard right now, definitely a big barrier.
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    WebKit: Fourth Tier LLVM JIT(trac.webkit.org)

    2 points by kenferry 13y ago|0 comments
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    by kenferry 13y ago

    I think that dichotomy is not quite right - you're saying that without the buses, the Google and Apple folk would still be in SF, they'd just be polluting more. The other possibility is that far more people would live close to wor
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    The Surprising Subtleties of Zeroing a Register(randomascii.wordpress.com)

    2 points by kenferry 13y ago|0 comments