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levesque
16y ago
Why does everyone wanna remake nautilus from scratch all of a sudden? This is the third project of this type I've bumped into in the last week. Maybe they should join efforts. Contextual file manager : http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/fi
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16y ago
These kind of projects would be military equipment (weapons, trucks, armors) efficiency, troops efficiency (either training techniques or planning algorithms/strategies) and other retarded stuff like that.
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16y ago
Not all knowledge obtained by working in a defense organism would be transferable. You get probably less useful real-world knowledge by working there rather than any other place.
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16y ago
Sounds like a google reader on steroids. I'd use it.
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16y ago
Starting a blog just to re-distribute content doesn't sound like a proper solution to me..
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16y ago
There is benefit for a small subset of applications, applications which can gain from having 3d input. Most of the stuff he does in that demonstration is not of this category. But interfaces like that can be very nice for architecture (or c
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16y ago
If you want 'creative' solutions to problems you might want to check out google code jam archives. During the qualifications this year someone wrote a solution in lolcode. Was quite interesting.
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16y ago
I agree that numpy python programming is nowhere near matlab for ease of use. I prefer using python for machine learning tho. I dislike the libraries written in matlab. Is numpy+python faster than matlab?
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16y ago
Here's one example that Xorg needs to be updated, if not redesigned. Many recent laptops bear two graphic cards (ex: Asus u30jc, ul30a), one which is an on-board, weak card that will do the light work and one discrete card which is there fo
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16y ago
If you use Visual Studio, you can setup a sound to play when the build is finished.
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16y ago
Your Nexus... one?
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16y ago
These games all have a demo version.
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16y ago
The thing is that by making the prices so low (as low as one feels comfortable paying for them), they increase their sales number by much thus helping counter the low price. Without this event there would be close to no sales since some of
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16y ago
Is that really so much of an issue? I'd rather keep using Facebook knowing that they index 5-10 pages I clicked 'like' on than just stop using it.
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16y ago
But typically I have more than 10 tabs opened. Nice to know though. I'm also pleased that it is available for Windows 7, might make my whole Windows 7 experience much more smooth. Is there anything similar for Ubuntu? With cairo dock perhap
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17y ago
One more thing for Obama to fix.
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17y ago
That made me want to play piano again. I sucked but it looks like using it I could get better a lot faster. An ipad version would definitely be a plus. Hope you got that planned ! :)
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17y ago
Moscow was #1 in 2006 & 2007. It's the drop of the ruble and the impact of the economic crisis that hit it so bad.
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17y ago
This article made me think of this : " You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. "
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17y ago
To sum it up here : Most important : "[...] it looks like the most notable change is the addition of "Tessellation Control Processor" and "Tessellation Evaluation Processor"." aand "Most of the improvements in GL 4.0 are incremental. Apart
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17y ago
Does your google history really affect the ads you see on one independant website ?
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17y ago
This article worded pretty nicely my doubts and fears. At first I wanted to do a PhD (computer engineering) but I would probably have to leave my city/country (Quebec/Canada, small city ~ 600K ppl) to find a job as a teacher/researcher. I'd
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17y ago
That's interesting. I do use google reader but not twitter. What does Twitter bring you that google reader cannot?
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17y ago
It cannot even access facebook?
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17y ago
Wave is still choppy for me.
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17y ago
Then it is safe to assume that gmail will have a feature to block buzz... problem solved?
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17y ago
They are indeed evil, but sometimes a necessary evil. Browsers apart (you shouldn't block a user from going to check info on the web), some parts of your applications are simply not meant to be modified/run at the same time.
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17y ago
And being followed on twitter will help you a big deal in growing.
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17y ago
I also feel that doing OO python is a pain. I have had fun scripting with it however.
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17y ago
Reading this now makes me think this might be a set up by apple.... yeaaah, maybe they just incited those guys over at Fusion Garage to screw the project.
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