manvsmachine

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by manvsmachine 16y ago
There are a lot of good laptops in that price range these days. The deciding factor is probably going to be non-technical : OS preference, style / design, customer service. That said, here are the ones I've been looking at: MBP 13": Yeah, i
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Heh, I'm 26 and I've started calling myself old.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I like the idea of hiding scores, with one caveat: Ask HN. Those posts often end up taking on a StackExchange-like manner in which upvoting for agreement makes sense and you really do want to know which responses got the most votes.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
During the discussion that sparked the creation of this poll, I too suggested weighting upvotes by the karma of the upvoter. Thinking about it further, I still like the idea, but it would have to be done properly or it could be easily gamed
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
As someone who also uses GV as a "real" number, I love the option to flush your number and get a new one. It's like the voice equivalent of "cleaning house" on social networking sites.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Tab...
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Very true. It is for the same reason that the article shows GPU progress outpacing CPU's in regards to FLOPS. The limited scope of a GPU's functionality allows most of the processor's silicon to be arithmetic units. CPU's, on the other hand
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Palantir Technologies' Assesment of "The Wikileaks Threat"(wikileaks.ch)
1 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|0 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Not anymore, I'd assume. It's running 2 year old hardware by now and Fermi-based GPU's pretty much trounce the GT200 family when it comes to double precision. That said, another good example of how GPU computing can provide a lot of horsepo
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Just a thought: maybe that's a feature, not a bug. Seems like a quick and dirty way to put up a site that people couldn't get to unless they're already know what they're looking for (which would imply that you want them to find it). Probabl
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Here's what I used while doing an undergrad independent study a couple years ago (except for the books; at the time, books on the subject didn't exist yet): Online Tutorials : Dr. Dobbs - CUDA, Supercomputing For the Masses: http://www.d
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
If you're still talking about about NVIDIA cards, then no; their OpenCL implementation is based upon the CUDA architecture (technically, CUDA is the device architecture that supports GPGPU programming, not the language itself). That said, v
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Sourceforge Detects Intrusion Attack, Resets Passwords(darrenwoodley.com)
2 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|2 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
courtesy of tptacek's HN profile: http://amzn.to/cthr46
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Ubuntu devs discuss the change from GNOME Shell to Unity(downloadsquad.switched.com)
24 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|14 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Really good book. GA Tech used this as their "Intro to CS" text until they decided that learning scheme was too much for business and inta majors (everyone in the school had to take the class). I'd recommend this as a potential alternative
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
From my (admittedly limited) experience, yes, you will want to eventually get a Mac of our own for development. I'm not sure if there is a way to create .dmg packages otherwise, but you will definitely want to be able to take advantage of t
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
And, apparently, Linux users are not. I find that interesting, considering that one of the most prevalent arguments for not offering software for Linux is that its users refuse to pay for anything.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
This has been done to death, do a site search and you'll find tons of suggestions. That said, http://khanacademy.org
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment, but the Nexus One doesn't really fall into the latter category considering that they just released the Nexus S. They never abandoned the Nexus line itself, just their online-only distribution method.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Because if you don't, you'll be dead within the next day: http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.ht... Your point still stands though.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
A commonly reiterated finding is that, while having more money can indeed contribute towards a happier life, it only does so to a point. According the the article, Zuckerberg's speculatively worth roughly $6B; if this proves accurate and he
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
As someone who always had that problem, I think it's because I always mentally picture a command as saying "do <action> from <arg0> to <arg1>", ie, "copy this file to that file". But this construct doesn't hold up fo
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
you may want to check this out: http://www.aaronboodman.com/2010/10/wherein-i-help-you-get-g... It seems that your first step is to to find good C++ resources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/155762/best-c-resource Hope this helps.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
At first, I was going to comment on the blatant linkbait approach of this article, but then I realized that there actually is a lesson, albeit a simple one, behind the gimmick - go out and find what you want. Don't wait for it to find you,
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I didn't even know about the challenge until today, but trying it just now made me realize that Chromium's built in dev tools are lacking some must-have functionality.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
The form was broken for me; it wouldn't accept a graduation year of 2010.
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Mozilla Taps SAP Exec As New Chief(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|0 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Apple doing it and Spotify doing it are two completely different things, traffic-wise. Assuming that Apple is basing their streaming solution off of Lala's model (not a given, but why else acquire them?), we're talking about giving every
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I saw the same . I understand his attitude somewhat - imo, too much of the economy is focused on marketing unnecessary products to people that barely want them. That said, making and moving things is a critical element societal of advanceme

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