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by manvsmachine 16y ago
The line that stood out to me most: The amount of difference between a good programmer and a great programmer is going to get wider, in terms of the amount of value that you can create.
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Intel Demos Ray-Traced Wolfenstein in Real-Time with Knights Ferry (blogs.intel.com)
3 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|0 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
In the case of the Fermi-class cards, you're paying for more memory (3 or 6GB vs 1 or 2), stability, tweaked drivers, and (possibly most importantly) error correction. It's really the same argument as for workstation graphics cards - consum
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Video games. Seriously. Here's why: 1) Hardware knowledge. I didn't start programming until I started college, but I quickly realized that, growing up as a pretty avid gamer, I still had one advantage that a lot of the CS majors didn't ha
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Phoronix did seem to have some compelling evidence that Valve was at least toying with the idea. My guess is that Valve's statement doesn't mean that they aren't interested in the potential of Steam on Linux, but that they aren't actively
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
That actually makes a lot of sense. At the end of the day, RIM and MS have always shared the same target demographic for the most part - they are the de facto handset / OS of the enterprise. The iPhone has slowly been working its way into t
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
For some reason, that doesn't really surprise me. I mean, GMail was basically a whim, and I kinda got that same feeling when Wave came out. The Android acquisition could just be considered like a 20% project, but scaled to the CEO level.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I didn't get the idea that he was saying that 1200kcal was an everyday thing; if it was, then I totally agree. I can picture having 1200kcal days here and there when he's not really active though, like his aforementioned 12-15 hour hacking
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Nice writeup Paul. One thing I'd point out is that your dietary needs will evolve as your body and metabolism does. Once your body adapts to its new state and you start gaining muscle mass, you'll actually start needing more calories and
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MeeGo becomes Infotainment OS for BMW, GM, Hyundai and more(engadget.com)
1 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|0 comments
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NASA-funded game aims to make science more appealing (arstechnica.com)
1 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|0 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I think it would work - essentially, this is the entire premise of the simulation market; the only difference is a lesser emphasis placed on motor skills due to it being an RPG. Mastering Gran Turismo / Forza requires players to learn quite
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YouTube Future-proofing: 4K Support(engadget.com)
2 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|1 comments
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
In the spirit of a recently created post, how long did it take you to build this, from conception to release?
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Here's a really good blog post series using that book and the related MIT lectures: http://catonmat.net/category/introduction-to-algorithms
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
As bdfh42 noted, the unemployment rate is currently higher for men than for women (in both the UK and the US). While that fact merely correlates with the CS grad employment rate, the two trends may share a cause: per-employee cost. A common
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
The case that your newegg link refers to seems to be exactly what the OP is trying to avoid: cheap, flimsy cases that won't survive being shipped. The fact is, there are a number of well built cases, but they tend to hover in the $200 to $3
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
What kind of case were you using? That the case you described fell apart has nothing to do with the fact that it was DIY and everything to do with the fact that it was likely a cheap POS (from the way you described it). Spend some money and
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
What do you know others will pay for, that does not exist? This is especially important. Don't just try to solve an arbitrary 'problem', think about people that you're around often, what they do, what they complain about. These will be y
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
I really hope that they're successful. I feel like GPGPU is too immature of a field for it to already get locked down two one or two implementations. That said, they've got a long road ahead of them. GPU development iterates much more qui
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
We didn't go from zero to the moon's surface in 60 days. My point was that this isn't a numbers game; more engineers doesn't mean things will get done faster. Really, two months is not a long time at all considering what they are trying to
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
The depth at which this leak is happening elevates it to an entirely new problem compared to any previous spill. noonespecial was right when he said it may as well be in outer space; in fact, one of the lead engineers working on the problem
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Sigh... Reporting like this is why traditional media is dying a not-so-slow death. It's big on policy because it's a policy panel. The engineering panel was formed separately and includes several high-profile scientists / engineers, includi
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Adobe kills 64-bit Flash for next release(arstechnica.com)
2 points by manvsmachine 16y ago|0 comments
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Baseball, Dating, and Startups(blog.weatherby.net)
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Not asking this to be sarcastic: what cheaper country? I can't immediately come up with any industrialized nations capable of supporting large-scale electronics manufacturing that would have lower wages than China.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too... apparently, Dell's not counting on their Windows customers being able to find OpenOffice or GIMP on their own. If I were them, I would have also mentioned "easy, automatic updates of your installed programs".
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
"...as little contact with non-technical people, with one exception..." Meaning: when it comes to love, don't shy away from people just because they're non-technical.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
When I saw the headline, I honestly thought that the article was going to be about Jobs, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg all being at D8.
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by manvsmachine 16y ago
Yes, it is. It seems logical that 3x the funding isn't going to produce 3x the outcome, especially at this stage.

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