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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I believe the success of flickr.com (registered in 2003, launched in 2004) kicked off the current vogue for these names, though there are earlier examples too: http://www.branddialogue.com/diablogue/2006/06/names-that-hu... Misspelled wor
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Here's a previous HN discussion of this write-up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253538
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Life of an instruction in LLVM(blog.llvm.org)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
No, the issue is not just poor implementation. Problems like O(M*N) bloat and scope pollution are fundamental design flaws with the preprocessor header system. Almost every widespread modern language (all except JavaScript? [1]) has a buil
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How often do you check to see if you're getting better at coding?(stochasticgeometry.ie)
25 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|14 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Did you know that every major browser already supports storage and geolocation APIs? http://caniuse.com/#search=localstorage http://caniuse.com/#search=geo
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Content-Centric Networking (CCN) as an alternative to IP(apenwarr.ca)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The atmosphere on Mars is about 100x less dense than Earth's, so winds probably won't pack much of a punch. The "circuits" you see on the exterior of the rover are mostly just bundles of copper wires. Sensitive electronics and instruments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Why "for life"? Even if a permanent base is established, what would stop people from traveling there to work for a year or so and then returning home? I know health concerns related to radiation and gravity may impose some constraints, bu
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I was at the University of Washington science and engineering career fair last month, recruiting for Mozilla. Our booth was reasonably busy, but the SpaceX booth had a gigantic mob surrounding it at all times. People are seriously excit
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Interview with Robert Houdart, author of the world's strongest chess engine(chessbase.com)
74 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|11 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This functionality is part of Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and later. You can access it through the "Google" app, the search widget on the home screen, the lock screen, etc.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I know that some of haberman's libraries (like upb) include JIT compilers. In those cases you can't just rely on the compiler to take care of instruction set differences. (I'm on the mobile Firefox team, and we run into similar issues tar
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The "Metro" version of IE10 doesn't even support Silverlight... I had to switch to the desktop UI on my Windows 8 device.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
There are bakeries that can decorate cake using inkjet or screen-printing machines (with edible dyes, of course) but the logo on this cake was hand-painted.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes -- that's me on the left and Eitan on the right in the Firefox hoodies. (I updated the post to mention this in a caption.)
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Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake(limpet.net)
246 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|51 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
x86 Windows 8 tablets from several manufacturers have been available for pre-order (e.g. on Amazon) for a couple of weeks now, for shipment tomorrow. (Of course, that doesn't help if you want to go into a store to play with different devic
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
You don't need to wait a few months to get "real" x86 Windows 8 tablets. Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba are all releasing x86 Windows 8 tablets and/or convertibles this week. So you'll need to wait if you specific
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How Peter Molyneux Inspired a Twitter Doppelgänger — and Resurrected His Career(wired.com)
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Nonsense paper provisionally accepted by mathematics journal(lrb.co.uk)
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Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law(chronicle.com)
104 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|88 comments
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Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope(ribbonfarm.com)
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Noble Matching Algorithms(marginalrevolution.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
SmoothLife has been generalized to 3D too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RsEyu8Ol-Q&NR=1
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I sometimes use it as a quick way to inspect parent elements when they are completely covered up by their children.
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The person you used to be still tells you what to do(raptitude.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Firefox also has a way to expose invalidation rectangles: http://www.junglecode.net/?p=110
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The Lenovo ThinkPad x230 is available with a good quality IPS display (though still widescreen and low-resolution). I own an x220 with the same IPS display, and I'm very happy with it.
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The prehistory of the Massive Open Online Course(roughtype.com)
3 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments

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