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by mirkules 16y ago
Not sure why the gp got down voted, I think his point is valid, albeit wrong. Student bookstores sell computers, hardware and software at a student discount - my uni sold macbooks at a $100 discount from retail price. This stuff is sold (or
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by mirkules 16y ago
The cool thing about Stanford is that they have a lot of lectures online. I find them a great source on either refreshing on material or learning new stuff altogether. Their iOS series is really good (and current)! http://see.stanford.edu
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by mirkules 16y ago
Cool. There's also a book called "Swarm Intelligence" by Kennedy/Eberhart that describes swarm behaviors very well (my favorite book). For anyone interested, here is the Craig Reynolds page that describes the flocking behavior http://www.r
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by mirkules 16y ago
I will argue that for mid to large applications, scripting languages are just the entry point to your entire application, as the author says, the glue. I would run a "real" application server underneath for the middle tier (i.e. to handle t
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by mirkules 16y ago
Heh, I have a morkie (maltese + yorkie). He goes nuts for toys, so one day I got one of those zip-toys, where you pull a cord and it vibrates. He was beside himself -- but then I made him just watch me pull the cord a few times, and when he
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by mirkules 16y ago
I've heard that too: in the event of an accident, it's better to relax all muscles than to tense them up (particularly, I've heard this about whiplash). Why is that?
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Me: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Clever: How much wood could chuck norris chuck? Nicely played, Cleverbot... nicely played.
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by mirkules 16y ago
There are also a number of apps for both android and iphone that will give you sha/md5 sums. The downside is you have to carry your phone and have enough batteries.
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by mirkules 16y ago
Sure, but as counter-examples, take Eclipse, Visual Studio, Netbeans, Notepad++, Textpad, XMLSpy... From your example, it's apparent that Mac-only editors use cmd-[. This is a great idea as it promotes cross-platform compatibility and makes
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by mirkules 16y ago
You may be right that I don't get Objective-C. I understand that you're not actually calling methods on objects, but instead passing messages to it. What I don't get is why the IDE and the compiler accept invalid method (message) signatures
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by mirkules 16y ago
The feeling you get with XCode is that it slows you down. I'm a java developer by day, iPhone dev by night. Eclipse/Java are _light years_ ahead of XCode/Objective-C. My gripes with XCode include everything from the build process, the awkwa
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by mirkules 16y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed both following and participating in the Netflix challenge (even though I never really got anywhere in the competition). If this blog is in that same "advancing technology" spirit, I think it will be a success. Nitpick:
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by mirkules 16y ago
I just get a blank, white page. I would expect a 21st century design to perhaps have a fallback in case JS is turned off, or even a simple "please turn on Javascript" message. Edit: Since I'm getting downvoted, I'll say this: I've always ma
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by mirkules 16y ago
"The collaboration reports success in producing antihydrogen in a so-called Cusp trap, an essential precursor to making a beam." The article doesn't really say, but why are beams needed? Is it because these (anti-)particles are always movin
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by mirkules 16y ago
The iPhone doesn't have removable and expandable storage. Nonetheless, I consider that to be an essential smartphone feature. A related note: What is Microsoft thinking coupling the performance of a phone to performance of an SD card?! Arch
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As any security expert knows, a chaotic checkpoint is a security problem. "If terrorists can anticipate that, it gives them an opportunity" to try to evade various layers of security by creating an incident for diversion, Mr. Pistole said.
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by mirkules 16y ago
I really like this! It will come in handy when I travel in a few days
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How to Build a Robot Arm(societyofrobots.com)
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by mirkules 16y ago
This reminds me of the tree swing: http://blog.thingsdesigner.com/uploads/id/tree_swing_develop...
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by mirkules 16y ago
"Whatever. Fucking Apple. We started encoding and uploading immediately." What really struck me about this post is that he went back to Apple after being disrespected so hard. The lesson is there are times when you have to swallow a big lu
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by mirkules 16y ago
99% of the time when I suspect there is a bug in an underlying library, it turns out the problem is me not really understanding how that library works.
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by mirkules 16y ago
Prozvonit's equivalent in English is a "bat-call." A bat-call can also be used to notify the other person of something (not necessarily to prompt a call back). As in, "When I get to your house, come outside when I give you a bat-call"
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by mirkules 16y ago
I am a casual game developer, and I second mshafrir's statement. The only verbage that gives any hint what is this service offers is the somewhat vague: "Before you know it you'll have the best leaderboards, achievements and social hooks av
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by mirkules 16y ago
Does that mean physicists do it in practice?
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I think simulated annealing would fall short if the levels have a lot of dead ends. A good reason to use GA is precisely to avoid the problem of getting stuck in local minima/maxima. (Direct link to mario ai website: http://www.marioai.org
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by mirkules 16y ago
"SEC tends to investigate people who have made large amounts of money through potentially illegal means" I suspect it is illegal to accept illegally-obtained money. Therefore, if Mark was found guilty, the staff cannot be paid. Which also g
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I never used Ubuntu's store, so my natural question is: do applications have to get approved in Ubuntu's store? If the answer is"no," it may be the biggest difference with the most impact on end-users and developers.
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by mirkules 16y ago
thank you for this - I have annoying beach ballyness on occasion, it's nice to know there is a way to diagnose the problem.
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Does anyone know if you have an app in the OS X app store, but you also want to distribute on your own, if this is allowed under the terms? Or, is it pretty much once you go into the app store there is no coming out of it? From Apple's busi
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by mirkules 16y ago
In addition to all the comments to your post, I wanted to highlight this sentence: "Most of the time they get no reply from these companies (fair enough)" I don't agree that it's "fair enough". Rejection letters used to be actual letters in

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