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by niggler 14y ago
Usually you can instruct your (color) printer to print in black and white, and it will print in various shades of grey. You can also do this in acrobat (print to Adobe PDF using black and white)
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by niggler 14y ago
"60 minutes for homework, 9 hours in TeX." ... 20 hours using microsoft word and the equation editor. I'm surprised your classes didn't let you submit handwritten assignments.
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by niggler 14y ago
"I actually have no interest at all in getting a .net stack running on my mac." How does nodejs performance on windows compare to to OSX or linux?
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by niggler 14y ago
Intros: https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS "run LaTeX in the browser directly": Right now it appears to send data back to their servers to compile every time. What would be cool, especially for offline work, is a pure-JS imple
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by niggler 14y ago
pdf.js: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js NOTE: If you do decide to build your own thing, I think it would be cool if you could run LaTeX in the browser directly (I guess you could do this by building pdflatex with emscripten)
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by niggler 14y ago
They are using the ace editor: http://ace.ajax.org/ There's some bootstrap and other jazz, and obviously a server-side component to perform the LaTeX rendering
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by niggler 14y ago
meryn this is an opportunity for you to properly design a benchmark and write your own blog post. EDIT: I meant to imply that most people who write benchmarks usually aren't experts in every language/framework in the comparison, so it would
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by niggler 14y ago
From the about page, they are separate people: https://spandex.io/about http://www.latextemplates.com/about
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Try Erlang: a Hands-on Tutorial(tryerlang.org)
3 points by niggler 14y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
"an acquisition from a large company would provide some third party validation, that I am sure many others creating something from nothing, crave." Those people who crave third-party validation are usually in startups because they hope to s
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by niggler 14y ago
"Who wouldn't want their start up acquired?" A person who is building a sustainable business that doesn't want to see it mothballed or sullied by others. "I mean what's the point starting your own company?" This is a common but fallacious a
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by niggler 14y ago
"You could have the best product, design, etc. but if you don't catch a few breaks you will be nothing." Many people have learned this lesson the hard way. "I am jealous of the 17 year old kid" Why? Do you really define your personal succe
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Confessions of a Bitcoin Scammer(youtube.com)
5 points by niggler 14y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
The unlimited FDIC protection ended December 31 2012. It's back to the 250K
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by niggler 14y ago
This fellow is using Laiki bank, and the Cyprus Finance Minister said that they would be seeing an 80% haircut. Relevant: https://twitter.com/finansakrobat/status/316813023639646208
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by niggler 14y ago
1B accounts != 1B sensate human beings. thats my point, and many people seem to conflate the two
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by niggler 14y ago
pedantic correction: One billion Facebook accounts are accessed every month. No third party established that each account corresponds to a unique person.
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by niggler 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if more than half of americans ages 18-24 have a facebook account but the original quote was: "Stop living in a vacuum ... the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook." No qualifications made for internet
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by niggler 14y ago
I like (the seemingly lost practice of) calling and meeting friends face-to-face
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by niggler 14y ago
"don't count on that happening any time soon :)" If Facebook offered 20B for Twitter, would Dorsey et al sell?
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by niggler 14y ago
"One billion people have a Facebook account." " the average person on Earth does, in fact, use Facebook." The population of the earth exceeds 7B ( http://www.census.gov/population/popclockworld.html ) so in fact the average person on Earth
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by niggler 14y ago
"I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook." That's the thing I've never understood. On the one hand, on the nightly news Facebook is discussed as if everyone has an account (and that privacy changes actually matter to most
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by niggler 14y ago
"It is entirely sexist to see an attractive woman and assume that she isn't intelligent." Case in point: Hedy Lamarr, who is probably more well known for her beauty than for her contributions to science ( http://www.google.com/patents?vid=U
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by niggler 14y ago
"Java or C will be much faster at any computational work" That is far from clear. I've been using nodejs for some computational work using https://github.com/substack/gamma.js and https://github.com/niggler/bessel and found that the JS
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by niggler 14y ago
"a throng of Java graduates who think they're changing the world by continually dumping crap specs over the wall and paying for subsidized articles to promote them." Based on the media hype surrounding asm.js, it really sounds like mozilla
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by niggler 14y ago
"a lack of platform independence" Platform independence is not an obvious goal for game developers. If it were, you would see the same game show up in every platform, but that's not what we see. Heck, only recently did we really see games
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by niggler 14y ago
"it short-cuts the long, slow path of VM optimization and gives great performance now instead of five years down the road." Something tells me that, based purely on usage metrics, chrome matters more than firefox: http://stats.wikimedia.or
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by niggler 14y ago
"VM-atop-asm.js-atop-the-JavaScript-engine would be the thing doing the GC" "much of the speedup also comes from the lack of dynamicity, too." In the language, JS gives you no control over its underlying GC. Every single assumption that as
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by niggler 14y ago
You can't because both are garbage collected, which asm.js is unable to access (unless you wrote your own garbage collector) At the end of the day, asm.js uses some code patterns (like taking bit-or with 0, where the spec mandates that it o
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by niggler 14y ago
" If you want to view/edit it as a more traditional-looking byte-code, you can easily implement a YourBytecode<->asm.js compiler." There are quite a few hurdles, and some of them will be resolved with some stuff Mozilla has proposed

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