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by octopus 16y ago
According to "people familiar with the matter" the new iPad will be better. They've used "people familiar with the matter" three times in less than 500 words, however "people familiar with the matter" can't tell if they are paid per number
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by octopus 16y ago
For the English version approximative 14GB archived, see this link for more information: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/
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by octopus 16y ago
I've had a similar experience with a HP machine. However, don't blame Windows for this, Windows 7 by himself is a pretty decent OS, as long as you do a clean install. The version that cames preloaded on new machines is usually full of crapp
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by octopus 16y ago
The usual whining about how Apple is a closed platform ... The Apple platform is no more closed than the Windows platform. Sure coding for iPhone and iPad is more restrictive than coding for a Mac, but nobody forces you to deploy your talen
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by octopus 16y ago
Has anyone successfully used Bigloo Scheme for SICP ? I've used Gambit Scheme in the past for the first 2 chapters from SICP, but now the website of Gambit Scheme seems to be unavailable: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/
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Bigloo Scheme(www-sop.inria.fr)
1 points by octopus 16y ago|1 comments
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by octopus 16y ago
Typically when you buy a new PC computer it cames preinstalled with a lot of unwanted software. Software that makes the machine run slow and totally kills the user experience. Personally I've seen this on two Windows 7 based laptops, one fr
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Remove the "extra load" from new installed machines(hothardware.com)
4 points by octopus 16y ago|2 comments
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by octopus 16y ago
I admire Stallman for his strong will, the guy will do anything to live at the height of his ideal. Even if you do not share his philosophy you still can learn a lot from the man.
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IPhone programming videos(docs.google.com)
2 points by octopus 16y ago|0 comments
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Porting to CUDA(users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr)
1 points by octopus 16y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 16y ago
I think we'll better wait for iPad 2, I'm sure it will be way useful than Xoom. The only interesting thing about Xoom, from a programming point of view, is that it lets you code in Java, if you are so inclined. Unfortunately I see no viable
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by octopus 16y ago
I use Gmail for all my mail and in general it works great. If you use Thunderbird or other mail client you can always have a copy of all your emails on your computer. A more interesting approach will be to use a USB drive for storing your e
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by octopus 16y ago
The question is who will pay for the iPads; the student, the school or worse the taxpayer ?
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by octopus 16y ago
Actually now you have VBA in Office 2011 for Mac, I don't see the reason to post a 4 year old link, especially when it is not applicable anymore, see for example: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/whats-new
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by octopus 16y ago
Do you use wordpress.com for webhosting ? I was thinking at buying my own domain and start with a free wordpress.com account. Once I will have a significative number of posts, I can move my blog to a more professional, paid, webhosting solu
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Which is better for starters Blogger or Wordpress?
2 points by octopus 16y ago|5 comments
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by octopus 16y ago
Genial, simple, effective and well paid. I'm a bit jealous I didn't have your "stupid" idea :).
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by octopus 16y ago
I suppose you want an answer ... a quick Wikipedia search and voila: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gausss_law you can find many more articles with a Google search.
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by octopus 16y ago
I would go with a MacBook Pro 13", if you want a Windows machine my experience was that HP has some nice products.
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by octopus 16y ago
I've never needed a supercomputer to see the Mandelbrot and Julia set! I've seen fractal programs even on DOS based systems, fractint was one of my preferred applications almost 15 years ago, the computer was an old 486 with 16MB of RAM.
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by octopus 16y ago
The author seems to be a fan of conspiracy theories. I don't think Apple will take such a drastic measure, after all with rise of the Android, Apple will want his coders happy and not under draconic measures. They will do what is best for t
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by octopus 16y ago
Totally agree. The place where you work is important, everything has his part - the light, the smell, the way you've arranged the furniture. I hate the concept of workspace without windows, unfortunately this seems to be the norm in North A
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Parallel GPU programming on Nvidia cards(nvidia.com)
1 points by octopus 16y ago|0 comments
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by octopus 16y ago
It is acceptable for App Store to use Cocos3d in an application ? I know that from a programming language point of view it should be no problem (Objective-C and C++). The MIT license is allowed by Apple ?
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by octopus 16y ago
Nice to see some Win32 code from time to time. I have to admit I'm a big fan of decoupling the GUI from the main application. I typically write the GUI in C# or Java and the main application in C++.
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by octopus 16y ago
What is the advantage of using zsh versus the omnipresent bash ? I mean there is something that can be done only in zsh and not in bash; or something that is straightforward to do in zsh and cumbersome in bash ? Of course I can learn zsh to
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by octopus 16y ago
How can we stop this kind of things to happen ? I wonder if the Free Software Foundation can help with legal advice if there is a clear violation of the GPL.
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by octopus 16y ago
Hmmmm ... just checked http://www.3dmagixpro.com/ they actually acknowledge Blender as the source of their fork, it is at about the middle of the page (not a very clear statement I admit). I wonder if this acknowledgment was done after th
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by octopus 16y ago
Competition between these two is important for everyone wants high quality search services. If you have more players they will compete each other by improving their services. A single huge search engine is unhealthy for everyone and on the

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