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by papaf 17y ago
I recently made the change from Macports to Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Things are much nicer now. My one tip would be to have any datafiles separate (ie not read/write files on the Mac filesystem directly - even though you can) and communicate b
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by papaf 17y ago
Another online course that starts with the basics: http://math.ucsd.edu/~ebender/DiscreteText1/
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by papaf 17y ago
Oh, I just found out that this book is also available online: http://www.withouthotair.com/
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by papaf 17y ago
The amount of energy we can usably harness from the sun is a lot less than is radiated to the earth. Its useful to drive at night and on cloudy days. People also demand similar performance from their future vehicles as they get now. If you'
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by papaf 17y ago
It would be cool if this worked with noticable speedup. I am skeptical though because people have been looking at async chips for a long time but there hasn't been a revolution. The disadvantage of async chips is that subsystems become more
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by papaf 17y ago
I've only been playing with it for a few months but I really like Scala. Its worth remembering when you look at the code that this is a compiled, statically typed, language running on the JVM. Its so easy to forget this because it feels lik
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by papaf 17y ago
Mackay has an excellent (and very readable) book on-line which, despite its title, contains quite a lot of Bayesian statistics: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html If that doesn't go deep enough into the statistical aspect
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by papaf 17y ago
I'm playing with a web framework in C as a fun hobby thing just to see what's involved. My idea is to do everything as it shouldn't be done to see what turns out -- my inspiration for this is modern single speed bicycles which don't have ge
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by papaf 17y ago
All I see is a timer and then just a black screen. I'm using Opera 9.64 on x86_64 Linux. I'm sad because the other comments make it sound awesome.
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Very cool. I notice that you're using sbt to build. I'm using maven to build a scala project. I'd be very interested to know how sbt compares to maven if you have experience with both build systems.
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I don't think the code metaphore is a good one. Its more like reverse engineering self duplicating and self healing nanotech hardware i.e. hardware so complex it can't be artificially designed with current understanding. The situation is ma
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by papaf 17y ago
I'm enjoying my time with maven/jetty too. It was a steep learning curve but once it works its very smooth. I also recently substituted Java for Scala and can recommend that highly if you're doing the coding for the fun of it.
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I was just looking at the protocol specification. Its still very much a draft but it is based on XMPP.
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I consider the Unix command line to be my IDE too (I'm mostly a vim user). Just last night my plane was delayed due to heavy storms in Europe and as other peoples heavy laptops were running out of juice I still had hours left on my netbook.
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by papaf 17y ago
I do vipassana but with a different organisation (www.dhamma.org). For the last five years I have meditated for the recommended 2 hours a day (mostly every day). Its a big time commitment and I often wonder how different things would be for
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by papaf 17y ago
I was in the same situation a while ago and ended up jumping to netbeans with the free and excellent jvi plugin. However, I feel your pain and when I recently started using scala on a hobby project I was really happy to be able to just use
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by papaf 18y ago
Can someone link me to an article that explains exactly what is so terrible about Macports? I'm using Macports at work and Gentoo/Ubuntu at home. I generally use the same packages on all machines and have been using the same setup for abo
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by papaf 18y ago
The USD is the global standard not because of some diabolical scheme by the US, but rather because it is liquid beyond liquid. It also helps that oil is traded in US $ and that everybody needs oil. Not a diabolical scheme but I'm sure som
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In Spain they X-ray your luggage before you can get to the platform for most long distance trains.
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by papaf 18y ago
How do you enable constant SSL? I tried using https://www.socialface.com/ but the first link I clicked (to an empty network) took me out of https and put me in vanilla http. Also, is there any way to make an anonymous network insist on ht
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by papaf 18y ago
At the time Java was first released and MFC was the most widely used OO framework, Java's standard library was like a breath of fresh air. OO has had a few different fashions since the first release of Java but, in my opinion, the base Java
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by papaf 18y ago
The most accurate method I've used is "1 week per page". This is for backend development and not web design. Surely such an overly simple estimate is going to be wrong? Well yes, but reality is complex and no calculation is going to captur