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by peripetylabs 14y ago
So far, I haven't seen any OS X-specific problems with the build process, everything works fine. The pkgsrc documentation says OS X is officially supported. The pkgsrc-wip project has packages for some of those projects you're looking for:
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Yeah that's a shame. I'll experiment with using just the Clang binaries[1] for OS X and update the post if I have any success. [1] http://llvm.org/releases/download.html
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be writing that follow-up post in the next week or so. To sum them up, the security features I alluded to are: signed packages; automated security checks; build options; and compile-time hardening.
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Pkgsrc on OS X(eliteraspberries.com)
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Computer science that can improve people's wellbeing -- in this case, medical diagnostics -- is particularly amazing. I can see this being used by emergency workers to take pulse quickly without having to fumble with electrical leads. The a
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Monty was the first to translate FFTPACK into C, in 1996: http://www.netlib.org/fftpack/fft.c
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Lobbying to have a talk canceled, sounds like classic bullying to me.
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
There are two schools of thought in regards to China -- that of a resurgent dragon, the other of a "benign China." Even after the Mandiant report, the latter aren't convinced. They won't change their minds until they are targeted (almost a
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
The Socratic paradox: "I know that I know nothing."
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Xubuntu is also great: http://xubuntu.org/
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
I think the college administrators are bullying this student because they are embarrassed. The threats by the Skytech CEO Edouard Taza; the college not allowing the professors to hear the student before voting; his transcripts vandalized wi
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
This practice is probably not limited to The Atlantic. Reportedly CNN has published content that was "sponsored" by autocratic governments: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-busi...
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
The FBI and other organizations like it emphasize strong (blind) loyalty in their hiring criteria. That is the opposite of what makes someone a hacker. Even if a hacker did end up working for the FBI, he or she would be an asset, not an emp
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Simulate long-exposure photography with OpenCV(eliteraspberries.com)
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
This is so incredibly sad. I did not know Aaron, but I will try to honour his memory. I've decided to stop hesitating and publish some of my research of the past couple years freely online. I hope others do too.
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Ah, why am I still surprised... When you can't compete on technical merit, legislate away the competition!
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
You would think these folks could write their own OS for that kind of money.
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Yes, D-U-N-S numbers are a scam. The 30 day delay is to scare you into paying -- I got a number free in a couple days. D&B will cold call you later to sell you their many other bogus services. They'll also sell your information to anyon
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
DARPA is part of the US Department of Defense, so it makes sense that they award only Americans. On the other hand, I wish they made a special exception for Canadians...
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Copyright assignment is impractical, and a great way to eliminate outside contributions to a project.
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
I read countless horror stories before launching my own startup, without hesitation. If your goal is to do what you love, and hopefully earn a living from it, you have my sympathy; if your goal is to get rich quick, well, that's always been
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
It would be nice if every programmer owned a copy of Abramowicz and Stegun, and every mathematician knew at least one programming language.
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Egypt has one of the most educated populations on the planet, thanks to an old and large education system. I'm very optimistic of their future as a country. This article reads like someone transcribed talk radio.
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
I've seen this in mathematical programming too. The most successful projects use old Fortran libraries: LAPACK, FFTPACK, etc. Python (SciPy) is popular, and great for prototyping, but I still write everything in C because although floating
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Upsample audio with the Fast Fourier Transform(eliteraspberries.com)
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Sometimes I wonder what the history of Japan and China would look like had the samurai won their uprisings against the Meiji government. The samurai had opposed Japanese expansionism in Asia. Perhaps there would have never been a Pearl Harb
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
I didn't participate in the discussion because the question was so vague. "I want to colonize Mars. How would I get started?" The same way NASA got to the Moon -- they didn't log onto ARPANET and ask around, they got to work.
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Zero and forget -- caveats of zeroing memory in C(eliteraspberries.com)
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
He or she would probably enjoy applied mathematics. They could work at a public health establishment as a biostatistician, for example, preventing the spread of illness; or controlling quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing; or designing
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by peripetylabs 14y ago
Why not learn Haskell and contribute, instead of being nasty? On second thought, people this rude should stay away from Haskell.

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