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by peterb 13y ago
I'm using Anki to teach reading/writing English to my kids. Anki is also a great way to learn a programming language or API (see: https://sivers.org/srs ).
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by peterb 13y ago
His response to Captain Kirk was epic. https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/286948264236945408
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by peterb 13y ago
Commander Hadfield is an inspiration. I wish him a safe trip home.
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by peterb 13y ago
Two reasons are float (they get your money before you use the coins) and breakage (they keep lost and/or forgotten coins).
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by peterb 14y ago
Then why do type 1 diabetics only count carbs? A diabetic can eat as much protein, fat and fiber as they want, but have to match insulin levels to their carbohydrate consumption (except fiber). I'm highly simplifying, but carbohydrates are
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by peterb 14y ago
There are approximately 3,000 nerve endings in a working cochlea that need to be stimulated by a few (8, 10, 12, 24) electrodes. So no matter what, it not going to sound like what a fully functioning cochlea. You can't get the resolution.
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by peterb 14y ago
What you describe is more commonly called a technical lead or senior engineer, and a good one is worth their weight in bacon.
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James Hamilton: AMD Announces Server Targeted ARM Part(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
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A Mature Role for Automation: Part I(kitchensoap.com)
10 points by peterb 14y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 14y ago
The idea is that many letters in the Latin-based alphabet are similar (i/j, v/w, b/d/p, etc.) and dyslexics confuse them. The idea of the fonts is emphasize the differences and de-emphasize the similarities.
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by peterb 14y ago
LOL. I think the error message appropriately describes the Canadian tech sector. BTW, I am Canadian.
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by peterb 14y ago
Agreed. The business of "Montessori Schools" and the teachings of Maria Montessori are often two very different things.
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How eBay Turned Around a Dying Business (Secret Word: Mobile)(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by peterb 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook implementing PHP on the JVM with invoke-dynamic(nerds-central.blogspot.ca)
1 points by peterb 14y ago|0 comments
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Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (1991)(groups.google.com)
184 points by peterb 14y ago|35 comments
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by peterb 14y ago
With Hacker's Keyboard.
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by peterb 14y ago
I don't know why you are getting down-voted. It is in Google's interest to have a large training corpus of faces for many machine learning algorithms (face recognition, expression recognition, age detection, etc.).
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by peterb 14y ago
My father fought in the Warsaw uprising when he was 16 years old. He spend the next year as a prison of war in a forced labor camp. This video has brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for posting it.
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by peterb 14y ago
OTA HD (with a decent antenna) with a Homerun HD from Silicon Dust for distributing the content to your network.
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Improve Your Java with Groovy (Ken Kousen at Spring 2GX)(infoq.com)
1 points by peterb 14y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 14y ago
+1 for fpm. It makes building packages (rpm, yum, etc.) really easy. So you can deploy your own projects with all the benefits of a package manager. Jordan did a great job with this.
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How to hack on RVM(github.com)
1 points by peterb 14y ago|0 comments
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Test Everything: Notes on the A/B Revolution(wired.com)
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In Depth Talk on Performance and Serialization (Protobuf, json, Thrift, etc.)(infoq.com)
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by peterb 14y ago
How ironic.
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by peterb 14y ago
This is inline with their work to get hadoop, Linux etc. They are not adding any new featues. They are simply porting to their proprietary operating system.
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by peterb 14y ago
This is very forward thinking by Valve. It opens up the possibility of Linux-based game appliances which could run as VMs, dual-boot, consoles, etc.
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by peterb 14y ago
I prefer "It is hard to teach a new dog old tricks". Much of today's cruft was originally written by new dogs.
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by peterb 14y ago
I agree with your general argument about NYC. SV isn't only where you get "people doing startups for the sake of startups" (although it has that). It is more technology focused and less "all business" like NYC.
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by peterb 14y ago
Agreed. Although I would call it prosumer, which is just a consumer with a bigger budget :-).

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