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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
C is a simple language with some pearls and a lot of corner cases. For the corner cases "C. Puzzle Book" by Alan R. Feuer it's a funny read with a lot of oh-oh moments. For the pearls... well I can give you a couple: - sizeof() macro is a
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
Buried inside C++ there are some good languages; Which one you would use? take one and leave the other stuffs out. The problems is that you usually target a subset of C++, and two different company targets different subsets. This produce fr
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
Pretty awesome, I signed up. Can you show up distance even in km? miles don't give much information to me. May be you can choose from imperial units and standard ones by people country...
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Thomas Fuchs Scripty2 hardware-acceleration teaser(mir.aculo.us)
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
Knowing functional programming surely makes you a better programmer, as knowing lisp do (even if you could never use in your projects). But when I see post like this I always think to Fred Brooks' "There's no silver bullet" paper ( http://e
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
iPad 3G and iPhone 4 use the Broadcom BCM4750 receiver: http://www.broadcom.com/products/GPS/GPS-Silicon-Solutions/B... "High-sensitivity, -157dBm assisted acquisition sensitivity (with coarse time assistance) and -162dBm tracking sensiti
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
"Do you know of any material that lets capacitance through?" Just avoid insulators! Regarding the connection of a GPS to the iPad, I don't have on hands the technical details of the iPad (or iPhone) GPS, but on open water, it will surely be
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
"How do I turn that into 1 million?" Iterate this last year ten times. ^_^ On a more serious suggestion, try to stick to something a bit longer, make a product, iterate it some times and finally take profit from it. BTW, What happened to yo
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
At the Google I/O 2010 keynote, day 2, they said that camera and magnetometer support in the browser will be integrated in the next release (gingerbread?). What they show was "a sneak peak of what coming next, after froyo".
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
[* A bookmarking/archiving system that saves locally and to the cloud. I can use something like Dropbox or Live Sync to move the archive to other computers. The system really needs only save the links.] What I currently use for this kind of
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
The iPad is an older project, when it started, on single task iPhoneOS 3.2, 256MB of RAM was the "right amount". Now with iOS4, simil-multitasking and a lot of video to edit, 256MB seems just a bit to tight. We have to wait and see if the r
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WWDC10 videos are here and are available free.(developer.apple.com)
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Tristan Perich 1-bit symphony(1bitsymphony.com)
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Some advice on setting up a team room for agile projects(martinfowler.com)
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
Sadly Safari 5 inhibits SafariTabs which is a SIMBL based plugin ( http://stuconnolly.com/projects/safaritabs/ ). Any idea on how a similar feature can be made available on Safari 5 (which I love for his "reader" feature). (edited for gramm
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by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
You can give a try to ARMPIT SCHEME, an interpreter for the Scheme language (lexically-scoped dialect of Lisp) that runs on RISC microcontrollers with ARM core. http://armpit.sourceforge.net/
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Lunar lander project relies on SPARK programming language(electronics-eetimes.com)
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In the microcontroller family you can put a lot of different devices. The board they target with this project is based on a NXP Cortex-M3 chip with 512KB of Flash and 64KB of RAM: http://mbed.org//nxp/lpc1768/technical-reference/ The othe