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by quux 14y ago
Looks like twine is just an internet connected sensor, while SmartThings also includes modules for controlling power outlets, lights, etc.
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by quux 14y ago
Formats very similar to JSON have been invented many times, for instance NeXT/Apple used to have a human readable format for their plist files that was basically JSON with different characters. http://code.google.com/p/networkpx/wiki/Plist
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by quux 14y ago
How did the brain know what situations were good or bad? Were there reward and pain electrodes or something?
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by quux 14y ago
Anyone have a link to a video of Carmack's keynote?
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by quux 14y ago
At a prior job I was a key member of a team that did a 2 week long, intense root cause analysis of a prod issue that threatened a multi million dollar contract. I consider it one of the most interesting and rewarding things I've done in my
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by quux 14y ago
Hmm, I didn't know the he uses quux too. I claim independent discovery.
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by quux 14y ago
:) Back in 2008 I helped JWZ port daliclock to the iPhone and once that was working I proposed a port of xscreensaver. He couldn't imagine ever wanting screensavers on an iPhone at the time. Guess he changed his mind. I also was the one tha
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by quux 14y ago
iTunes was recently re written in with cocoa and I think the windows version uses yellow box too.
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by quux 14y ago
Can't wait to see this beast in action and hear the little ding when it's done :) Maybe spacebars can be ported and we can play it with the plotter
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by quux 15y ago
Maybe they added this after you posted, but under the game it says "Jon Huang/The New York Times, based on the original game by Rootof Creations HB"
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by quux 15y ago
Glad they're doing something about the CDN issue. This is the main thing that keeps me from switching to Google DNS.
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by quux 15y ago
Watch The Wire. Most realistic portrayal of police work I've ever seen. Lots of watching suspects and gathering string, putting the pieces of the puzzle together slowly over a season of television, dealing with disfunctional organizations a
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by quux 15y ago
I think at this point they were selling their image processing systems to intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA. IIRC, the NSA bought a lot of NeXT systems, and he had to get a clearance for that too. Or maybe this was the same clearan
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by quux 15y ago
If you scroll down to the "Where can I save my files?" section they do mention support for dropbox and other cloud based file storage systems.
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by quux 15y ago
At least they didn't use the phrase "perverse and often baffling" in this one.
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by quux 15y ago
Dammit... first the workings of Thief and now this! I have work to do!
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by quux 15y ago
I don't think he was defending reference counting as much as trying to explain that garbage collection is probably never going to work satisfactorily with an unmanaged language like Objective-C. Automatic Reference Counting is probably as g
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by quux 15y ago
Very interesting. Also sounds like a great way to frame someone. Don't see any reason why these fingerprints can't be forged.
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by quux 15y ago
IIRC, Armstrong was a little annoyed that he bit his tongue badly during the ejection, but thats about all he said about it.
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by quux 15y ago
Isn't that true of any technology?
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by quux 15y ago
I use opera occasionally on my iPhone. Most common use case is when I'm playing a stream or podcast directly in Safari and I want to surf at the same time. Opera is surprisingly fast and works well considering that all the rendering is done
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Amazon removes link to Kindle store from iOS app(itunes.apple.com)
45 points by quux 15y ago|61 comments
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by quux 15y ago
Give it a week. After a couple of days your mind flips and suddenly the old way seems wrong.
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by quux 15y ago
I'm running the GM and am downloading it right now. I did get a message saying something like "you already have a newer version of lion installer (1.04) installed, do you still want to download this? It looks like I didn't have to pay eithe
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by quux 15y ago
Currently, used vegetable oil is rarely just thrown out. Used oil can be used to make soap, cosmetics and many other goods. Most fast food chains and other large consumers of cooking oils sell their used oil to companies that then resell th
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by quux 15y ago
Or even better, use spheres on some levels and discs on others (where it makes sense.) definitely crank up the poly count on the spheres and anything else. Here's a free idea. Let the user use any photo as the texture for the targets. User
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by quux 15y ago
Yup, I remember that. IIRC when this screen was displayed, the system was actually at a DOS prompt, just not in character mode. You could type "win" to restart windows for instance, and I think there was some magic command to reset the disp
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by quux 15y ago
If WebGL isn't available, angry birds will fall back to Canvas drawing.
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by quux 16y ago
Reminds me of how the Tralfamadorians see things.
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by quux 16y ago
True, but even a shopping list could reveal information that narrows down where the killer lives or shops or something.

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