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by rayval 15y ago
One could have a Nike-style sensor in the shoe, connected via bluetooth, with a manual override of some sort. Plus a smartphone-based accelerometer and gyro.
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by rayval 15y ago
Coca leaves are not a narcotic, when consumed in the traditional form (chewing or in brewed tea). Caffeine, tea, and tobacco are more addictive than chewing coca. As you point out, coca leaves can be processed and refined to make cocaine. A
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by rayval 15y ago
Emacs, yea. Also, perhaps one can modify the program, so that it ignores characters other than period and X. Then you can run it on regular text files or, alternatively, source code, to get cross-domain puns (text domain, rhythm domain, cod
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by rayval 15y ago
There are two (relevant) tables in the SQL Lite database. One is called CellLocation, the other is called WiFi Location. The data collected includes: * Timestamp (in seconds since Jan 2001 GMT) * Latitude * Longitude * H
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by rayval 15y ago
This is addressed in the FAQ. http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#12 The app downloads: * OpenStreetMap background tiles * jQuery main script file * OpenHeatMap script and CSS
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by rayval 16y ago
They didn't. Instead, a harried customer support person answered a confusing question with a nondescript answer. One could paraphrase it as: "Well, Mister Caller, I have no idea what software you are talking about, but if there is any such
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by rayval 16y ago
Yes, +1 has the connotation of "noteworthy" rather than "fan". So it is more generally useful. One could +1 a news article about an earthquake or horrific disaster, but might be reluctant to Like it.
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by rayval 16y ago
The link is all the way at the end of the Register article. To be fair, the Register article does provide useful context that is missing from the Wilcox piece.
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by rayval 16y ago
The photos are amazing, in the style of Robert Frank, WeeGee, and some of Annie Leibovitz's work. The story is also compelling -- about Maier's life, work, death in obscurity, and the fortuitous circumstances of discovery by John Maloof, wh
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by rayval 16y ago
And if one goes that far, one would have to include variant spellings, because in the heat of the moment of cursing an opaque or broken piece of code, a programmer is likely to froth at the keyboard.
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by rayval 16y ago
Ideally, you should not be in this situation where you have to compile large amounts of code to go through the code-test-debug cycle. Even in a large project, there should be subysystems that a developer owns and works on that can be partit
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Design Principles Behind Microsoft Metro (And Why Windows Phone Falls Short)(riagenic.com)
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by rayval 16y ago
Medicine is one class of skill. However, there are others in the same vein as programming: * fine arts (drawing, painting) * music * football and other sports * creative writing I'd guess that any student majoring in the above
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by rayval 16y ago
The source is not intended to be readable. The glory is in the 1433 characters total (or 133 lines, if you prefer that metric). Everyone knows that it is artificial, but it does not matter. The spirit is similar to the 10K Javascript contes
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by rayval 16y ago
I wonder what happens to the chimney sweep years later, the person that clambers down the chimney through unexpected shards of glass sticking out on the walls. Presumably they are aware of this as a possibility and take precautions.
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by rayval 16y ago
Yes there is a bifurcated development path. I prefer the HTML-friendly approach (JQtouch) as opposed to the monolithic Javascript (Sencha Touch)
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by rayval 16y ago
I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. Others interpret this situation as Bing being unable to compete effectively except by looking over Google's shoulder. And then denying it when called out with clear-cut evidence.
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by rayval 16y ago
A far-fetched hypothetical scenario that has little basis in fact.
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by rayval 16y ago
The problem is that the results would not be so dramatic. It would require statistical analysis to show that there was a difference. Most people's eyes would glaze over -- even though copying was occurring and genuine damage was being done
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by rayval 16y ago
Because it could be one of those services that is hard to cancel without cancelling the credit card.
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by rayval 16y ago
I tried to understand NIB mechanism and it was opaque. I like having everything represented in code, rather than spread across two different tools. This NIB-to-code utility seems worthwhile.
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by rayval 16y ago
SMS was shut down at the same time.
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by rayval 16y ago
Another example of prior art would be the Electric Minds community, which was an offshoot of the Well in the mid-90s, and took the best and brightest people in certain fields to moderate online communities within that topic area. The people
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by rayval 16y ago
Apache Tomcat in the cloud.
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by rayval 16y ago
Interesting that the shortest (and among the most readable) is the 15-line version written in old-school AWK: http://pacman.blog.br/wiki/index.php?title=Um_Corretor_Ortog... A surprise is that the Perl implementation weighs in at 63 lines
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by rayval 16y ago
I think it is because Jim Gettys coined the term very recently. It seems likely that he is the very first person to discover this phenomenon. Although there is a small chance that someone else also discovered it independently but came up w
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by rayval 16y ago
Per the comments in the link, this story is almost one year old, and was first covered by Caroline McCarthy of CNET http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10424028-36.html
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by rayval 16y ago
Here is some wikileaks information about US practices in Afghanistan that is quite shocking: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_te... For those who don't click on the link, the article refers to cables in which US d
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by rayval 16y ago
I agree. I went through a similar experience with United several years ago, and I will never fly them again unless the choice is walking. As the article points out, there are structural problems with their pricing, their policies (and how t
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by rayval 16y ago
Interesting but possibly flawed exercise. It would be good to show the entire set of brands sorted from bottom (i.e., good) to top (i.e. bad). I sorted the data and present here two groups: 1. This is a sample of supposedly the most satisfy

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