rbancroft

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by rbancroft 16y ago
I have a computer science degree, although I wouldn't refer to myself as a computer scientist. However, as a programmer there frequently are times when I do resort to a basic scientific approach, in terms of hypothesis, experimentation, ana
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Why Wikileaks isn't a Twitter trending topic(blogs.forbes.com)
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by rbancroft 16y ago
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/07/06/samsungs-hummingbird... impressive... I have a snapdragon 1ghz in my phone and it is pretty decent. Would be interesting to see the difference if any on normal phone tasks.
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by rbancroft 16y ago
You can argue whether or not this release is good or bad, right or wrong, however semantics are somewhat important. Would you say that learning something while reading a book in a bookstore is stealing? How do you propose to return stolen i
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by rbancroft 16y ago
The site is currently called Hacker News, not Startup or Tech news. Even though the site is heavily associated with the ycombinator brand, for a lot of people, the hacker identity has a lot to do with personal freedom, even more so than tec
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by rbancroft 16y ago
So are you claiming there is a better way to grow a vector? Or are you mistakenly criticizing vector for a task it isn't suited for.
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by rbancroft 16y ago
Protovis is one of the most interesting pieces of code I have looked at recently. It really opened my eyes up to the power of javascript and I learned a lot from it. The code is clean, well documented, and imo brilliant.
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by rbancroft 16y ago
that was the closing price. AH means after hours. check the google chart more closely...
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by rbancroft 16y ago
I find this hard to believe as well, but for different reasons. I had an online subscription to Le Monde for years even though I wasn't even living in France. It was tiered but I thought it was extremely advanced in terms of features offere
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by rbancroft 16y ago
soekris has some interesting stuff. I'm not sure what kind of processing power you would need, they are low power 486/586 class processors. you could get something like the net5501 ( http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm ) with a case that has
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by rbancroft 17y ago
I can't see anybody who would be more inclined to use tarsnap than myself, and yet I wasn't able to register because I live in Canada. Why not hire an accountant or tax lawyer to figure that out for you? I was on the registration page and r
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by rbancroft 17y ago
um, no it isn't. And that one guy happens to be the guy who invented clojure. Rich Hickey does often seem a bit testy at times, but I think it's because he is a bit of a visionary and it is tiring always having to drag along people that don