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by rcfox 12y ago
Due to git's distributed nature, there should be very few people who are not able to work on their code. Also, it's Sunday, so very few employees are expected to be working today.
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by rcfox 12y ago
While not usually meant for carrying high-speed signals, there are optical isolators[0] that are used to communicate between circuits that are not connected electrically. I'd guess that fiber optics is only a net win over large enough
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by rcfox 12y ago
Gerbers aren't design files, they're another rendered output.
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by rcfox 12y ago
To respond to a deleted comment about why it's important: The claim is that it's open- source , not open- rendering . There's no thing you can insert a PDF into to be able to manipulate the design in a meaningful way. Even as
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by rcfox 12y ago
While the firmware may be open source, the hardware is not. It's not enough to be able to see the schematic in a PDF; it's important to have proper, machine-readable, design files. Nobody would consider a print-out of the Linux ke
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Introducing Onshape Beta(onshape.com)
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by rcfox 12y ago
If it helps, I've recently used huddle[0] to create arbitrarily-nested dictionaries and output JSON of them. It can be quite slow to do a jsondump for large dictionaries though: it sometimes takes a few minutes to output a multi-megaby
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by rcfox 12y ago
Sure, you can write a custom parser to handle this, but then you're no longer working with JSON/JSONH. It's a subset that's nearly identical, but with an extra constraint imposed on the serialization structure. (We'
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by rcfox 12y ago
JSONH couldn't replace CSV in the one place where it actually makes sense to use CSV: very large files. It's possible to process a CSV file of unbounded size with a bounded amount of memory because you can just read it line-by-lin
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by rcfox 12y ago
By implementing basic income, you no longer need welfare, public healthcare, etc. You get a smaller government body as a result.
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by rcfox 12y ago
I'd guess that it's due to signal reflections causing points of constructive and destructive interference.[0] The shapes aren't very regular, but that could easily be explained by the shape of the room and its contents. [0]
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by rcfox 12y ago
One can choose to adopt a certain lifestyle without believing that everyone else should also adopt it.
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by rcfox 12y ago
Interesting... Recently my friend noticed a fake Twitter account under her father's name. He's also doctor in Toronto. The Twitter account is just repeating a Wordpress site's RSS feed. On that site, there's a link to &l
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by rcfox 12y ago
Square grids are more intuitive: they map to our standard cardinal and ordinal directions. As long as you treat the ordinal neighbours (the corners) as being sqrt(2) away from the center (as oppposed to 1 away from the center like the cardi
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by rcfox 12y ago
It would be awesome to see this turned into a library for dynamically generating aperiodic Wang tiles[0] for one "idea". (ie: grass or cobblestone that doesn't appear to repeat) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by rcfox 12y ago
"AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by rcfox 12y ago
The first quote sounds about right to me. If you're good at what you do, you don't need to constantly prove it to everyone. I don't understand why you'd be bothered by that. The second quote is taken out of context. He t
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by rcfox 12y ago
Dimensions are variables that are independent of each other. They could be spatial dimensions like (x,y,z), or color dimensions like (red,green,blue).
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by rcfox 12y ago
I agree. While it does show an average increase of ~7.5% after the line, it also showed that before the line! It's hard to tell that anything happened.
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by rcfox 12y ago
Don't forget timing. Netflix and Youtube probably wouldn't have been successful in the early 2000s just due to bandwidth limitations.
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by rcfox 12y ago
> I like your gem otherwise, but it's called "emoji", implying that it's the Ruby library for handling those characters. That's not the first time I've encountered this assumption. I can believe that it
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by rcfox 12y ago
I have also wanted this for a long time. I think you'd have to go back to the top of the parent, or else you'd wind up jumping way past the end of that thread.
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by rcfox 12y ago
I'm currently the same way. I frequently end up not sleeping for a night during the weekend, and end up going to work on the Monday at 4am because I went to sleep in the afternoon on the Sunday. Fortunately, I don't really have an
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by rcfox 12y ago
I'm currently at Upverter, where ~75% of the time, I arrive at the office around 3pm. The other ~25% of the time is usually one of: 4am, 11am, 5pm. Basically, it's completely flexible for me. I'm pretty much ruined for workin
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by rcfox 12y ago
If you're looking to build sequence diagrams, a guy I knew made this: https://www.websequencediagrams.com You define everything with text and it renders a diagram based on what you've written. It's kind of like th
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by rcfox 12y ago
I saw all of the dead comments, and my first thought was that the mods had probably done a good job of cleaning up the vitriol. I was curious though, so I enabled showdead, and while I'm not sure that I agree with many of the dead comm
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by rcfox 12y ago
> The problem (to me) is the criminalization of porn and prostitution in the US. Porn is illegal in the US?
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by rcfox 12y ago
They check for docstrings. From PEP 257[0]: "A docstring is a string literal that occurs as the first statement in a module, function, class, or method definition. Such a docstring becomes the __doc__ special attribute of that object.&
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by rcfox 12y ago
I don't know if this was obvious to anyone else, but based on the comments here, the tutorial seems to be discussing RxJS[0]. The tutorial itself makes no mention of using any libraries. It's a little disappointing because the Obs
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by rcfox 12y ago
That sounds really dangerous. It probably wouldn't be too hard to inject arbitrary data into the server.

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