reemrevnivek

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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Here's Wikipedia's climate data for Lulea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lule%C3%A5#Climate Looks a little cooler than most of the northern US. "Artic Circle" or not, you're right, this isn't "Open the doors and cool the servers" cold.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Isn't this just a Marvel Sheevaplug with a sticker and some software? How is this thing patent pending? Here's the PlugBot: http://i.imgur.com/SvHQq.png And here's the Sheevaplug: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/skins/skin
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Are import taxes of 100% ((1200 - 600) / 600) realistic?
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
To learn how FPGAs work, I'd recommend starting with a cheap Digilent board; see http://www.digilentinc.com/choosing.cfm - You can get a simple BASYS 2 board for under $100, possibly under $50. This board is the Arduino of the FPGA world
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Yes. A $10 Spartan 3 could run a simple core and interpret LISP code. It's been done before, check Open Cores.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
I totally agree that developers should not assume that per-pixel content is visible at these pixel pitches. However, I strongly disagree that the target market should be these individuals, even if they are the typical/average consumer. Sur
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
There are a lot more places than just the US that use "at" to refer to a location. Why not just release to anyone who wants to use the English-only app?
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Or why not ask their EU customers to pay the extra 4.9% it would cost to sell it as a camcorder? That would not only get them off the hook but also encourage their customers to abolish this ridiculous law.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The vertical control of Apple (most notably) as well as Amazon and Google is almost complete. The author noted that they don't have: 1. Billing/banking control - Purchases on all three go through credit cards, where a portion gets siphoned
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
It's read on login and on every app startup . That, IMO, makes it not meaningless.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Thank you for doing this. I, for one, am willing to use dconf-editor or gsettings during the once-in-a-blue-moon occasions where I need to modify the binary blob if it results in faster startup times for login and apps. I assume (based on
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Is your car body magnetic? If you had aluminum body panels, it probably could, though the panel is probably a good deal stiffer than this tuba. If you had steel body panels (which is very likely), it wouldn't.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The Joel on Software article that he refers to is probably "Making Wrong Code Look Wrong": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
This is wrong. Raspberry Pi is a completely different domain than Arduino. There isn't a great price difference between the cheapest (<$1) microcontrollers and powerful SoCs like the Raspberry Pi's Broadcom part, which only cost $20 o
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
There are over 300 different models of the MSP430, ranging from the G2 or Value Line parts having 1k of Flash, a couple hundred bytes of RAM and usually one timer to the F5 series with 100-pin parts having 256kB of Flash and 16k of RAM, and
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Apple's TOS have some significant restrictions on running interpreters. Some have been allowed, though. For more information, see Section 3.3.2 of the iOS App Store Review Guidelines, and the followi
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
I think you forgot to include the link. By Googling "jpallen online latex editor", I found jpallen.net and ScribTex. To make our volunteer's efforts more expedient, I'll note that the url is at -> http://www.scribtex.com/ <- Click
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
You can even enter http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/#surf-the-web in the browser found on http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/#surf-the-web !
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
What service are you running where the "overwhelming number of [y]our users" tell you that phone is their preferred method of contact? As I wrote on the blog, email allows me to: - respond when it’s convenient for me. - keep most
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
Your app is nice, but it's nothing like Siri. My dumb phone is an '07 Motorola Razr on Verizon's OS (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_RAZR#Verizon_Wireless_... ). It has a button on the side that I press and a computerized voice s
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The title confused me as well. Can you revise it to something like the "Backend Service Provider StackMob Comes To Android" title which the linked article used?
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The source article at http://gutjahr.biz/blog/2011/09/face-off/ (in German) says (via Google translate): For example, information on the recently discussed ... "likes" that Facebook assigns to individuals, but also very deli
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
SVN handles large binaries with ease. I'm an EE, and these are frequent occurrences in my projects. Git can choke on big binaries.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
You need to go back to the top of the page (not the "related posts" at the bottom ... >_>) and find part 3: http://bioteam.net/2011/08/real-world-backblaze-costs/ Projected cost from Backblaze was $7384, for drives at $120 each an
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
> I dont want my development emulator to run twice as fast as actual hardware Why not? A lot of programmers develop native apps on high-performance workstations because it makes development faster. Once in a while, you might hit a bug
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
The magnetic field in a coil is dependent on the number of turns and current in a coil (as well as, to a lesser degree) the position of the wires in the coil. It is almost completely unrelated to the number of copper atoms in the coil. Rea
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
This is only true if you want to have iLife. I personally don't use iLife, didn't when I was on 10.4, and upgraded to 10.6 from 10.4 for $30.
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
> Plans: As per official website, UbiSlate will come with an unlimited mobile Internet at Rs.98/month. That's roughly $2. What am I not understanding here? Is there no coverage? Is this for WiFi? I'm all for cheap, unlimited mobile
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
After seeing that figure, I'll be writing a letter to my current university asking them to ditch BB for a different service. What options should I suggest? For those who don't want to click the bit.ly link, The 5-year contract is for $4,22
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by reemrevnivek 15y ago
> I and other programmers sometimes alienate people when we speak because we either have to clarify intuitively obvious ambiguity or explain things by decomposing them into such detail that the explanation becomes incomprehensible to ot

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