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by rkangel 13y ago
Elon Musk's stated goal with Tesla is to bring electric cars to the masses. To do this, the price has to come down, and the price only comes down with volume, and you can't build the volume for a mass car from scratch without a lo
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by rkangel 13y ago
What interested me is the discussion about naming (re-use of callback, "errback", "Failure" etc.). That sort of discussion quite often smacks of bike-shedding, but Guido's points here made me release how clear and s
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by rkangel 13y ago
Exactly. I enjoyed the fairly well supported counter-arguments to the ideas. Inevitably it isn't going to be quite as good as it appears initially, and open debate is how consensus is reached, but he devalues the whole argument by lay
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by rkangel 13y ago
Never under-estimate how much more helpful it can be to have something in a standard library. I do a lot of embedded development, and we have Python scripts all over the place on various embedded targets to perform all sorts of functions. O
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by rkangel 13y ago
I'm always amused by the slight fear that web developers treat C with (and even more so by comments like "does anyone actually write anything in C/C++ any more?"[1]), although I do appreciate the compliment that us embed
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by rkangel 13y ago
The way I see it, instead of basing a decision on what's currently fashionable, they've gone for some empirical data and have actually conducted an experiment. Sure this is a fairly simplistic first step, but so should all first s
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by rkangel 13y ago
I'm not sure you should draw any meaning at all from this, whether technical or philosophical. JPEG is an image specific compression format, and works by removing visually insignificant detail. Applying the same system blindly to an un
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by rkangel 14y ago
Surely disguising your search box as the browser's search box is merely adding to the confusion? Also, presumably it isn't always identical to the browser search box - you're going to have trouble with all combinations of browsers and colou
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by rkangel 14y ago
Good point - I suppose I hadn't considered it like that. I tend to happily commit to my feature branch on SVN and then make sure that the log message is good when I merge to trunk. Incidentally you can edit previous log messages in SVN, it'
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by rkangel 14y ago
Errr, no - while that's what you see in the directory tree, that's not how it's done internally. SVN has a data model where multiple paths in the repo tree can point to the same underlying file object, so a branch requires no file copies, j
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by rkangel 14y ago
He compares it to SVN, but makes a classic error. In SVN branches and commits are just as cheap as in git (albeit marginally slower to create usually). It's the merges that are expensive. It's there that git wins, with it's better underst
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by rkangel 14y ago
Chrome 21, Windows 7. Only see squares.
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by rkangel 14y ago
Yes, you could MITM the attempt to load the settings page, but it would require Alice to be attempting to load the settings page. This is a MUCH rarer activity than just opening her inbox.
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by rkangel 14y ago
I'd always thought that the application specific passwords would allow for a loophole, although I hadn't come up with a mechanism. Surely the fix from Google would be pretty simple? Just make sure that any and all access to the 'Two Factor
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by rkangel 14y ago
You're right except that by 'kinda sucks' you actually mean that it doesn't support base station hand off at all. You can kind of simulate one ubiquitous wifi network by using the same SSID everywhere. Then, when a user moves out of range o
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Xenonauts (kickstarter)(kickstarter.com)
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by rkangel 15y ago
Ummm, correlation does not imply causation?
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by rkangel 15y ago
However much current you can draw over your USB socket, it's still only 5V. Many devices want a (far) higher voltage than that for charging or powering themselves. A quick glance at my laptop PSU shows 20V, presumably related to the voltage
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by rkangel 15y ago
The article is mostly wrong as to where the white space frequencies come from. He talks about the Guard Bands put between two transmission channels to reduce interference, which is only an incredibly minor gain, if any at all. White space a
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by rkangel 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how it would fare against a top level human, but I'd be more interested to see how it would fare against other AI implementations. There could be a whole separate community for SC2 AI competitions - a bit like
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by rkangel 15y ago
Don't forget that only the core of Git is C, the rest is big pile of shell scripts, and (I believe) perl.
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by rkangel 15y ago
My problem with this article is the use of the word 'flaw' to describe the potential pitfalls of programming in C. Use of that word seems to imply that these things are accidental, and maybe if it had been better designed the problems would