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by rocha 10y ago
Here is an account from a person I know: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/103020/an-open-letter-by...
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by rocha 11y ago
It seems like the author doesn't realize that. OpenID Connect fills the specification holes in OAuth 2.0 that he is complaining about. If he had used an OpenID Connect library, his life would have been a lot easier.
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by rocha 11y ago
The original Sphero has an SDK, but BB-8 is build on a newer version of their platform. It uses BLE like Ollie. It should be possible to reverse engineer their BLE service, for example: https://github.com/hybridgroup/cy
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by rocha 11y ago
Learning is more than watching videos. Coursera, edX and other providers provide automatic graded exercises, discussion forums, peer-grading assessments, etc.
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by rocha 14y ago
There is a github repo: https://github.com/edx
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by rocha 14y ago
The pinch gesture can be traced back to 1983: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
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by rocha 14y ago
I agree, it was disconcerting to me as well. I read again and now I think that he is putting the throw there to exemplify that fx() can throw an exception.
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by rocha 15y ago
Sounds like there is an incredibly strong hacker culture there. Some would say that the connotation of the word hacker used here originated in the 60s at MIT.
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by rocha 15y ago
I don't think he meant 3-5 people working in a space the size of a one person office. If that is what he meant, you are right. Otherwise, if the space is big as 5 small offices, it does not sound bad.
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by rocha 15y ago
Good point. Since the OP was talking about execution speed, I thought he was using the word thread to refer to OS threads.
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by rocha 15y ago
Are you processing data using 4000 threads? Do you have access to a cluster? Otherwise it seems counter-productive. BTW, Python has great facilities (IPython.parallel) for doing parallel and distributed computing. It is also pretty good at
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by rocha 15y ago
I was going to say the same things. Ableton's Live is an amazing software, it is the only reason my main sound workstation doesn't boot to linux by default.
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by rocha 15y ago
I think both packages are included, but sympy somewhat the preferred for new versions.
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by rocha 15y ago
Sage is a large collection of different mathematical python packages. For symbolic math it uses sympy, which is linked by the OP. From your comment, I thought that Sage was a replacement for sympy.
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by rocha 15y ago
For #1, you can use ALT-`. I didn't know about it until I saw it here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar... For #3, you can also use CTRL-ALT-T to start multiple terminals, and then CTRL-ALT-NUMPAD # to tile the
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by rocha 15y ago
Some background on Siri: "In 2007, SRI [1] spun off Siri, Inc. Siri was born from SRI's work on the DARPA-funded CALO [2] project, described by SRI as the largest artificial intelligence project ever launched. Siri was acquired by Apple in
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by rocha 15y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by rocha 15y ago
Do you know if it works with two monitors? That is my standard setup, and haven't tried unity because so far it seems to only support one.
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by rocha 15y ago
Have you seen these boards http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/index.php?cPath=27 ? There are more expensive, but are pretty neat. They even come with Wifi support on board.
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by rocha 15y ago
Something like this http://leaflabs.com/devices/ ?
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by rocha 17y ago
i think it suits reddit better. i think it is a bit out of topic for hn.
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by rocha 18y ago
That reminds me of a hack from a few years ago, on Mass. Ave. right across MIT: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noii/2331087223/
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by rocha 18y ago
It depends on the unit that is doubling. From how I read the claim, Peter Norvig is using penetration percentage as such unit. Once you reach 50%, doubling means 100%, which is very unlikely since it is almost certain that somewhere in the
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by rocha 18y ago
A good comment from the original thread: "Mac users - before you get all indignant and start proving Charlie's point here, lighten up - it's funny! Mac users have a sense of humour too you know, so please, please don't bother to
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by rocha 18y ago
I feel the same. He is a well known British comedian, but probably unknown in the US. This article (which is not his best) is no more than one of his satirical rants. Some people here are taking it way too seriously :)
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by rocha 18y ago
I actually find the writer quite funny, his style is to stretch the "truth" much like Colbert does. Check his TV show about TV shows: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=charlie+brooker#