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by rsaarelm 16y ago
They should make great viewers for non-reflowable nonfiction PDFs where you want to jump around the document a lot. Laptops don't fare so well with documents that want to be in full-screen portrait orientation, and e-ink devices have a larg
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I'd be all for a CSS-less minimal page style except for the fact that it comes with no margins and produces unreadably long lines on my browser window that's full-screen most of the time.
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Test Driven Development Is Hard(toranbillups.com)
5 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
After reading the previous thread, I got interested in this and dug up the free ElectricSleep app for Android ( http://code.google.com/p/electricsleep/ ). It seems to be pretty much equivalent to iPhone's Sleep Cycle app, it uses the phone'
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Minecraft Like Rendering Experiments in OpenGL 4(codeflow.org)
2 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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Invaders from Mars(antipope.org)
21 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|2 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Probability theory looks to be one of the harder areas in math to get anywhere with by just being smart, as opposed to studying it. Plenty of professional mathematicians, including Paul Erdös who was pretty smart about math stuff, got the M
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
People who say they managed to pull it off for a month or two keep popping up. They could be just pulling our leg of course. When I suspected the people who say they've successfully done polyphasic sleep are just making up stories aloud in
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
As far as I can tell, the handwave explanation is that seriously posthumanity-oriented civilizations always end up moving away from the material universe in some vaguely specified way when they improve themselves sufficiently far. The Cultu
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Bitcoins could be embedded in the game. The players would start out getting very small sums as actual in-game rewards, so it'd look like just a regular in-game currency at first. Then later they'd notice that a much bigger sum of bitcoins (
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The Biology of Sloppy Code(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
20 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|6 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Are people really okay with both giving lots of details about what they are working on to an untrusted third party and committing to a tool that may uncontrollably change or disappear depending on what the maintainer decides to do with it?
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Encapsulation Considered Harmful(lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
4 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
This disturbs me beyond words. Popular music hasn't been doing too well on the all-important "making grown-ups uncomfortable" front recently. Great to see it catching up a bit.
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I've always found this quote (apparently originally from 1975) somewhat strange, having grown up in 1980s, when BASIC was pretty close to the only game in town for a decade for home users. I still ended up seeing a lot more skilled programm
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Automatically generating a concept index for freeform notes(jsomers.net)
26 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|4 comments
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EForth and Zen(ultratechnology.com)
2 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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Deskotron(jsomers.net)
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Tried this. The concept seems quite nice. Problem I'm having is that my thumb sweats when pressed to the touchscreen and creates friction which makes doing the continuous gestures unpleasant. Rubbing talcum powder into my hands seems to hel
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Dude predicted we'd literally use rockets to literally travel to the moon at a time when literally the only common application of rockets was for fireworks; they weren't even reliable (in any/every sense) enough for military applications.
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
You can represent any book, any image or any sound with a large number. You can set up a cipher where anyone can write you messages using publicly available information, but only you can read them. Human DNA is essentially a digital code, h
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
The interesting thing with Nozick's experience machine isn't what you would do if one existed. It's trying to explain why plugging in feels like the wrong choice, even when there aren't any obvious flaws in the nature of the experience you
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Have a checklist of "stupid" health maintenance stuff, not directly related to the problem at hand. Neglecting these may cause poor mental performance. Here are some example items: - Be aware of how much you sleep, avoid chronic sleep depri
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Two rows of ten boxes at the bottom have nontrivial amounts in them, a quick eyeballing gives 30 as a possible average amount -> 600 total.
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I use a lamp with a timer that gets gradually brighter. It turns itself on some time before I want to wake up. Instead of a single point of waking up, there's a window of around an hour when the light gets brighter for me to wake up. One ca
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
The refreshing effect even from a very short period of sleep (think nodding off at a lecture) can be surprisingly strong. Try going for a nap and setting an alarm clock to go off after 20 minutes, without any expectation to necessarily fall
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How wrong can you be?(doug.dreamwidth.org)
2 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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If I don't watch TV, it doesn't matter much to me if all my friends are. If I'm not on Facebook and all my friends are, I may miss out a lot of social interaction I'd otherwise participate in, and which might occur somewhere elsewhere from
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I take the approach that HN conversations are for a very wide audience, so signal-to-noise ratio is important. Chatty comments, which may be fine in smaller forums where people know each other better, end up just looking like extra noise he
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Yes, based on the author's plans, it looks like he's intending to add interesting in-game challenges: Free building mode is fine and dandy, but for many people it will ultimately become boring once you've got it figured out. It's like play

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