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by satori99 15y ago
That is not true at all for Android. Ask any Android developer. it is entirely possible to code an alarm callback that will not activate the screen at all, but can use a network to send and recieve data. This is done commonly by builtin ser
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by satori99 15y ago
Wow. A modern equivelant of Sir Richard Francis Burton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton I am a little in awe of people who speak multiple languages with ease. I struggle to learn any informal language other than Englis
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by satori99 16y ago
Dr Blackmore is a very interesting woman. Her early career was as a para pyschology researcher before she decided she was wasting her time and turned to real science. http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_13.html
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by satori99 16y ago
Agreed. This post is disapointing and not a worthy HN submission IMHO. Even putting aside the silly title and rhetoric, the idea behind the post is still lame. I can give up just about any web site I use daily with little disruption to my l
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by satori99 16y ago
When I was young I sailed and raced dinghies and skiffs. This is a fairly cerebral sport that usually requires a great working knowledge of the physics invovled in making boats with sails go fast. Most of the champions I observed were reall
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by satori99 16y ago
Totally agree. There have been quite a few articles recently that fall into this category. pquerna's recent post about OpenSSL memory in node (and elsewhere) is another that comes to mind. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411144 keep
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by satori99 16y ago
The fact that you recognise your predicament, and are asking for help is a strong indicator that you will get better quickly. I tried pretending to my friends and family that I was more or less ok. I think I must have been pretty good at it
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by satori99 16y ago
I got out of it too. However, smoking pot actually worked for me when SSRI's did not. I never go so far as to recommend it, as I have seen it destroy other peoples lives, but it is the only thing that let me 'turn my brain off', to get any
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by satori99 16y ago
A long time ago I heard someone say that software programming is the biggest kick this side of black magic, and I still agree. It still blows my mind to think that I can manipulate information by manipulating the states of very small switch
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by satori99 16y ago
^ This. Use dropbox. You get 2Gig for free. It is available from the web and you get total control from anywhere. You can even get a $5 domain to point at your dropbox web location.
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by satori99 16y ago
Yeah. Very impressive on FF4/Windows 7.
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by satori99 16y ago
quicktime. really?
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by satori99 16y ago
Have you ever stuggled with any programming task you have been assigned by your employers? My history sounds a bit like yours (minus the family tradgedies). I am a self-taught programmer in my mid 30s, who for years, had only the sketchiest
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by satori99 16y ago
I sought out and installed a user-script addon for my favourite browser, specifically to remove EE from search results for technical questions. EE, I hate you.
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by satori99 16y ago
I know, right?! Gateway remains my favourite hard-sci novel of all time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28novel%29
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by satori99 16y ago
reddit is basically an IRC server for the web, with voting. The cleverst thing they have done is also entirely simple. By making all thread replies to your posts appear in your inbox as personal messages, and highlighting the orange icon,
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by satori99 16y ago
I don't have any experience with Rhino, but I did a similar thing with node.js as an experiment once. I didn't go down the route of trying to restrict the user from creating functions and eval'ing etc. It was easier to just run 'unsafe' scr
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by satori99 16y ago
You just named two of the files i currently have on my desktop.
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by satori99 16y ago
The title should be; A regular ol' HTML presentation about WebGL
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by satori99 16y ago
This. Every new user should get a cached random location and immediately start calculating another drop in the background to upload to the servers cache.
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by satori99 16y ago
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan. Corny as it sounds,, that book changed my way of thinking and indeed my life when I was around 18yo.
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by satori99 16y ago
I'm kinda shocked that no one has mentioned <i>brazil</i>.