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by sgillen 9y ago
Even emacs is not installed by default on most operating systems. Even worse a lot of people customize their emacs setup so much that using the default setting can be painful.
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by sgillen 9y ago
I really like AvE ( https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil ). Lots of really cool stuff if your into mechanical engineering or really just making/breaking cool (physical) stuff.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Reddit.com/r/math
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by sgillen 9y ago
Cool, I’m wondering what the advantages of Jupyter is over matlabs IDE? Especially considering that matlab now has it’s own notebook interface. I’m actually just curious here! I’m very familiar with matlab but am new to using jupyter (I’ve
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by sgillen 9y ago
Yes it appears that's what this means.
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by sgillen 9y ago
I would love to see an open sourced steam. I’m sure there are a lot of challenges to making that happen though.
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by sgillen 9y ago
This would be a long time coming. In my experience athletes at big programs are even more vulnerable and more exploited than graduate students. It's a similar situation, but there are even less professional jobs, less alternatives afte
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by sgillen 9y ago
I don't think you are missing anything, good catch.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Maybe you are aware of a breakthrough that I am not, but the technology you describe does not sound feasible to me. If you're transmitting power everywhere that's an R^2 relationship under ideal circumstances, you'd have to p
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by sgillen 9y ago
More likely is that the car would have a Linux box running this software that connects to one or more micro controllers. The micro controllers handle any sensors/actuators with real time requirements, and may be running an RTOS or just
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Ask HN: Best practices for integrating open source project into your code base
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by sgillen 9y ago
The title is definitely click baitey (and overblown). It will increase tensions yes, but probably not more than the two nations meddling in the Middle East or Russian hacking already has.
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by sgillen 9y ago
You probably meant to put this is show HN
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Cell Free Biotech(economist.com)
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by sgillen 9y ago
I've always wondered what kind of person replies to these types of text messages or emails. I wasn't expecting this guy to just give up like that. This sounds like a kid who's trying to make a few bucks.
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by sgillen 9y ago
While I don't see this ever being used on a large scale, it sounds like it was a very fun project.
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by sgillen 9y ago
I'm not sure if you would consider this a feature of the language. But having a large community and large, readily available, libraries is huge.
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by sgillen 9y ago
Considering your major is CS I think UIUC is the better choice, their STEM programs are much stronger than UVA's. I'm not sure the size and strength of the program help you that much when applying, but I think a good CS program wi
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by sgillen 9y ago
I think the AI is the furthest away, though predicting where technologies will be in 200 years is basically impossible. IIRC TARS is able to converse with humans naturally (even telling jokes) navigate about as well as humans in a variety o
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by sgillen 10y ago
It depends what exactly you mean. Just building 4 metal beams that connect to each other and move in some of the ways you see in the movie is doable. The balance displayed may be accomplished, I suspect a lot of energy would be needed to dr
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by sgillen 10y ago
Something I didn't see mentioned yet is putting what you learned into practice. Building even a small program (from scratch) to demonstrate some new tool you learned. Doing this I feel I learn The subject faster and in more depth.
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by sgillen 10y ago
I believe The Economist to be top notch. A subscription is a bit expensive though.
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by sgillen 10y ago
Steve Wozniak is a good one. He basically designed the entirety of the Apple I and Apple II. My favorite anecdote is that to this day he doesn't really understand how the Apple IIs color screen works.
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by sgillen 10y ago
This reads like an advertisement for svn more than anything. There's nothing wrong with trying to dispell some myths about svn, but the author should be up front about it.
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by sgillen 11y ago
What exactly would you offer as an alternative to globalization? Purely curious.
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by sgillen 11y ago
I have one notebook for all my subjects. This only works because I never really look back at my notes (I refer to online lecture notes, the textbook etc. for that). I only write notes down because it helps me remember. my style is similar t
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by sgillen 11y ago
I think it is very major dependent. I've found most engineering courses are very hard to type notes for, just because of all the equations, graphs, etc. I agree though I'll almost never have my laptop out during a lecture. The one
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by sgillen 11y ago
Yeah I completely agree, I've yet to use anything as good as Mathematica for symbolic algebra/computation. Not quite sure what you're comment about Maple means though, would you mind expanding?