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   by slacka 13y ago

   It's a shame people reject dataflow languages because they associate it with visual programming. Dataflow languages can be textual, visual, or a combination. It's good to see that NoFlo has exposed the textual side. Like functiona
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   by slacka 13y ago

   > Currently only Chrome browser is supported. Sorry I'm on Linux and no Chromium installed.
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   Breakthrough in Superconductivity:Physicists Put an End to 20 Years of Debate(sacbee.com)

   1 points by slacka 13y ago|0 comments
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   by slacka 13y ago

   It is interesting how counterintuitive quantum mechanics seems and yet many aspects make perfect sense in the eyes of a programmer. * The foundation of Quantum Mechanics is the idea of quanta. The data or physical quantities of a computer a
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   by slacka 13y ago

   13 pages of text, no upvotes. Can someone please give a TLDR? First page was all intro. Scanned the last page; didn't get the point. I'll go back and read it, if the summary looks interesting.
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   Why Watson and Siri Are Not Real AI(popularmechanics.com)

   45 points by slacka 13y ago|80 comments
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   by slacka 13y ago

   I do blame Dell for my blown speakers. I also do like VLC's feature to boost audio in quiet movies. What I don't like is is the sound of digital clipping, how VLC makes it easy to clip, and how VLC remembers these terrible setting
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   by slacka 13y ago

   Dell may be using poor quality parts. VLC can also make the sound louder than any other media player that I've used while generating destructive square clipping. The problem is it's too easy to set the volume above 100%. I've
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   by slacka 13y ago

   BSD has jails and rctl for controlling users resources limits and other analogous tools for process monitoring. The issue is systemd was not designed with portability in mind. Taking full advantage of Linux's features is fine for some
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    by slacka 13y ago

    Nothing is stopping anyone from only supporting the core ReactOS project. They take bitcoins, paypal, and wire transfers. http://www.reactos.org/donations
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    by slacka 13y ago

    "No Silver Bullet" reminds me of the physicists at turn of century claiming that Newtonian physics held all of the answers. He blames the issues in software engineering on bad programmers, instead of questioning his field. His nar
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    by slacka 13y ago

    thanks the magnet. How did you download the video? I tried videograbber, flash video downloader, and download helper. All of them refused to work.
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    by slacka 13y ago

    As someone now in Hong Kong about to fly back home to SF, I have always tried to schedule my flights so that I minimize my exposure to day time radiation. I guess I'm in the minority, but it's something to consider when taking int
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    by slacka 13y ago

    Did you even read the article or just feel like spamming HN with some uninformed snarky comment? I also am skeptical about this and don't fully understand the physics behind it. But I did RTFA and all of the references checked out.
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    by slacka 13y ago

    In addition to popular SwiftKey and Swype, it's great to see all these new experimental keyboards coming out. Between KALQ for speed and Minuum for saving screen real estate, there are so many great options to choose from on the Androi
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    by slacka 13y ago

    I've been excited about this project ever since I saw the Ted talk by Blaise Agüera y Arcas. Here are some related projects. multiple photos: http://www.123dapp.com/catch Single photo: http://make3d.cs.corne
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    by slacka 13y ago

    I'm a little confused by this issue. According to Proof Wiki: "Because the Traveling Salesman problem is both NP and NP-hard the Traveling Salesman Problem is NP-complete." http://www.proofwiki.org/wiki&#x2F
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    by slacka 13y ago

    I'm sure they had their reasons releasing it as a giant zip file. If you want the individual file listings, you can find them here: https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.151_ROMs/MAME_0.151_ROMs...
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    by slacka 13y ago

    Previous HN discussion on this article can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6347848
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    by slacka 13y ago

    Agreed. LXDE is my favorite light desktop. I just hope that in the migration from GTK to qt, they manage to keep the memory footprint and CPU resource usage as low as it has always been.
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    by slacka 13y ago

    > " Lynch had once posted a photo of her driver’s license online" Wow! This girl is so brain dead, I'm not even angry; I just pity her.
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    by slacka 13y ago

    The new "Save Page Now" feature is great, but there is still no way to add full sites to crawl. For example, I added: http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW.aspx But it would take hours or days to add every art
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    by slacka 13y ago

    GhotiFish, Why do you give snarky trolls like kevinxucs advice on how to avoid/circumvent the hellban? If you took the time to read his post history, you'd see he's exactly the kind of 1 line, trollish, thoughtless commenter
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    by slacka 13y ago

    So I worked on a defuct N64 emulator, TRwin, back around 2000. Thirteen years later and thanks to the power of the modern web, my PC that's literally orders of magnitude faster runs the best JS emulator like a slide show. Using native
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    by slacka 13y ago

    After PCjs and Bellard's, try Virtual x86, which can emulate FreeDOS, OpenBSD, and KolibriOS. http://copy.sh/v24/ As a hack, all of these JavaScript emulators are awesome to play with. But in reality if you need p
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    by slacka 13y ago

    > in fact, your example of the X1950 is a perfect example of which cards the OSS community supports better than proprietary. Wow, that's some twisted logic. AMD doesn't support the cards under Windows 8, but I can still load th
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    by slacka 13y ago

    I couldn't disagree with you more about drivers that work on Windows breaking. MS actively tries to keep driver compatibility between releases. The Linux kernel developers actively try to break the binary drivers. This means that once
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    by slacka 13y ago

    When I was studying psychology we often ran into negotiating tactics like this. Another is if you need a small favor, ask for something huge when they turn you down, they will almost always agree to the small favor. For example, after askin
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    by slacka 13y ago

    1) It's GPL'd so nothing is stopping you or anyone else from forking it away from Oracle. 2) The Open Watcom compiler is not required to build VirtualBox at all. The actual compiler is free for anyone to download and use.[1] Other
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    by slacka 13y ago

    The CPU/GPUs keep getting faster but this idiotic PPI race is forcing manufactures to cheat so they can appear faster than the previous generation. On a 5" display anything over 720p is overkill.