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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome, this looks really handy for game development. Love that it's cross platform with Intel and ARM SIMD extensions too! Has anyone used it and have feedback on how well it works?
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is really cool, is there anything similar for hydrogen bombs? I've always been curious how they are different from fission bombs (although obviously a lot of their true workings are still classified).
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by tdicola 12y ago
Making enough plutonium is pretty difficult from what I understand. In WW2 some of the biggest buildings ever built were necessary to house all the equipment to make just enough material for a few bombs (see http://en.wikipedia.
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by tdicola 12y ago
So do reddit employees still have to move to San Francisco in a month?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Great news, but I think people need to realize this is really just Microsoft pledging to merge and support what Mono has already been doing. You won't magically be able to take a WPF app and run it on your Mac. You will however be ab
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice effect! I really like the look of the Jekyll theme you made too, Shiori. Love the simplicity and use of Bootstrap.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Maybe you should look at exchanging your Pi for another one. Manufacturing defects are rare but can happen. I've used dozens of Pi's and never had bad reliability problems. Always use a quality 1 amp or more power supply, good n
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by tdicola 12y ago
Interesting new board from the BeagleBoard.org Foundation that designs the BeagleBone Black and other embedded Linux boards. Has a dual core ARM Cortex A15 processor and what appears to be a lot of peripherals like USB ports, ethernet port
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BeagleBoard X-15(elinux.org)
39 points by tdicola 12y ago|20 comments
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by tdicola 12y ago
At least the backlash and market demand made the Kinect optional.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Interesting idea, would definitely make you increase the efficiency of your time at the editor if it costs you $50/hour! But you don't need 1000 cores to fire off a bunch of search requests. Network calls are generally IO bound
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by tdicola 12y ago
It works for my domain/apps account on a Nexus 9.
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by tdicola 12y ago
It's a gamble though, in my experience Linux support for native device power management is very spotty. You might trade a crappy trackpad driver for no sleep, no CPU throttling, etc.
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by tdicola 12y ago
That's a silly attitude that even Microsoft isn't pushing anymore. How do you rationalize it against the rumored upcoming Office support for iOS and Android?
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm a big fan of the DOS nostalgia podcast: http://www.dosnostalgia.com/?cat=91 It only comes out once every few months, but the interviews and discussions are awesome if you're nostalgic for DOS & early home
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by tdicola 12y ago
Not to mention there were certainly other problems with Apollo like mission 13, or 11 barely landing before running out of fuel (computer problem forced Armstrong to take manual control and find a new landing spot at the last minute). Ulti
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by tdicola 12y ago
If it helps, chromebooks are nice little laptops that can be had for a couple hundred bucks. If you have monitors and keyboards a Raspberry Pi might work well as a computer and is about $50 with SD card, power supply, etc.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah at this rate they're probably just going to be a camera and game console company. I remember when seeing a giant Sony CRT TV in someone's house meant they were doing something right (or bad with saving money).
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by tdicola 12y ago
Check out scratch, in particular code.org has a nice 1 hour intro with Angry Birds and scratch that's good for kids.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Looks interesting and good on Microsoft for finally getting in front of a new hardware trend. I kind of wonder if all these health trackers are just going to be a fad though. Do you really need to micromanage every calorie and heart beat
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by tdicola 12y ago
Are there instructions how to build it? I'm looking around the github page and don't see anything like what depedencies it needs, what infrastructure it uses (looks like CMake?), etc. It's cool to distribute it as a vagrant
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by tdicola 12y ago
Not too surprising considering their audience are tweakers who want to get the last possible FPS out of their crazy PC gaming rigs.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Facebook is a public company now, their goal is to generate value for their shareholders. All other goals like 'connect the world' are secondary.
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by tdicola 12y ago
To which the founder will reply, "It's your lucky day! Now you have all the time in the world to look for a better job. Pack your things and get out, now."
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by tdicola 12y ago
Not in the US--it's pretty rare for a full time employee to have some kind of contract that retains their employment. In fact in a lot of states employment is considered 'at will' and you can be let go at any time for any re
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by tdicola 12y ago
Hah, true! To take the analogy further, sometimes you need to throw some breadcrumbs to keep the seagulls busy.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I've heard 'seagull management' or something similar too. They fly in, shit all over everything, and leave.
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by tdicola 12y ago
There are nearly 4 million Pi's sold now vs. a few hundred thousand BeagleBone Black boards (which use ARMv7). If you only have limited resources to get your OS running on one embedded hobbyist board, I think the choice to use the Pi
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by tdicola 12y ago
Very cool that more operating systems are supporting the Raspberry Pi. However I think targeting the Pi to completely run a quad copter/drone is a bad idea. Unless Firefox OS has some special realtime control extensions that allow yo
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by tdicola 12y ago
Standing desks, motorized standing desks are the new Aeron of this bubble.

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