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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice! I remember when this was posted about a year ago and it's nice to see it's been steadily maintained since then. Great list of tools, etc. that are a must know for python users.
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is a project I recently created for Hackaday's Sci Fi contest and thought folks on HN might be interested in checking it out too. The device is made to replicate the verbal morality statute monitor (AKA swear detector) from the f
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Show HN: Demolition Man Swear Detector(hackaday.io)
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by tdicola 12y ago
Isn't that the point of tools like scikit-learn? You don't need to know how to code, optimize, etc. all the algorithms, just understand how to use them.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice! Anyone know if github pages support Jekyll 2.0 yet?
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm really impressed with Vagrant's documentation: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/ Super clean, easy to read, and well organized. Nice job!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Odd--what if I don't want to tell the world that I'm attending?
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by tdicola 12y ago
This looks interesting, but am I looking at Google Plus correctly and really not seeing an 'Add to calendar' option to put this event on my gmail calendar? I could have sworn Google was really good about making it easy to put stu
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah I wish most announcements from big companies were this frank and to the point. Sad that there have to be these crazy circumstances to bring this about.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I use it too, but it needs a constant supply of caffeine or it crashes.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice-do you know if videos are or will be released of the talks? Would like to see this one so there's more context on what's being shown. A little tough to follow what are probably the raw materials for the talk.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Stored procedures are great for solving some of that pain. For anything really serious you might want to go all the way and only use stored procedures so there's no ability/risk of your app code ever making raw SQL calls.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Am I weird for preferring raw SQL over query abstractions like these ORMs expose? IMHO SQL is a perfectly fine language. I do however like letting a library do all the dirty work of turning SQL query output into objects. There's a g
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by tdicola 13y ago
I have a slightly older (ivy bridge) 13" MBA and it is totally silent. The only time I have ever heard fans was while rendering some high definition video in iMovie.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Neat contest, but paying taxes on the top price (worth $200k) is going to be insane. You're looking at at least $50k in taxes, and more depending on state. I seriously doubt many people would be able to afford to win the prize.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Go bare metal and make constant use of sleep modes. The less time your system is awake and running at full speed the better. There are some cool low power chips like the Tiny Gecko: http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu&
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by tdicola 13y ago
There is no analog I/O on the Raspberry Pi. You can do PWM output on a pin, but otherwise no analog input or output. There really isn't much to drop from the model A--it's just the processor and supporting passive component
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by tdicola 13y ago
What about when you want to get those motors, switches, actuators, etc. accessible over the internet? Linux-based boards are fantastic for this use. There are options to get an AVR or similar 8-bit micro onto a network, but if you do anyt
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by tdicola 13y ago
Precisely, bread-boarding circuits with wires is why I prefer female connectors. Once you have something working and want to take it beyond a one-off prototype then you're going to want to build your own custom circuit board anyways,
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by tdicola 13y ago
Interesting project--I've done a little bit of Angular development and would be curious to look at this the next time I come back to Angular. As a side note, I am always impressed and insanely jealous of the nice websites that frontend
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by tdicola 13y ago
"Makers" is not an actual use case. I don't agree with that--it might not be a use case to you, but is certainly a valid use case for these small development boards. Look at the success of Arduino, Maker Faire, 3D printing,
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by tdicola 13y ago
You can't go wrong with an Arduino. You can use the Arduino IDE to get up to speed very quickly, and then later program it with avr-gcc and get rid of the Arduino bootloader/libraries if you desire. The next logical progression I
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by tdicola 13y ago
Neat board, but I think it's going to be more useful for the media center/home server crowd than makers/hardware crowd. Some of the gripes I have: - Male header pins are kind of a pain to connect to a breadboard, at least co
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by tdicola 13y ago
Ooph, twist the knife a little more. I'm still mad about Reader's death. At least Feedly has mostly replicated the simple interface and quick scanning of Reader.
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by tdicola 13y ago
For testing, I've used and like the googletest unit test framework: https://code.google.com/p/googletest/ For C++ features, definitely check out lambda functions and the STL algorithms. With lambdas the stan
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by tdicola 13y ago
Don't get too wrapped up with these standards. When asked about them Stroustrup himself said they aren't a general C++ standard, but something very specific to the embedded & critical systems of fighter jets. I can't re
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by tdicola 13y ago
So what happens when a founder leaves like this, do they give up their % ownership and the other founders gain what was lost?
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by tdicola 13y ago
Yeah without those dungeon files this is kind of pointless to try recreating.
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by tdicola 13y ago
BASIC isn't that ancient and should be familiar to anyone who has experience with C. Scanning the code here I don't think there's a lot of insight to be gleaned by studying it in depth. There really aren't any comments
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by tdicola 13y ago
This is a clever use of unique_ptr, but I can't help but think this is missing the forest through the trees. There's a lot of difficult to read code so you can use a C library resource with a bunch of C APIs. If you wrap the win

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