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by tdicola 14y ago
Wow, as someone who played with making games using QBasic on a 486 as a pre-teen I am seriously impressed. I have to chuckle at requiring such a fast processor to run well though. Assuming the author doesn't rely on too many DOS game prog
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by tdicola 14y ago
Nice article--I like that it's concise and sticks to the data to make its point. This article last week from Forbes makes the same point with Paul Krugman's babysitter's co-op column: http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2013/0
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by tdicola 14y ago
Or it could be confirmation bias--if you just bought a Tesla you probably want to feel good about your decision.
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by tdicola 14y ago
The Frontline video of the bombing mentioned in this article is posted now: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defe... . Be warned the footage is graphic and quite disturbing. IMHO this video should be nominated for Pu
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by tdicola 14y ago
It would be a neat one-off RV, but the cost of removing all the fire truck bits and building a living area would likely exceed just starting from a van or bus and beefing up the springs.
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by tdicola 14y ago
That sounds pretty plausible. Make a great example of crowd funding for Moms, then turn around and pump your crowd funding business.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Supply and demand. There isn't a huge market for 30 year old used fire trucks, so the prices are low. As the author found out, a fire truck isn't the most practical vehicle in the world--certainly not as practical as a Honda Civic.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Nice, congratulations. IPython notebook really is a fantastic tool.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Or to condense it even further: Like a MacBook Air but with a trackpoint.
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by tdicola 14y ago
The use of 'datas' annoyed me. Data is already plural. The singular form is datum.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Very cool--I'm jealous of what a great environment teenagers have for programming today. When I was 13 I was hacking up QBasic games I downloaded from local bulletin boards. A teenager today can publish Android apps to impress their frien
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by tdicola 14y ago
A software engineering certification exam with no coding seems a little odd.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Came to complain about the same infographics too. I don't even understand why they tried to make the charts look like a bad tetris game. Seems like a perfect example of 'chartjunk'.
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by tdicola 14y ago
It created a fireball 5 miles in diameter, destroyed all buildings up to 34 miles away, and could give 3rd degree burns to people 62 miles away. I can't even comprehend how one bomb could do so much damage.
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by tdicola 14y ago
It looks like a nice 32bit ARM microcontroller, so its great for small projects like talking to sensors, running servos & motors, etc. Compared to other microcontroller platforms like Arduino, this Stellaris chip is much more powerful
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by tdicola 14y ago
Wow very sad news, RIP. I never knew him personally but feel like he gave me so much through his contributions to the python and scientific computing community.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Very cool! Does anyone else think the interactivity adds nothing and just makes looking at a big image more difficult?
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by tdicola 14y ago
If you like that, searching for graph <function> will blow your mind: http://www.google.com/search?q=graph+sin(x)
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by tdicola 14y ago
Text editors, the next billion dollar business.
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by tdicola 14y ago
Nice! I was hoping somebody would make a remotely controlled DLNA controller to fix these issues. Just setup BubbleUPnP and it seems to work with PlugPlayer on my ipad--most importantly music actually continues even when the ipad is aslee
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by tdicola 14y ago
I have been trying to make uPNP A/V and DLNA work for years without success. From an early Philips Streamium, to an XBox 360, and now a Sony NS400--none have had acceptable results for me. Right now my biggest annoyance is that none of th
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by tdicola 14y ago
I don't buy that this thing was built for hackers & makers. If you really wanted to build something for them, why not release something like the beagle board or rasberry pi but running Android? These ARM SoC based development boards a
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by tdicola 14y ago
I don't understand the particle physics they're talking about, but I do find it fascinating how a lot of the work is really how to sort through a massive amount of data to remove all the noise and find the signal. It sounds like they're us
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by tdicola 14y ago
Anyone else getting no sound? edit: Sound is working now!
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by tdicola 14y ago
Check out the modern interactive fiction scene, there are some great games being made by passionate people today. The annual competition always has some good stuff: http://www.ifcomp.org/
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by tdicola 15y ago
While I agree there's a bubble and that the recent JOBS act has the potential to turn things into a frenzy (see Taibbi: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-obam... ), I'm not sure I agree it's near the scale of the mor
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by tdicola 15y ago
Very nice, my cat especially likes paint for cats. Here she is playing: http://i.imgur.com/uudTY.jpg
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by tdicola 15y ago
I noticed the very first lightning talk here seems to be on Numba and gives a good general overview: http://pyvideo.org/video/654/saturday-morning-lightning-talk...
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by tdicola 15y ago
Fantastic--I've been looking for the videos for the past few days. Looking forward to checking out the tutorials and talks on data analysis tools like pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, etc.
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by tdicola 15y ago
Nice introduction! I've been playing with d3.js recently and really, really enjoy it. I love the great support for scales, interpolations, etc--it really seems to simplify building visualizations.

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