thirdhaf

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by thirdhaf 14y ago
6.1 was running on an even more ancient PC from 2001. This was at a former employer so I have no influence over this system any more. The funny thing was that we had ample budget for this project, I think we spent about $10k on a very nice
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
Hmm, we were still running 6.1 in 2008 which probably explains a lot. (No upgrade path allowed at that time)
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
LabView IS fun, I've written a couple of drivers and a (physical device) testing GUI with it. As I've been thinking about it more I see two hurdles to overcome with LabView though: - Layout: Spaghetti code becomes a very tangible issue if y
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
BTW your Python example app is broken and has been for months. Someone opened an issue on Github (with code to fix) but it's been ignored for months now. https://github.com/heroku/facebook-template-python/issues/7
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
It seems like everyone is ignoring or has forgotten the death of Ilya, one of co-founders. Be as disappointed as you like but the psychological toll of this probably has more than a little bearing on the situation.
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
As long as it's not terribly mission critical I'd suggest a VPS. Since you have a virtualized server you get everything you mentioned (and the responsibility of keeping the damn thin up to date). Take a look at http://lowendbox.com You're
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
If you're on any of the Aluminum MacBooks (2008 included) the specs are actually under-representing what the machine can handle. My Core2 has 8GB RAM and I have yet to feels the need to upgrade other than coveting the new high res display o
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
I'm a big fan of concrete examples so here's one: Let's say you have two points on a line labeled 0 and 1. Let's also suppose there's a special property you're interested in at one of these locations, it minimizes some function, there's a p
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
I lost a large bet in 2010 on being able to create a computer program capable of beating my roommate at Go. UCT was my go-to solution to this problem but my opponent was able to beat my creation on a 13x13 board since he spent every free wa
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
Of course, you need only go to the horse's mouth. [1] It's been posted before but Jordan, the creator of both Karateka and Prince of Persia, has a wonderful series of journals documenting his travails with video games and the movie industry
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
I've honestly tried to use the man pages for bash before, they are unarguably complete but unfortunately difficult to get started with. The chances of me knowing ahead of time to either search first for "readline" followed "Commands for Mov
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by thirdhaf 14y ago
In aid of helping others along this path, here's a crib sheet I've found for readline shortcuts. I've been meaning to become more efficient in using bash and this might just be the push I need. http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
This has been known a while. The earliest paper that I can find describing this phenomenon is from 2009 [1] but I distinctly recall seeing some slides describing R&D results corroborating this at least as far back as 2007. This is neat
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
You let your thirteen-year old stay up until midnight for a Facebook registration? That sounds less like a hard-ass and more like an eccentric :-)
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Another datum: I sent an IM at 2pm PST and haven't received any response yet. (Looks like quixeychallenge offline the whole time) It would have been fun to take part but I think the poor guys are swamped.
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
It seems like one of the prerequisites for a workable micropayment system is an overhaul of interbank payment processing system or establishment of a new one. I have absolutely no knowledge of the current system but I'd be shocked if the sa
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
That page is an unmitigated disaster on a mobile device. Round fill-ins to obstruct my fairly small screen, weird auto-snap to ensure I can't get a look at the content I want. I think this has inspired me to start a wall of shame for mobile
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Well count me in for somewhere between #3 and #9 then :-P
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Thank you! Sorry if that came off as antagonistic, I think I really need to start using some form of password manager or another.
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Weren't spreadsheets, a la VisiCalc the killer business app for the Apple II? On a more serious note I'm a true believer in RISK capital. Once your company is actually profitable it seems like a great idea to ensure that you do a bit of R&#
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Their release notes has an incorrect link for the article on memory reduction, they should be linking to: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/09/firefox-7-is-lean-and-fast/ I would request a fix but I can't find a contact on that page and I don
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
In the hard SF category you may also like Neal Asher's work.
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Fantastic! SF Bay Areay by any chance?
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
I really wanted to use these exact lights for a giant display in some friends' Burning Man camp this year but the G-35's are pretty much impossible to find at the moment. These lights are on my wish list for Christmas :-)
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Let's pessimistically assume you have to read all information associated with each file from disk. I suspect this sort of query is IO bound since processing is minimal and assuming we can mostly avoid fragmentation on disk we could feasibly
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Correct, but with the caveat that it only really works along the optical axis. Off-axis you get horrible artifacts. If I recall correctly these metamaterials do not have that limitation.
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
It's probably technically feasible to use this ink as an antenna for an implanted RFID chip, they're not much larger than a grain of sand after all, but do you REALLY want to do that? Once you have your key of identification implanted you j
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Well since they have a lot of former Sun engineers working for them I don't really think they have to SAY Solaris. As others have mentioned there are trademarks involved here too. Sun/Oracle have been hemorrhaging talent, particularly the f
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Could you explain the gravity assist portion a bit more please? A gravity slingshot only works when you transition from a regime dominated by one body (sun for example) to a regime dominated by another body moving relative to it (Jupiter fo
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by thirdhaf 15y ago
Prosecutors have absolute immunity which is incredibly difficult to overcome. Even falsifying evidence doesn't seem to do it unless there's a "pattern of abuse" which is practically impossible to prove. http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?

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