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by troystribling 16y ago
He is painting the Fourier components of the image from longest to shortest wavelength.
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by troystribling 16y ago
I think you mean this (x = Post.first) ? do_foo(x) : do_bar
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by troystribling 16y ago
Mine was delivered Friday. One of the first things I did was to try the death grip. To get the signal to degrade I had to hold it in a position essentially embedding in the lower left corner of the phone in my palm while holding it unnatura
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by troystribling 16y ago
I have had an iPod since 2005 and have never purchased music from iTunes. You can purchase or rip music from anywhere and put it on any Apple device. eMusic and Amazon have been the main online music stores I have used. Many people seem to
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by troystribling 16y ago
It is likely that they have saturated their market. Apple has 90% market share in PCs > $1000. http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_...
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by troystribling 16y ago
People seem to be associating the apparent neglect of Macs at the WWDC, the marketing focus on the iOS products and the delay in OSX 10.7 as the beginning of a phase out of the platform. It is most likely just a focus of scarce company reso
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by troystribling 16y ago
Just noticed that it is back in the app store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulse-news-reader/id371088673...
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by troystribling 16y ago
Similar to tines thought speech in "Fire Upon the Deep".
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"Do Not Be a Goddamned Liar", from Sh*t My Dad Says: The Book(gizmodo.com)
5 points by troystribling 16y ago|1 comments
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Are Cameras the New Guns?(gizmodo.com)
7 points by troystribling 16y ago|6 comments
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by troystribling 16y ago
These two podcasts, http://twit.tv/fib52 , http://twit.tv/fib55 , of an interview with Rahul Sarpeshkar discussing Ultra Power Bioelectronics provide a good summary of current knowledge on how the brain works. There is a decent understand
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by troystribling 16y ago
GOOG is now selling at about its mid 2005 price while APPL is about 350% above its mid 2005 price.
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by troystribling 16y ago
If Microsoft goes after RIM and leverages their enterprise footprint they could quickly become viable. If they compete in the consumer market with Apple and Google they are toast.
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by troystribling 16y ago
Google has not acceled at anything outside the expertise of the founders, search and building datacenters.
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by troystribling 16y ago
objective C, but the JavaScript version was my first substantial JavaScript program.
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Modern cars vulnerable to malicious hacks(newscientist.com)
1 points by troystribling 16y ago|0 comments
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by troystribling 16y ago
I have been working on a project that required clients be implemented in both Obj-C and JavaScript. They are functionally equivalent. The code base of the Javascript version is close to 20 times smaller and was coded about twice as fast. I
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Yale Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don’t(opa.yale.edu)
3 points by troystribling 16y ago|0 comments
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by troystribling 16y ago
The article is claiming that designing for reuse is at odds with designing for robustness.
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by troystribling 16y ago
I have done all three and the motivations and results of each are distinct. If you are Sciartiginering you are not building software. Maybe ASCII art?
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by troystribling 16y ago
Siri is based on natural language processing technology developed by the DARPA CALO AI Project http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_stealth_startu... , http://caloproject.sri.com/about/ . There is more to it than speech recogniti
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Looking Into My Genome Reveals Risks I’ll Never Unsee(gizmodo.com)
2 points by troystribling 16y ago|0 comments
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by troystribling 16y ago
A very precise definition of an engineer? Engineers build tools. Artists build amusements. Scientists build ideas. Programmer = Engineer.
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by troystribling 16y ago
Looks cool but I think 3 histograms with data scaled relative to VM size would be easier to look at and more informative. I am not sure that I have ever seen a useful 3D data visualization. Perception of scale in the third dimension is diff
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by troystribling 16y ago
Shannon does not define information but the entropy of information.
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by troystribling 16y ago
benefit is probably a better term than advantage. Then your case would be included.
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by troystribling 16y ago
The way you prove any corporate crime. Evidence would have to be obtained that the insurer acquired genetic information and then terminated coverage for individuals it perceived as high risk. This would likely involve many people from withi
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by troystribling 16y ago
For an insurer to deny coverage based on genetic information has been against the law in the US for almost 2 years http://www.genome.gov/10002077 . Also, there are health benefits to sharing your genetic information and comparing it with o
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A Desk That Allows You to Stand or Sit(nytimes.com)
140 points by troystribling 16y ago|102 comments
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by troystribling 16y ago
I dangers of online privacy have been in the news for the past 5 to 6 years since myspace et al. initially became popular. Since then more people have put more information about themselves online because they believe there is an advantage i

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