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by wzdd 16y ago
Not at all. This article cites a gain of 0.3 points per year and postulates (admittedly without drawing any conclusions) that the average person in the early part of this century had an IQ of 80: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.
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by wzdd 16y ago
That's interesting. I'm not measuring touches, I'm injecting events into the Linux kernel by writing to /dev/input/event? and measuring how long it takes for them to get to the application. That's because I am working on software optimisati
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by wzdd 16y ago
Out of date not just as a suggestion, but in the very specific sense that it was exactly what people did before LLVM and co.
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by wzdd 16y ago
Apparently touch responsiveness is improved in 2.3. However this article doesn't really explain what's wrong with it. I've been doing latency benchmarks for touch recently, and the highest latency I've seen for touch delivery is 10ms. Now 1
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by wzdd 16y ago
Bonus points for apparently using RLE for same-colour runs of pixels. :)
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by wzdd 16y ago
> Always seemed to be to be a bad practice from a security point of view This is why I can't understand people's recommendation to use Google's or Microsoft's CDN. Even if you assume they're not going to be malicious, you have to trust
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by wzdd 16y ago
>I bet you eat animals that have been tortured and killed in factory farms, and you have a bunch of a really great justifications for that. QED. As a vegetarian I feel that bringing out this argument (implying that a particular person i
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by wzdd 16y ago
I just tried a 1.1 gig file with MacVim and didn't have any issues.
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by wzdd 16y ago
The alternatives which don't require your own server seem to support themselves through advertising. I consider viewing advertising a cost (and actually I consider it much more of a cost than the $5 I paid to pinboard.in). So, for me, there
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by wzdd 16y ago
The reason these articles focus on the faculty is because students will only be in a particular class once in their whole lives (everything going according to plan), whereas the professor teaching that class will do so many times. This is w
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by wzdd 16y ago
I suspect it's because people don't like entering passwords and generally only have one or two for the entire Internet, so forcing them to enter the same one again every so often (or, worse, forcing them to enter a different one!) would not
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by wzdd 16y ago
The original article was strange in that it got a whole lot of things wrong, but was sufficiently technical that you would actually have to have been an iOS and an Android developer in order to discuss it. This is why the comments were so c
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by wzdd 16y ago
I doubt that Apple could expose it with a software update -- presumably to receive FM with the chip you would also need an FM antenna and attendant mainboard changes (not to mention room in the case). These things sound like extra hardware
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by wzdd 16y ago
In general it looks like they are moving closer to pure-native app support -- native life cycle and more access to Surfaces as well. This is interesting as even quite recently the official position was apps would be written in Java with JNI
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by wzdd 16y ago
If I'm enjoying a show and have the opportunity to email the producers about it, I probably won't. If I am really disliking a show and have the same opportunity, I might take it. If 10% of people don't like the show they're watching and the
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by wzdd 16y ago
I haven't had a hard look, but this reminds me of the Android build system. Was that an inspiration / have you had a look at it? It's quite nice. One issue I have with all build systems, Android's included, is the amount of magic that goes
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by wzdd 16y ago
CHDK is amazing, not least because it runs on such a wide range of cameras. I'm doing some book scanning at the moment using a home-made scanning support, Tesseract OCR software, and an ancient A570 camera running CHDK so I can get a remote
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by wzdd 16y ago
I think the point was that iOS apps have a set of fixed prices in each area (in local currency). Here in the UK the cheapest non-free app is 59p (corresponding with a 99c app in the US store), the next is £1.19 ($1.99), and so on. This make
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by wzdd 16y ago
If you're just after a listen, there are lots of examples of alternative systems on youtube. Here's 19-tone, equal temperament (as opposed to the usual 12 TET): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EP0KvbxW8o I like the above example because i
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by wzdd 16y ago
I don't see why it is prima facie unreasonable. I use plenty of applications which are at least nine months old (including the Dropbox client). None of them has failed due to old age yet...
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by wzdd 16y ago
Does a specification count as native-tongue programming (using this term as NLP seems overloaded)? If it doesn't, why doesn't it? Would it be better if everybody on a project expressed their ideas in a computer programming language? This se
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by wzdd 16y ago
The security is up to the bank. Some banks implement "something you have" security which mitigates the risk. I have Australian and UK bank accounts. Both require Verified by Visa. The Australian account asks me to enter a single-use number
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by wzdd 16y ago
This sounds like flattr to me, particularly since they were going to set things up so you could repeatedly flattr the same sites (not sure if that's happened yet). Is there is a philosophical difference?
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by wzdd 16y ago
It's just too easy to make a case by taking a retrospective look at the winners. I want to see a current battleground along with a prediction of which one is the toy and which one is the non-toy. Here's an example of why it's hard: iPhone v
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by wzdd 16y ago
The Flash side was unexpectedly slow, and comments on this same article on Reddit indicate that it is because they are doing a lot of JavaScript-to-Flash communication, which is unusual for a game, as well as enabling "wmode=transparent", w
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by wzdd 16y ago
First off, I think this is super cool. It's a novel and interesting take on a very boring but necessary concept, and he's taken the time to get the design looking nice as well -- he could easily have just soldered an attiny to a USB connect
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by wzdd 16y ago
This is fascinating, because there was a post a little while back proposing the opposite effect, titled "the default position of HN is skepticism". Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629583
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by wzdd 16y ago
I think it's a great idea, but doesn't an abstract representation of cash also benefit the merchant, because it makes people more likely to make spur-of-the-moment purchases? Making this process much more concrete and emphasising the "takin
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by wzdd 16y ago
And in fact this has happened in the past: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-192A.html Seems like a good reason not to ship it with the OS.
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by wzdd 16y ago
500. Thought process was something like "there are a lot of 30s in the list, at least 3 groups of 3, so a really conservative estimate would be 300. But there are about that many boxes again having numbers in the double digits below 30. So,

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