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by wzdd 16y ago
There is Netduino: http://netduino.com/ I think it's worth having a bash in a lower-level language too, though. You'll notice the Netduino is a 48MHz ARM7 with 60K of RAM and 128K of Flash. By contrast, the Arduino Duemilanove is a 16MHz
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by wzdd 16y ago
The other main argument is so that bug fixes can be deployed to all affected applications by replacing a shared DLL. The importance of this aspect is also going away now that pretty much everything automatically updates itself via the Inter
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by wzdd 16y ago
I use both OS X and ion3 (depending on whether I'm using a Mac or a Linux box). Ion3 is a tiling WM and about as far removed from the OS X GUI as you can imagine. Nonetheless, my workflow in both is exactly the same: one large Vim window, o
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by wzdd 16y ago
I took your challenge. The top 5 posts, in order: 1. "There is no nanotech, stop talking about it and start laughing at it". Top comment: jacqquesm. Character: sceptical ("Nano machinery is real, it exists, it powers the world, it's called
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by wzdd 16y ago
My housemate and I did this for Tandy Color Computer cassettes a while back. If I recall correctly, a binary 0 was a certain duration of 1200Hz sine waves, and a binary 1 was the same duration of 2400Hz sine waves. The circuitry counted zer
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by wzdd 16y ago
The problem is that lots of different software engineering styles are implemented using the language feature of inheritance. For example in C++ implementing interface X looks the same syntactically as inheriting from some class X to modify
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by wzdd 16y ago
This was my first Assembly (I know, I'm late) and it was absolutely inspiring. These demos take months of work, and they're done for fun -- sure, there's some rivalry there, and there's a challenge, but it mostly seems to be about creating
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by wzdd 16y ago
I'm not a Ruby programmer, so I'm interested to hear your view on this: as a non-Rubyist reading Ruby code, the "assign variable to a new array" method is much more readable to me than than the .shift(n) method and is only 2% slower. Is shi
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by wzdd 16y ago
As someone about to open-source something that does Java refactoring from the command-line (as a small part of a larger research project related to optimisation) I feel like I ought to respond. :) You make a good point about refactoring. It
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by wzdd 16y ago
I've read a couple of books on an iPad (most recently Shogun, which is >1000 pages, and several smaller novels). I've also had an extended play with a Kindle. The Kindle is kinder on the eyes, but not to the point where it makes a pract
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by wzdd 16y ago
It's interesting to see how important compiler-enforced access specifiers were to C++ and Java. It seems they are going out of fashion. In the Python world they were always considered a bit silly.
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by wzdd 16y ago
Exactly. I saw this back when it was relatively new, at EuroSys 09, and it seemed very smooth, very neat, and very much not what I'd want on anything mission-critical. The most valuable thing I took out of it was that it is a good lesson in
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by wzdd 16y ago
Extra Half-bright. The Amiga's HAM mode was even stranger. 6 bits per pixel, but the first two bits were for control: 00 meant the other four bits would reference a standard 16-colour palette, but any other value would cause the pixel to ta
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by wzdd 16y ago
His argument doesn't make sense to me. Consider the uses he gives for the shortened URL: * Presentations * Email * IM and Twitter Given these use cases, what, exactly, is the utility of retaining the longer URL? If every time you
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by wzdd 16y ago
People are taking issue with the specific legal test you're proposing, but the fact that you are proposing a legal test as a way of resolving the issue is very sensible. This is a legal issue, and it should be tested using the law. Unfortun
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by wzdd 16y ago
Preview.app, however, appears to get it right -- just tried it on the test image using tools->adjust size.
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by wzdd 16y ago
Got bored with real work so I'm working on a thing that prints Python tracebacks: 1) in colour 2) in colums, function | line num | file name 3) stripping file name directories 4) Only printing code line on the top N frames (because the
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by wzdd 16y ago
Or perhaps the gentleman at the board games evening had a point -- how much of an app store app's sales is due to word of mouth?
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by wzdd 16y ago
If I were running that site I would be interested in sending that email to a randomly-selected half the userbase and then seeing if and how they behaved differently on the site. After all, the letter says both that you, personally, are more
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by wzdd 16y ago
I'm not sure that you should be using the "recommended tests" option of Dromaeo, since that option includes SunSpider and V8 Bench. We already know the results of those tests (since you ran them separately), so maybe you should just run the
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by wzdd 16y ago
It almost certainly is. Sky Map works well on my G1, and that definitely doesn't have a gyroscope. I suspect the difference will be in both speed of updates and accuracy. It doesn't matter (in fact, you won't even notice) if the phone is a
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by wzdd 16y ago
I have seen this comment come up a few times, and it seemed convincing -- you would think that a specific "menu" button and a specific "back" button would mean that Android apps would at least be consistent in these two areas. But it doesn'