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by xtacy 16y ago
I haven't tried it; can people comment about iPad screen resolution and how readable it is? I've seen those magnified pictures, but how easy is it on the eye?
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by xtacy 16y ago
I was at a Peter Norvig lecture recently and he talked about ideas for his next book, to have it interactive with videos and such. He said that this would be a great way for authors to get implicit feedback from readers and see which secti
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by xtacy 16y ago
There's a website that has a list of tasks and how to do them in many many programming languages. I can't seem to find it; if someone knows which site I am talking about, can they link it here?
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TeXample: TikZ and PGF Examples(texample.net)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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The UNIX-haters handbook(simson.net)
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by xtacy 16y ago
With Google pushing for NativeClient, P2P within the browser could very much be possible with a proper security model. http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient
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by xtacy 16y ago
Could an alternate approach be to take the route that Dalvik did? There's also a research paper about having a remote proxy to deal with Flash on mobile devices; it's something like a VNC viewer, but for Flash. That wouldn't violate any pa
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by xtacy 16y ago
He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.) http://awards.acm.org/citation
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DCTCP: Data Centre TCP(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Gabriel's Horn(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Google buzz feed of Terrence Tao(google.com)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Is it likely (in the future) to see more domain specific chips? Something like what http://www.deshawresearch.com/ has created---a custom chip Anton, optimised for Molecular Dynamics simulations.
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30 instruction TCP receive(pdl.cmu.edu)
58 points by xtacy 16y ago|4 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Interesting; I didn't know that. Right now it's at about 200.
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Joe Wong at RTCA dinner(youtube.com)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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The game theory of perfect complements(mindyourdecisions.com)
2 points by xtacy 16y ago|1 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
It would be awesome to be able to manipulate the DOM, execute Javascript and pretty much be a scriptable mini-"browser". Is it difficult to implement?
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by xtacy 16y ago
Even if P = NP, the search for efficient polynomial time algorithms will be the key. For e.g., the problem of determining whether a given number n is prime/not was thought to be in NP, until Manindra Agarwal showed that "PRIMES is in P" (i
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by xtacy 16y ago
At least for this, we should have a reddit like system for peer reviewing, so that comments from all reviewers can be seen by everyone.
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by xtacy 16y ago
"After this version there will be no more versions of html"---that's a pretty bold statement..
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CodeChef August Challenge(codechef.com)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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Raven paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by xtacy 16y ago|1 comments
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Tarski's undefinability theorem(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by xtacy 16y ago|2 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
What's interesting is that I can use the website to find websites similar to itself.. or, wait a minute, can I? :)
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Hacker Koan(en.wikipedia.org)
50 points by xtacy 16y ago|7 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Does someone know such a nice breakup of code used to explain the Linux Kernel? Or maybe I just have to look through the diffs, albeit without explanations.
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Spice pages; info about spice plants(uni-graz.at)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking(openflowswitch.org)
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Fitt's law in HCI(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by xtacy 16y ago|0 comments
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by xtacy 16y ago
Quantum mechanics is weird, alright. But we can still predict what's going to happen, as we have theories. Do we have such a formal theory for consciousness?

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