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I suspect you're right - I spend a lot more time programming than playing music but have a stronger emotional attachment to my music gear than my coding environment.

Musicians call it GAS, Gear Acquisition Syndrome, e.g. I've got major GAS for an Ampeg amp.
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yes, the game would be a lot more fun if i could actually see the obstacles.
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Cool, but news? Article is from 2002.
Procedural content like this adds a nice random, exploratory feel to a game. It's also really interesting in that it allows the programmer to leverage their skills in the creation of game art (still needs some artistry in the tweaking though).

This is a really nice tutorial, it breaks down how all these magical in-game landscapes are just different noise & gradient textures multiplied together, and how it can easily be extended from 2D to 3D.

Here's to gently rolling hills of perlin noise :)
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There are many interesting and thoughtful aspects of this design, but I found the fading effects and low-text-contrast parts distracting. Just something to consider if you're taking inspiration from it.
FYI: Bitcoin is not anonymous unless you are a miner or pay cash. Even then, you can still be tracked and located if necessary.
We've looked at data like this. I'm trying to get examples from the community to supplement it. Looking at aggregate statistics isn't a great way to measure what's bothering power users.
I'd have to agree. One of the main benefits touted for guava in this article is the ability to use java libs with cleaner syntax. Scala already enables us to do that, and a lot more. I've coded java for the last 12 years, but have to admit there's no denying that there are cleaner ways of getting things done in Scala, Ruby, Python etc. of those 3 scala is the only one fast enough to be taken seriously.
"patents aren't supposed to be for inventors, they're supposed to be for society, to help stuff get invented and produced. Society benefits more from the larger company."

It's both.

The original vision for the patent system, as laid out in the Constitution, was "...to promote the progress of science and useful arts [thereby benefitting society as a whole], by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries."

The end-goal is, as you've stated, the benefit of society as effeced by innovation and discovery. An important implication in that goal is that society does not benefit, and maybe even hurts, from stagnation in the arts and sciences. The founders theorized that a society free from any patents or protections would lead to stagnation, because there would be no financial benefit to the inventors, and hence, fewer would get into the innovations game in the first place. In order for society to benefit from innovation, being an inventor needs to have some serious upside, so that more inventors keep inventing.

There's nothing in the letter or spirit of the US patent system that claims the "larger company" or the "smaller company" in your example is better for society. Indeed, the patent system is mainly concerned with the startup/inventor at its seed stage. Where the startup or inventor goes from there is left open to the dynamics of the marketplace.
"""At the time it was far from clear that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destructions. In fact, there was ample proof he had used those weapons previously on Kurds and American intelligence reports claimed he had more where those came from (which turned out to be false, of course, but who knew)."""

Everybody in the world knew, except American's watching FOX News and giving any basis on Bush era "intelligence reports". Weapons of mass destruction, my ass. Just an excuse to attack on the same man that was a valid us ally for decades (like in Iraq/Iran war era).
What's the point? That just defeats the whole philosophy of anonymous cryptocurrency and... 25 physical BTC = 29.50BTC!! You loose money if you buy physical coins...
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I think they have value for collectors and for playing poker with friends.

I think that at this moment, bitcoins have potential for eCommerce but not much penetration on real shops and retailers.

I don't see people going Scrooge McDuck crazy and piling these coins in huge vaults but still, the inception of physical coins and bills make bitcoin more flexible. For example, they can be traded when there is no connection available.

Maybe in the future you will be climbing the Himalayas and a little monk will be there selling hot tea and enlightenment but he only accepts bitcoins since Buddhists are keen on the "money is an illusion" thing. Unfortunately, your AT&T iPhone 18S will have no coverage and you will be thankful for your bitcoin coins... (and, yes, this is a joke).
I think that's a fair critique. It's not a perfect execution, and there are some distractions in it. I still think, however, that the user experience is novel and interesting, and that it has a great thematic consonance with the subject matter.

If I were launching an e-book, for instance, I might use something like this page as a demo of sorts.
Sadly not in maven repo yet so my company can't use it. I have played around some with functional java (functionaljava.org) and Op4j. Have you compared bolts to either of those?
http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html

http://hyperpolyglot.org/ml

Also, Hickey's draft book

http://files.metaprl.org/doc/ocaml-book.pdf
Really cool!

The display jiggles a little bit. About twice a second the camera shakes a little—I think maybe the roll of the camera changes?

I'd like the option to invert the up / down keyboard buttons—I kept going up when I meant to go down, and vice versa.
Once again, I'm faced with a choice of language before starting a project... I kinda hate having this choice.
I agree with him - what Guava brings (functional programming, better safety in types) is something that is better done at language level like in Scala.

Either you like Java and you don't need Guava, or you want functional programming and other goodness and for that Scala is a better language.
Helping jQuery monopolise the JS space even further doesn't strike me as a good idea or beneficial to the community at large.

The main drawback is that it doesn't help people learn Javascript at all. And then it's hard to get information and help with JS because practically every result returns a jQuery plugin or something that uses jQuery. And as a result of that people think, "oh, I need jQuery installed to do some javascript on my site." And then other people complain, "this script isn't jQuery I can't-" ... oh.

Wouldn't it actually be better if JS implementations were actually standardised so its behaviour across browsers was totally predictable and reliable?

> redefines a bunch of jQuery functions

Just clocked this. jQuery redefines more than just a bunch of javascript functions as well as then redefining its own. It's a bit of a mess.
I suppose via ActiveSync contact syncing that Google Voice contacts show up in your iPhone Contacts database. Which has been doable for quite some time now. But previously, to call one of those numbers via Google Voice you had to call it via the web, the iPhone app, or dial a special Google number first. At least to make it appear as though the number calling you is your Google Voice number.

Now with Sprint, since they effectively make your GV number your phone number, you can call contacts from your iPhone Contacts and without any mumbo jumbo in between appear as though your GV number is the one calling. Because it is.
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..and here I thought I could already do that.
One of the ways that Microsoft is outside Silicon Valley culture is the degree to which a founder and early employees maintain Ownership due to Microsoft's early profitability and decision to avoid significant outside capital and the share dilution which accompanies it.

Quite simply Google could never could never replicate Microsoft's culture because there never was a time when when a large enough fraction of employees had fuck you money. Microsoft's culture is different by virtue of the fact that venture capital has never had much of a say.

Hence a positive vision of "a computer on every desk" rather than a mere admonition to not "be evil".
I see that the prize is offered in British pounds, and not in United States dollars, Chinese yuan, or Bitcoins.
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Cars and Cars 2 suffer from some of the same problems that Shrek 2 & 3 suffered from: creating a self-consistent universe based on adult puns based on characters of modern society.Unless it is done with restraint and real skill it soon behinds to feel insincere and contrived (see Sharks Tail, Chicken Run).

Toy Story & Shrek did something far cleverer. Shrek especially is smart, sophisticated humour for smart, sophisticated kids. The references are all from children's literature and culture. Kids know the references and are able to understand the clever puns.

Shreks 2&3 are dumb adult humour forced into the Shrek world. Many of the puns are above children's heads and are not sophisticated enough for the adult audience. Adding plot-lines about lawyers, unions etc just confuse small kids and leave adults slightly cringing.

Pixar and Dreamworks are at their best when they choose their target audience and focus on it. Toy Story & Nemo are for smart young kids; Ratatouille & The Incredibles are for smart older kids. Then enough is added for the rest of the family: everyone gets a clever joke every few minutes; the stories are understandable by all. Wall-E and Up are very adult in the big story (but full of great fun in the small story) I thought they were wonderful but I do understand your point (although they are I no way 'awful'—even if you are 5).

I'm not convinced that Pixar have mad a bad film yet. Cars grows on me the more I see it (and believe me if you have kids you end up seeing these films any times). Nemo (by far the funniest film Pixar have made) still makes me laugh despite having seen it 20+ times.

{I'm told that Cars 2 is relentless: too fast and too complicated for young kids, but as I haven't seen it I can't judge. The fact that I haven't seen it says something: I normally see every Pixar film the week it comes out.}

The problem that Pixar has had is that we have had to judge Pixar by Pixar standards as until recently no-one was making anything as good. This has now changed. Wonderfully for us Pixar now has serious competition. Dreamworks has made a number of films that are as good as Pixar's. Some of them are as good as Pixar's best: How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda. Walt Disney Animation Studios is back on form with Tangled (Monsters v Aliens wasn't bad either).

How to Train Your Dragon & Tangled are thankfully free of transfer-modern-society-into-cartoon-world puns. Instead you are given a detailed, self-consistent world that complements the story (rather than being the story). This is a very good thing—something I hope that Pixar will move back towards (although I don't hold out much hope for Monsters Inc 2).
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Click "Back to the article" in the upper right, there's a screenshot on that page.
It was definitely new to me. I don't mind old technical articles if they are still relevant, and this one definitely is.
Well, it's some kind of news because I've never heard about that :-D

I find it really interesting
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Shouldn't this be "faster tone detection algorithm".

I don't see how to perform a convolution with this algorithm, which I would be able to do if it was an FFT.

There are many algorithms for FFT that are faster, e.g. the split radix FFT, Gentleman and Sande's approach, the Matrix Fourier Algorithm and scores of variations on a theme. The article doesn't make clear whether this is one of them.
For those needing more palatable options, there's the pretty graphical interface to NetHack, Falcon's Eye:
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Not explicitly stated in the article : The reason this is so fast is that you're only detecting a single frequency. If you wanted to detect a few (M, say), you'd have to keep updating M sets of Qs. While M<<N this is really efficient (and each one looks like a notch filter, or something).

But for larger M, it's better to do the FFT, since that gives you back O(N) frequencies in O(NlogN) time - because of the tricks it can do with N if it's a power of 2.
I personally think the cost is 3x that (I doubt a fully loaded Semi gets 12mpg), but when you tack that on top of everything you buy it does affect market prices.

I think the biggest cost is in commuting/personal travel. I drive ~19mi to work, 5x weekly, and get 33.55mpg on average (highway&town). This costs me about $19.28/wk just commuting; driving to church 3x costs me $13.37/wk; going to a Bible study in the same area costs me $5. This is $37.65/wk just for scheduled driving in a given week, or about 4% of my net income per pay period (at $3.40/gal which is lower than average prices here at home).

Dropping gas prices to $3.27/gal costs me $36.26/wk (barely no change). But if that dropped more steeply, say to $2.50, it'd be $27.71 or 2.95% of my net income.

I think that a major drop like that would free up ~2% of everyone's net income. Most people would spend more which would help our consumption-based economy; hopefully others would save it rather than spend it and turn our negative savings rate around.
I doubt you'd be that excited about the reality of that post. I was only there a month before I moved on to do my own thing. It was a fun (and profitable for me) month, but there isn't a lot of light I can shed on the workings of google from such a short stay.
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The biggest thing you'll notice in practice from ICC is that it is much more likely to unroll a loop and transform the body to use SSE instructions when requested. If you have dense numeric code and aren't either using ICC or hand-unrolling and using GCC intrinsics, you're probably leaving performance on the floor.

But, there's still no free lunch. For example, as of about two months ago, ICC will unroll loops whose increment is "i++" but will not unroll loops whose increment is "i+=1". Some insight, looking at output assembly, etc. is still required.
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It's not just the design -- the writing is quite good, too.
The study mentioned in the article that I submitted a while back:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1530
What's replacing Matlab is not octave, but Python/Numpy.
"Most of the deals are for female-centric services like spas and nails ... I typically delete it each day now without opening the email."

So true. I ended up unsubscribing from the multiple daily emails from Groupon. I did actually buy one, but the offer was forwarded to me by a friend.
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it's the software+service+phone that make up the value (and final cost) of the phone. Not the individual physical parts.
I think that puts you solidly in the B or C category for unwillingness to think outside the box.</sarcasm>
> So your saying that a manager fired you solely on feedback u gave to him?

Yes.

> I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

Why would that be illegal?
You have to pay for the BTC, and then also pay for the physical coin. Anyway this is as anonymous as cash, isn't it?
There are a few gotchyas with this setup from my friend's experience when he used a windows phone and google voice via sprint:

1. Reading an sms on the phone doesn't mark it read on google voice and vice versa (it's like having pop email)

2. If your phone is off and you get a call the phone won't let you know you missed a call like the google voice app would. This is important in NYC where you're often in the subway and want to know if you missed any calls.

There might have been other issues but these were the two that I remembered off the top of my head.
How about this then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_Hartley_transform
Here is the original article so you don't have to visit the site that scraped it.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GROUPON_IPO?SITE=L...
It works much better in full screen mode (F11 for Firefox), but even then, you can still end up getting confused by mouse events outside the game window. My lower right corner of the screen causes my machine to sleep, and in full screen, if you move the mouse to the very top, the chrome will windowshade down.
You are correct. The title is very misleading.
In some jurisdictions, don't the banks have to accept the property as full payment of the debt owed, even if the debt is higher than the current value of the property?
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My first thought, too.

Quite surprising, though, at least as Wikipedia claims¹, this (except for the lack of "\n") was the exact "hello world" code from the first edition of K&R.

____

¹) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#.22Hel... and I don't have any copy of the first edition.
My apologies, this stuff is still pretty new to me.
> You loose money if you buy physical coins...

Gold and silver coins also cost more than spot.
What about international calls?

Does the Sprint iPhone4s natively support using google voice when dialing an international number from the regular phone app or do I have to launch the GV app and get a proxy number?
Report is unclear that this refers only to the labor cost, and what's involved in that labor.

Is that $3.99 for someone clipping half a dozen parts together/watching robots, or is it $3.99 for 18 hours of soldering?

The parts cost around $188, according to iSuppli (http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4-Carries...)
Counterpoint:
http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-analysis-2011-10?op=1

A note on this from a wildly successful hedge fund manager friend of mine -

"In my mind, there is very little fundamentally concerning here - sure, growth is slowing and conversion stats slowing but all the negative hype looks massively overblown by startup techies who don't understand retail/couponing/restaurant businesses. Based on metrics, Groupon is still a phenomenal business that is growing rapidly"
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I have an android on Sprint and I love their Google Voice integration. I'm sure all phones will work like this some day. These features are just too useful.
For all you Canadians who want a Google Voice number:

1. Use a US proxy, or get a friend to sign you up for Google Voice. Once set up, you can access the account even in Canada.

2. Sign up for http://www.freephoneline.ca/ and get a 403 area code. It's free. They might call you once or twice though :(

3. Set your Google Voice number to forward to your 403 number. Set your 403 number to forward to your regular Canadian number.

4. If you have trouble dialing out with your Google Voice number, enable Click2Call.

I'm actually not sure why 403 works. Sadly, the Google Voice app for iPhone is terribly constructed; there are more bugs than you'll be able to count.
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I guess they might have rationalized that were somehow cheated by Rockefeller; according to the biographer though the course he decided to follow was a very risky bet and nobody could have know for sure how it would have turned out.
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One day in 1996 I was in the NOC of a certain ISP in London when I noticed folks crowding around a terminal. I shambled over to see what had gotten their attention. This ISP ran a lot of NetBSD boxes (for security reasons). Lo and behold, there was a strange message on the console:

Alien abduction overflow: core dumped.

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A lot of the conversation about how Dart is going to run faster than JavaScript (or might someday) focuses on Dart's static types. This essay is a great explanation of how Dart's types are a complete red herring when it comes to performance -- they're used for optionally enabling runtime assertions, or optionally running compile-time checks, but nothing more. They have no influence on the semantics of your program, or how the Dart VM will optimize it.

This is interesting, because it seems to mean that any of the performance advantages Dart might have over JavaScript in the future ... could also just as easily be added to JavaScript, by:

* Restricting changes to the shape of an object after it has first been created. Perhaps via a keyword.

* Adding a true integer type.

And for the curious, there's already a decent discussion happening over on Proggit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lkpil/wrapping_...