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But what is Blit, you ask? Here's a vintage demo video put together 30 years ago, complete with warbly synth score:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIAjB99ucw

Enjoy with sound on.
I think you summed it up well. People hate object oriented code because it has an extra startup burden. It's hard to just dive in and start fiddling with code because there are many project-specific abstractions you need to understand before-hand. The new guy on the project has to spend extra time to "grok" the idioms of the project. I personally don't see this as a bad thing.

The fact is, abstraction is key to programming. People who have a hard time managing extra abstractions in their head probably aren't nearly as good of a programmer as they think.
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Very pretty. If I had a criticism, it would be that the application of colour to the first three letters of headings seems random and a little annoying (e.g. INTerests, EDUcation and -- especially -- ONLine).
(defn at_least_2 [a b c]
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Unless I'm terribly misreading, he wasn't suggesting USB memory to replace RAM, but rather to replace a hard drive (or the SD Card on the RPi) ("re: non-volatile storage")
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Alpha launch of Brit/Euro version- threadless/dbh Facebook app- feedback needed
Yo fellow HN pals- Jay and I were sick of waiting for shipping from threadless over in the states and paying a premium for delivery that we hacked together this MVP as a Facebook app. We are London based so hoping to attract a more Brit/Euro community that should reflect in the designs that win too. Let us know what you think of the alpha site (note you have to be logged into Facebook as it brings up a Facebook app)- we thought this would be easier to share stuff/promote to pals for voting, etc.

Holla!

Jimmy and Jay, Londontown April 2012

www.designoff.com
I keep them up to date manually. Honestly, I update the resume page every 3-4 months so it's not too necessary to automate it yet. As they say, fake it till you make it.
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I completely agree. However for purely professional resumes, one page is more than enough, especially when it is complemented by an informative portfolio/blog.
Insane!!
I fail to see why it would belong here
be good to hear what you think
It may not be a big market that the masses are clamoring for, but it will soon be similar to services encrypting passwords in the database. The outside world shouldn't be expected to know about the existence of rainbow tables and the futility of md5-hashes. The educated, however, know what to demand, will expect their services to offer it, and will leave lacking-services for support-services - and in their exodus the masses inevitably follow (e.g. Hotmail -> GMail)
I only problem with Opera's Dragonfly - and I mean only - is that I (seem to) need an active internet connection to use it.

Twice in the last year I have started working on experimental UI stuff on a plane, run into a quirk, and tried to start debugging... the futility only hits me once it fails to come right up.

I have all the usual http servers installed on my laptop, so it would be alright if I just needed to deploy something locally. But Opera has that capability baked into the browser already, so I'd appreciate it if they could just toss in Dragonfly as well.
I guess I was also after monetary gains too. But I'm at a point of changing my motivation.

I feel that Working as an employee, raising a family and getting old is the most common life path that one can vision even at his/her 20's. I can say, "if I work hard today, I will be like my manager ten years later."

But that's not exciting, because that life path sounds like determinable and planned. It's as cruel as telling a young child that he/she will never achieve anything and will end up normal.

I don't want my life to be easily visible. I don't want to easily tell how my 50's will look like when I'm 2x.

I'd be a homeless or a achiever, but I can't settle in the middle.
If would be great if there was a small comparison with the standard packages (currvita, moderncv). What's similar? What's different? Why writing an own package instead of building upon the existing ones? Just for fun, or are there technical or organizatorial reasons?
My first thought was "watch out bicycle makers, other people are making cars".

The RasPi is a disposable learning and tinkering board like an arduino. This Intel thing is just a laptop without a screen. Genuinely nothing to see here.
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No, not at all. It's just that statements like "and likewise, developing for the NUC will be as easy as developing for a standard, Windows-based x86 PC; two perks the Raspberry Pi will not enjoy." makes it seem like a lack of x86 support is a bad thing in the Pi's case, which it's not, since ARM is fine for what it's meant to do.

As for the part about development being as easy as a Windows x86 box; the same could be said about Linux on the Raspberry Pi. It's the same OS you'd run on an x86 box.

Just seems like an apples/oranges comparison. Like others have commented, seems like a lot of 'tech journalists' seem to assume small form factor == Raspberry Pi competitor/alternative.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html - Introduction Course

MIT - Introduction Course - when it wasn't python.

Can you give any examples, of where it was an advanced course?
Some of the best story-tellers and happiest people I know take few pictures and have little twitter or Facebook presence.

In order to truly experience something at the level where you can recount it for the rest of your life, you have to be in the moment - not worried about documenting the moment.
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IIRC the Galaxy S II has had hardware acceleration from the start, provided by Samsung's modifications.
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I've saw it, but the remark about the ecosystem still reflects over the language, hence my post.
I completely see your point on estimators and the nature of many if not most statistics courses. I suppose that I was lucky enough to study non-parametric statistics in my first year of undergrad, as there's a subset within psychology that's very suspicious of all the assumptions required for the traditional estimators.

That being said, I think you're missing my major point which is that a PhD should be a journey of independent intellectual activity, so the courses one takes should be of little relevance, and so can therefore be downweighted in considering what PhD students actually learn. I accept that this is an idealistic viewpoint (FWIW, the best thing that ever happened to my PhD in this context was my supervisor taking maternity leave twice during my studies, which forced me to go to the wider world for more information about statistics).

I accept your point about machine learning not being a major focus of academia (well except for machine learning researchers), and I think its awful. Its very sad that the better methods for dealing with large scale data and complex relationships are only used by private companies. Its not that surprising, but it is sad.

That being said, I firmly believe that any halfway skilled quantitative PhD can understand machine learning, most of which is based on older statistical methods. It may not be taught (yet), but its not that much of a mindblowing experience. I do remember that when I first heard about cross-validation I got shivers down my spine, but that may just be a sad reflection on my interests rather than a more general point.
I've found some places where OO works (the traditional UI widgets still tend to work pretty well)

And that's where OO initially gained traction. At the time, UI was a major pain. OO was a good fit. UI elements have state, and can do things. Bundling them together made a lot of sense. Inheritance also worked well, as all the objects were purely artificial creations. They were precisely how one chose to define them in code.

Problem was, the rest of the world is not like UI widgets. The main difference being, it has a reality external to the code. State and behavior are not so obviously bundled into types and instances. Verbs are sometimes more important the nouns.

But OO had been sooo successful w/ UI widgets, that many people hoped to repeat that success more widely. OO also provided an easy way to dumb things down--"everything is an object" obscures all the hard questions--just start with objects, and keep writing code until the thing works.
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That's great, although they're not a competitor to Raspberry. Speculation on the author's part aside, I can't imagine Intel offering this anywhere near a $100 price point. But without the comparison offered up by the author, it's just another tiny-motherboard-from-Intel article -- and who's going to read that?

But hey, I hope they try to compete with Raspberry Pi, because that causes a race to the bottom of the price point. Since Raspberry is already there, anyone else who wants to join the party just adds more options to those interested in these devices.
Absolutely no idea why. I can't think of anything I did wrong with this post. Except maybe, responding to some comments in a short time window. I hope my comments will appear soon!
Ugh, I hate this whole story.

Digital privacy is a really important issue. There are debates we should be having about this stuff, as a society. Google accidentally capturing some stray packets from unsecured wifi is not one of them.
They aren't. They're posting just his notes. In most cases, they can't even scan the sleeve. Thanks to copyright, history will have a fabulous written record of all of the material that was completely lost.
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Here's some napkin math:

Moore's law says that the number of transistors on a chip doubles approximately every two years. The Core i7 Sandy Bridge has ~2.3 billion transistors [1], and measures 434 mm^2 [1]. Silicon has a density of 2.4g/cm^3 [2] or .0024g/mm^3. Silicon's atomic weight is 28 --- meaning ~610^23 atoms of Silicon weigh 28 grams --- which means a single atom weighs 4.710^-23g.

Let us pretend that Si crystals are simple-cubic (they're actually diamond-cubic [3]). In that case, a 1x1x1mm cube of crystal weighs 2.410^-3g == 5.210^19 atoms. The cube root of this number, 3.710^6, is the number of atoms on a side, so the number of atoms on a mm^2 face is 1.410^13.

The chip is 434 mm^2, so the face has about 6.1*10^15 atoms on it, otherwise known as 6 million billion.

For roundness, say we have 2 billion transistors on the chip today. Log_2(6,000,000) == 22.

If Moore's law continues until the year 2053, there would be more transistors than atoms on the surface of the chip :-)

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-3960x-x79-sandy-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_cubic
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David Braben:

it’s a small PC. There’s nothing really you can’t do with this that you couldn’t do with a PC from way back. We can run things like OpenOffice, Twitter, browse the web, Facebook etc

http://www.edge-online.com/features/david-braben-interview
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Yes but as soon as you get into the land of hypotheticals, Symbian can be a successful product Google would lust over. Doesn't make it likely.
How would you verify that they never got your encryption key? You installed their software on your computer. How can you be sure it never sent your key to their server?
It's not really new.

Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, pg's oldish comment on the issue at least establishes the existence of the behavior several years ago, and has been taken by many to be the final word on the acceptability of the practice: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

(edit: spelling)
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Only the browser featured hardware acceleration. They couldn't unilaterally add it to apps -- the big benefit of ICS -- as there are limitations once you go to the hardware renderer.
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I'm pretty sure the appropriate word is "earn".
From an updated press release on the site:

"You will be able to see the hand-typed cards that John diligently typed for every album in the collection, the record sleeves, as well as listening to tracks via spotify and itunes where available."1

I'd guess most of John Peel's collection would unfortunately not be available on itunes or spotify. Looks like there will be a listing of the albums/singles with notes, album cover and a link to buy elsewhere. Not the digital copy so many would very much prefer.

The unreleased or uncut Peel Sessions would be of huge interest to many, if those are to be released, but also many of the rare & early tapes, singles and albums of influential, famous and not-so famous bands.

1 - http://johnpeelcentreforcreativearts.co.uk/index.php?option=...
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Finally a story that doesn't repeat the notion of "if you havent executed upon your idea in two years, you should think of something else".
20 years from now:

- what could be: "You remember Yahoo? The search giant that failed to innovate and got run by more adaptive companies?" "Yeah, it was a fun ride, while it lasted."

- what will be: "You remember Yahoo? The search giant that that tried to pick on Facebook because they were neck deep in the water and eventually drowned anyway?" "Ya-who?"
"But OO had been sooo successful w/ UI widgets, that many people hoped to repeat that success more widely. OO also provided an easy way to dumb things down--"everything is an object" obscures all the hard questions--just start with objects, and keep writing code until the thing works."

That's a silly argument. It could be applied to almost any programming language. Just start with functions...

The hard choices are what data structures, and algorithms to use and OO does not get rid of that.
> The educated, however, know what to demand, will expect their services to offer it, and will leave lacking-services for support-services - and in their exodus the masses inevitably follow (e.g. Hotmail -> GMail)

That's not how it works.

People didn't leave Hotmail because the "educated" left, they left it because Google gave several GBs for free, the interface was simpler, the search better and MS was out of fashion.

If you're not a large market you don't get a service, or you only get niche vendors to cater to you. You can bypass this by setting trends for the "uneducated" (whatever that means), else we will all be using Lisp Machines or Smalltalk environments.
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Advisors are bullshit. The only real reason you would attach one's name to your company is the same reason Porsche puts the logo on its cars. Porsche does not have the best performing cars, but because of their name they can sell their models for more.

If you actually need another person's advice...that is free. Believe it or not, there are people way smarter than your average VC who will answer your questions for free. But really, god help you if you can't figure out the majority of your problems on your own.
As long as security forces only aim their full strength at immigrants and other non-people, the governments won't give a rat's ass. I also wish they would make an embarassing mistake someday.
Naively written Clojure is going to run a lot slower than Scala because it's doing a lot more dynamic dispatch. With the right type annotations you can probably get them fairly close.
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Space companies need regulations for that, there must be a high penalty for space waste. They could build a collector drone for failed devices. There just has to be an incentive to do something about it and they find a relatively cheap solution. Bad PR is not enough.

They need something similar to UNCLOS, but with Space instead of Sea.

For the Antarctica do waste removal agreements already exist.

When you think about it, for almost every case we have something comparable on earth.
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You could design a similarly powerful language without such a difficult syntax. C++ is notoriously difficult to parse.
Link to original for those who hate blogspam:

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Will need a follow up from someone who's active, or at least spent more time in-game than I did.

Jita's the busiest economic hub in the game, so they're effectively shutting down a sizable chunk of the game's trade. Though it's in a secure area, inasmuch as the in-game police will kill you for attacking other players, so many ships are involved that they can just suicide attack even the larger vessels before being stopped.

I doubt this will actually "break" the economy though. I imagine it will be disrupted for a time until the campaign ends or trade moves elsewhere.
As far as I know, you could do delta uploads with encrypted files. It should not be any different if the file itself is encrypted. For the same reason you can e.g. use rsync delta syncs with encrypted files...
You are conflating Acceptance testing with Integration testing. Integration testing allows the interaction of modules or components to be tested. Acceptance testing is larger than this - it tests to ensure that the design has been met.

But I tend to agree - these do look like unit tests, using a mocking framework. Unless I've missed something, I can't see different modules interacting. This doesn't mean that ths bad (actually, it's really interesting to see what they've done here!), and actually it should definitely help them have a higher degree of confidence in their code.
I think a code deep dive is always a good thing. I like seeing what's under the hood and seeing what's behind the magic.

I hope this gets some traction.
I can't bring myself to do that on a 15.4" screen (I like the real estate specifically for multitasking and looking back and forth) but I've seen it leveraged extremely well on a 11/13" Air.
Does anyone know when this comes into effect? Also, does it only affect the ISP's mentioned in the article or ALL ISP's?

Guess i'll just have to use a TPB mirror from now on then...
As far as I've heard, it was just a patent application, it doesn't seem to have ever been implemented.
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Are we trying to emulate China or Iran? Obviously a block like this for any tech-savvy person is absolutely meaningless.
Everyone forgets about 3D printing's older brother, 3D milling. Start with a big block of aluminum (or any metal softer than the cutting bit), use what amounts to a CNC dremel tool to carve away everything you don't want. It is vastly simpler than 3D printing and creates objects that are much more sturdy. But it is slower and uses a more expensive feedstock than printing.

Good match for space fabrication, too. Zero-g makes it much easier for an air nozzle to dislodge debris. Feed it big ingots of metal straight from the asteroid smelters. Not sure if you could do the milling in a vacuum, but it would be worth a shot. Downside, greatly limits cooling. Upside, easier recovery/purification/recycling of shavings. A big electrostatic charge on the ingot and tools should make the shavings literally fly off of the work to a collection plate.
Don't know about this being nitpicking or not. Sounds like a terminology problem. What you are essentially doing is mocking out the XHR requests and performing unit tests on the client side. An excellent thing to do, but you aren't really testing that individual modules are able to interact together correctly, which is the purpose of integration testing.
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Most of these geniuses also fall under 10% of the worlds' population : Lefties.
The next news story:

Google KNEW it was providing internet services to everyone in Kansas City. This gave them access to ALL of the emails, ALL of the passwords, unless people took extraordinary measures, such as using a hypothetical "https" access. We spoke with one researcher and he said he didn't trust https because it ends in an 's', just like the word 'snakes.' Senior officials at Google knew that they had spent billions of dollars to provide this service to residents of the unsuspecting town. Congress to have hearings about this so-called "Internet Service." Top officials at the FCC scoffed, "How can they claim to not be evil when they provide internet service to children - some of whom are probably watching pornography?!"
Designer here. I'd add more leading (line-spacing). More spacing between sections, too. It needs to breathe.

I'd drop the exclusive use of grey and use black for the body text, at least. Grey might look nice on your screen because it's very bright, but not everyone's is, and when printed, can look washed out and like a mistake. Contrast in body text is good.
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Clearly this will stop piracy.
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Since we're all sharing our LaTex resumes:

http://www.jedberg.net/hire_jeremy_edberg.html

My resume and source code are both on there.
But don't the different "tiers" generally offer different products (or multiple products, special goodies, etc)? If you just want the basic watch, you aren't free to "pay whatever you want to pay" -- you have to pay the asking price, just like everyone else.