GravityWell

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by GravityWell 11y ago
Thank goodness! Looking forward to the Pluto close-ups, which will hopefully include the dark spots.
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by GravityWell 11y ago
Care to share some examples of dark energy evidence? If the evidence is a measurement of expansion, then it doesn't necessarily support the existence of dark energy.
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by GravityWell 12y ago
> The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary. I see similar lists for GCC when a branch is underway. I'm actually impressed with the number of active contributors, and I find the design very compelling. I'll be keeping an eye o
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by GravityWell 12y ago
This is extraordinarily useful and unique. My compliments to Backblaze for making this available. This is the type of empirical data I would love to have for as many things as possible: SSDs, monitors, TVs, kitchen appliances, tablets, cars
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by GravityWell 12y ago
I just fired up a NodejsConsoleApp project in VS 2013, created a few simple functions, set a breakpoint, and started stepping through. To be fair, I assumed Edit and Continue would work like it works for other .Net or Native projects, or li
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by GravityWell 12y ago
Note for those visiting the thread, I found one of the big things with this release is the support for Edit & Continue: http://nodejstools.codeplex.com/releases/view/104141 https://www.youtube.com&#
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by GravityWell 12y ago
I'm hardly an MS fanboy, and I'm not sure what announcements you're referring to, but it's hard for me to see a downside to this.
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by GravityWell 12y ago
I had to see it to believe it, but here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAroJmb6XY4
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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio(nodejstools.codeplex.com)
104 points by GravityWell 12y ago|67 comments
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by GravityWell 13y ago
Interesting move by Valve, and another positive step in support of Linux.
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Valve Is Making All Their Games Free To Debian Developers(phoronix.com)
10 points by GravityWell 13y ago|1 comments
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by GravityWell 13y ago
The fact that #1 and #2 are Chromebooks is worth mentioning. I found that surprising.
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Cling: An Interactive, JIT-Based C++ Interpreter(phoronix.com)
1 points by GravityWell 13y ago|0 comments
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by GravityWell 13y ago
One of the mysteries of HN and how stories do and don't make it to the top. It seems to me there is more attention to tabloid type stories lately.
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by GravityWell 13y ago
From the article: "..It turns out that far from being a minor initiative to keep MariaDB alive, Google is actively patching and upgrading MariaDB 10.0 to be fit enough so that Google can migrate all of its thousand-plus MySQL instance
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by GravityWell 13y ago
It doesn't. In this context, "...that I believe all living things" , the words "I believe" can be directly converted to "I have faith without any evidence" .
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by GravityWell 13y ago
Aptly named or not, a google search for sigil shows the epub editor as the first result. The project has been around a long time: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
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Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB(theregister.co.uk)
27 points by GravityWell 13y ago|3 comments
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by GravityWell 13y ago
"Navigant Research forecasts that autonomous vehicles will gradually gain traction in the market over the coming two decades and by 2035, sales of autonomous vehicles will reach 95.4 million annually, representing 75% of all light-duty
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95.4 Million self driving cars sold per year by 2035(navigantresearch.com)
2 points by GravityWell 13y ago|1 comments
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Intel's Open Source Mesa Team Has Grown About 10x In Three Years(phoronix.com)
2 points by GravityWell 13y ago|0 comments
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Image processing 1,000 times faster is goal of new $5M contract(eecs.umich.edu)
20 points by GravityWell 13y ago|5 comments
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by GravityWell 13y ago
Not sure what the objective is, but using the "before" example 475kb lena pic, a subsequent jpg at 61k looks very close to the original, and much better than the 61k blurred png. There is a reason why jpg has survived the test of
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To Google's Sergey Brin: Stop aging(ieet.org)
3 points by GravityWell 13y ago|1 comments
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Samsung Properly Open-Sources exFAT File-System(phoronix.com)
5 points by GravityWell 13y ago|1 comments
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apngasm - FOSS Animated PNG tools and APNG standardization(kickstarter.com)
46 points by GravityWell 13y ago|23 comments
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Windows RT has not been successful - ASUS CEO(channelregister.co.uk)
1 points by GravityWell 13y ago|0 comments
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Acer to downplay Windows in favor of Android, Chrome OS(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by GravityWell 13y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk: $35,000 200-Mile Tesla in a few years(technologyreview.com)
1 points by GravityWell 13y ago|0 comments
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by GravityWell 13y ago
I'm not sure why MySQL seems to have received more attention over the years. PostgreSQL might be more robust. One point about PostgreSQL that bothered me was the apparent lack of case insensitive collation. Where SQL Server, Oracle, an

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