TimSAstro

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How light wakes up the brain(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 13y ago|0 comments
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
I addition to the psychology of large numbers, there is a technical reason - the Doge network confirms transactions faster. (Arguably not a necessary feature for tipping, but again, the aesthetics are more pleasing.)
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We Need to Talk About TED(bratton.info)
415 points by TimSAstro 13y ago|184 comments
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments(bookofbadarguments.com)
10 points by TimSAstro 13y ago|1 comments
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
Not when they choose a different pseudonym for each site. You only have one real name (usually).
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
I also found the namespacing to be a bit weird, and it took quite a while to grok the documentation. In case anyone wants a working example, I implemented a wrapper to drop the namespacing (resulting in simple objectify attribute access) fo
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
I'm sorry to be snarky, but this gives me absolutely no concrete guidance on things I can do. It's a platitude.
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
I don't quite buy your argument - yes these professions may work long days, but generally the upkeep of skills falls into those allotted working hours. Programmers should do this too, when it is helpful to their work. But suggesting th
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
Well, to name my personal favourites: William Gibson. Neal Stephenson. Paolo Bacigalupi. Ian M. Banks (sadly no longer with us as of late). I'm sure I've missed a great deal more fine authors.
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
That may be closer than your think (except for the moon bit, space is hard). See LOFAR: http://www.lofar.org/about-lofar/about-lofar "LOFAR is the first telescope of this new sort, using an array of simple omni-d
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
Just to throw another point into the discussion - to some extent, brain power is fungible. I say this speaking as someone who has a clear and ongoing choice between academia and industry. However, currently, academia is a world of hurt fo
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
This seems like something of a PR stunt, I would much prefer a serious re-investment in science and acknowledgement that the UK economy could be driven by a knowledge economy. Good recap here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/scien
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An ethically sourced smartphone(fairphone.com)
8 points by TimSAstro 13y ago|1 comments
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by TimSAstro 13y ago
I checked the nature paper - no plots! (Well, no multi-line plots in the fashion of the one in question).
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by TimSAstro 14y ago
Here's an idea - link it to your performance monitoring software of choice, and have it colour-coded to show the usage of your cluster nodes in real time. How cool would that be?!
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by TimSAstro 14y ago
Test frameworks use some pretty crazy tricks to produce a pleasant syntax with good error debugging messages. For an example, see CATCH: https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/wiki I'd imagine this sort of stuff is much harder to port acros
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A laser turret enforced anti-mosquito fence(youtube.com)
1 points by TimSAstro 14y ago|1 comments