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by _Robbie 5y ago
Mountain Winery, Bing Concert Hall, Frost Amphitheater, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, Spieker Center for the Performing Arts
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A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing(kleinbottle.com)
2682 points by _Robbie 5y ago|601 comments
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by _Robbie 7y ago
That sounds like Caia ( https://solenica.com/ ).
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by _Robbie 9y ago
I have been working on a visual programming language for Haskell: https://github.com/rgleichman/glance Currently, it uses Diagrams and Graphviz to visualize Haskell programs. Please email me since I think there is a lo
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by _Robbie 10y ago
The link is a blank page for me.
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by _Robbie 10y ago
Rotating nodes is an easy way to reduce line crossings. Here's a comparison [0]. However, it does seem that vertical and angled text is harder to read than horizontal text, so there is room to improve here. [0] https://gist.
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by _Robbie 10y ago
Graphviz is only used to find the positions for the nodes using Graphviz's Neato algorithm. The nodes and the lines themselves are all rendered using the Haskell library Diagrams [0]. The next step for the project is to improve graph l
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by _Robbie 10y ago
Creator of Glance here, happy to answer any questions.
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by _Robbie 10y ago
Here's my reply to another comment about the keyboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051133
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by _Robbie 10y ago
I got the Developer Edition XPS 13 9360 two weeks ago. I have never encountered the repeated key press problem some people with the XPS 15 seem to have had. Compared with my old X1 Carbon, the keyboard on the XPS 13 is not very good. On the
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by _Robbie 10y ago
I got a Developer Edition XPS 13 9360 two weeks ago. My compatibility experience: - DisplayPort over USB-C alternate mode did not work at all in Ubuntu 16.04 (unplugging the USB-C cable froze the computer). So I upgraded to 16.10, and Displ
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by _Robbie 10y ago
The link you cited seems to be answering the question "Does more education for an individual decrease poverty for that individual?", while the original post is answering the question "Does more education for a society decreas
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by _Robbie 10y ago
The 2016 Toyota Prius is 4.54 meters. The Bolt is 4.17 meters. Bolt specs: http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/vehicles/bo...
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by _Robbie 11y ago
Here are the salaries for all University of California employees. https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/
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Complaint: Commuter buses yanked disabled access for bar seating(sfgate.com)
5 points by _Robbie 11y ago|0 comments
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A Conversation with Alan Kay(queue.acm.org)
2 points by _Robbie 12y ago|0 comments
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by _Robbie 12y ago
To this day I will stay at the bottom of the org chart being an engineer cause that's where I want to be. -Steve Wozniak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJif4i9NRdI#t=290
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by _Robbie 12y ago
The simple explanation is that the word functor is being used for two different concepts. I found this question on Stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16353066/how-are-functors...
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by _Robbie 12y ago
I am skeptical that his explanations are completely pseudo-scientific and have no basis is fact. If these explanations sound unscientific, I think it is more likely that it from the author simplifying the explanation of his problem, and per
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by _Robbie 12y ago
I used Helm for a simple 2D simulator/prototype for edge detection and orientation. Link to code below (it was my first Haskell program). While it was not a game in any sense, I found it quite fun and easy to use. https://gi
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by _Robbie 12y ago
I will discuss Haskell, since I am not very familiar with other FP languages. In Haskell static typing is more useful than in other languages. This is because in Haskell the type signature of a function gives an upper bound of what the fun
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Fyuse(fyu.se)
8 points by _Robbie 12y ago|4 comments
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SLOMO(vimeo.com)
1 points by _Robbie 12y ago|0 comments
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by _Robbie 12y ago
This PDF has some test results and a more detailed description of the technology and science of the device. The article does not seem to reference it, so it was probably posted to the campaign after the article was written. http:/&#x2
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by _Robbie 12y ago
Is there any more information on what exactly the problem was? From the article it is unclear if this is a pure software bug, a UI problem, or something else.
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by _Robbie 12y ago
They only filmed for one day. Also, it sounds like the developers did not want anything do to with the production company afterwards based on how they rejected all potential fixes.
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by _Robbie 12y ago
Alenia Spazio’s insistence on confidentiality may have played a role in this oversight. NASA reviewers were never given the specs of the receiver. As JPL’s Mitchell explained to Spectrum, “Alenia Spazio considered JPL to be a competitor an
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by _Robbie 12y ago
Confirmed.
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Show HN: Trontium Reactor, the first USB Power Delivery battery(trontium.com)
69 points by _Robbie 12y ago|81 comments
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by _Robbie 12y ago
In general this seems like a morally contentious issue. Assuming that a large majority of Mozilla employees support gay marriage, and that Mozilla has no corporate policy against gay marriage, it seems questionable whether an entire company

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