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Humans vs. Robots: Showdown in Space(cosmicrays.wordpress.com)
1 points by _corbett 14y ago|0 comments
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Timelapse of custom building of 3,072 core, 12TB RAM supercomputer(youtube.com)
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by _corbett 14y ago
Ada Lovelace involves from the site 1. Write about a woman in science, technology, engineering or maths whose achievements you admire. 2. Publish your story online. 3. Visit our directory of stories and either join up or log in. 4. Add your
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Android vs. iOS development-circleof6 case study(cosmicrays.wordpress.com)
2 points by _corbett 14y ago|0 comments
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An app to prevent sexual assault(talentsearch.ted.com)
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Little to no CGI to create a human kaleidoscope(andrewhy.de)
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by _corbett 14y ago
thanks for sharing, a really inspiring story.
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by _corbett 15y ago
this article has a lot of truth to it, but one thing I will always disagree with PG about is that ignorance is a good thing. perhaps ignorance may produce a better local maximum than limited knowledge, but as a hacker I believe the true opt
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by _corbett 15y ago
really enjoyed this interview. what an amazing young woman and a tragedy she is already gone...
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by _corbett 15y ago
-track down an example app to hack around with. this was the single biggest thing that got me from the hurdle from a Hello World app to a production full featured thing -learn objective-c yes there is no way around it! try rewriting your fa
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by _corbett 15y ago
omg yes
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by _corbett 15y ago
alas I thought your comment was serious. it's awesome that you have had the opportunity to find it a non-issue and unfortunate that you have decided to. http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Computing-Jane-Mar... is a pretty good acad
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by _corbett 15y ago
for sure! and I try to understand the non-native speaker issue, I live in Switzerland, and am a native English speaker who tries my hand at German sometimes to mixed results. it's hard and easy to make mistakes. I've been having a lot of fu
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by _corbett 15y ago
calling people on sexism isn't overreacting, it is simply reacting. and saying people should be silent when they see stuff like this is much worse in the long run for the community.
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by _corbett 15y ago
awesome to know! I just saw this the other day and made a note to buy it you should also teach your daughter to program, the title of your link is pretty much the definition of sexist
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by _corbett 15y ago
my high school american studies teacher would recommend stating "I firmly believe in the right of jury nullification" to get out of jury duty–he was of the opinion that jurors who voiced their awareness of this right were almost never selec
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by _corbett 15y ago
just for kicks I decoded the QR code in the middle of the video, hoping for an easter(or rather xmas) egg, but alas only the rather boring http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/
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MIT's holiday greeting(alum.mit.edu)
10 points by _corbett 15y ago|6 comments
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by _corbett 15y ago
black on white, +flux.app
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by _corbett 15y ago
heh, that's me! was wondering where those HN hits were coming from... thanks for dropping by.
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by _corbett 15y ago
I once had an app rejected as it was "not amusing" (it was a "Unicorn Chaser" app). I also have had apps rejected for putting "iPad" in the wrong section of the name. For example "X for iPad" is fine, but "iPad X" is not.
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by _corbett 15y ago
awesome, I'm reading Applied Cryptography and this will be a good supplement. The MIT OCW course doesn't have a lot of resources http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Does anyone know from the AI course the quali
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by _corbett 15y ago
I hadn't heard of the spinoff; thanks. I worked at both Lucent Bell Labs (pre-Alcatel) and BBN (pre-Raytheon). I definitely keep track of BBN, it's an amazing company and I hope it continues to have it's own identity under Raytheon. Lucent
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by _corbett 15y ago
It depresses me to see BBN Technologies referred to as Raytheon. Although they were acquired, it's as if Bell Labs were referred to as Lucent or Alcatel.
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NASA begins accepting applications for Astronaut Candidate Class of 2013(astronauts.nasa.gov)
1 points by _corbett 15y ago|0 comments
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by _corbett 15y ago
partially a joke and partially just hopeful, yes. to explain myself, Google seems to have attempted to appease investors by focusing on their core money making products, while still maintaining their commitment to innovation with spinoffs l
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by _corbett 15y ago
this is where Google Labs went when it was "cut"
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by _corbett 15y ago
Sorry-we had no idea of that not being professionals and she was blue and seemed not to be breathing. It turned out to be OK after the fact but at the time....
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by _corbett 15y ago
Echo this, recently a friend had an epileptic seizure in Switzerland and they not only wouldn't come right away, they made me very carefully justify why I thought they should come. It's my new rule not to assume this...
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by _corbett 15y ago
Two apps Circle of 6 and On Watch just won a government challenge put forth by VP Biden. The apps will be available in January, On Watch is similar to this product http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/02/announcing-winners... (FD: I'm

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