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by anoved 13y ago
I'm in no position to dispute the author's technical competency, but on the basis of a series of haranguing messages I received from him after making a small space-related thingy ( http://wheresthatsat.com ), I believe h
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by anoved 13y ago
An exception exists for TLEs redistributed by CelesTrak.com. Sources: http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/notice.asp#Update16 and personal correspondence with the operator. (Note also that the Space Track terms do
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by anoved 14y ago
I don't know of a paper, but on the Tcl wiki there is some discussion of the "non-recursive evaluation" (NRE) engine that enables these features [1]. More formal descriptions of the new coroutine [2] and tailcall [3] commands are listed, am
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Tcl/Tk 8.6 released (now stackless, w/coroutines, tailcalls, and more)(tcl.tk)
144 points by anoved 14y ago|39 comments
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by anoved 14y ago
Jonathan's Space Report ( http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html ) is an exhaustive accounting of human activity in space (manned or unmanned), with a focus on recent launches. Released every few weeks. Back issues run to 1989 and continue to t
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More than you probably wanted to know about Curiosity's SAM instrument(planetary.org)
1 points by anoved 14y ago|0 comments
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by anoved 14y ago
Emily Lakdawalla has posted a good explanatory write-up, with more details on the methodology and background on the research, at the Planetary Society blog: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/1129120...
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Make shapefiles of satellite ground tracks with Ground Track Generator(github.com)
2 points by anoved 14y ago|0 comments
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by anoved 15y ago
I don't deny that cracked screens appear to a problem, but surely you agree that going through 15 iPhones makes your case a bit of an outlier?
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by anoved 15y ago
I hope you find it useful! Note the interface is just an AppleScript wrapper around some Python code that could be used in other ways.
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Send Reading List to Instapaper - scripts for Safari(github.com)
2 points by anoved 15y ago|2 comments
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by anoved 15y ago
Nobody's useless. It's easy to get wrapped up in the impression that we are defined by our jobs (especially around this site), but we aren't. I have had some unrewarding jobs myself, with little big-picture purpose and no easy way out, but
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ReadingListReader - a script to dump the contents of Safari Reading List(github.com)
1 points by anoved 15y ago|0 comments
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Generating an ebook of articles from Safari's Reading List(anoved.net)
2 points by anoved 15y ago|0 comments
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by anoved 16y ago
If you're working with real-world objects, one approach is to place the object of interest on a turntable, allowing you to capture multiple perspectives with a single camera/sensor. Philo Hurbain has made some delightfully clever LEGO NXT 3
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by anoved 16y ago
Or what about using built-in motion sensors to record the relative camera location and orientation of a series of frames captured with an e.g. iPhone camera? I don't know exactly how the accelerometers and gyros work, or what sort of data t
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by anoved 16y ago
Actually, it briefly displays a sequence of four illumination conditions - a white semicircle at the top, right, bottom, and left edges of the screen.
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by anoved 16y ago
Well, the original still works pretty well. ;-) I just used MacPaint to paint this portrait of MacPaint programmer Bill Atkinson: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anoved/4813947112/
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by anoved 16y ago
Well, in reality, I would use it to buy food. Money is tight. If we're talking some sort of online-only credit, I'd actually like to donate more to a number of podcasts I enjoy (escapeartists.net, drabblecast.org, starshipsofa.com). They wo
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by anoved 16y ago
Courtroom artists serve exactly that function - to sketch the scene in courtrooms where cameras are not allowed, for distribution through the news media. I'm not sure what the trend is but I wouldn't be surprised if it is a waning professio
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by anoved 16y ago
It may not be exactly what you desire, but Project Euler ( http://projecteuler.net/ ) presents a series of mathematical problems of variable difficulty. Working out solutions in code is a great problem-solving exercise, in my opinion.
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by anoved 16y ago
I'll let others address your actual question of increasing speed, but I'd just like to make the [perhaps obvious] point that speed isn't everything. I'd argue that comprehension and composition (diction, logical structure, etc.) are more im
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by anoved 16y ago
Divvy seems like a neat utility, too, at least for my taste in window management tools. I've been using Cinch (drag windows to top or sides of screen to cinch to full or half screen size - http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ ), but I
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by anoved 16y ago
Shopify + Fetch ( http://fetchapp.com/ ) seems like a decent combination for selling digital goods. Fetch provides file hosting and download services and integrates with Shopify as well as other services. I believe it helps manage updates t
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A taxonomy of cargo bikes(grist.org)
4 points by anoved 16y ago|0 comments
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Epubjs: a browser-based ePub reader implemented in JavaScript(blog.threepress.org)
10 points by anoved 16y ago|3 comments
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by anoved 16y ago
FYI, minor change to the stylesheet (pre {overflow:auto;}) to improve readability of preformatted text: http://anoved.net/2010/06/mcreadability-and-preformatted-tex...
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by anoved 16y ago
Together with part 1 ( http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/18/the-beauty-of-typ... ), quite an informative summary of different writing systems. I find different scripts fascinating, and know little about most, so this is a nice entry p
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by anoved 16y ago
I'd like to learn more about Safari Reader, too - especially the paginated-article collation feature, which is a real advantage over Readability. Anyway, as for tweaking the stylesheets - here are some links to compare. Here is the original
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by anoved 16y ago
Thanks! When I first set out to make it, I thought JavaScript would be involved - but turns out a new stylesheet was sufficient. There's JS on the page to replicate the bookmarklet maker, of course, but swapping the stylesheet URL in an exi

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