davidalln

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by davidalln 16y ago
A big part of this is the timing of the release; video game systems are always big sellers before the holidays. Anyways, the difference in price as well as function makes this a pointless comparison.
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by davidalln 16y ago
Not only that, but he's a huge supporter of science education for kids. He is a judge at the local Atlanta FIRST Robotics regional.
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by davidalln 16y ago
Facebook succeeded because it's timing was perfect. It was released right about the time when internet officially went mainstream. Drops in high speed internet prices combined with a crop of Web 2.0 applications promising a more dynamic web
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by davidalln 16y ago
I was always under the impression that Dark, Grunge, and Minimal coexisted with each other in this stage.
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by davidalln 16y ago
You can already do this in Chrome. For example, I hit ' to search Wikipedia and hit ; to I'm Feeling Lucky Google. Preferences -> Basics -> Manage (Next to Default Search)
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by davidalln 16y ago
It's strong economy is based on a limited resource that much of the world is shifting away from. And its social policies remain incompatible with many of the major countries of today. Also, the surrounding area is torn apart by a never-endi
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by davidalln 16y ago
Why Abu Dhabi? If you're really going for an "international" school, why wouldn't you pick somewhere a bit more stable? If neutrality is key, then I'd choose someplace like Geneva.
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by davidalln 16y ago
I think even more surprising than that was the hackish way that they put together the telestrator system. Instead of digging into a native iPad application they loaded on a VNC client and connected it to preexisting software. I respect and
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by davidalln 16y ago
You are right, I did not make myself clear. I was trying to keep my description as general as possible as to not make it entirely self centered. By "diverse" I mean going beyond software engineering and touching on graphics, AI, simulation,
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Ask HN: So What Universities Are Good?
32 points by davidalln 16y ago|67 comments
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by davidalln 16y ago
A lot of this has been done with openFrameworks ( http://openframeworks.cc/ ). It ties together a plethora of open source frameworks including OpenCV with easy to use bindings to indirectly create a somewhat simplified version of C++. If yo
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by davidalln 16y ago
Maybe they will get money from developers of the APIs opting into their service. As in, give us $X a month, and we will handle all your embedding needs and get your content out there to a ton of different services. Like, think if Embedly wa
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by davidalln 16y ago
"Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said. He added that the company expects to gain a higher percent
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by davidalln 16y ago
I guess we disagree on the definition of art. Those disposable chopsticks still required the search for a satisfactory length, width, smoothness, etc. Not to mention, the label and the marketing which equally requires a mastery of human psy
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by davidalln 16y ago
I think dismissing "programming as art" as irrelevant and hurtful to the community is dangerous. Here we have the tools to create a near-infinite amount of almost everything that can run on a computer. We use code to run complicated robots
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by davidalln 16y ago
(ahem) the correct quote is "huge success"
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by davidalln 16y ago
My favorite is "mechanical issue". I use it all the time whenever the build team on my robotics team blames me (i.e., the coder) for an issue on the robot. Build Team: DAVID! The robot is continuously driving in circles whenever we turn it
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by davidalln 16y ago
This is cool but... wasn't it launched like three or four months ago?
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by davidalln 16y ago
I'm a little bit confused over what appears to be a mass hysteria about privacy problems for Facebook. I guess I really don't mind if Facebook tells company X that I listen to Modest Mouse, or lets advertisers know that I play disc golf. Fa
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by davidalln 16y ago
This sounds a lot like the semi-popular college game 1000 Blank White Cards ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Blank_White_Cards )
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by davidalln 16y ago
Make sure she has an interest in programming first. If she does, do NOT start her out on a graphical programming language like squeak/scratch. Future compsci kids have romantic visions of hackers frantically typing into a green/black termin
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by davidalln 17y ago
Thanks for posting this. I was trying to get through ActiveRecord and DataMapper on non-Rails/Merb/Sinatra ruby programs when I arbitrarily went to HackerNews and saw this: a much simpler solution to what I needed (without using straight up
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by davidalln 17y ago
This advice is good or bad depending on the style of your nephew. If he is really exciting about programming, then he most likely has in his head this idea of hacking away at physical lines of code rather than Alice/Squeak/Scratch. I'd sugg
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by davidalln 17y ago
With HTML 5 browsers should be able to access CPU processing power and other parts of the computer previously available to only native applications. So this is possible.
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by davidalln 17y ago
I think he did an excellent job of this, especially since his target demo are liberal 18-35 year olds who are generally in tune with modern technology. If I was explaining to my Grandma what net neutrality is, I'm not going to point her to
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by davidalln 17y ago
Most flash games aren't created with the purpose of making grandiose amounts of money, but rather for fun or for showing off
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by davidalln 17y ago
On the other hand, it's much cheaper than Mathematica!
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by davidalln 17y ago
40 years ago I'm sure email seemed like a "niche tool" used by only the technical savvy. I'm not saying that Wave will replace (or even that it should replace) email, but I do think that, especially as a younger, more technically savvy gene
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by davidalln 17y ago
Perhaps, but I think this is too cynical. You forget about the cost of Flash (assuming you're being legit), the cost of being able to put up stuff on the App Store, how potentially difficult it is to adapt the application to the iPhone, and
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by davidalln 17y ago
Fantastic story, and it pointed out that there is a beyond excellent graphing calculator on my computer! No more Wolfram Alpha for x= equations!

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