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Prismatic lands $15m of Series A funding(techcrunch.com)
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by nosignal 14y ago
Thanks for sharing these links. Honestly, charity isn't something I think much about, but have a poor opinion of. Nice to be reminded that good applications of it exist, and that it's measurable and assessable. The 80,000 Hours site in part
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by nosignal 14y ago
This looks beautiful, but it doesn't release my mouse click on Chrome; i.e. when I click on the globe to click & drag, the rotation of the globe keeps following my mouse, and I can't click the "play" button. Nice project though, as a ge
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by nosignal 14y ago
With your keyboard set to dvorak.
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LambdaCube 3D's graphics pipeline model (functional rendering engine)(lambdacube3d.wordpress.com)
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by nosignal 14y ago
If I had karma enough to downvote advertising, I would. FWIW, Little Bird electronics are another Australian supplier of Arduino & associated electronics. http://littlebirdelectronics.com/products/arduino-uno-r3 No association, except
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Never Fix a Bug Twice(lukeplant.me.uk)
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by nosignal 14y ago
That blog post was fascinating — I had no idea the Fan community was so mobilised (nor that they were even a community cohesive enough to have a name, nor that the name was Fans). I wonder how many other comprehensive communities exist like
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by nosignal 14y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't use bookmarks? 99% of the time, if I need to find something I've read before, I'll just search for it & find it. The exception to this is when I was working support and had several product spec sheets &
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by nosignal 14y ago
Thanks for that mashup link, I'm always on the lookout for web map references so that's pretty useful. Cheers.
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"Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee."(quora.com)
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by nosignal 14y ago
Thanks for putting it up. I'll have a play with it!
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by nosignal 14y ago
Is this code that you can put online somewhere? This kind of thing would a) likely be really handy for lots of people and b) is the kind of thing I'd like to be able to make myself (using browser as a readymade UI), so having an existing re
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by nosignal 14y ago
...any runtimes except *nix (or cygwin), that is.
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by nosignal 14y ago
From the 1983 BBC "Fun to Imagine" series. Video for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
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by nosignal 14y ago
At the risk of being pedantic, it's worth noting that some things benefit from memorisation (e.g. the alphabet) and some things benefit from "higher" learning (e.g. understanding the concepts of programming). I don't think patio11 is necess
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by nosignal 14y ago
I saw Damian Conway present about this, and it was absolutely fascinating. It started as a practice of removing syntax from code position and instead encoding it in variable/function names, like Latin does. "The paper also explains the spec
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Lingua::Romana::Perligata - grammatically correct Latin which compiles to Perl(csse.monash.edu.au)
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by nosignal 14y ago
I'm supposed to be teaching a class on introductory Python (students are doing their exercises now) and I want to scrap the rest of the day to talk about how phenomenally awesome this news is. I'll settle for a strange, quiet sense of elati
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Map of the Dead - Gmaps Zombie Survival Mashup(mapofthedead.com)
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by nosignal 14y ago
No source besides my discussions with techs in Australia Post, sorry.
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by nosignal 14y ago
I see these are built on the Australian Bureau of Statistics "approximate" postcodes which are matched to census districts and therefore more useful for demographic analysis; no CDs cross postcodes in this dataset. There are a bunch of sim
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by nosignal 14y ago
I noticed this too. It seems advice to "pick random words" should be extended to "pick random words and leave the last letter off".
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by nosignal 14y ago
Hangul, the Korean writing system, is at once phonetic and syllabic. Each "symbol" represents a syllable, but each sub-symbol represents a particular sound in the syllable; and each sub-sub-symbol encodes phonetic information about how it s
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by nosignal 14y ago
I can see this being applied in labels etc. for computer vision. Some kind of control/orientation character could make it similar to a QR code but actually readable by humans. Generally, though, if something's going to be read by both, you
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by nosignal 14y ago
Definitely. Could be offered as a one-off design, I imagine.
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by nosignal 15y ago
Rounded corners, drop shadows, subtle palettes with contrasting call to action buttons, several dozen social network sharing icons... Did I miss anything?
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by nosignal 15y ago
I had some similar thoughts while taking a night class in woodworking a few months ago. Seeing as I'm never going to blog it, I'll put them here. Hopefully, the parallels with software projects are obvious. Have a side project on which to
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by nosignal 15y ago
Interesting you mention this; I've recently started a new job which requires me to learn a whole new skillset (web programming with JavaScript). I've been a developer of desktop apps for a while so programming isn't new, but the language an
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Generating Random Haskell Functions(mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com.au)
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