tomdeakin

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by tomdeakin 12y ago
I can never work out the amount of coffee to put in the French press so that the plunger still goes down all the way and the coffee is a good strength. So if you go with a 7g scoop per cup in a (say) 8 cup press, then there is more coffee g
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Show HN: HandsOnOpenCL - open source lectures and examples in C, C++ and Python(handsonopencl.github.io)
2 points by tomdeakin 13y ago|0 comments
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by tomdeakin 13y ago
Thanks! Registered over there, and there does seem plenty of jobs going.
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Ask HN: Which are the best freelancer sites?
1 points by tomdeakin 13y ago|2 comments
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by tomdeakin 13y ago
From the commentary on the news today, it seems that people inadvertently held another card (maybe in a wallet) too close to the reader whilst trying to use Chip and Pin with another card.
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by tomdeakin 14y ago
I spent a year working on a project in Go, so got pretty used to the language. One thing I did wonder though was how would it fare on very large systems; how could Go hook up to work like MPI across clusters of computers?
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by tomdeakin 14y ago
Having watched the video my first thoughts were why can't (for eg) the child's grandma reply using her email client. Why does grandma have to login to the website?
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by tomdeakin 14y ago
Really interesting talk. TED do some great talks in general imo.
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by tomdeakin 14y ago
This may be a significant reason as to why people won't switch. Why go to the hastle of moving data just to use another service? Plus, with referrals in Dropbox, the free space difference becomes negligible.
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by tomdeakin 14y ago
Thirded. They is such a simple way to visualise this.
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
Tried the "Black and White Squares" one. Was pretty fun and definitely suitable for 'young folders'!
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
git-add -p is new to me, but looks like something I'd wish I'd known about for a long while. The number of times I end up copying changes (like a new function) into some temp file while I commit is more than I'd care to admit.
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
It's always amusing asking for "Extra hot" and a slight look of panic as the milk is about to jump out the jug
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
I gave an old version of this a go a long time ago. It was really very time consuming. I would be interested in doing it again though now that I have more of an idea about compiling from source.. I was still very new to it then. I felt that
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
This kind of discussion is lacking in the article. It seems as if the OPs goal is optimisation and of course finding the right algorithm with the lowest complexity is the first port of call. However, the indexOf function seems to rely on pr
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
Would be really interested to see what caused those segfaults! But the link in the table just goes to the table.
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by tomdeakin 15y ago
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120228006472/en/RS-C... That's from RS's Twitter feed. Not exactly the praises I'd sing right now.