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dave809

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dave809··on Rest – A Haskell REST framework
Managing side effects is one of Haskell's biggest selling points
dave809··on A Hacker News for grad students?
I'd recommend LessWrong [1], It's an active community around discussing rationality, AI, self improvement, and many more intellectually stimulating topics.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/

dave809··on Help Shut the Government's Surveillance Backdoors
I think a little bit of bragging is good, it can create a bit of social pressure for others to act. More people should publicly share what they've done

So, your awesome, if I was a US citizen I would be calling right now.

dave809··on The Disappearing Universe
Leonard Susskind talked about this idea and expanded on it in his talk 'Why is time a one way street'

Highly recommend the talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnKBKZvb_U

dave809··on "We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."
I didn't make that inference, I figured Larry was avoiding the question.

NLP is hard

dave809··on Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (2009)
Not incredibly popular but Nikki and the Robots is a game written in haskell that has recently been greenlit on steam

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107105...

dave809··on Google Revenue Jumps, But Misses Forecasts
Because the ads are usually relevant and useful. in your example, the second card is a nice summary of hotels with all the relevant info right there
dave809··on My Ideas, My Boss’s Property
What's stopping you from setting an outrageous price?
dave809··on Night Walk in Marseille [video]
possibly logos/advertisements.
dave809··on Motorola's Moto G bites into UK budget smartphone market
it's got motorola assist, which is pretty cool
dave809··on Zen photon garden
It seems like this effect could be got much more efficiently using block lighting. you could get the gradients by storing the light's strength at each vertex. This way you would be tracing only two rays per line
dave809··on Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
Mozilla is working on it :) http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
dave809··on LSD, Reconsidered for Therapy
Did the mushrooms help?
dave809··on Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows
I think the assumption is that the menu won't take up the entire bar
dave809··on Wanted: Awesome HTML5 app ports for Firefox OS and the Open Web
something being open doesn't imply it has every imaginable feature
dave809··on Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty
wait, so you currently have an infected computer on your home network?
dave809··on Belgian professor in cryptography hacked
Your link is broken
dave809··on Oracle doing a survey on sun.misc.Unsafe usage
An interesting post on c++ like memory management in java:

http://vanillajava.blogspot.ca/2014/01/sunmiscunsafe-and-off...

dave809··on What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google
It is when you've got the startup bug, think of what you could built in 4 years. In OP's case he built picnik
dave809··on Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate
Great example, another metric I like to use is to look at the history, to see how many times the file has been patched
dave809··on 1.85% of Steam users run Linux
what is your video card?
dave809··on Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work?
Why not do all that and also take smart drugs?
dave809··on The city of Munich switches to Open Source Software
Awesome news, I always wonder how the users react to these kind of switches. They switched everyone to open office, firefox and thunderbird while on Windows and then gradually switched to LiMux. It seems like they tried to make the DE very similar to windows NT to ease the transition[0].

[0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LiMux.jpg

dave809··on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics
I remember watching this awesome video from Bot & Dolly a few weeks ago, "Box" http://vimeo.com/75260457
dave809··on Notch Playing Ludum Dare [video]
For anyone wondering, the theme for this ludum dare is "You Only Get One"
dave809··on World of Mathematics
Exactly my thought, This kind of math visualization has been on my mind ever since watching the talk "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"[0] by Bret Victor. I would totally be into contributing to this project

[0] http://vimeo.com/67076984

dave809··on How to Buy Bitcoin
This affects me too, firefox on linux
dave809··on CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store
I'm pretty sure the restriction to objective-c was due to performance concerns.
dave809··on Show HN: CodePair - etherpad + codechecker + analytics for interviews
> code interviews by phone you're joking right? would you speak the code out loud like so:

a equals list open bracket range open bracket ten close bracket close bracket new line

or is it more abstract, like:

create a list from 0 to 9 and store it in a variable called a

dave809··on Codecademy (YC S11) on Colbert Report
For people in Canada: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoP...
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