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airtop-pc.com 9y ago

Compulab Airtop – Natural Airflow Desktop

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

C++ on the Web: Ponies for developers without pwn’ing users

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 9y ago

Evil Hangman and functional programming

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 10y ago

WebAssembly Hello World

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rfc.zeromq.org 10y ago

Collective Code Construction Contract

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 10y ago

Migrating to Git and dealing with large repositories

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blogs.msdn.microsoft.com 10y ago

Why I left Google (2012)

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Creating Intuitive APIs – Lars Knoll – Closing Keynote Meeting C++ 2015

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blog.hubpress.io 11y ago

A web application to build your Blog on GitHub

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 11y ago

A connection machine in your pocket

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milliondollardefrag.com 11y ago

Show HN: Stopped procrastinating and finished this little toy

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, and the Future of Corporations (2013)

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 11y ago

So you want to build a Git Server?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Why can reddit users delete their old comments, but HN users can't?

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swannodette.github.io 11y ago

Mori Javscript library – ClojureScript's persistent data structures and API

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 12y ago

Evil Hangman and functional helper functions

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hackaday.com 12y ago

The Science of Derailing Trains (WWII video)

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communities-dominate.blogs.com 12y ago

Best Mobile Location based Ad Campaign, comes from Guatemala for shoes

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ondras.github.com 13y ago

Rot.js: ROguelike Toolkit in JavaScript (aka The Royal Wedding toolkit)

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Blackberry 10 Browser (made entirely in html) preview

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www.bgr.com 13y ago

BlackBerry introduces 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook

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hackaday.com 13y ago

First 3D printed gun tested/works

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www.crn.com 14y ago

Blackberry now ships with WebKit [2010]

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www.infoq.com 14y ago

Searching Without Objectives

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 14y ago

Patches with more than one fix will no longer be tolerated

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benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com 14y ago

What makes a fun Mario level?

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www.datagenetics.com 14y ago

A Better Strategy for Hangman

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notes.ericjiang.com 14y ago

Parallel Map in JavaScript

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blackberry.github.com 14y ago

Qt included in the BlackBerry native NDK

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github.com 14y ago

GitHaven, an open source clone of GitHub

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Not really answered in the paper... were those levels fun to play? The "Levels Evaluation" seemed a little lackluster too.

Back in early 2000 I ran a Quake server that generated levels that were decent. It would build a new one ever 15 minutes so when playing you would always find yourself in a new map regularly. I spent time tweaking it for fun and diversity which were the interesting bit. I didn't want to play the same level type over and over with guns just slightly shifted, but to play a wide range of experiences some of which were very surprising.

I bought the ones that are round cut so yeah they are the jewelry quality ones you probably saw. I might end up turning a few into a set of earnings or a necklace or something. It was tempting to get a rod of raw ruby and smash it or something, but it is also just cool to show off a pile of rubies cut and ready to put into jewelry that I am just using as tokens in a mining board game. :D

Real rubies I awesome. I picked up 50 of them that are 1cm in size to replace the plastic ones that come in my board games. The weight of them in my hand is unexpected. The upside had to be when I brought them to work and got to pore a pile of real rubies into someones hands. Only "downside" is that even though they are really hard, they can scratch each other. But eh they are cheap enough that I just tossed them in a velvet bag and in the board game box.

They also might think, does she really enjoy tech, is she a nerd like me, or is she just looking for a cushy office job in software that the "diversity/women-in-X" groups are so loudly promoting.

Hell I think that about all my colleagues whatever their gender is. Seen plenty of males don't really want to code, but it pays too well to not.

My own theory, is that CS (programming) is perceived as having low social status.

A colleague told me when out at a bar he refrains from telling women that he is a programmer because they suddenly become way more interested because they know how much $$$ programming jobs bring in. That does not sound like low social status signalling to me, but the opposite at least for males.

Before movies, why not insert friends into your video game?

Or how about creating a company that sells profiles each of which would be a collection of high quality photos/videos. In turn if you have a video game or movie you can get a random actor with the body you want and swap the face with the face you want?

Or even better create a service where individuals can upload their own photos which they can get some of the profit if their profile is used.

Self-Crashing Cars 8 years ago

It's a bit like the Fermi Paradox.

During the late 90's and early 00's I often wondered why with all of the Microsoft hate why someone didn't create a simple virus that did something destructive like just format windows hard drives. There must have been other incentives at play that caused this to never occur. Perhaps in the same logic if you can infect every Tesla it is more valuable to not crash them, but instead scrub the data and sell that back to [insert company] or something.

If there was ever something that would cause a formal programming guild to sprout I would be willing to bet that it would form its roots around security.

When build stuff on a real slow platform a trick I have used is to setup distcc on the slow computer and at least one real fast computer with a compiler set to the slow computer's arch. Set the slow computer distcc to 0 so it compiles nothing locally, but it does do the configure/linking/etc. This avoids almost all the cross compilation issues you might run into while getting many of the fast benefits.

In Chrome's implementation are the cache, cookiejar, and history all kept completely separate? For example if I go to foo.com and inside that it loads a facebook script in an iframe could it get all the normal facebook cookies or would it be blank? Which "site" would the iframe be?

Back in the day (Around when I ported chrome to Linux for a time context) I wrote up a spec and implemented a browser that did site data compartmentalization. Data leaks from cookies, history and especially cache were not possible because the data just wasn't there to be leaked. It was a pretty cool design that along with per site settings and split view search was definitely ahead of its time. Alas I was forbidden from working on it by my employer at the time and have been watching for some of the features to appear in other browsers since.

https://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2009/08/next-generation-...

For what it is worth I do to. It is amusing to get to tell them I already have solar at which point they look up and then walk away. But think about it... What kind of margin pays to have someone walk door to door? That is the kind of waste that the system has not yet rung out and why residential costs don't seem to be going down as much as they should. As long as all of the installers don't drive their costs down they all get to enjoy growing profits!

When I got solar several years ago I watched as the various installers wasted a ton of time selling to me. It was clear that all the steps between when I was interested and when I gave the go ahead to start the install were extremely expensive in the big picture and in the long term the winners of residential installation would be those that will be able to drive that cost down and or spread that cost out to as many customers as possible.

They visited my house when I was just looking for a quote. The quotes were these large custom contracts with all the information which we would iterate a few times on.

I can imaging these days just going to a website, finding my roof, selection my option and getting a quote in real time. Maybe they would even let different installers all bid for the job, who knows. The website would have detailed information and information if I want it. Only if I did an initial downpayment would someone come out to confirm it could be installed. Someone like this could be able to drive the install cost down.

Or maybe "groupon deals" where if you and 4 other neighbors on your block all buy solar it is 15% cheaper or something. That would be one way to shift the marketing and sales to the consumer and not the installer.

From your first link:

UPDATE: Peterson reported that he regained access to his Google and YouTube accounts shortly after the publication of this piece, but the company still has not provided the professor with specific reasoning for his ban.

There is no indication that this is related to any gender pronoun usage

Best part is that your boss doesn't blink when you ask him to approve legos sets and lego boxes bought by the pound to build the boring tapping, sliding, dropping, shaking robot of the week that they need.

Edit: second best part is take your kid to work day when you get to show the 8 year olds your cabinets full of spare lego parts.