MrBuddyCasino

I know a guy who hooked up a Nunchuck to an Arduino, blasted the x/y/z data into MongoDB and used Meteor.js just to show the coordinates on a website, in realtime. He is also the kind of guy…

I love it. The day C and C++ die I'll be dancing on their grave and twerking on the tombstone. Will be hard to find an ARM equivalent for the ultra low power MSPs though.

Too bad, I was hoping for easier embedded usage as well. I don't particularly like the Arduino abstractions, too much is hidden, and to get decent performance or ADC precision often requires drop…

Yes thats a good point, protocol-relative links are useful, but IMHO they don't necessarily depend on the "//". If URLs would look like "http:google.com/bla", a…

Not sure why the downvotes, its common human behaviour. Its even discussed at length in Carnegie's htwfaip.

And thus you earned my highly prized "Todays Most Valuable Posting" badge. Do you have any experience with it? Gotchas, potential security issues etc?

- the URL notation <proto>://<bla> should loose the // - changing the IP address or having other temporary interruptions (e.g. train in tunnel) should not force me to r…

Also interesting they used the K series, and not the L one for ultra low power. Its not like they need a lot of MIPS for what they do.

Yes, isn 't that a situation that a journaled FS should prevent? So for e.g. XFS it should be redundant.

"When a dirty page is written to disk, write() to the same dirty page is blocked until flushing to disk is done." I'm not sure I got this, but this seems similar to vsync - making sure …

How extraordinarily bland. Even animals are known to take drugs, and not just primates. Eating fermented fruits, licking psychedelic caterpillars, all of that has been documented. Many drugs are harml…

The usual TerraPower and Transatomic stuff. An interesting aspect is that the molten salt reactor can chew up large parts of the light water nuclear waste. So even if we decide that nuclear power is n…

Yeah its not quite there yet, but I included them because e.g. in Chrome we have web workers, separate processes for plugins, a separate renderer process, separate processes for tabs etc., and multith…

Yeah, nearly missed that. Heres the quote: "In June 2010, Iridium signed the largest commercial rocket launch deal ever, a US$492 million contract with SpaceX to launch tens of Iridium NEXT satel…

I intuitively tried to come up with more examples to counter that claim, but all I can think of on the client side is: - 3D Graphics - 2D Graphics (Photoshop, video editing and encoding) - Web Browser…

Nice work, I like them better than the Bootstrap Glyphicons - they're lighter and more elegant.

Thats a really great idea! We definitely need some primary source of truth to refute all this half-wisdom thats going around, and of course to self-educate. Not to nitpick, but I looked up a single ra…

Mandatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/561/

Interesting - so IDE + Vim mode would be the best of both worlds. Do you find there is a lot lost in translation, or does that feeling carry over well? I'd be especially interested in Emacs and I…

Time and again, these "how to coerce yourself into learning this hostile tool called vim" posts appear. I read them, and it sparks my interest. But usually, whats missing is part 2, which go…

Thanks for that link, a chilling read indeed. Related: http://harpers.org/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-saves-you-fro... Its about a cult infiltrator, I found it extremel…

Exactly. People are just good at rationalizing their behaviour. I don't judge anybody who uses such sites, but what really pisses me off are the guys who like to shout some self-aggrandizing bull…

I like that idea, power to the people. If there was a way to do so without complicating my tax filings, that would be even better.

I agree it would make sense, but is the real problem not how to allocate that money? Who decides how much the Postgres guys get, or if its worth to support yet another NoSQL store? Involving politics …

Yes, I think he was wrong on that one, also the objects hype seems a little strange to me. But the rest? Pretty much spot on. In 1996, he saw the critical issues and where the web would go, at a time …

Back in the day there was AviSynth to do this kind of thing. Unfortunately the version 3 rewrite which was supposed to use GStreamer and Ruby never went anywhere. Is there finally something similar fo…

Mobile borders on embedded imho, and I agree that Java wasn't the smartest choice there. I'm on IOS, so I don't really know, but didn't Google push for 512MB minimum RAM with Andro…

You made some good points, but I'm not sure all of these are necessary trade offs. Lets say that the issue of code points not fitting into 16 bit chars requires a separate indexOf() API, to pre…

I was aware of the substring issue and the fact that CJK languages require 2 chars, but I might have used codePointAt() instead of offsetByCodePoint(), to be honest. So I agree unicode string indexing…