Live tour of Anybots through a robot's eyes, today 4-5pm (PST)

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25 points·tlrobinson··14 comments

One will also be able to see more chairs than have ever been crammed into YC's nave before. Huge numbers of people are coming to AngelConf tomorrow. That's one encouraging data point about the economy.

Live broadcast here tomorrow? http://www.justin.tv/angelconf

I was surprised to learn the programming was a combo of C++ and Python. For some reason I had the image that Trevor Blackwell was a hardcore LISP guy.

You're probably thinking of someone else.

More like guilt by association.

IIRC, his reason for Python is the ease and available libraries. C++ is only ever a good choice if it must be real time.

If even then. You can get a good enough version of real time with Python and other GC languages.

Typically that's only because someone else did the work, e.g. OpenCV makes image processing real-time in Python because it is C++ under the hood.

Smalltalk, no?

Just curious, what's the status on the QA? Is it in shippable form? Has anyone bought one?

Can anybody see this on Linux in Europe? I wonder if justin.tv is blocked in Europe or if the player somehow doesn't play nice with Flash on Linux.

I can see so it's probably a problem on your side.

That was really amazing. How do you get the expertise to design something like this? Or do you contract out most of the design?

bounce .. I really want to know how to learn how to make something like this, anyone?

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