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I believe in this encoding scheme, the primer targets would perform roughly the same function as hashtable lookup keys would in a file system. Along the lines of a VFS inode cache http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node110...

Wow. Thanks! Just one minute of each of the seven exercises has improved my vision to the point where I no longer need my 1.0 reading glasses to read hacker news on my iPhone 7+. The improved vision seems to be lasting at least a few minutes. Perhaps there’s truth to the “use it or lose it” theory of vision?

Does DDG learn from what people !g for?

"Stoner Blue" FTW

From the linked website: "CockroachDB provides scale without sacrificing SQL functionality. It offers fully-distributed ACID transactions, zero-downtime schema changes, and support for secondary indexes and foreign keys". Significantly, CockroachDB has had extensive design dedicated to surviving adverse network conditions (see Jepsen references in other posts)

Thanks for the great comment. You should write all this up somewhere, it sounds like a lot of hard-earned wisdom!

Awesome game series! Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II#The_Ur-Quan_...

This is excellent, in multiple ways. The main things humans are adding here are a) pollution and b) good strong fishing line. We're pretty good at both of those things...

Fixed link: http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/alzheimers_disease_...

Yogurt is alive!

I believe Instagram uses Cassandra as well as Redis. http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/100758229719/mi...

Nice code. Thank you. Are those ball-to-line collisions energy preserving? I believe they are... However it seems there might be an edge case, where moving a colliding circle until it no longer intersects the line, might cause it to skip past another line. Because of this, the lines should not intersect each other. Sorry to ramble but I love this sort of stuff. Collision detection is covered well in many game development texts.

Coincidentally, shuffling was the subject of this week's puzzle on "Interview Cake": https://www.interviewcake.com/question/shuffle

This is very interesting.

1) makes me think our upcoming Laundry-to-Landscape project will probably use our sandy front yard soil as a giant lint filter. 2) makes me think twice before using dryer lint as camp fire tinder. 3) from what I understand, the fabric industry is running low on ideas for product differentiation at the high end of the market. Garment lifecycle could be a lucrative differentiator.

Agreed even for normal color perception :)

Agreed. Mine was an inexpensive Seiki. Super nice to have the real estate. Next one will hopefully be the 50" one, tilted like an drafting table.

I had a chance to try out the flir one for a day. Pretty sweet but not perfect. It has a number of color scales prominently featured in the iPhone UI. Grayscale might match lumosity.

I used "contrast" to quickly identify hot / cold parts of my house, then "spot meter" to measure the actual temp. Found out part of my attic is not insulated. That's money going out through the roof.

An awesome person -- her thoughts both challenge and provide a breath of fresh air. Check out her TEDx talk on the value of boredom: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxSydney-Genevieve-Bell-The...

Any thoughts how software-transactional memory might apply for a use case like this?

Also curious how it compares to mupdf?

Cool! Does it do anything interesting during a network partition?

Seems like a nice fit for cloud environments.

The web was originally a means to collaboratively publish helpful documentation stacks and research papers. It was and still is rooted in "document objects", not apps and certainly not monetization. To recoup the costs of authoring these help files, we have to rent out real estate in the margins.

Apps predated this model in more or less the same form we currently find them, with monetization inherent in the distribution model.

If native apps are dominating web pages in some medium e.g. portables and wearables, maybe that means the audience of that medium isn't inclined to create links or author documents, so isn't well served by the web model there. Specialized apps will tend to serve their specific needs better, especially if they can be monetized easily.

There will always be a place for the web, and for the dedicated app. "Web apps" were and are a bit of a hack, although often a very useful one. Creativity can be channeled into all of these media, and the barriers to entry are lowering for all of them. It's a great time to be online. As long as IP remains ubiquitous, I imagine there will always be a market outside of the AOLs, Apple Stores, Google Stores etc.

5.5) Determine how much fuel it still has. Per Wikipedia, "a [2008] status check revealed that all but one of its 13 experiments were still functioning, and it still has enough propellant for 150 m/s of ΔV. ".

I'm guessing that is not much. (Amazing that it still had any at all)!

Thoreau is clearly comparing the Massachusetts startup scene to the one in California.

Did all of the cameras tested have the same size lens? A physically large lens should have better low light performance, regardless of the # of megapixels.