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The $25 FPGA | Dr Dobb's

The $25 FPGA | Dr Dobb's: "However, Lattice seems to have taken this idea to the extreme. The iCEstick evaluation kit looks like a naked USB memory stick. Onboard is a fairly small FPGA, a USB interface chip, an IrDA transceiver, an oscillator, and a 32-megabit flash memory. There are also 5 LEDs, 16 digital I/O pins, and a PMOD port that can connect to many off-the-shelf modules from Digilent and a few other vendors."

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Syndicated 2013-09-18 15:23:00 from sness

A Pretty Good Work Day - Amir Rachum

A Pretty Good Work Day - Amir Rachum: "But our group leader (actually, his replacement) insisted that we give their way a chance. Not because their suggestion was good, but because it wasn’t just bad, it was dumber than a second coat of paint. It was so bad that it could not possibly work out for anyone. And that’s was he was counting on."

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Syndicated 2013-09-18 15:22:00 from sness

Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big

Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big: "Hadoop << SQL, Python Scripts
In terms of expressing your computations, Hadoop is strictly inferior to SQL. There is no computation you can write in Hadoop which you cannot write more easily in either SQL, or with a simple Python script that scans your files."

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Syndicated 2013-09-17 16:59:00 from sness

Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched. Then, a miracle occurred. « Blog – Stack Exchange

Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched. Then, a miracle occurred. « Blog – Stack Exchange: "Because here’s the crazy secret about gamification:  In the history of the world, gamification has never gotten a single person do anything they didn’t already basically like to do."

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Syndicated 2013-09-17 16:57:00 from sness

IamA HTML5 Game Developer that just launched a kickstarter AMA! : IAmA

IamA HTML5 Game Developer that just launched a kickstarter AMA! : IAmA: "arrFoo[idx + 1]; // BAD

var idx1 = idx + 1;
arrFoo[idx1]; // GOOD
In a tight loop the "GOOD" option changes framerate from ~14 to ~60."

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Syndicated 2013-09-13 20:13:00 from sness

python - Check if a given key already exists in a dictionary - Stack Overflow

python - Check if a given key already exists in a dictionary - Stack Overflow: "if 'key1' in dict.keys():
print "blah"
else:
print "boo""

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Syndicated 2013-09-12 20:47:00 from sness

Eloquent JavaScript Second Edition

Eloquent JavaScript Second Edition: "Eloquent JavaScript is an open, freely available textbook on JavaScript and computer programming in general. It was written in 2007 and has, since then, taught thousands of people, from Kashmir to Louisiana to Minas Gerais, to program."

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Syndicated 2013-09-12 20:46:00 from sness

rabexc: I/O performance in Python

rabexc: I/O performance in Python: "This file can get large, in the order of several hundreds of megabytes. The python code is trivial, given that each record is exactly the same size, but what is the fastest way to access and use that index file?"

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Syndicated 2013-09-12 20:46:00 from sness

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