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I'm convinced that e-ink displays will become ubiquitous in a not-so-far future. A e-ink screen is a great idea for a workstation aimed at text editing, be it writing emails or pro…

Yes hardware startup are sexy, but most of them are also very software-intensive. Leap Motion needs a lot of processing power, even for a simple visualizer app, and I bet Myo does …

This reminds me of VoiceBunny. For short texts you can get a voiceover within minutes, and their API allows you to automate the whole process. See API flowchart: http://voicebunny.…

I'm in the "99% mobile" case. It seems Parse offers many nice features in addition to transparent-ish "cloud" persistence, e.g Push notifications, etc. Heroku's approach is really …

This looks like competition for Parse (and a few others I guess, but Parse was the first one I heard of). However I have tried neither. Is there anyone who's tried both? What are t…

IIRC state-of-the-art reconfiguration times can get below 10ms when using partial reconfiguration. In the field of sotfware-defined radio, the USRP hardware from the GNU Radio proj…

There are solutions that do not need any pre-established magnetic field maps, because they simply derive velocity from local magnetic field disturbances and use magnometer measurem…

To me " Pick a game, write a server emulator for it " is an excellent example of " What is it trusting? What is it trying to protect? How do I get around it? ". But on top of being…

I agree with you on the Arduino IDE limitations, but what I don't get is all the browser/cloud-based part. The mbed platform has all that online stuff, and that's precisely why it'…

Using larger grids and combining this with the famous HashLife algorithm to "compress Space and Time" ( http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/184406478 ) would be awesome!

Bluetooth Low Energy would be well-suited too. And more and more smartphones have radio chips that support it (iPhone 4s, Droid Razor, ..)

A Wi-Fi module like the RN171 from Roving Networks which has a full TCP/IP stack embedded is less than $35.

There is also the HSM (hierarchical state machine) extension of this concept (by the same author, not sure it's in the same book) where a given state either handles an event or ret…

My bad, I was being too vague - sorry for that. I meant "any atypical property" instead of "any property". An "atypical property" being a property that almost no sequence has, i.e …

I think one of the most widely accepted definitions of randomness in mathematics was given by Martin-Löf. Basically it says that a process is random iff it doesn't exhibit any atyp…

tell us more, do you have a link?

I'm sure right now someone somewhere is working on an FPGA implementation of the DCPU-16.

You've convinced me. I'm trying DDG right now!

It's funny how Excel allows non-programmers to end up programming without knowing it. Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3374431