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wisesage5001 | 13 years ago | on: Python: Making ctypes Structures Beautiful

One thing I really like about the struct module's format string is the ability to easily specify the endian-ness of the data. How does newstruct (or the underlying ctypes) handle endian-ness (if at all)?

wisesage5001 | 14 years ago | on: Turn Your Smartphone Into A Robot

I don't see what they need $32,000 for. There was another robot project on Kickstarter a while back that was successfully funded (the Bilibot: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/147564168/bilibot-an-aff... ) for a lot less.

The hardware required to prototype the Bilibot is a lot more expensive than to prototype one of these Romos, so I don't get what they need 6 times the funding of the Bilibot project for. $78 per Romo seems fine, but the overall goal seems a bit high.

wisesage5001 | 14 years ago | on: NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash

Do you have any sources for the claim that universities typically have all rights to a student's papers? I can say for certain that I never signed any intellectual property agreement with the university I attended and would expect to retain all rights to any work I completed there as a student. The work I created did have an implied license allowing for grading the papers and such, but any use beyond that would upset me unless I the university had obtained my permission.

wisesage5001 | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What do you find buying online really hard or annoying?

I used http://www.padmapper.com/ when finding an apartment a few months ago. It's basically a Craigslist/Apartments.com/etc aggregator that puts each listing at its approximate location. Super useful, especially if you are moving to an unfamiliar city.

wisesage5001 | 15 years ago | on: An easy way to boost a paper's citations: Cite and you shall be cited

Totally agree. Correlation does not imply causation.

wisesage5001 | 15 years ago | on: Let me see your papers, let me see your source

Reminds me of my own experience doing research in mobile robotics. It basically followed a cycle described pretty well by the the comic here: http://www.willowgarage.com/sites/default/files/blog/201004/...

wisesage5001 | 16 years ago | on: PyCon 2010 Talks

Did I miss seeing it listed or is the Unladen Swallow talk not up yet?

wisesage5001 | 16 years ago | on: Tuning TCP parameters for the 21st century

RTO stands for "Retransmissin Timeout" and is the length of time the sender waits for a packet to be ACK'd. (Source: http://www.opalsoft.net/qos/TCP-10.htm)

wisesage5001 | 16 years ago | on: Unladen Swallow 2009Q3 Released with LLVM optimized Python

From their benchmarks rietveld: $ ./perf.py -r -b rietveld --args "-j always," --track_memory ../q2/python ../q3/python Mem max: 575116.000 -> 55952.000: 927.87% smaller

This 930% basically means that 2009Q3 can use as little as ~1/10 of the memory of 2009Q2.

wisesage5001 | 16 years ago | on: C−−: a portable assembly language designed by Simon Peyton Jones et al.

How does this compare to LLVM?