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This is the definition of what a 'hacker' is, great read.

• backprojection 10y ago
  really cool. It looks pretty close to the ideas behind seismic imaging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_seismology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_seismology
  • jofer 10y ago
    Judging from your username, I'm going to guess you're an earthquake seismologist. Cheers from the reflection world!
• visakanv 10y ago
  Right on. Reminds me of Richard Feynman or Steve Wozniak, the way they just casually talk about taking things apart and putting things together while following a curiosity on an adventure. This is representative of the sort of ethos that drew everyone here in the first place, I think.
  • kamaal 10y ago
    Unfortunately once you touch this sort of high, the normal day job starts to looking boring.
    • pizza 10y ago
      But you inch closer towards a reality where there are alternatives to the boring normal day job
      • Artlav 10y ago
        Sadly, such things don't pay the bills. (Unless i missed some sort of karma/like/wow monetization :) )
        • fudged71 10y ago
          You seriously need to consider starting a Patreon[0] campaign. I'm sure many people would be interested to see more from you. There are individuals on there who are making significant salaries based purely on interest from the crowd. [0] https://www.patreon.com/ https://www.patreon.com/
          • Artlav 10y ago
            Don't that require making regular content? My posts are fairly random by time and quality, and most are just rants on various philosophical nonsense [0] or game design [1]. Wouldn't be fair to people who signed up for something like this camera. [0] http://orbides.org/random.php http://orbides.org/random.php [1] http://orbides.org/randg.php http://orbides.org/randg.php
            • ErrantX 10y ago
              Perhaps not as a regular income; but if funding for these projects is a limitation I bet crowdfunding would bring in funds to keep these posts coming :)
              • bemmu 10y ago
                Random site idea. Could there be a version of Patreon, where not the author themself but instead the fans start the pledges. The author could choose to take the money or not, and could prove their identity by putting their bitcoin address in a <meta> tag on their website. So we could create a project on the site say "support sound camera posts from ribbonfarm.com" and money would be gathered for it, then when a new qualifying post would be made the site owner would be contacted "hey, you have $500 waiting for you, put this meta tag in your <head> to accept it". This way modest authors wouldn't need to think "am I good enough for Patreon?" and people could support them. People could provide wallet addresses to which the money would be returned if not accepted.
                • whamlastxmas 10y ago
    • TeMPOraL 10y ago
      So the goal now becomes to figure out how to minimize amount of time spent on the normal day job...
      • foota 10y ago
        If only they had a device that could alert them to their bosses footsteps before they could see the
• icelancer 10y ago
  Agreed. Not just "cool" thing done, but the tenacity, the work ethic, the constant probing.