Hexayurt

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by Hexayurt 11y ago
I'm the release coordinator for Ethereum (although I'm best known for open hardware http://hexayurt.com I do software too from time to time.) We're certainly getting close. As you may know, we have a "never s
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
I'm Hindu clergy.
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Python. PHP is really good for hacking things out, and there's a case to be made for using Python for the back end programming, and odds-and-sods of PHP to extract data into templates and so on - but fundamentally if you have real code to w
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Technological and Development Support for the Global Poor Socially responsible technology development projects aimed at stabilizing and then improving the conditions of the global poor can easily be created from America's scientific and tec
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Here's the fundamental problem with OO: not everything is an object. Some problems decompose naturally into functions. Some problems decompose naturally into procedures. Some problems decompose naturally into objects. OO has extremely poo
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Unless proven otherwise for a specific application, the answer is python. In general, the reason is simple: python programmers tend not to worry too much about the language, although there's a fair bit of fretfulness about the folks trying
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Music physiotherapists, believe it or not, are The People To Talk To. In my case, I had undiagnosed neck issues that were causing me to hunch in a way that screwed up my wrists, and about six sessions fixed it. Gone, never to return (as of
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Macbook. They're updating them soon, so you might want to wait for that to happen, and then either buy an old one for less, or a new one with new features.
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
Ach, it seems like the obvious answer is that the browser autofills your OpenID url and, if the site is set up all Ajax-like, it then goes off and logs you in on arrival. Very simple. As transparent as Basic Authentication with HTACCESS in
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
http://hexayurt.com is our approach - open source design too (well, patentless-and-published, rather than "in a patent pool" so technically it's public domain.) The key is thermal rejection. Sandbags absorb the energy slowly, so it's ther
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
"The Calm Technique" by Paul Wilson is an excellent beginner's guide to meditation. Meditation, for programmers, is like circuit training for athletes. It's the time you put in to train and build strength in you mind itself - not knowledge
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
well, given your focus on virtualization, what about something that references clones / zombies / ants / Neos replicant? googlable helps
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by Hexayurt 18y ago
"Perspective is worth 80 points of IQ" - Alan Kay Almost everybody here is focussed on a single, simple consumer niche: rich white people who shop online. Because, you say, that's where the money is. Well... no. That's where 2% of the money
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Nobody can steal what you choose to give away. If it would save or significantly improve lives, publish it under some appropriate license (try GFDL) and then start telling people.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Parallel supercomputer applications for the developing world: http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/supercomputer-a...
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Omnigraffle on OS X. It's software to change platforms for.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
1> Early adopters come in 2> Because they are early adopters, they tend to know about lots of cool things 3> The site becomes popular 4> Late adopters join 5> Site gets diluted, irritating 6> Early adopters move on 7
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
DMAE. Not a drug, an over-the-counter "food supplement." I was introduced to it by a programmer in Florida. Apparently it increases oxygen availability in the brain. What I found was that it was pretty much a 30 minute cure for programmer's
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Wow. Impressive analysis.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. MK Gandhi
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Yes, of course a recession/depression is coming. However, it's possible that the implications of Nanosolar being about to cut the price of grid electricity by 80% will bring us out of it middle of next year.
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The Internet for Monkeys: why Social Networking Works
1 points by Hexayurt 19y ago|1 comments
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
What OpenID needs is: 1> a fix for phishing, probably involving browser support for OpenID, so it reads the request for OpenID off the page, like browsers now pick up the option of having an RSS feed, and processes it specially 2> T
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Hm. There are a lot of stoves to this general pattern. The electricity is only a few watts and drives efficient combustion. Here's one from an American firm: http://www.woodgascampstove.com/ Philips has one too: http://www.research.phili
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Execution? More seriously, though, have you considered: http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html and http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/ Advanced thinking.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Smells like a combination of bureaucracy and a rather interesting little glitch in the math... somebody observes that you could make an PRNG that works that way, somebody else says MAKE IT SO and before you know it, it's an NSA standard, ev
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
First world pain is a term for things like going to the ATM and having it eat your card inexplicably. That seems close.
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
License it to game dev companies to provide better opponent AI.
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Tools for spike traffic: what's out there?
2 points by Hexayurt 19y ago|1 comments
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by Hexayurt 19y ago
Try a little book called "The Calm Technique" by, I think, Paul Wilson (?). Simple, excellent introductory meditation. But that takes time to build momentum. As at least one great yogi said "water will clean the mind faster than the mind ca

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