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by RK 17y ago
I had a strangely similar problem to this in college with the network admins and filesystem permissions. This was back in the day when everybody was using the unix network (pine for email, etc). Many people had webpages on their university
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Dean Kamen at TEDMED 2009 (Story of Luke arm)(youtube.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
A lot of the necessary stuff already exists for aquariums. If you search for "aquarium controller", you'll find things like this: http://www.draquarium.com/ Edit: Even better (phone control, twitter notification, etc): http://www.tankedc
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by RK 17y ago
I was just wondering the other day what ever happened to Songbird. It seemed to have a strong teem behind it and a lot of potential, but they don't seem to make much noise anymore.
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by RK 17y ago
Maybe it's a secret that you can "have it your way" at McDonald's as well. I always order the big Mac without onions or pickles.
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by RK 17y ago
With something like this it's hard to tell if the author is "dumbing it down" or just doesn't understand the material all that well. He does style himself an "amateur physicist".
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by RK 17y ago
Please no... I want to keep using Dropbox.
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by RK 17y ago
I found a big tank of helium in the pile of junk at the house I moved into about a year ago and ended up giving it away since I had no use for it (after making a ton of party balloons). I guess I should have kept the tank and retired after
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by RK 17y ago
I find the "infinite" scrolling kind of annoying. It's jumpy when it loads and it gives you no reference of where you are in the results (versus which page you're on with Google, for example).
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by RK 17y ago
For much of my mid 20's I had no health insurance. That was shameful.
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by RK 17y ago
Well, at least they didn't out you live on air as a "CS" person :)
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by RK 17y ago
It doesn't say that he's the current world champion. It says that he's currently ranked number 1. http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen
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by RK 17y ago
Reading the whole first page I was wondering how PDF or whatever was going to somehow solve their problem... In my experience it's usually only non-technical people who use power point as a generic term.
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by RK 17y ago
So an R&D firm shouldn't be able to get patents, only someone who does R&D plus manufacturing? I ask that because the startup where I work part-time does R&D for scientific equipment and we then license the technology to compani
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by RK 17y ago
You can pretty much pick out where the reservations are in the western US on the county map of combined obesity and diabetes. The big one in NM/AZ is the main Navajo reservation. Native American tend to have some of the worst health stats i
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by RK 17y ago
A CT from today is very different from the first CT scans in the 1970's. http://www.imaginis.com/ct-scan/history.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ct-workstation-neck.jpg
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by RK 17y ago
Is that really the perception of Wichita? I would have said Topeka. (Most) All of the crazy abortion protesters are from out of town. (I lived in Wichita at one point long ago.) I'll add that some of the parts of Kansas I've been to seem ve
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Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide (TED)(youtube.com)
30 points by RK 17y ago|2 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Who will write an android/iphone app for passengers to double check this? Edit: Looks like they already exist: http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+taxi+meter+app
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by RK 17y ago
Or dark energy.
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by RK 17y ago
I recognize Mixergy, but don't recall what they do.
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by RK 17y ago
Especially using a (touchscreen) phone.
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by RK 17y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens in the US now that all 4 major carriers have TV ads featuring Android phones.
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by RK 17y ago
I worked as an applied physicist / engineer at a smallish engineering company directly out of college, where about 50% of the employees had PhD's. When I decided to quit to get my PhD, the VP in charge of my boss gave me a 30 minute lecture
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by RK 17y ago
I will be happy to accept the money on behalf of the entire Internet.
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by RK 17y ago
If I recall correctly, the report about Linux netbooks being returned in higher numbers than Windows netbooks turned out to be false.
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by RK 17y ago
There might be something worth saying on this topic, but this article doesn't say it.
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by RK 17y ago
I guess it could be worse if the phrase were "taking a piss on my wife"... I once had a friend from England ask me very skeptically if you could really say someone was just "fucking with you" to mean someone was just joking around. So I gue
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by RK 17y ago
From the Chile push pin regarding interests: taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers Any UK people care to translate that?
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Android Phone Grows Up, Becomes Brain for Real Robot(wired.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments

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