RobGR

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by RobGR 16y ago
I think it's an interesting question, but I think it will be technically difficult to differentiate between a person using data (say, with a plugin that indexes everything they browse, or a separate program that indexes their browser cache)
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by RobGR 16y ago
Could you make one with a piece of card taped to a microswitch ? You could adjust the size of the card and the angle of the microswitch until it detected if the fan was on or off.
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by RobGR 16y ago
There's this fellow who posts by the name "gnosis" on the interwebs, and I'm pretty sure he's the real killer of JFK. The DNA evidence for his innonence is . . . wait for it . . . NONEXISTENT !!!11!!! OMFG CALL NANCY GRACE NOW !!!
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by RobGR 16y ago
Can you give any information or share any scripts about how you generated and converted these ?
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by RobGR 16y ago
Move on as nicely as possible to everyone, including yourself, but move on. If you don't have ideas and plans on what will make the sale happen, don't sit around waiting for lighting to strike. Tell the founders your thoughts. Tell them t
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by RobGR 16y ago
If this is the worst, you must not have read very many :) This is basically a nice collection of the arguments of the anti-global-warming crowd, not that well structured or anything but worth flipping through the slides at least. I LOL'd at
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by RobGR 16y ago
I do web development using Ubuntu. Which linux distribution you use is really a matter of how you intend to do systems administation, as the tools for web development are pretty much the same on all the distributions.
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by RobGR 16y ago
I agree with you, but I think your terminology is inexact when you say: "The money is being absorbed by the wars and the trade deficits." Wars do not absorb money, they absorb wealth -- money is paid to make a bullet, and after the bullet i
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by RobGR 16y ago
Those mail-in rebates are bad; they depend upon a minority of people being able to successfully redeem them. They hide from the market the information that should be encapsulated in a price that reflects cost and demand. If a manufacturer'
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by RobGR 16y ago
There is no replacement for trying out circuits. I have been told there are some good introduction to electronics manuals published by the Navy through the US Government Printing Office, but I have looked at them myself. If you happen to r
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by RobGR 16y ago
You may find these of interest: http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/ Horowitz & Hill's "The Art of Electronics" is also excellent, but more expensive.
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by RobGR 16y ago
I'm in. How about Cherrywood coffeehouse ? If you talk to the guy who owns it, you can reserve the back room. For the first meeting I would not bother, let's see how many people show up.
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by RobGR 16y ago
From Mark's post: "We’re confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs
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by RobGR 16y ago
I doubt an Adsense account has much value by it's age. I would close it. Another option would be to run it on some site, or rotate it on your current one, until it breaks $100, then cash it out and stop using it.
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by RobGR 16y ago
"or worse, the labor theory of value" What do you mean by that ? Adam Smith would say wealth is stored labor, and that seems to me as good a definition as any.
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by RobGR 16y ago
I think it is a lot more than 4 to 8. The probably have between 16 and 64 GB of RAM per machine, and if they are 512MB instances, they fill it up. So figure 32 to 128 instances per machine. Those machines may use more than 200 watts, and
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by RobGR 16y ago
It is silly to say "Has anyone checked the 20 year return on a master's of fine arts degree lately". The 20 return on a swimming class at the Y may not be that great either, but at least you learn how to swim. But MBA programs advertise th
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by RobGR 16y ago
This is a fascinating post. Some systems already have two parallel ways of looking up data built in -- an SQL backend such as MySQl and a fast key-value store cache such as memcached. Such a system might be able to be modified to treat the
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by RobGR 16y ago
I think there is a market for this. Here is something similar: http://www.macminicolo.net/ I know someone who used them and was satistfied, he was able to take the macmini he had his server on and just mail it to them. Some credit card
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by RobGR 16y ago
Linux and other modern operating systems automatically cache network drives or can be configured to do so. Probably the best way to address that would be to increase the amount of RAM in each device, so more (or the entire disk) could be c
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by RobGR 16y ago
I have recently finished reading Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations." I highly recommend it. At over 1200 pages it is not a quick read, however all of it was worth it. I recommend setting it beside your computer, and every evening readin
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by RobGR 16y ago
The major components of the calculator are the screen, buttons, and batteries -- I think those cost more then the silicon chips inside -- and those prices have not dropped as fast. Nonetheless, they are overpriced.
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by RobGR 16y ago
No. Owning stock in a Fortune 500 company generally doesn't even give you a vote, because those are "privileged" shares, or even a share in the profits of the business (dividend). Even in the case of a smaller company, operating according
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by RobGR 16y ago
I don't think your links back up the assertion that there is a consensus on this subject.
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by RobGR 16y ago
Some of these speed-ups are possible in Drupal 6, or in Pressflow, the patched version of D6. I look forward to migrating my first site from D6 to D7, and doing before and after benchmarks for a real-world site and it's data.
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by RobGR 16y ago
Talk to law firms that provide services to freelancers, they may sponsor you. Also reach out to co-working spaces.
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by RobGR 16y ago
Firstly, I would get and idea of what your minimum living expenses really are. You say you'd love to work a few days a week in a cafe or book shop, but worry that it would not pay well enough -- you should figure out how much you need so y
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by RobGR 16y ago
I had an idea for a "carbon-free lawn service". The idea was to get together about 10 people with the push reel-type mowers, lawn and hedge sheers, and develope a route that could be done by bike. One of the group's garage would be the c
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by RobGR 16y ago
Get up and running and making money as fast as possible without being too stupid. This might mean using a NoSQL database. MongoDB seems easy to try out, it could be something you'd use for some component. But most projects fail before they
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by RobGR 16y ago
I think this is a viable idea. I would focus on niche areas, perhaps where you would waive all fees (and the shipper would also) to get some users. What comes to mind are parents visiting college kids may be willing to bring care packages

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