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by _mattb 16y ago
This guy open-sourced his work when he threw in the towel, are there drawbacks to that? Do many failed startups do this as well?
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"How I Saved My Company" -- new NYTimes video series(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by _mattb 16y ago|0 comments
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Top 1000 sites by uniques(google.com)
5 points by _mattb 16y ago|1 comments
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by _mattb 16y ago
I learned a lot from the post.. Here's my little bookmarklet for this particular page: javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src=' http://weakorbit.com/js/hn3.js;})() ;
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by _mattb 16y ago
It's well-presented and not everyone here is a salty javascript developer.
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The San Francisco Artists' Soapbox Derby, 1975(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by _mattb 16y ago|0 comments
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by _mattb 16y ago
it's a manipulative technique but homelessness and mental health problems are so hard to face up to, so it's also evocative.
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by _mattb 16y ago
The bit about their water-repelling shoes and the philosophizing about the nature of the sport, those things have me on the fence.
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by _mattb 16y ago
Yeah, you can still do pretty well nowadays with photo-etching pre-sensitized boards. Here's Abe Lincoln (and a legitimate circuit) I did a while back: http://i.imgur.com/PyLyn.jpg And PCB isolation routing! I've tried it with broken dr
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by _mattb 16y ago
BatchPCB is slow, from what I hear. I can recommend barebones PCB (speed) and Gold Phoenix (price). There's lots of fun to be had in board-making; Sparkfun tutorials are a great place to start for learning schematics and layout in Eagle i
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by _mattb 17y ago
The arduino's got so many built in methods via Wiring that coding's really not bad. Shockingly easy at times..
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by _mattb 17y ago
Cool project! The eyewriter from FAT labs -- it's the open source eyetracker you're looking for! http://eyewriter.org The indomitable Ben Heck has also made a sip/puff controller: http://benheck.com/03-01-2009/air-pressure-kick-pedal-f
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by _mattb 17y ago
mhm, but those are GPS receivers only. SFE sells the 'ubertracker' for $325 which is GPS + GSM. You could also whack together a super-cheap prepaid phone ala http://instamapper.com
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by _mattb 17y ago
Alex Weber's custom tracker could be built for maybe $200: http://is.gd/apQ9z You could probably throw in an accelerometer for another $20 to act as trash track's motion detector.
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by _mattb 17y ago
"Our schools are biased against mesofacts." Not sure if that's the case: schools undoubtedly hit you with bits of trivia, but this is done to develop students' mental powers. (Good) teachers know what they're doing and are training you to
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Ask HN: spring break projects, anyone?
2 points by _mattb 17y ago|5 comments
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by _mattb 17y ago
I've done this.. The article hints at it: you've got to process the vague question rapidly and, uh, with your mouth shut. Deliberately pausing and pondering helps.
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by _mattb 17y ago
here's the direct link: http://stevetarzia.com/sonar/download.php worked for my XP box and is highly neat. Kind of aggressive at the beginning, as the maker said it would be. (my god, he's made a settlers board postscript generator too!
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by _mattb 17y ago
Why not map stimulation sequences to single-hand gestures and stop all that peculiar self-tapping? A resolution issue?
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Citizen engineer - sim card hacking(citizenengineer.com)
2 points by _mattb 17y ago|0 comments
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Doctorow on the fallacies of prediction(locusmag.com)
24 points by _mattb 17y ago|2 comments