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Reflectius clock (Art Lebedev's laser beam clock)(artlebedev.com)
4 points by adoyle 17y ago|0 comments
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by adoyle 17y ago
Dropbox won't fill the iPad with files, if it's the same as the iPhone app. ( https://www.dropbox.com/help/116 ) Only files you favorite get downloaded and kept locally. But that doesn't obviate the issue of what happens if you lose your iP
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by adoyle 17y ago
This could be a case where the SourceMap project could provide useful info. e.g. http://www.sourcemap.org/object/ipod
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by adoyle 17y ago
Nice, but you missed "I have __ other blogs". Entering 1 doesn't change it to blog.
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by adoyle 17y ago
At least they are equal-opportunity. http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/2372 is pretty close to Ubuntu. Even if you're working on a design with designers working from scratch, you have to watch out for things like this. One of the des
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by adoyle 17y ago
Lots of high-end AV equipment, plus some nifty signed plaques...
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Online Auction: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC(rasmus.com)
1 points by adoyle 17y ago|1 comments
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by adoyle 17y ago
Another area WordPress wins is in upgrades. A few years ago I was burned by a Plone upgrade that failed. That made me stop upgrading the site because I couldn't figure out how to move forward. I finally pulled the plug on the site. I have a
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by adoyle 17y ago
From the home page of the site: The Edgerton Digital Collections project celebrates the spirit of a great pioneer, Harold "Doc" Edgerton, inventor, entrepreneur, explorer and beloved MIT professor. This site is for all who share Doc Edgerto
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Harold "Doc" Edgerton(edgerton-digital-collections.org)
4 points by adoyle 17y ago|1 comments
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by adoyle 17y ago
There's currently an exhibit on Shannon at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn Germany: http://en.hnf.de/Special_exhibitions/Shannon/Shannon.asp He built some very cool toys for his kids, some of which are on display there. Here's
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by adoyle 17y ago
I created a page but it seems to be tagged at the bottom as "Copyright © Groupped 2009". A bit of a disincentive to put real content in. It would also be nice to have a "delete" button. I'd free up my page again.
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by adoyle 17y ago
I actually had a hard time deciding whether to nominate Stallman or nominate the GPL. Then I realized that the MIT License could also deserve a nomination. But when push comes to shove, if you figure only one representative icon of FOSS mig
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Richard Stallman nominated to be in MIT 150 exhibition(museum.mit.edu)
1 points by adoyle 17y ago|2 comments
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by adoyle 18y ago
Tcl gave me my first taste of scripting, but even more of a revelation was that I could bury a Tcl interpreter in a C program and use Tcl to control all the C modules. It made it really easy to dynamically change the behavior of a running s
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by adoyle 18y ago
Maybe a little OT: there was a time when you would get complete schematics for hardware you bought. I remember getting reams of circuit diagrams for DEC computers and peripherals. DEC also had great little handbooks with info on how each I/
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by adoyle 18y ago
Unless you're refrigerating your water, the water going down the drain will always be warmer or at the same temperature as the incoming supply. Since these things don't hold water, they exchange the heat as the incoming and outgoing streams
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by adoyle 18y ago
Wastewater heat exchange is not a new concept. Here's a 1986 paper on it. http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Pravda.pdf The GFX "falling-film counterflow" system is mounted vertically, in-line with the plumbing drain, and has a wide-bore drain
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by adoyle 18y ago
I was at an international technical meeting where someone was about to show a web site on a projection screen. The browser's autocomplete tried to fill in the names of what were very clearly NSFW sites he had been visiting during off hours.
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Photons, Neurons and Bits: Holography for the 21st Century(web.mit.edu)
1 points by adoyle 18y ago|0 comments
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by adoyle 18y ago
Bigger upvote arrows. Everything else is largely ok as is. I don't recommend a wholesale style change. Tweak one thing at a time and see how it looks.
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by adoyle 18y ago
I run a vncserver (from MacPorts) on my MacBook. Then inside there I do all my coding with Emacs, generally two frames side-by side. I access it via Chicken of the VNC. I set up the same vncserver setup on all the machines I do work on, and
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by adoyle 18y ago
If dropbox were to offer encryption, it would not make things more secure since I'd have to hand them unencrypted bits. If I were to store bits that need encryption on a service like this I would encrypt them before I hand them off.
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by adoyle 18y ago
Oddly enough, I was reading my copy today and was thinking that I much prefer print ads to online ads. I actually enjoy bumping into things I would not normally see. My only gripe are the ads that try to disguise themselves as editorial mat
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by adoyle 18y ago
We've got a 64K-word TX-2 core memory on display at the MIT Museum. [update - here's a link http://tinyurl.com/5mve8b ] Back in 1975/6 I was using a DEC LSI-11 that had core memory. I forget how much but it was enough to run FORTRAN.
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by adoyle 18y ago
http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm Something tells me we're not going to see images of the MIP and the moon at the same time since the impact would likely wipe out the camera.
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by adoyle 18y ago
Swell. I just got install media for 19 computers' worth. I'm not looking forward to helping people install these. :(
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by adoyle 18y ago
Here's an ISRO page with more details - http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov14_2008.htm
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by adoyle 18y ago
It seems to have gone semi-closed source. Apparently http://www.projectpier.org/ is the open source fork/successor.
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by adoyle 18y ago
Remember the study where people gave away their passwords for a candy bar? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/20/password_surveys/ That would clearly not work with the HN community. Instead, we need a geeky screen with a disclaimer and

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