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by amk_ 11y ago
http://blog.fictiv.com/posts/ Fictiv's Hardware Weekly is usually a good place to start. They're a prototyping shop in Oakland.
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by amk_ 11y ago
The company I work at uses Shopify with Sift and it seems to work well. You can have different levels of automation as far as autocharging high-legitimacy transactions, flagging suspicious customers, etc.
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by amk_ 11y ago
Maybe this will help with the concepts: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/quumaubjftxik1u/AAD15CT1UrNyOuYSx... The main point is to make your commits small and incremental, with a single commit adding a single feature (o
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by amk_ 11y ago
- The UI is really conservative with vertical space, giving the feeling that the editor is really getting out of your way. - I like the 2-pane integrated Git panel.
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by amk_ 11y ago
I like the novelty of this. I think requiring keyboard input is distracting, though. Maybe you could just press spacebar when something appears on screen?
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by amk_ 11y ago
People keep saying that but I keep seeing more and more QR codes on cereal boxes, advertisements, billboards, business cards, menus, instruction manuals, and product packaging.
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by amk_ 11y ago
Helvetica
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by amk_ 11y ago
Smithsonian is pretty good. They don't do the maps and pullouts but they cover lots of similar ground (and are also a non-profit).
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by amk_ 11y ago
Nice. You can even set the default MD handler as Typora and use it like a wiki editor with relative links.
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by amk_ 11y ago
HDF5 is like a mini, portable filesystem. Pretty neat.
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by amk_ 11y ago
The linked documentation bounces between using 'I' and 'you' as subjects for examples. Get rid of the references to yourself in the docs -- the documentation should be neutral. Take the reader's perspective if a sub
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by amk_ 11y ago
I have a few Noisli white-noise mixes that I alternate through, mostly combinations of rain, wind, and brown noise (gaussian frequency distribution). Hate the coffee shop noises. On top of that I sometimes add in music at a low volume, pref
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by amk_ 11y ago
Schubert!
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by amk_ 11y ago
When NatGeo was still making their Topo software, you could go to REI and printout fairly high-quality quadrangles of a region you were interested in for a few bucks. Not sure if they still do that.
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by amk_ 11y ago
Where would you put the accumulated error? Ultimately you end up creating something like the 4th order Runge-Kutta mentioned mentioned above, which in a sense 'correct' the Euler solution by including the effects of higher-order t
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by amk_ 11y ago
Usually these types of simulations require that you don't use Euler approximation.
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by amk_ 11y ago
The browsing experience offered by internet.org isn't just some walled-off version of the open internet, with network costs underwritten by Facebook. They also do a lot of work to make sites offering health information, commodity price
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by amk_ 11y ago
Interesting. Sounds like there could be space for a client-side extension that lets users enter API keys for rate-limited APIs, etc.
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by amk_ 11y ago
> the security hole: HWP files can be exploited and pwn your PC. obscure minor format, no problem … except that if you get a HWP file with a .DOC extension - say, what appears to be a MS Word file emailed you by anyone - you can get p
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by amk_ 11y ago
> makes good design made me click in order to reveal what the elements are I kind of liked that part. If you already know about a term, you can skip over it, but if you don't, you get more info without leaving the page.
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by amk_ 11y ago
Ah, thanks for the update
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by amk_ 11y ago
If you don't mind fetching package locations over HTTP https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/614
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by amk_ 11y ago
Vivaldi? Midori?
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by amk_ 11y ago
If you missed the link in the article, the recent profile of the young man from Chile who learned the Selk'nam language and is now the last remaining speaker is worth a read: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015&
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by amk_ 11y ago
D3 has an importer for tabular data, and looks like Taucharts uses D3 under the hood. That said, it would be cool if there was some kind of composer interface that would allow you to point-at/paste/import data, then save the visua
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by amk_ 11y ago
I found this tutorial series to be pretty good, demoing React with Ampersand as the model/controller: http://learn.humanjavascript.com/react-ampersand/introductio... There's also a library to hook up React vi
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by amk_ 11y ago
Opera recently sidebar extensions back in for the first time since the re-architecturing of a few years ago. That was a month ago and there are already quite a few extensions available: https://addons.opera.com/en/exten
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by amk_ 11y ago
> Is anyone making standardized controllers, thermostats, etc? http://www.bacnet.org/
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by amk_ 11y ago
https://launchpad.net ?
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by amk_ 11y ago
System76[1] laptops come with Ubuntu out of the box. Historically Thinkpads have had pretty good hardware support, too. [1]: https://system76.com/

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