aquark

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Google begins Amazon river Street View project(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by aquark 15y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 15y ago
I love the swipe gestures in Lion, but find I often have to undo and redo them because I chose the wrong one. Particularly if I end up using the trackpad at an angle so a vertical (to me) swipe is more of a diagonal on the trackpad.
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by aquark 15y ago
I've used vertical mouse (www.evoluent.com) for years now at work and it is great. It's cost per hour must be down in the 1c range. It feels much more natural on my wrist than one in the normal orientation ... and its always amusing to see
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by aquark 15y ago
I've never looked at (or heard of) FreeFileSync ... but AeroFS offers a very simple install and clean minimal UI for setting up the syncing. I don't have to worry about which machine has which copy of which file, or even what the machine na
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by aquark 15y ago
I've been using the beta for several months now and it has worked great across a variety of Windows and Mac machines. For things like music and photos where I have 40+GB of accumulated bits it feels a better option than a straight cloud bas
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by aquark 15y ago
You could probably mash something up using Voxeo or even the new Twilio client stuff. I have this on my project list for some home automation ideas, but it is too far down to actually have been given any cycles.
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by aquark 15y ago
I agree Google could easily change the API at any moment, but otherwise it seems a very grey area at best. Especially since they are including this within the open source parts of Chromium as the article implies. I wouldn't rely on this fo
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by aquark 15y ago
I am fairly new to JS and have read a number of articles on how 'this' works over the last few months after getting suitably confused by the (apparent) 'inconsistent' behaviour. I think this is the best presentation of the concepts I've see
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by aquark 15y ago
As a many year Windows programmer I _love_ typing on my 2011 MacBook Pro keyboard except for the cursor movement. I can't seem to train my fingers to handle the different combinations of Alt/Opt/Cmd/Ctrl/Shift and the arrow keys. The lack
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by aquark 15y ago
Isn't DSL constrained by the distance to the CO? We live inside Ottawa's city limits (the capital for non-Canadians!) so could scarely be considered the middle of nowhere and yet don't have a hardwired broadband connection option.
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by aquark 15y ago
I was contemplating setting up a VPS for this, but a turn key solution at $5\month would be much better. Can you comment on how you can offer 100GB\month VPN for $5 but the basic proxy plan is 2GB\month for $20? What use case does the prox
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by aquark 15y ago
Interesting ... why would he bother writing the check after the fact? If he simply refused to pay then it would seem to remain a contract dispute. Writing the check only digs the hole deeper for no benefit whatsoever.
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by aquark 15y ago
Go with what you are most comfortable and productive in. If you want to launch a startup then do that, and leverage all the skills you have (you'll need them). If you want to learn a new technology then go ahead and do that with some small
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by aquark 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the details of bitcoin, but in that case aren't (some of) the inputs to the function hidden not the function itself. Proof of work techniques are relying on forcing the other party to run a known function in order to p
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by aquark 15y ago
Interesting -- how can you verify that f() was applied when by definition you don't know what the output of f() should be? If someone was trying to be dishonest then they could fake any attribute of f() that you could likely verify.
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by aquark 15y ago
I think you are missing a 0 ... it would be $100 200. Still at that rate you'd figure the transaction costs of moving the money around would swamp most of the return
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by aquark 15y ago
Not exactly -- does the Federal govt even keep a balance sheet that shows assets - liabilities? How do you value the Federal assets? What's the going rate for a second hand air craft carrier?
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by aquark 15y ago
I really have to wonder if the (original) author thought about that line when he wrote it! It is an interesting definition of 'free'. There is a reason people don't choose to put in electric heating when other options are available..
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by aquark 15y ago
Dialling ... though I never got the audio to work, but I blame that on the USB headset I have as the only (working) microphone. Flash probably defaulted to the soundcard mic.
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by aquark 15y ago
Seems a neat idea, bt it isn't exactly seamless to the user -- I get the Flash security dialog asking for permission to access my speaker & microphone, and the default was to deny. Many users probably won't have a clue what to click the
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by aquark 15y ago
Don't know about setting it up -- didn't do that part, but the admin page has waaayy too many options for my taste. But when running it is an awesome wiki. We are in the process of adopting it, and using it in combination with gliffy diagr
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by aquark 15y ago
Government surplus stores are often a source of large but cheap office furniture if you have on close by.
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by aquark 15y ago
I'd go with Twilio too ... only issue is you need to have upgraded your account to port a number: http://www.twilio.com/faq/porting But since credit's don't expire, and you can always find another use for Twilio in the future it is a good
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by aquark 15y ago
Why would they care? I really can't think of a rationale for that stance. OTOH why would I presume one should exist?
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by aquark 15y ago
The set of people willing to pay for a paper and the set of people wanting to have _their_ paper reviewed are probably (hopefully?) disjoint. As such I'm not sure it is too useful to compare the prices.
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by aquark 15y ago
This is brilliant. We have a stress testing tool that uses little images of various robots in its UI to represent different test patterns ... now I can automate them!
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by aquark 15y ago
If the other species is indigenous to the area that might work -- though in that case it clearly can't out-compete the undesirable species naturally. Otherwise our species track record with introducing foreign species to control a perceived
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by aquark 15y ago
So is the question how do these loans appear on China's central bank's balance sheet? I am confused by reading this article: if part of the issue in the US is that China holds vast amounts of US debt, and now China is also highly leveraged,
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by aquark 15y ago
Maybe -- but getting the economy to grow to generate that revenue is a much harder problem than stalling it and then being allowed to borrow it.
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by aquark 15y ago
I'd like to see legislators _pension_ provisions tied to future economic metrics. Hopefully that would inspire them to take a longer term view, and they would be less able to redefine terms when they are being applied as they are no longer

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