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by base698 14y ago
Anecdotal really. The questions that have to be asked are how many casual users become addicts 1 in 10? 1 in 100? Of those addicts how many have life ruining consequences? Is there a way to be functional? If you start from the worst, so
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Skydiving HUD with Recon(m.engadget.com)
1 points by base698 14y ago|0 comments
903.
by base698 14y ago
Opening speeds vary a lot, some are very hard and some are very soft. It's dependent on a lot of variables, with a lot of randomness thrown in. You probably just had the fortune of having a hard one. :)
904.
by base698 14y ago
The fatality rate per participant is a lot lower now than it was in the beginning "It used to be referred to as sport death", but it's still about 13 - 30 a year. Mostly due to accidents involving landing and other entirely preventable thi
905.
by base698 14y ago
Similar to how in computing the 80s is like a millennia ago, skydiving has changed dramatically since the 80s in regards to both equipment and the skills on which skydivers concentrate. You never see round parachutes, rigs without reliable
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3D Printer "Repossed" After User Creates Gun(news.cnet.com)
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907.
by base698 14y ago
Every time I start something I tail -f the relevant log to make sure it starts correctly. Think of it as isolating a possible failure point as a sanity check.
908.
by base698 14y ago
That's actually not how airplanes fly at all... http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=22977
909.
by base698 14y ago
I used MongoDB one afternoon, and guess what! It doesn't have table-locking writes?! :) In all seriousness, I built a 10 machine Mongo cluster, talked with a 10gen consultant a full day, went to Mongo meetup, and ran all sorts of benchmar
910.
by base698 14y ago
I have... a method using contains() on a list vs a HashSet(). In one instance the O(n) caused the method to run in 20-30 seconds. The O(1) ran in milliseconds. Just simple stuff like that can kill you if you don't have a basic foundation
911.
by base698 14y ago
The first thing I think is a HUD that can see around corners and behind you for aviation and even driving. I really like the idea of having a 3D box to see everything within 1000ft. It would be super useful to reduce collisions for certai
912.
by base698 14y ago
You haven't really jumped the shark with scrum until you have in place a scrum of scrums, and a scrum of scrum of scrums taking up half the day for all the key players.
913.
by base698 14y ago
Depending on the design of the frame. Some are made of plastic and break apart really easy on impact. None of them, even the the aluminum frames, are even close to as dense as a MacBook.
914.
by base698 14y ago
Audi, Cadillac, and Mercedes all have semi autonomous features on the horizon. http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/cadillac-super-cruise/ http://www.insideline.com/audi/audi-previews-traffic-jam-ass... http://www.itnews.com.au/News/2969
915.
by base698 14y ago
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/ I wonder how complicated it would be to adapt that to a larger craft.
916.
by base698 14y ago
You can get Columbian coffee for $7/pound in a grocery store in the US. It can't be that much different in the raw manufacturing costs.
917.
by base698 14y ago
I talked to a sales rep in one of their stores and they said the Roadster with the most mileage has 160K miles and the battery is still at 70% capacity. Not worthless but definitely less range.
918.
by base698 14y ago
That's great but go to the rural south where people are dirt fucking poor. Average is an inane statistic by itself--just because in aggregate we are richer because we can afford a $200 meal in Nor Cal doesn't mean that wouldn't be a boon t
919.
by base698 14y ago
It works so well with drugs. I mean they are illegal and you can't buy them on the street--oh wait.
920.
by base698 14y ago
I know that's why I mentioned High Point, NC :) Everyone ignored it there even though everyone was doing it.
921.
by base698 14y ago
In High Point, NC they have a bi-yearly furniture market that nearly everyone in town rents their house for two weeks. This has been going on for decades and gave most of the people who did it an extra few thousand a year. It's not as rad
922.
by base698 14y ago
Ok James Madison, but we have 200 years of economic data and reasons for the fiat money. You're hand waving and claiming that it's an evil without acknowledging that it solves some pretty fundamental problems. People aren't poor now becau
923.
by base698 14y ago
Indeed... We need to go back to feudalism where we can sell our hacking skills in exchange for slavery to our VCs for 8 years. After the 8 year mark we can finally start drawing a salary instead of just getting room and board and catered l
924.
by base698 14y ago
Last year it went up to over $30 before hitting $3 over the course of a few months--no one knows what goes up just come down more than bitcoin. It's steadily risen back to $7 on a much more stable trajectory. The interesting thing this tim
925.
by base698 14y ago
AgileZen did all this and some of their initial customers were law firms--hardly software dev only. Trello has an iOS app that is really it's biggest strength. I still like the full color cards for AgileZen over Trello, but they are both v
926.
by base698 14y ago
They certainly deserve it. They have a clear business model that makes money now and a gorgeous product. Look forward to seeing more Octocat in SOMA :)
927.
by base698 14y ago
Why would you even need to scrape it? It's available as a torrent: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...
928.
by base698 14y ago
Reading through the comments here is infuriating, and it's no wonder people don't git what the big deal is.</lame> With git you can share you current work to any arbitrary remote branch. The implications are your half baked feature
929.
by base698 14y ago
Sounds like this guy took War of Art a little seriously. http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Art-Winning-Creative/dp/159071... As a younger person in college I always felt that being confident enough to move to Silicon Valley and try to get att
930.
by base698 14y ago
My guess is that you can send bitcoins to people who don't give a shit about it or know how to use the client and they can in turn pay for things with the coins you sent. I'm thinking of sending my dad a couple just to see if he can figure

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