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by bitboxer 16y ago
I think it's more rewarding to have a little success right at the beginning. Going through tons of concepts at first demotivates very fast. Especially if you want to teach this stuff to kids :) . Concepts can be learned after the first succ
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by bitboxer 16y ago
It's easier to start with a board that is ready for you to use. Hook it onto a usb port, start the app and add everything you want to build on a breadboard. No soldering no nothing. From 0 to blinking LEDs in 5 Minutes.
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Thanks! Great link with tons of details.
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by bitboxer 16y ago
It's targeted at Beginners (Developers and Artists) who want to start getting into creating electronic stuff. And it's great for that target audience (including me ;) ).
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by bitboxer 16y ago
This is good. Teaching about electronics with adruino. Exactly what I needed.
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Ask HN: How to start creating stuff with Arduino?
10 points by bitboxer 16y ago|15 comments
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Sorry, but this is stupid. Your Os already caches files in your ram. No need for a Ram Disk.
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The National Ignition Facility - Laser Fusion Generator(boston.com)
8 points by bitboxer 16y ago|1 comments
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by bitboxer 16y ago
He ment that the customer who uses his web page has an outdated computer.
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Lol. Service Unavailable...Knuth really was wrong. This server should be premature optimized for hacker news :D .
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Isn't it funny that this is posted on the day that facebook has huge stability problems :) ?
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by bitboxer 16y ago
But why isn't there much fight against Swift, the telecommunications data retention and other stuff? I don't understand that...those issues are way more important than google street view.
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Yeah. I am wondering why I can't find one. Isn't this an obvious idea?
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Ask HN: Is there a good startup for divers?
2 points by bitboxer 16y ago|3 comments
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by bitboxer 16y ago
I am aware of that. Can somebody please pinpoint the errors or show articles that explain where the writer has done errors? I am curious if it will be worth to switch, but I need some facts first :) .
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by bitboxer 16y ago
I thought it is proven that dvorak is not superior : http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/18/210216 Is there something wrong with that article/research?
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Somehow the title is wrong. Maybe bad escaping of ">" ? Original Title: Using >= Considered Harmful (or, What’s Wrong With >=)
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Open a ticket and explain exactly how stuff should be sorted :)
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Jamis Buck himself: http://twitter.com/jamis/status/13735390978
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Please try command-t.vim instead. That Article is from 2008 :)
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The shit finally hits the fan....(James Gosling on Oracle vs Google)(nighthacks.com)
188 points by bitboxer 16y ago|119 comments
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Want to meet in Cologne?
7 points by bitboxer 16y ago|3 comments
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Btw here is my list: * pathogen : install plugins in seperate directories * NERD_tree : Tree navigation * NERD_commenter: Comment/uncomment lines. File type agnostic * Rename : Rename file in buffer * Ack : Search using ack not grep * Comma
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Ask HN: What Vim Plugins do you use?
127 points by bitboxer 16y ago|48 comments
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by bitboxer 16y ago
More and more people are switching to Vim at the moment. Especially in the Ruby On Rails community.
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by bitboxer 16y ago
I would love to see a comparison and details what framework to use when. I can't decide, as well. Someone with more insights reading this?
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Than pick the european cities from that thread :) .
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by bitboxer 16y ago
No, it won't. Some CDs from the early 90ies are not playable anymore because the foil that stores the data is damaged through aging processes. DVDs and hard drives have similar problems and won't last longer than 5-15 years if you are not l
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by bitboxer 16y ago
Sorry, that sentence was wrong. I corrected it. The list is not a list of missing things. It is a list of things I want in my ideal editor. And to copy and paste: yy and P are not what someone would expect when starting a text editor. Shift
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by bitboxer 16y ago
I tried Emacs last year. And yes, with CUA mode. And I didn't like it. MacVim feels a lot better and more natural to me. Even with the copy and paste problem.

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