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by blhack 8y ago
Can some of you chime in with your experience here re: consulting and hours. None of the consultants I know of would estimate a time requirement (other than something incredibly loose) for any kind of job bigger than a few hours. The MO se
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by blhack 8y ago
Okay well thank god nobody is gluing anything to anybody's eyeballs.
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by blhack 8y ago
Just an anecdote: my wife and I absolutly use Alexa as a controller for our house, even though "easier" solutions exist. Just shouting "Alexa, Time!" has completely replaced looking at a clock. The only thing I don&#x2
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by blhack 8y ago
This time they are! First thing I thought of too. Almost brought me to tears when I read what they were doing.
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by blhack 8y ago
As a long time palm user, nothing about the iPhone seemed particularly new to me. The interface was almost identical, the form factor was almost identical. The only real upgrades were a cellular modem and a little bit prettier case. Saying
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by blhack 8y ago
Because nobody in the west has figured out a good way of preparing them yet. Lobster (essentially a giant cockroach that lives in the water) was once considered revolting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#As_fo
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by blhack 8y ago
This is an expensive plane, but $1M isn't that expensive for a plane. It's would be like buying a $80k car.
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by blhack 8y ago
In Phoenix, ofo was basically a madsive donation of bikes to the homeless population. There even seemed to be a cottage industry pop up of people who could break the locks off.
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by blhack 8y ago
Nothing.
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by blhack 8y ago
Wow that's really nuts. Blindfolded in the facility is just extra crazy. Isn't that why security clearances exist?
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by blhack 8y ago
Without supplemental oxygen. If they were much higher than that, they were probably breathing some sort of oxygen system.
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by blhack 8y ago
Yes I agree with you. Apparently it wasn't obvious from my /s, but the entire narrative around this is absurd. There are people in this thread who seem to be both decrying capitalism, and also asking that extremely rich venture c
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by blhack 8y ago
These people are going to kill somebody. But hey, lets do it and be legends! Think of the instagram likes!
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by blhack 8y ago
Well if we could just rich people to find their projects. /s
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by blhack 8y ago
We built, for instance, a 10' tall animatronic set piece to promote a major comic book property at comic con. Attendees stood at a control console and moved essentially a giant robot around. Any time you see a brand doing some sort of
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by blhack 8y ago
I was a sys admin from Around 2006 to around 2014 and I used many of these things. Our office still had (multiple) T1s, and ran on IBM as/400. When I joined in 2006, it was a startup. Also: PCMCIA cards were definitely still around fo
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by blhack 8y ago
Part of my life involves building $100k+ interactive/experiential advertising installations. Sparkfun has been pretty vital for a lot of our builds. The ability to know what we're getting, and to have it shipped overnight is a Bi
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by blhack 8y ago
Right there with you. I recently got a DJI spark as kindof a toy, but was blown away at the incredible videos and photos I was getting with it. It made me a little sad to find out that some cities in my metro area have ordinances banning m
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by blhack 8y ago
Obama was not sympathetic to these causes. That's why it would have gained him so much respect from me. I posted the quote in another reply, so sorry for repeating it, but: "I disagree with what you are saying, but will defend to
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by blhack 8y ago
I know, and this is why it would have gained him so much respect in my eyes. I think it's possible to both recognize the importance of intelligence agencies, and recognize why whistleblowing should be discouraged, but at the same time
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by blhack 8y ago
I wonder if the parent is being a pedant here, and meaning to say: "Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, not simply a reporter."
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by blhack 8y ago
What I've wanted for Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning, and if Obama would have done it before leaving office, it would have earned him infinite respect: Try them, possibly even find them guilty of something, but also
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by blhack 8y ago
I wonder how long until we can get a sample of this? It says they're trying to miniaturize it and get rid of the battery. Forget that! Give it to me now! I don't care if it's massive, heavy, and requires constant charging
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by blhack 8y ago
SpaceX is light years beyond what they are doing right now. -- but -- Jeff Bezos has said he plans on spending $1 Billion/year on blue origin. Unlike SpaceX, they don't need to actually worry about money. To put in perspective h
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by blhack 8y ago
This is seriously where we're supposed to be for a pro laptop? It shouldn't work "pretty well" when you're using a $2000+ machine. It should work perfectly every single time. This is what built apple into the co
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by blhack 8y ago
It's become comedy at this point. Many, many developers: "We hate this keyboard. It is atrocious! Give us back the old one please!" Apple: "We have listened to your needs. The keyboard is now 8% quieter, and the t
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by blhack 8y ago
That satellite was about to decay into the atmosphere. We can't just start blowing up satellites in stable orbits.
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by blhack 8y ago
Hearing all the negativity around this makes me a profound sort of sad. Here's a guy with some pretty unimaginable resources. He tries to use some of the resources for good, and a bunch of people go out of their way to get upset at hi
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by blhack 8y ago
Couldn't the same argument have been made for the first person to develop gun powder? Boats? Domesticated horses? Tipped spears, etc.?
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by blhack 8y ago
>that never happened after invention of nuclear weapons >To spend billions to prepare for extremely unlikely event does not seem to be very rational thing to do. Nuclear weapons were not free to develop.

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