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by catch23 14y ago
Does noisebridge have concrete wall enclosed dumpsters? Did they also perform a traffic study when they moved in?
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by catch23 14y ago
Most startup offices don't have wheelchair ramps. Just take a tour of the offices on castro street, home of startups like Mozilla, Meebo, and Outright. Most of those buildings have restaurants on the ground floor and offices on the 2nd fl
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by catch23 14y ago
probably with port knocking? pretty standard I would think.
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by catch23 14y ago
does safari leak ssl-only cookies?
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by catch23 14y ago
maybe that's a business opportunity... order 1000, then sell on ebay for a markup.
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by catch23 14y ago
Probably that they're still trying to make it under $35 and get it out the door. Keep in mind that this is technically their first model, they probably wanted to keep things simple for a first release. You can easily add wifi using this $1
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by catch23 14y ago
Well, if there are too many users of an existing library, it makes it hard to do large changes. So in their case, it seems like the original library would silently fail on exceptions, they want to make things bubble up to the top which cou
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by catch23 14y ago
This happened during the first bubble. Everyone became CS majors when companies started giving away cars if you knew Java. I remember helping out psychology majors switching to computer science, who were failing their first CS class.
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by catch23 14y ago
why would they be suing boxopus? that would be like suing the creators of the bittorrent client. boxopus doesn't store any data, nor provide links to torrents for people, it's simply a service like your bt client. If anything, this seems
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by catch23 14y ago
I hadn't seen it before. Reposts are not necessarily bad, if there are no comments, nobody saw the post, thus a repost is necessary. Perhaps the de-dup mechanism shouldn't incorporate comment-less posts as part of its data set.
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by catch23 14y ago
do your developer friends use linux laptops, or windows running linux vm?
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by catch23 14y ago
TheAtlantic pays people to spam the reddit with content, and buys high karma accounts to vote up content. Essentially, the companies being banned are the ones with shady business practices.
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by catch23 14y ago
Their docking solution is their thunderbolt display. When I go home, I plug in 2 cables (thunderbolt & power) and I've got everything connected. Their thunderbolt ethernet adapter is $30: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A
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by catch23 14y ago
That's what I mean. MsgPack is strictly a wire format for server side applications. You won't gain much using that as the wire format for browsers, especially if you use compression which would probably negate the benefits of MsgPack anyw
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by catch23 14y ago
That's true, but I guess one should then mention a 5 digit number would consume less space in memory than in textual format. MsgPack recognizes this and stores that 5 digit number using the minimum number of bits required, but this wouldn'
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by catch23 14y ago
you won't be able to use msgpack with backbone, unless you're using backbone on the server side and you have something to decode the binary json blobs. msgpack is not a json replacement on the client side.
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by catch23 14y ago
Having actually used MsgPack, it's nice that's compact, but bad that it doesn't handle utf-8 properly. The reason data is smaller is because they're basically using less bits depending the value, eg if the numerical value is "5" then you c
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by catch23 14y ago
true, for extremely large rainbow tables. SHA1 tables are around 20-60GB depending on how large your base character set is. If you shoved all this data into a giant database, query speed is still under a few milliseconds. In general, rai
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by catch23 14y ago
compiling & debugging native libs in node 0.7 is vastly easier, so I'm happy that 0.8 will be here soon. Previously you'd get a pretty generic hardcoded error message about failure to compile/link and it wouldn't be obvious what was th
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by catch23 14y ago
Yeah, they had that back in 2007. Meebo bar appeared in Dec 2009. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meebo#Timeline
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by catch23 14y ago
I think the idea is that you have do something with the full intention of "wasting" time to trick your mind into thinking creatively. I usually don't step into the shower ready to tackle a hard problem -- it's not the best place to do any
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by catch23 14y ago
Here here to this. For some reason when I'm taking a shower, I usually come up with solutions to problems that I've never been able to do elsewhere. Probably because when I'm not in the shower, I'm "keeping busy" and that restricts my cre
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by catch23 14y ago
Maybe it's not a "smells like Java" but from Google's perspective, they treat every api method with equal weight because so many people use different parts of it. GMaps is trying to solve the simple use cases where the other 80% of the api
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by catch23 14y ago
The GPIO pins of the RPi can act as the same digital/analog pins that your arduino has, but if you use the arduino, you're confined to using their processing language to write code. A typical project for the arduino might be to control a fe
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by catch23 14y ago
I like to think of the RPi as an arduino that can run opencv. Arduinos are nice little devices for getting started in the electronics world, but when you need to do real work, it's nice that the RPi is essentially the same price.
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by catch23 14y ago
The community for RPi is small mostly because it's impossible to get one. They really need to ramp up manufacturing to get the device into more hands. I ordered one 5 weeks ago from element14 but it looks like I'll still have to wait anot
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by catch23 14y ago
CSS is a bad example of this, it's not like typical language code because you could have bits of css in many different files that all affect a single element. CSS is kind of like a language where mixins, monkey-patching, & aspect orien
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by catch23 14y ago
CNC is probably less useful for printing houses, it's great for negative molds, but harder when you have overlapping empty spaces. It's more useful to have a 3d printer here -- maybe someday we'll have 3d printers that use concrete foam to
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by catch23 14y ago
The name is definitely confusing though. You're creating a new format that existing JSON parsers cannot handle. In a way, it's like creating a new XML format called XML2 that uses parenthesis instead of angle brackets, and standard parser
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by catch23 14y ago
I think it's been shown that it's infeasible. You'd lose too much power in the beaming process, or you'd have a death ray beam that destroys anything that flies between it... you could increase the area, but then you'd need a collector di

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