clebio

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   by clebio 14y ago

   I suspect it's the Intergalactic Highway idea: the Earth is a single point of failure for the entire species.
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   by clebio 14y ago

   I tend to agree -- there's no compelling need to get to Mars. But there are many large problems that would be worth working on. Food supplies and distribution, renewable energy, poverty, basic education, civic engagement, etcetera. Self-suf
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   by clebio 14y ago

   I'd be more concerned with signal interception. Assume they use current RC tech[1], which is designed to elimiate interference or capture error, but that doesn't mean it's infeasible. That would be a troubling twist. Suppose a related idea
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   by clebio 14y ago

   Anyone that's played GTA Vice City enough knows an RC heli could manage at least one casualty pretty easily on failure (and, just to be sure, I've personally seen enough nitro-powered chicken dances to know this is possibly a _low_ estimate
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   by clebio 14y ago

   The part about needing better development support, debugging tools and such, for mobile browsers seems valid. I'm not familiar enough with that to really say, but I've felt similar things from my limited use of Chrome developer tools (in co
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   by clebio 14y ago

   Yes, that's always been my nagging concern about 3D printing. Sure, it can print any single thing, but nearly every machine is made up of multiple parts. So either there's a set of construction machines down the line from the 3D printer, or
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   by clebio 14y ago

   It seems plausible to me that a new distribution model could be borne from this tech. With a few large-scale 3D printing sites deployed geographically, delivery times for products drop to next-day or so. Alternatively, a community-based or
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   by clebio 14y ago

   Somewhat annoyed that their three comparison computers are all Macbook Airs. Ignoring the fact that you're comparing different OS and most people will choose based on that alone, there are several decent Windows-based ultra-portable compute
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   by clebio 14y ago

   It should be simple enough to wrap that 'after-the-break' paragraph in a style which isn't displayed on the full article page. Simple, but elegant.
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    Intel to try out wireless charging technology(digitimes.com)

    1 points by clebio 14y ago|0 comments
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Can you explain this in a little more detail, or have a blog post about it? I've been thinking about doing something similar (`screen` for shared coding environment, with some other thing -- skype, say-- for video chat). I'd be very interes
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Thanks for that, it's an excellent survey -- a stunning combination of factors that he worked like hell to align (that the universe didn't simply take care of....). He's also comfortable being honest, as in that bit about optimism, and othe
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Second this. He's also seems just an exceptionally sweet and lucid man. If anyone has actual knowledge about this question, I would love to hear about it. Worth a blog post, or a book contract, even.
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    by clebio 14y ago

    I read this discussion when it showed up a few days ago, but at my work, fsf.org is accessible. Today, though, I was reading this article on Reacreational SVG ( http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/02/16/Recreational-SVG ) and find that the li
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Except that plenty of people never find a job they like. They're stuck working at Burger King or some menial office admin job, and they hate it. They are, in general, not hanging out on HN or blogging about their amazing experiences wheelin
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Hindsight is 20/20
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Thank you for this detailed and thoughtful reply (as compared with downvote without comment that I got initially from whomever). Based on your excellent description here, it sounds much more like Tableau and various other general BI tools (
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    by clebio 14y ago

    I'm surprised to see their example visualizations.[1] They look like the defaults in Excel's charts, to me, as opposed to some of the other approaches out there.[2,3] I realize that a lot of their position is unchaining the carefully contr
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Can someone post the text of this outside of Scribd? Their site always breaks in my browsers and I can't log in right now to download the PDF.
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    by clebio 14y ago

    I'm vaguely aware that my writing style is somewhat dense. I try to work on that, I really do. Still, I consider yours a sort of compliment -- an obscure achievement.
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    by clebio 14y ago

    So, yeah, while misuse of literally literally bugs the shit out of me a lot, I'm fairly tossed up about whether it's worth bugging out over. The recent surfacing of the 'poisonous/venomous' distinction smacks of pop-culture faddism and as s
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    by clebio 14y ago

    This is a really detailed comparison and seems balanced. Thanks for that. Do you not use both in conjunction (R for the stats libraries and Python for the more general computing)? Having done some background reading (but without yet getting
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    by clebio 14y ago

    I clicked on this because there was a post on HN just the other day about _judg.me_ [1] and I assumed this was a follow-up. Interesting that this is entirely unrelated, but so close in the URL. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4012
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Wow, I've wanted such a thing for a while, but hadn't gotten around to researching. Thanks for this!
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Really, that works (surprise, not incredulity)? I have a period in my gmail address, but have never tried that. Seems like a very strange default.
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Ten, nine, eight...
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Seconding this. I've tried it in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9 and it fails almost every time (strange too that it's inconsistent). IE9 is actually the worst, giving just "The view named 'Anonymous' does not derive from the ViewBase class."
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    by clebio 14y ago

    Thanks for that link. I really like krschultz's parent comment and your follow up. Does anyone know how to get a single-page view of that article, though?
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    by clebio 14y ago

    This gets at my reaction as well. It might be useful to have spheres of some of the precious metals (silver, gold, etc.) next to the water sphere to help set the frame of reference. I'm guessing they'll be much, much smaller than the water
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    by clebio 15y ago

    Nice! This reminded me of the murals in SF: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3481+16th+Street,+San+Francisc...