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by columbo 13y ago
Hrm... odd kind of article from a place called "The Aviatonist" I mean it is interesting but RC controlled UAVs have been around since the 70's, with prototypes going back to the 40's. Only on February 26, 1973
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by columbo 13y ago
Yeah the touch-screen has been a problem - especially when trying to give something out to the general unwashed public. No amount of protective cover would have helped us when some guy or gal decided to punch one of the screens in a few mon
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by columbo 13y ago
As someone working on a hardware project one of the biggest challenges we have is finding a tablet that is cheap, mass-produceable, and rugged enough to stand up for months/years of abuse. This might do the trick. Our only options so
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by columbo 13y ago
This is another great example of why you can't take successful people and distil them down to their base components and say "ah, this is what made him great!" I believe being a loud-abrasive-dictator works for Linus because h
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by columbo 13y ago
It's crazy to think about the precedent this sets. I mean, what about public works, books, music & articles? Could this be considered a terrorist threat these days? The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
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by columbo 13y ago
> If a companies working conditions are really that dangerous you can work in another factory or educate yourself and become skilled enough to be worth while to please. > Call me calloused, Well, not so much calloused as much as comp
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by columbo 13y ago
Off Topic: Having just browsed over this website I have to say it has a great layout for depth-heavy articles. Better than any news site that I can think of. Great images, uncluttered, and a wide variety of topics. Very nice!
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by columbo 13y ago
Well kind-of but not exactly... there is job corps: http://www.jobcorps.gov/home.aspx Basic trade skills, pays you for earning a GED, most of the centres are rual so it's hard to fall into 'temptation'. Overa
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by columbo 13y ago
I use dropbox as a client facing equivalent of FTP. That way the client can have programmers/designers change their UI without needing any access into the server. It also allows me to share each site and doesn't bring the entire h
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by columbo 13y ago
Patent Trolls are one of the reasons I've kept my small business under the radar and rely on word of mouth or known clients to spread it. I just can't afford it, and I'd rather open source the whole damn thing over giving som
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by columbo 13y ago
Have you considered starting with Grails? It's a much easier jump into the "java-ish" world. The main benefit is you can choose to run a grails application and rely on java jars for when you need performance boosts.
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by columbo 13y ago
I'm really surprised at the performance of C#... honest no-flame question: how is possible it that Python is beating C#? I've been out of the .NET world for several years, almost a decade, but I always assumed they would be at Ja
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by columbo 13y ago
Because his most powerful weapon is controlling the public discourse. If he goes entirely silent then the government will step in to fill the void: "His girlfriend's a stripper, he's a hacker terrorist, his neighbors say h
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by columbo 13y ago
> The first two are focussing on positive emotions and ignore the important role negativity plays. There's no definition of either that I know of that includes "positive emotions" and ignores "negative emotions".
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by columbo 13y ago
Everyone seems to be stuck on the word "project" It's unquestionable that you need energy, excitement and confidence to be good at something. Anything from being a doctor, lawyer to professional athlete. So let's clarify
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by columbo 13y ago
> The problem with never allowing questions with lots of upvotes to be closed is twofold: You could always make the number of moderators required to close a topic increase as the topic rises in popularity. A +4 question might need 2 mode
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by columbo 13y ago
> Why is everyone convinced he won't have a fair trial? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/manning-treatment-i... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#
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by columbo 13y ago
> You mean the promises to arrest him for releasing confidential information? Being arrested and facing a fair trial isn't anyone's fear. Being arrested, placed in solitary confinment for months on end, subjected to technically
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by columbo 13y ago
It's a good question, and it really depends. I have one system where clojure performs better than java. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison as the java source is very rigid and stateful. There's a ton of recalculations be
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by columbo 13y ago
I think the percentage is interesting, but it adds nothing for either side of the debate (either for or against). I'm not challenging you, I'm talking about the people going back to that number in the thread you posted. * I don&#x
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by columbo 13y ago
SO is great for what it is, direct answers from questions. It is hard to think back to the days of pre-SO when most answers had to come from books (!) It is not designed, and will never be a place to foster discussions, or encourage explora
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by columbo 13y ago
Eh... yes and no.. and in some cases oh-god-no ( http://thelettervsixtim.es/ ) When I was able to get a hold of arcade/snes/nes games on emulators I replayed all of my hardest games. I beat all of my top twenty in a
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by columbo 13y ago
Meh. Buy three ebooks from different accounts, render them to pain text, diff them and take out the differences. Why three? The assumption is 2 books would have the correct value and 1 book would have the copyrighted value. Though I don&#x2
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by columbo 13y ago
I've used a ton of bugtrackers, GitHub is the only one I've been able to hand to a non-techy client so they can create bugs. This has been a huge frustration for me when it comes to bug tracking. I have multiple clients who just a
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by columbo 13y ago
I was thinking of something similar years ago. Except replace google image search with wikimedia and so you'll have access to public domain images (and possibly higher resolution files).
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by columbo 13y ago
I don't believe we'll ever see developers tossing out their IDEs to edit things through the web, but this as an API this is a huge open ended solution towards automated testing. You are doing some clojure work, you commit it, th
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by columbo 13y ago
> Since you can not choose military commanders, how useful is that for you? Huh? http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=45870 I may not be able to sit in and vote for a commander but every appointment has t
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by columbo 13y ago
Hrm? I have... there really is no difference. With PBR and other American Adjunct Beers ( http://beeradvocate.com/lists/style/38 ) It has little to to about taste and everything to do with not wanting to buy from
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by columbo 13y ago
Same could be said about flank steak which used to be a cheap cut of steak. After Fajitas got popular the price tripled [1989] http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/26/garden/how-a-humble-cut-go... Now about PB
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by columbo 13y ago
Volunteering at a non-profit is one thing, but you should never work for free at a for-profit company. Never. To go even farther, any for-profit company unable to pay even a reduced rate, equity return, or a sales commission shouldn't be hi

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