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by dejv 8y ago
There is Neospectra [1] company that produces FTIR-on-chip modules. Performance is not that great compared to research grade FTIR, but the price is a lot less. [1] https://www.neospectra.com/
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It depends on what you want this spectrometer to do. Public Lab spectrometer is interesting and cheap, but the performance is very very limited. If you need something better you can search eBay for used (scanning) monochromators. Next step
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Lots of green tea, 1,5 - 2 litres per day. Not sure if thats healthy or not.
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First, it is just very hard to make money from ad/donation supported niche content sites. I am running few sites like this for half decade and my income is basical half of what it was last year every year, even with 20%/year incre
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Saudi prince invested huge amounts, not sure if personal or state money.
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... oh and welcome to the club. For more inspiration you can listen to the Tim Ferriss podcast with Jason Fried (CEO of Basecamp)[1] somwhere at the end of the pocast he is talking his hobby of restoring prairie. [1] https://tim.b
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You can go as deep as you want, but the basic checklist could be (for case when you don't want to have productive farm land): - make sure there is some type of water on your property, shallow pond would be ok - build different biotopes
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Unfortunately our president is not really competent anymore and his view of our country being the base for China's investment in Europe is wishful thinking. His advisor, CEO of CEFC (China's conglomerate) was arrested for money la
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You can say that about any city of major size. If you live in Brighton, you don't have to visit Beach and clubs around Middle street (I guess this is where a lot of crime and fighting happen) and you dont have to go to Lanes and areas
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I spent my 20s traveling around the world, working and living from many places. My favorites are (skiping cities already in this thread): - Brighton, UK: awesome music scene, lot of activities, chill atmosfere. Good connection to London (&l
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For anyone interested in building analytical instruments for chemistry: Chemical instrumentation: A systematic Approach by Strobel. It is quite old (1989), but it is still best in class.
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I am working on industrial level sorting machine. That machine use Linux device to control other subsystems (cameras, conveyor belt controller, various servos and what not). As number of components in systems grow you want to have single pl
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They were not really good anyway. They took classic local recipe and standardize it to lowest denominator and made them cheap and failproof. There is new wave of interest in Czech traditional cuisine + there was always homemade versions, bu
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What could be usecase for using this VM? Any idea why to use it in non-game app?
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Check out Spelunky book (published by boss fight)
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The book is awesome, make sure to read also Making of Karateka, about his previous game. I read both books 4 or 5 times, basically once a year everytime I start having doubts about being indie (non-game) developer.
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Thats exactly the case
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I had a product management job and was thinking about getting back to programming fulltime. One day I went on job site and there was ad that reads "Looking for programmer" no body, nothing. I replied just for fun, went for intervi
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by dejv 8y ago
So what is tech? It seems like for author of this article it means highly scalable software startups (prefably consumer) which are highly visible and you have it on your personal devices. On this turf the US is clear leader at least for peo
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Also like half of the all manufacturing equipment, tons of medical/laboratory devices and what not. The only thing that Europe lack behind is home grown ad-fueled consumer startups.
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For something little bit different I recomend Tales from Two Pockets, which contains 48 short stories each just few pages long. All of those are mystery stories and each is unique.
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Seems like there are not that much information available in English. I am based in Europe and most of research I am familiar with comes from other languages sources (German, French). I found one source that looks promissing, but I haven&#x2
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Thats interesting, grapevines are using same mechanism to get the nitrogen, but the real problem is that once you introduce artifical source of digestable version of nitrogen, plant decide that it is not worth of investing into this ecosyst
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Glad to hear more about how are you deploying Julia in production.
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Mostly text crawling and rendering. Sometimes the articles are turncated (say half of article is missing), saving from pastebin doesn't work at all (my favorite way to save long forum posts). Also text rendering is not really good: in
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Bazqux: https://bazqux.com/ Terrible name, great little product.
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+1 Instagram is (well it was) my everyday core app, something I can't really live without. I am paying like 30 USD/year for RSS reader and I would gladly pay same amount just to be sure the app is going to be alive in few years.
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It would be great to get insider info on why Pinterest thought it is great acquisition target. I never really understand the point of this deal.
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I am glad it happened and I hope they are going to find sustainable model. I've been using alternatives for past two months as Instapaper was blocked in EU and all those alternatives are horrible. Good luck guys.
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Skill is the pont, there are skilled and unskilled jobs in both white and blue collar jobs. Difference is that white collar jobs require some level of cultural sophistication. But you are right with very skilled machinists, one of my relati

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