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   by digikata 12y ago

   I've often wondered why majors in Software Engineering aren't offered. The situation is as if we skipped over Electronics, Mechanical, or other Engineering majors and insisted that Physics covers it all. There's a reason tha
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   by digikata 12y ago

   It reminds me a little of the time Microsoft marketing went crazy and stamped the ".Net" brand moniker on just about any product they could.
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   by digikata 12y ago

   I don't know if maybe the one-time number capability is tied to hardware, or tied to network connectivity - or maybe you need only one of the two paths. In which case, you might be able to do it with a 5/5c/5s with network co
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   by digikata 12y ago

   And if you notice, NFC of course isn't in the 5, 5c, 5s. So it makes me wonder if Apply Pay will work with a watch paired to an iPhone 5 series device. That might be a little nudge to get the Apple watch.
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   by digikata 12y ago

   I'd love for it to be able to be an input device for macbook & imac. Something like the Leap Motion but worn on the wrist and auto linking with the nearest device.
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   by digikata 12y ago

   I worry for humanity in the long term if the only broad direction we can give ourselves are evaluated in the framework of ROI. The very calculation of ROI assumes that there's a known and stable model for predicting both the investment
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   by digikata 12y ago

   I agree with the git add -p , but I feel that at point, it often should be followed by a stash then a rebuild and/or some testing. Next, commit and unstash to continue.
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   by digikata 12y ago

   If you're someone who doesn't watch sports, you also might think about how much a cable subscription subsidizes those who do. If sports franchises ever start moving off cable, the cable industry is in for a pretty rapid readjustme
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   by digikata 12y ago

   Well, part of the thought was provide a no-internet-required embedded box, just wifi with no app to load, for the many restaurants that don't want to mess with more complexity.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Order while you wait infrastructure at restaurants. Basically pull up the menu via wifi while waiting for your table to clear. Take the order, and maybe even pay ahead. Orchestrate the order so that the food is available shortly after you s
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    by digikata 12y ago

    No, but it tells you exactly why Apple can sell products at a premium.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I agree, email as a communications may very well survive forever at the endpoints, but I keep hoping something richer will subsume it.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I'm envious, as a contrast, in southern California, we can't even manage to get LAX directly connected to the light rail system...
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I found this data the most informative: https://www.lendingclub.com/info/statistics-performance.acti... It gives you a model for 3-30 month returns, adjusted for losses. I have an experimental amount invested in Lendin
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I think the Adafruit response wasn't ideal, but it looks like the buyer foisting of some manufacturing spec problems on to Adafruit. It sounds like the user was destructively testing some parameter of the product that wasn't on an
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I think the car-to-car variation in annual mileage traveled is too wide to fairly assess an annual fee. A secured odometer box checked during periodic vehicle inspections would be enough to reasonably raise the bar on mileage, but unfortuna
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Highway maintenance is already a problem in the US, but not because of electric vehicles, it's from increasing efficiency of fossil fuel vehicles and the political refusal to raise fuel taxes to balance the maintenance costs with the t
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    by digikata 12y ago

    It's not, but it might be interesting for electrical storage of excess renewable energy, especially in concert with a less reactive storage material. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage Though many plac
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I'm skeptical of hydrogen infrastructure using direct hydrogen too, and assume you need some other way to store and release the hydrogen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage I would think it would be mo
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    by digikata 12y ago

    See also "hydrogen embrittlement" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement Many materials you might select to carry hydrogen are weakened by it.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    From the article: "Using nickel and iron, which are cheap materials, we were able to make the electrocatalysts active enough to split water at room temperature with a single 1.5-volt battery. This is the first time anyone has used non-
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I wonder if a modern materials would let us build lift cells in this vein - maybe thin-skinned vessels filled with aerogel for structural support.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Also the dropping of pensions, and increase in cost of healthcare. It used to be that some portion of people could get 20 yrs in a their first company then have the option of having a fairly secure foundation from which to take risks.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Wanting more is a fundamental human trait. Capitalism is built upon companies wanting more and competing against each other to get more profit. Doesn't that motivation hold true for people too? Basic income proposals offer a very minim
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    by digikata 12y ago

    If you live in America and are struggling to make enough to feed and house your family, it's a moot point that the numerical income level puts them in the 1% around the world.(or whatever the percentage is) Local inequality matters.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Hmm, I've heard of immunity over class action wiretap related issues, but bandwidth delivery too? Any references? "class action immunity verizon" just has too much noise.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Between this, and discussion of hardcoded magic values in lookup tables in the code, I wonder about how future population/geography shifts will be handled. It's not a dealbreaker, but it seems like a technical cost of interpreting
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I had problems a while back with any long-running downloads or streaming video on ATT DSL. Basically made some uses impossible - any large remote data that couldn't resume at arbitrary points. Went completely away when I switched to a
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    by digikata 12y ago

    I wonder if Verizon's customers could form a class action lawsuit accusing it of failing in good faith to deliver bandwidth from Netflix due to intentionally congested handover points.
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    by digikata 12y ago

    Isn't the VTOL version basically a different plane with major differences under the skin? I'm not sure how it directly affected the designs of the non VTOL versions of the airplane...