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by diydsp 13y ago
interesting! I wonder if perhaps a logical way to combine "pages" is into a "book" or a "codex". It would kewl if this vein of technology grows. Perhaps cached tabs could store a snapshot for offline-browsing
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by diydsp 13y ago
...Which is exactly why engineers (like me) simply must seek out and look beyond the Kool-Aid their company and managers pour and understand exactly what effects the actions of their products and services have on the world. We shouldn'
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by diydsp 13y ago
An important note here: "Moral" does not refer to a singular set of values, behaviors or beliefs. It only refers to a moral system, any moral system. That is why that oath the PP carries around from morning till night is "m
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by diydsp 13y ago
That's a great oath: Bypassing ethics completely, and swearing devotion to technical quality and not disturbing the porfessional social order, it underscores, bolds and italicizes TFA, which is nicely summarized in the caption under t
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by diydsp 13y ago
oh, interesting, so I'm not the only one! I subscribed. Thank you.
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by diydsp 13y ago
Hahaha, you and me and about 1% of the browser users (well on HN, probably more like 10%) have particular habits of keeping much larger numbers of tabs open than everyone else. Have you imagined an alternate scheme to tabs, where there are
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes. The FDA is contesting that 23andMe doesn't get an accurate enough reading of DNA. FTFA: "Last week, the F.D.A. ordered 23andMe to stop marketing its genetic test because it said the company had not provided adequate evidenc
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by diydsp 13y ago
Some interesting perspectives in this article: First, calling the FDA "a very important partner" is overly glib. The FDA is not a "partner" in the sense that they will accompany you or assist you on your journey. They
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by diydsp 13y ago
Crime as a whole in the United States has gone down, yet school shootings, which First-Person Shooters emulate, have gone up since about 1993, the year Doom was released. Yes, I have a source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by diydsp 13y ago
Err, they're different kinds of boundaries. Photographing every street requires few new techniques. Mostly people didn't expect it could happen quickly or cost-effectively, or didn't expect it would be worthwhile. Arguably,
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by diydsp 13y ago
Ah yes, i was wondering if that was the same Nick Collins who wrote the awesome books on Handmade Electronic Music :) I wonder how the author of the article missed that, heh. Anyway, obviously, this live-coding is not "The Future"
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by diydsp 13y ago
>"artisanally crafted" (grammar) Did an artisan craft it? No, it looks to me mass-manufactured to spec by someone or something who doesn't have a say in its design or the ability to individualize it. You mean "made
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by diydsp 13y ago
It's bizarre if expecting the Golden Rule to be followed... It appears to be a system made to disadvantage newcomers. This is visible in the Baby Boomer's treatment of the younger class, immigration and in frat houses. "You
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes, we really need to re-establish the practice of using signed, contracts, (as opposed to clicking through a web page) negotiated to protect both parties in order to further the healthy practice for all. A clause to protect the seller wou
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by diydsp 13y ago
This really needs to be upvoted and shared. In fact, I find the slashdot article to be particularly relevant: "'While handing over data in response to a legitimate FISA request is a legal requirement,' the Times noted, &#x27
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by diydsp 13y ago
Heck, I'm sure it's been longer than a decade. Previous generations of mobile phones used FM unencrypted. You could eavesdrop on them with just a television that has a UHF dial on channels 70 to 83! (Audio carrier 811-889 MHz)
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by diydsp 13y ago
The human body isn't a machine. It is a more complex thing that includes many machines. There are so many features of the human body that we can not examine and that we don't even know where to look... The real question is &quot
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by diydsp 13y ago
> "people who have escaped poverty represent a huge market opportunity" - B. Gates, 11/12/13, Wired Magazine
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by diydsp 13y ago
> investors, not day traders. Yes, did you see the angst when that one trader got stuck with a stock "overnight" ? He acted like having a stock overnight was the stupidest possible thing. Imagine holding a stock for 12 months
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by diydsp 13y ago
Did your wife have to support a perpetual international war to support the fuel for her chromebook? Was the chromebook responsible for thousands of deaths per month? Was the Chromebook that much better than the horse? Was your analogy gl
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by diydsp 13y ago
Welcome to HN, Joe! (p.s. for anyone who didn't know, jhallenworld is the author of the classic lightweight, multiplatform editor "joe")
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by diydsp 13y ago
I guess this is less messy than copper prototyping (acid etching/gantry ablation/vectorboarding), but silver is more expensive, ~100x. Also, -1 for "help start the home PCB printing revolution." Hobbyists have been maki
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by diydsp 13y ago
This, in light of Norbert Wiener's requirement that good democracy has access to adequate information for making decisions, is a perpetual source of fury for me. Even when papers are, like this one, paywalled, the abstracts are still u
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by diydsp 13y ago
... or it's simply that profit dives lag behind reputation. Facebook's stock price is climbing as their users leave for Twitter...
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by diydsp 13y ago
This is not about the state of embedded software. It is about one program, the accelerator control of a Toyota. The author of the article is linkbaiting and fearmongering to get you to purchase his/her static code analyzer for C++. As
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by diydsp 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, is this the kind of thing the Affordable Care Act would be expected to help?
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by diydsp 13y ago
I don't think anyone, anywhere makes a claim that the American media is impartial. However, there are widespread, strong claims that in American media, everyone is _free_ to share their opinion, leaving it up to the American people to
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by diydsp 13y ago
http://openprosthetics.org/ (Since 2006).
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by diydsp 13y ago
I'm not sure if your post is sarcasm or uncritical listening to the internet telling you people only buy music on the internet, but a quick glance at wikipedia [1] shows the ratio of physical to digital sales varies greatly by country.
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by diydsp 13y ago
> Microsoft's biggest competitor for office suites is Google Apps, Disagree. I'm a spreadsheet-fan and Numbers (mac version of Excel) is waaay better than Google Doc's spreadsheet. In fact, Numbers rivals Excel in many w

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