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by donpdonp 11y ago
I too have suspicions the OnHub is a stealth echo competitor. After going through the comments here though, being the hub for home automation/IoT is compelling enough on its own. It'll be very interesting if a tear-down reveals in
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by donpdonp 11y ago
Context/Background link: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683 tl;dr: A technical manual reseller in Finksburg, MD is throwing out 25,000 high-quality paper manuals from as far back as the 1930s this week and J
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by donpdonp 11y ago
Okay they maybe the link text should say "Thor – A Project to Hammer Out the Next Royalty Free Video Codec". I'd be happy to see VP9 actually get deployed on any significant scale before putting another new codec into the mix
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by donpdonp 11y ago
Didn't we already go through this with VP8/VP9/WebM?
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by donpdonp 11y ago
I would really like to see the patent expiration date on the diagrams. To give an idea of how long the screwdriver, for example, was patented.
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by donpdonp 11y ago
Is there an image file I can grab and run with qemu?
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by donpdonp 11y ago
I'm already using pound for SSL termination http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ . Does Hitch provide any advantages over pound?
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by donpdonp 11y ago
A description of the parts of the Large Hadron Collider, in 90's rap form, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
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by donpdonp 11y ago
"...after quite literally being sued to hell." http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally
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by donpdonp 11y ago
I agree its mostly gone. Here are the sites I can think of that still support OpenID login: https://stackexchange.com/users/login https://bitbucket.org/account/signin/ http://openi
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by donpdonp 11y ago
OpenID is still a thing (its hard to kill a protocol). While most OpenID providers have gone away, indieauth.com will allow you to delegate your domain name to it. <link rel="openid.server" href="https://indi
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by donpdonp 11y ago
New concepts are introduced at a satisfying pace. Each bit of code is explained thoroughly. Nice writeup.
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by donpdonp 11y ago
Wow what a ride! The capsule 'rocketed' off the pad, using only the superdraco thrust.
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by donpdonp 11y ago
Thanks for this post. It makes clear this 'pad abort test' is really a test of the amazing SuperDracos which could constitute their own launch system! SuperDracos are partially 3D metal printed and can fire months after being fuel
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by donpdonp 11y ago
There are easy to use meters such as the Kill-A-Watt for 120V appliances to measure usage directly.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Check out the FAQ http://www.grpc.io/faq/
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by donpdonp 12y ago
GRPC.io - thats where the next generation of efficient multiplexed streams will come from. Lack of a client side lib and http/2 adoption means it's still a ways out.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
also add lmdb/boltdb to that list. there seems to be a convergence around a certain feature-set for embeddable key/value stores: MVCC semantics and ordered keys.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
There is a surprising lack of information on the website. Here are a couple links that help fill in the gaps. "elementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It makes use of a desktop with its own shell named Pantheon,[2] and i
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by donpdonp 12y ago
The amazing part is the energy density and discharge rate of LIPO batteries. Also the ducted fan is impressive for its size. As a hobby project its fun to watch. As a consumer product, the noise pollution would turn the average alpine ski r
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by donpdonp 12y ago
This is a great write-up and a wonderful precedent for netflix to set. That being said, I feel the post is mostly promises, as Netflix is in the middle of another year-long 'content desert'. I cant remember the last time I got exc
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by donpdonp 12y ago
wcalc is pretty much the best terminal-mode calculator anywhere. It handles significant digits very well and knows about a bunch of mathematical constants in unicode form! -> √7×2÷π−ε0×σ+α+γ+R∞×Mτ-Φ0 = 2.26885 http://w-calc.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
If you're looking to play a open source minecraft-like game, without worrying about microsoft copyrights on world files, http://minetest.net/ is a lot of fun.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Google Glass was ahead of its time, for a while. They re-engineered the guts of a cellphone to fit into an eyeglass frame. The visual 'cube' that forms the display was a novelty and kept the project within the bounds of whats poss
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by donpdonp 12y ago
A formerly respected tech publication has been making life hell for hackernews readers by resorting to sensationalist link-bait headlines.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
I too am satisfied with Eclipse for Android development. It does what I need and I'd like to stay with it for a while longer. Android Studio is fanciful, I used it for months during the beta. There is one gotcha which leads me to prefe
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by donpdonp 12y ago
How does duktape compare to v8? I've been happy with the ruby gem 'therubyracer' to evaluate javascript inside a ruby app. Method calls work both ways Ruby<->JS, etc.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Also remember what we might be taking for granted with this stream - THAT WE HAVE A LIVESTREAM. Its not secret. Its not hidden. Its not classified. Its in the open. Ever seen our astronauts launch in a Soyuz from the Russian launch facility
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Just by being there you get aligned with the culture of that project and exposed to the current challenges. That alone has value in preparing you for contributions, or allowing you to decide the project isn't a good fit.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
also almost off topic but the lead Rubinius dev just posted a great writeup on rubinius 3.0 which could be a possible future of ruby in general. http://rubini.us/2014/11/12/rubinius-3-0-part-3-the-instruct...

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