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by donpdonp 12y ago
exactly! I saw those cartridge slots and thought its the same HP strangle-hold all over again. HP lives for vendor-lockin. Locked in to the data format, locked into the cartridges, and whatever else they can think of. I do have tons of resp
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by donpdonp 12y ago
I wish the Linux Foundation would be more progressive with naming the project. One of the member orgs, Skyward, has already switched away from the word 'drone' to a much more descriptive 'aerial robotics'.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
The 'next JSON' should be EDN. It addresses the shortcomings suggested by hjson and more. It has comments, all commas are gone, it has symbols (aka light-weight strings), it has built-in support for time and uuid objects. https:&
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Consider people who have spent their life around people who are dying from X. They might be highly motivated to come up with a solution where the result is its own reward - the elimination of X.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
The xml namespace descriptors are bulky. The rest looks efficient, for xml, and almost readable with some indentation. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <json:object xmlns:xsi="http://w
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Cory Doctorow's novels are in the Young Adult section and they have a lot to offer for adult readers.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
If 1/10th is what the debt is 'worth', then who cares who buys it?
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Or for that matter, why not use any of the other CDNs that host jQuery? http://cdnjs.com/ http://www.jsdelivr.com/ http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Thanks for mentioning the Zeo. I used it for a month a few years ago. It was ahead of its time using 1-wire EEG monitoring. I felt the REM graph was actually telling me something. Any sleep monitor to try and take its place must be EEG base
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by donpdonp 12y ago
spoiler: the language is D. http://dlang.org/
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by donpdonp 12y ago
From http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/ldsd/ # Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) As NASA plans ambitious new robotic missions to Mars, laying the groundwork for even more complex human science exp
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Java: http://www.jnode.org/
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by donpdonp 12y ago
Upvoted just for the quality of the pun.
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by donpdonp 12y ago
A bit nervous? He was so nervous it was painful to watch! I just wanted someone else to take over for the guy. I would like to know more about why it was so difficult for him. He was stuttering, repeating himself, at the moment of the revea
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by donpdonp 12y ago
What I think about is, what am I putting down the drain and ultimately into the river/water-table? I want it to be as biodegradable and non-poisonous as possible. Liquid soap made of plant oils (such as Dr Bronners) seems like a good s
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by donpdonp 12y ago
CoreOS is already composed of etcd, fleet, docker - can you say more about how Deis is different?
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by donpdonp 12y ago
The video of the LIDAR data and the software's interpretation of the environment is fantastic. The "augmented reality" of the long barrier in front of potential collisions, and the green/red road-ahead indicator makes it
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by donpdonp 12y ago
The article describes a regular cable channel. I can image Netflix taking its content, and 'scheduling' a 24/7 video stream that plays over a cable TV channel. Its funny to think of Netflix content as "appointment TV&quo
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by donpdonp 13y ago
The Terran Computational Calendar ( http://terrancalendar.com/ ) is an interesting read - "13 identical 28-day months, followed by a 'minimonth' that is generally composed of leap days and leap seconds."
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by donpdonp 13y ago
I love the history/nostalgia in this font, but after opening a Gnome Terminal with the .ttf font, its unusable. The characters are full of horizontal 'scan lines' which look neat when zoomed in but make the font fade to almos
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by donpdonp 13y ago
gentoo has a flag for the TLS heartbeat, so its easy to turn off. root# USE='-tls-heartbeat' emerge openssl
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by donpdonp 13y ago
Long term gains apply to assets held over one year. The rate on such gains for an income under $36000 is ... wait for it ... 0%!
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by donpdonp 13y ago
Is there any content in the popcorn catalog that is known to be license-friendly with popcorn's distribution mechanism? I want to see the mechanism of popcorn work without violating copyright. I'd like to see a category for '
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by donpdonp 13y ago
"The data set I scraped shows $957,512,698 total pledged (I am missing a few campaigns that threw errors when scraping) across 131,348 total campaigns." Thats an impressive amount of scraping. I wonder if kickstarter noticed. Prob
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by donpdonp 13y ago
This update is important because of the BigDecimal division bug in the bigdecimal gem that ships with 2.1.0 causes incorrect calculations when the denominator is less than 1. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9316
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by donpdonp 13y ago
Credit Unions in my area (Portland, Or) have checking accounts that pay 1.0%-1.5%. No interest from Simple is the main reason I don't use them.
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by donpdonp 13y ago
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence
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by donpdonp 13y ago
"Or, MtGox themselves see that they’ve been watching for transaction for too long and could automatically re-send another transaction" There is no amount of time to wait until a bitcoin transaction is considered dead. Once its bee
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by donpdonp 13y ago
Mount Gox is a malapropism of the acronym MTGOX (which is expanded in other comments on this thread)
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by donpdonp 13y ago
The IndieWeb movement is pushing the constructs built on top of the web into a decentralized form using self hosted content and webhook notifications. Example: Comments on a blog post. Given a blog post at URL A, comments are created by pos

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