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by drone 13y ago
This x100. Never use this style of connector/jack for supplying power. The cable tip will make contact with both the jack ring and sleeve in most jacks, and the cable ring will make contact with the jack sleeve. No matter how you wir
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by drone 13y ago
LTS was a big deal for me switching over to Ubuntu for servers. We had compliance issues (all software must be vendor supported) with Debian, and not having to replace the entire OS on otherwise perfectly functional servers just because a
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by drone 13y ago
I guess not surprisingly, Debian was the distro that switched me off of Slackware. I remember the defining moments for each distribution for me: in 1993, when we set my computer down on a friend's pool table next to a stack of 20+ dis
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by drone 13y ago
Just speaking up is not enough - as long as people can hide behind anonymity, the social repercussions are limited, they can just change screen names if needed. Since they are taking advantage of the fact that their target is not anonymous,
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by drone 13y ago
There's a lot of hyperbole about "debt," I see propagated about, especially amongst the far-left and far-right. Debt != Slavery. Conversely, No Debt != Freedom, there are plenty of people I know with no debt who are no more
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by drone 13y ago
The problem is still there with any social support system for retirement: to work effectively, you need enough people paying now to cover the people on the rolls. If the population drops too much, the social safety net for retirees becomes
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by drone 13y ago
Actually, that is more difficult - trying to explain an alternative workflow to a customer over the phone is not nearly as easy as it sounds. "Enter this coupon code in the field you see on your screen," is much easier than "
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Runtime-Loadable Dynamic CSS Themes for Qt Apps(github.com)
2 points by drone 13y ago|0 comments
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by drone 13y ago
You speak as though you know "what the principles of the United Sates actually are", but much like the maligned "annoying other programmer", you don't mention what these principles might be Quote: even within the
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by drone 13y ago
The OP must've come during Rodeo season - which is about the only time the city generally has a "cowboy" feel to it. =) Unless, of course, they were located some many miles to the northwest of the city, out in Waller county
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by drone 13y ago
I'm in disagreement with Bill Gates on the quote... Personally, I think getting us off of this rock is one of the most important things we'll ever do to improve the living conditions of humanity. There are only so many resources
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A selfish Silicon Valley must learn from history(salon.com)
2 points by drone 13y ago|1 comments
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by drone 13y ago
Even Russians get it... Why don't more Americans get it? Get what? A large group of the American people are upset that the NSA was spying on its own citizens. There's a healthy, and sometimes rancorous discussion going on over h
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by drone 13y ago
Indeed... There are other benefits as well, for example: using high cash-back cards can cost you less for the same items.
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by drone 13y ago
As an aside, his blog seems to be affected by a serious amount of pingback spam. He might want to use some filtering on pingbacks.
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by drone 13y ago
I do see a lot of boutique micro-manufacturing in the future for electronics, just not for "everyone." In my mind, the trend is going towards enabling small-market, very "niche" products from fairly amateur inventors.
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by drone 13y ago
Have you considered the value in OSHW is not necessarily in enabling well-trained engineers so much as making "effective engineers" out of hobbyists? Sure, one trained in electronics can look at a PCB and surmise its function - b
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by drone 13y ago
Yes, all persons on US soil are to be protected by the constitution. (Not withstanding specific incidents of abuse, the fact that one is, or isn't a citizen is not intended to have any effect on the constitutional rights available.)
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by drone 13y ago
Alas, I've experienced a lot of this. A current project I'm working on, I've done in Mojolicious. Why? Because I had no interest in learning another toolkit that provided me no real benefits other than the language it was bas
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by drone 13y ago
Exactly this. Whatever you allow people to do - they will, at some point. At some point, monkey-patched code gets used in someone's library, at some point they put it on Github, and at some point it gets forked. The OP is literally s
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by drone 13y ago
I'm in nearly complete disagreement with the author here. I guess it helps that I've been burned more than once when using code from two third parties where party A reached into the "private areas" of party B's cod
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by drone 13y ago
Oh, I have no issue with the people contributing. It's the stars, which I expect we'll start seeing more and more of, who will more and more start leveraging the independent channel for their fundraising, even though they certain
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by drone 13y ago
Personally, I think its sad that stars who can easily get their projects funded through the traditional channels are now sucking money away from independent projects on kickstarter. Almost as if they're not satisfied with taking only
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Spike Lee "Seeking Kickstarter Handout"(thesmokinggun.com)
1 points by drone 13y ago|3 comments
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by drone 13y ago
The more common definition of the Passive Income Hacker is "lifestyle business", i.e. a business where you don't seek a 10-100x exit. I have to disagree with this one, of all of the people I know that have "lifestyle b
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by drone 13y ago
Don't most of those "free" public health care systems only apply to citizens? I recall a story about a foreigner in Germany having to pay for their care, even if the price was reduced. Non-emergency care in the UK, for exam
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My Problems With The Open Source Ecology Project(sinistercyb.org)
1 points by drone 13y ago|0 comments
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by drone 13y ago
Thank you, as an occasional user of Jetstrap, I was wondering what the benefits might be. I'll have to take a deeper look now.
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by drone 13y ago
If you don't mind my asking, what are the competitive advantages of Divshot over, say, JetStrap?
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Your Startup Sold For Hundreds Of Millions, Now Do It Again(fastcolabs.com)
1 points by drone 13y ago|0 comments

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