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by durkie 12y ago
Point the entrance to the hive facing "out". During high season, bees don't really hang around the hive; they leave and go forage. You can stand 2 meters in front of my hives and turn your back and have no idea there's a
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by durkie 12y ago
I started with First Lessons in Beekeeping by Keith Delaplane: http://www.amazon.com/First-Lessons-Beekeeping-Keith-Delapla... 2 few things to know about beekeeping: * Beekeepers disagree on everything. * Bees have been sur
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by durkie 12y ago
let me get back to you in a bit -- at 999 days exactly.
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by durkie 12y ago
Go pick apples that grow near you! You don't have to go to a farm to do this in a lot of places. We pick apples all around Atlanta (and donate them to local food banks) and they are super interesting -- Apple trees that are grown from
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by durkie 12y ago
there are also plenty of plastics that don't use bpa. bpa is only used in polycarbonate bottles.
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by durkie 12y ago
they should drop their osx claim. i recently (2 months ago) fought kicad every step of the way in trying to get it installed and working on my mac, and i'm super comfortable with the shell and compiling from source and dealing with err
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by durkie 12y ago
contact info? we're looking to do packaging for an upcoming product of ours if you'd have any interest in lending some advice. :)
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by durkie 12y ago
hah! delighted to see this here. my roommate works at the emory library and has had a fun slow week there of coming home early many days because no one could do work. they were apparently also given laptops as an interim solution, but those
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by durkie 12y ago
These are the bread-and-butter of a huge amount of industrial process controls. Tuning them can be a bitch though. And unforunately, with the proliferation of cheap prototyping platforms and sensors, there are an abundance of projects and k
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by durkie 12y ago
I once gave them a similar amount, probably 10 years ago. They have since spent at least that amount on postage and call center labor asking me for more money. This greatly discourages me from wanting to give more to them, even though I lik
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by durkie 12y ago
Some folks I know are raising money to build an app for a worldwide map of fruit trees. Their database exists already and is growing, and they're just raising money to fund mobile development and eventually an SMS interface. They list
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by durkie 12y ago
interesting -- i wonder if they could have a 2 lens system where your overall system would look like: sun / outer lens / pressurized gas / quartz lens from diagram / reactor you could adjust the pressurized gas chamber p
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by durkie 12y ago
why? it seems like it'd be one of the best materials out there - it has a super low coefficient of thermal expansion, especially in comparison to many other materials.
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by durkie 12y ago
Any chance you would know what she's doing for payment processing? About to head down a similar route with a project I'm working on -- definitely "adult", but selling physical objects rather than webcam time / vip a
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by durkie 13y ago
hey tim -- this looks really nice! just one small note -- you may want to disable the "next track" button if you're on the last track of the playlist. it just makes the song pause now if you press "next" while on th
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by durkie 13y ago
absolutely love it. thanks for the creative way of teaching css -- it's very well done!
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by durkie 13y ago
one of the best things i've ever seen on hn.
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by durkie 13y ago
not to derail your interesting question (which I also want to know the answer to), but I'm super curious about that account: managed by an automated y combinator investment firm? can you elaborate on what that means?
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by durkie 13y ago
holy shit i wish this were real. that's the kind of company where you just wanna drop everything and work on it because it's so crazy.
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by durkie 13y ago
one thing i've never been clear on: what happens after the last bitcoin is mined? it seems like if there isn't a reward of BTC for mining the block (and you're just relying on transaction fees), then mining will become a lot
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by durkie 13y ago
that would be the "tinder" part
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by durkie 13y ago
that's a damn shame about nanosolar -- they had a really cool process that made a lot of sense.
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by durkie 13y ago
The price of non-silicon cells I think is largely dictated by the extra processing. I think the hardest thing you need to do for silicon is grow it as a single crystal, but even that isn't 100% required (but it will boost efficiency).
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by durkie 13y ago
Is it? I don't think it's visible -- mine is craig at concrete-jungle.org
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by durkie 13y ago
Hey -- I might be interested. And I'm in Atlanta. Let's talk!
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by durkie 13y ago
thanks! this time of year is some welcome down-time for us before things get really busy in late spring. :)
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by durkie 13y ago
yeah man -- there is a surprising amount going on here. i think a decent amount of atl folks are probably here on hn as well. get in touch if you ever wanna talk.
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by durkie 13y ago
is that flashpoint?
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by durkie 13y ago
wow -- surprised at all the folks that just quit their jobs recently. We've got quite an HN job-quitting support group. i also just quit in june of this year and it's a big change. i've always been motivated to work on projec
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by durkie 13y ago
clearly their tween selves should have invested in baseball cards

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