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by eichin 5y ago
Yeah - as an ancient software geek I don't want it, but I definitely want someone to build it, especially in the open source space.
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by eichin 5y ago
heh. In 2003-2005 I didn't get why RSS mattered, so I built a mobile photo blog based on pictures+text from a Sony Clié email client, posting pictures + captions to a mailbox, and a .forward file pipe-filter that turned those messages
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by eichin 5y ago
Oh, and "My vOicE is mY passp0rt Verify ME" is always good when a voice "authentication" system is in need of mocking...
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by eichin 5y ago
"We're the US Government. We don't do that sort of thing." is up there with "and I... was never here" in "catchphrases that give you an excuse to do a James Early Jones accent"...
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by eichin 5y ago
Hah, I used gdb print expression for a calculator for decades (especially p/x for hex conversions.) I finally switched to "just fire up a python repl instead" around 2010...
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by eichin 5y ago
One use for this is using old android tablets as ambient display screens - you just autostart a browser on an mjpeg url and update the image to update the screen. Note that mjpeg doesn't have a frame rate - it just renders the frames
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by eichin 5y ago
Hah, I'm used to home-row-finding bumps being subtle (which goes back to Actual Typewriters) but there's no reason they can't be half the size of the keycap :-)
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by eichin 5y ago
We had one at Cygnus - originally it was just a christmas tree and lights, controlled by... finger, I think? and then in later years web (and the train) was added. One year it made the new york times...
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by eichin 5y ago
So... how would you get anything into the system that way that you couldn't get in via an actually recorded floppy? You're still waving analog magnetic fields in front of the read head, it's not like usb or firewire where you
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by eichin 5y ago
And there's `w3m-img` which... isn't exactly a graphics mode, but it does inline images via $WINDOWID...
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by eichin 6y ago
I don't know if the remarkable does this, but the onyx boox max 2 has an hdmi input (on some tiny connector.) I've used it from my laptop as a second screen, and displayed emacs and xterm on it. Really need to craft up some kin
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by eichin 6y ago
Sounds like you could maybe use git-annex on it for that? (I use rsync (via "FolderSync") on the android-based onyx boox max, so as soon as I turn on wifi it pushes to one of my personal boxes (internal format is a hideous sqlite-
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by eichin 8y ago
The particularly cool bit: at least the Boox Max 2 has HDMI input so I can pop it up on my thinkpad as an external monitor (kind of clumsy, needs power too, but I've run emacs on it Just Fine...)
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by eichin 10y ago
For that "next step down" dig up Don Lancaster's "TV Typewriter Cookbook" for the 1976 version of this (and to understand "shift" and "control" at a more visceral level :-)
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by eichin 10y ago
Write a man page, but it's 2016, you don't have to write it in ROFF... It got a lot easier to get people to write or update man pages for a bunch of in-house CLI tools when I found ronn https://rtomayko.github.io&#x2F
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by eichin 10y ago
It's pretty common to `set -o noclobber` in beginner dotfiles; doing deferred-open-if-exists is an interesting idea that would probably get a lot of resistance :-)
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by eichin 12y ago
You're missing one key thing - by the time we see the candidate they've given us a resume that says that they can and have programmed some actual things in some actual langauges. How do you explain their inability to then do so
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by eichin 12y ago
Also, if your resume says you're a web systems person or something like that, and you can't actually explain some details about DNS is doing, I have to wonder about the mismatch...
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by eichin 13y ago
For that matter, you can write emacs extensions in python, using Pymacs; given that it's marshalling objects to and from a subprocess over a pipe, it breaks when anything gets asynchronous, but lately when I've gone beyond &quot
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by eichin 13y ago
Indeed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eichin/7123623579/ is generated from that scanner (on a clean floor, you do surprisingly well with just assuming the bot moved where you commanded it, as far as doing naiv
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by eichin 13y ago
They're probably talking about the "hexbright" (usb-rechargable, arduino-programmable, so you can implement UI experiments like "shake it to make it brighter" - it's also a really bright light.) Will it impac
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by eichin 14y ago
`rsync-for-android` is actually pretty good if rsync is what you actually want; android-only of course, and FolderSync has a slightly nicer UI-wrapper (using sftp directly, rather than actually rsync'ing) and "experimental" auto-push-on-cha
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by eichin 14y ago
I'm surprised that the idea that anyone other than the backers are going to lose money keeps coming up; it's always looked pretty clear to me (even though I've gotten rewards delivered from around 30 out of 45 projects, mostly hardware, a
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by eichin 14y ago
Actually, the programmatic ability to spawn EC2 hosts is great in-the-small, for testing - you want to do an upgrade right ? Spin up a fresh instance (or five), do your chef/puppet scripted deploy, load balance five percent of your users t
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by eichin 14y ago
And if you look at any of the udacity office-hours videos, when you see laptops, they're almost always Macs :-)
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by eichin 15y ago
Just look at the participant list for the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge competitions; http://archive.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/teamlist.asp though you also need to look past some of the university affiliations to see the partne
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by eichin 15y ago
In Cambridge, MA alone we have Nokia Research Center (NRC), Microsoft NERD (no really, New England Research and Development Center, but they've dropped the C in the last year or two :-) Disney Research... up until a couple of years back we
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by eichin 15y ago
My question is - is anyone gaming it. For example, were I to suggest that I was working on "InstaPaper for PDFs... with kindle sync and an ipad app" how quickly would I hear about other "copycat" versions with crowdsourced recommendation
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by eichin 15y ago
Because if we meet them, it's because they got here thus they're a lot more technologically advanced than we are? (Though there's a fun short story from way back that ends with aliens who have FTL travel wanting to buy our high-reliabilit
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by eichin 15y ago
Took about 20 minutes to write some python code to search; takes about 1/3 of a second to try all 3x17x17 mutations and find at least one rectangle produced by each. So yeah, every single-point change "destroys" the solution.

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