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by frankus 17y ago
What's neat about the OP's video is that it shows the "periodicity" of the various octaves. Back in college (1996 or so -- it was on one of the first PowerPC macs) I put together an animation for a class project that was sort of a combinati
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by frankus 17y ago
You can adjust the HTML, but the browser will pop up a login dialog any time it gets a 401 HTTP status code from the server (unless it has saved credentials). Safari btw will try to request every page without sending the credentials first,
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by frankus 17y ago
keep in mind you can send username/passwords like so for browser-based debugging: http://username:password@example.com/myresource/
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by frankus 17y ago
As long as you're talking to your service over SSL, basic auth is the way to go for non-human APIs. As for hiding it from regular users, just make sure you never send a 401 response. If the user has accessed a protected resource without pro
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by frankus 17y ago
It's been taken offline for now: http://gizmodo.com/5479497/apple-removes-explicit-option-fro...
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by frankus 17y ago
No. Should it?
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by frankus 17y ago
A section cut from a Post-It note, then.
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by frankus 17y ago
This might eventually scale down better than a microturbine (65kW is enough electricity for a large neighborhood (on average), and enough heat for a handful of homes), and I would bet it also operates better at part load. Microturbines aren
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by frankus 17y ago
Where it gets interesting is in colder climates where the waste heat could be used for space heat and domestic hot water production, a.k.a. "combined heat and power".
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by frankus 17y ago
Am I the only one that saw the number 42 and checked the date on which the article was written?
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by frankus 17y ago
I haven't looked at the code yet, but I've been curious how they do this. I am not a mathematician, but my understanding is that the affine transform only lets you scale, rotate, and skew the whole image at a time. Is the page curl effect s
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by frankus 17y ago
I was a PHP programmer between 1999 and 2008 (and have dabbled in it since then), and I never quite figured out what OO PHP was good for, other than writing your own half-baked database wrapper. If you're using OO PHP for basic web apps it
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by frankus 17y ago
This isn't nearly as high-speed if your T-shirts aren't a size or two too big. A better method is to reach behind your head and grab the collar where the tag is, and then pull up and forward. It has a tendency to fold your ears the wrong wa
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by frankus 17y ago
Lithium ion still has a pretty steep early adopter tax, and they're not as forgiving as lead-acid (Overcharging lead-acid batteries ruins your $2k pack. Overcharging lithium ion batteries will ruin your $20k pack and can easily burn up your
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by frankus 17y ago
AC motors are really great if you're building a drivetrain from scratch. You get a cheaper gearbox (single speed, no reverse) and a cheaper motor (theoretically) by paying for roughly six times the electronics (although you can divide the c
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by frankus 17y ago
This is disappointing, but not too surprising for anyone that has watched the automotive space for a few years. A thousand vehicles a year is considered the minimum viable volume for a car company to break even in series production, and the
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by frankus 17y ago
Did anyone notice the little haiku (almost) at the end: Beef Cows Dairy Cows All Cattle Cows That That Have That Have & Calves Have Calved Calved Calved
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by frankus 17y ago
This is actually the second round of standards. The first had the GM/Hughes inductive paddle charger, which turned out to be really neat technology but a bit of a boondoggle in terms of cost. I'm not aware of this one still being used in an
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SAE standardizes new EV charging connector(sae.org)
2 points by frankus 17y ago|1 comments
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by frankus 17y ago
If I had to pick a single dichotomy between, say, a MacBook and an iPad, it would be that the latter is optimized for consuming content in a way that the former is not. The iPad is primarily an output device. The fact that the keyboard is a
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by frankus 17y ago
I went back to school in a much more applied program (post-bacc at the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University) than my undergrad (Engineering at Harvey Mudd). One of the classes we had to take was a basic CNC programmin
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by frankus 17y ago
Nope, oddly enough it looks like iPhone OS 3.2 (in its current incarnation) is not for iPhones.
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by frankus 17y ago
The border does leave space for "out-of-band" touch areas, like the one to toggle scaling.
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by frankus 17y ago
Since the iPod Touch supports push (as long as it's on a data network), I would be shocked if they left it out of the iPad API.
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by frankus 17y ago
Yup, the device is designed to have "no particular orientation", so the dock connector can be on top. I wouldn't be surprised to see a dock-connector iSight at some point.
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by frankus 17y ago
Does the dmg include ipsw files? Or are we looking at developing for the Simulator only for a few weeks/months?
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by frankus 17y ago
There are USB and SD card reader dongles for the dock connector, but no word on what kind of access third-party apps are going to have to them.
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by frankus 17y ago
You have to wonder what their methodology is. Hopefully nothing like this: http://xkcd.com/605/
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by frankus 17y ago
For Windows, I like multiple monitors, since it allows you to maximize a window in each monitor. On a Mac, for the most part apps don't take over a whole monitor without a bit of effort, so one monitor is probably the winner. There's also a
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by frankus 17y ago
Deregulate parking. Right now nearly all municipalities have laws that require a certain minimum amount of parking per square foot of building floor area, with the amount varying by use. This has three perverse effects: 1. Buildings cost mo

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