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by frankus 17y ago
This "third unlawful copy" really highlights a glaring incompatibility between copyright law as it exists and digital technology. As it now stands, it is possible to argue that purely incidental copies of digital data are subject to copyrig
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by frankus 17y ago
Somehow I read that domain name as kalamazeus. Which actually wouldn't be a bad name for a web app of some sort.
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by frankus 17y ago
Often you'll have to explicitly call exit() after a call to header("Location: index.html?page=privacy"). IIRC it is version- and configuration-dependent. But a redirect is pretty clearly the right way to do this. When you get ready to do SE
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by frankus 17y ago
A fourth example: A game where you try and assassinate your friends by setting imaginary time bombs to go off at a particular location when you think your friend will be there. Of course it could also be built on top of something like Loopt
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by frankus 17y ago
The company I worked for up until a little over a year ago tried to do something like this. They had a generic site builder (built with hokey 1999-era tech) with industry-specific templates and a whole bunch of themes that could be applied
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by frankus 17y ago
Assuming the penny is ferromagnetic you might be able to use DC to drive the electromagnet (i.e. you don't need to excite a current in the penny to get it to be attracted to the magnet). Also, the magnetic field is going to be proportional
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by frankus 17y ago
A sundial app for the iPhone, the semi-useful side effect of which would be a true solar time and local mean time display.
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by frankus 17y ago
I can never seem to get past the "buy a marginally clever domain name" phase. So I can go down the list of my domains on GoDaddy: Yakrazor.com: time management app. I can't remember exactly where I was going to go with it, but the basic ide
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by frankus 17y ago
Good information. It's worth noting that the sort of optics common on a 35mm pro cinema camera are a bit large for a hobbyist still photographer to be toting around.
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by frankus 17y ago
How is this different from the old "analog is better than digital because it has infinite resolution" argument? Any recording medium has limitations, and whether it's digital or analog is neither here nor there. If you rescan your 35mm slid
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by frankus 17y ago
That depends if you're asking a garden-variety follower of the cyclic faith (no), or a radical cyclist (yes).
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by frankus 17y ago
With a not too outlandish set of assumptions, the environmental footprint of an electric cyclist is smaller than that of an acoustic cyclist. Unless you're some kind of raw-food vegan: http://ebikes.ca/sustainability/Ebike_Energy.pdf The
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by frankus 17y ago
Another point that the author fails to bring up is that there is no legit secondary market for ebooks, so you can't do the thing where you buy the hardcover at Costco, read it in a weekend, and resell it for about what you paid for it on ha
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by frankus 17y ago
I'm working on #3, but the technology for the AR part isn't quite there yet (or at least doesn't have a public API).
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by frankus 17y ago
Alibre design is a decent parametric 3D modeling system that has a (legal) free (as in beer) version. It looks like right now the standard version is 90% off. http://www.alibre.com/ I understand that SolidWorks is better, but it's decided
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by frankus 17y ago
This isn't complete pie-in-the-sky stuff. NaS batteries have been around for decades ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaS_battery ) and in fact Ford was building EVs with them in the late 90's. It looks like they found an interesting tweak to
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by frankus 17y ago
If you combine net metering with time-of-use charges, it might very well be profitable to engage in power arbitrage. I.e. you buy from the utility when it's cheap and sell it back to them when it's expensive. In this case you'd actually be
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by frankus 17y ago
Too bad my YC application for a Segway-style skateboard startup got rejected :P (It was probably my lousy application that sunk it, combined with the fact that my co-founder couldn't move to the Bay Area, combined with the difficulty in sca
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by frankus 17y ago
Definitely shop your resume ASAP, simply because there's no downside: you don't have to quit unless/until you get a better offer, and if the money does come in you're set. The company I worked for went through this a few years ago, but pull
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by frankus 17y ago
OT: is it "No Wine Till It's Time" or "No Wine Till Its Time"? I'm pretty sure it's the latter.
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by frankus 17y ago
There still isn't an officially-supported way of putting the current camera view into the view hierarchy. I guess they're pushing a UIImagePickerController on to the stack and prodding it into "Take a Picture" mode. Apple probably has some
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by frankus 17y ago
Sounds like a nomination for an Ig Nobel is in order.
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by frankus 17y ago
I've been going to a local affiliate gym twice a week for the past two weeks and am already seeing pretty good results. They had a 75-minute introductory class that taught all of the movements, and they review form and answer any questions
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by frankus 17y ago
Also check out http://programming.nu/ . It's a sort of S-expression-based functional language that leverages the Objective-C runtime.
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by frankus 17y ago
#16: The USB connector. There's no way, without looking into the port and the end of the cable, to know which way to plug it in.
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by frankus 17y ago
Also a 3-axis magnetometer.
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by frankus 17y ago
Does a ridiculous lack of any coding standards whatsoever count?
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Post-Consumer Prosperity(prospect.org)
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by frankus 17y ago
Keyboard macros are great. C-x ( to start recording, C-x ) to finish, C-x e to execute. You can also do Meta-999 C-x e, which will execute your macro 999 times (or until it reaches the end of the file). It's great for turning, say, a CSV fi
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by frankus 17y ago
N.b. In Oracle, empty strings are null. In T-SQL (MS), empty strings are distinct from nulls.

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