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811.
by frankus 17y ago
One step closer to my slap-bracelet cell phone ( http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Slap_20Bracelet_20Cell_20Phon... ) :)
812.
by frankus 18y ago
I ride a ChargerBike to work on nice days. It's a pedelec-style, in that it measures your torque input and matches (or multiplies) it with electric power, so there's no throttle (the article is talking about a twist-throttle system). I prob
813.
by frankus 18y ago
The phrase "Time flies like an arrow" is another example. "Time flies" could be a type of insect with an affinity for a particular arrow (or each for its own arrow), or you might be being instructed to measure a fly's speed in the manner th
814.
by frankus 18y ago
If you enjoyed this article, check out the book _The_Language_Instinct_ by Steven Pinker, which is all about the cognitive basis behind language. He has a good followup that I haven't quite gotten through yet, called _The_Stuff_of_Thought_
815.
by frankus 18y ago
According to a couple of books I've read, the 1-year rule applies in the US, but if you're interested in foreign patents, you have to keep your design under wraps until after you have applied for the patents, at least in several important j
816.
by frankus 18y ago
There are enough differences that I don't think your analogy holds water. One could just as well use the analogy of linking to Wikipedia as a citation rather than some proprietary site behind a paywall. The former has clearly won in the gen
817.
by frankus 18y ago
BTW, a lot of your emacs key bindings will work on a Mac (at least in Cocoa apps), and you can add more. Here's an in-depth explanations: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System.... But things like Control -Previous, -
818.
by frankus 18y ago
Take a look at the nu programming language: http://programming.nu/ It's an s-expression language built on top of the Objective-C runtime. I'm not enough of an FP guru to tell you if it's a suitable stand-in for Scheme, but it's written an
819.
by frankus 18y ago
I've poked around the CGAffineTransform classes that Apple uses in their Core Animation framework a bit, but unless you're doing something out of the ordinary, you don't really need to know what's going on under the hood.
820.
How should we deal with cognitive-enhancing drugs?(stanfordalumni.org)
39 points by frankus 18y ago|14 comments
821.
by frankus 18y ago
Answer to the easy one: Each prisioner agrees that if the two other prisioners have the same color of skullcap, that he (pardon my sexism) will switch his switch to indicate that he has the other color. Assuming a random distribution of col
822.
Randall Munroe has been monitoring my dreams(xkcd.com)
5 points by frankus 18y ago|3 comments
823.
by frankus 18y ago
Can this talk to Google Checkout?
824.
ObjectiveResource: ActiveResource for Objective-C(iphoneonrails.com)
2 points by frankus 18y ago|0 comments
825.
by frankus 18y ago
If he's a little on the fence whether he really wants to get into programming, I would start with something where he can do stuff that looks impressive with relatively little effort. C is a horrible choice by this standard, starting with th
826.
by frankus 18y ago
There's some interesting but half-baked speculation that hydrates are responsible for some of the strange happenings reported in the Bermuda Triangle. The idea is that the deposits will spontaneously burp up an enormous quantity of methane
827.
by frankus 18y ago
I've fallen in love with the vertical selection feature (option + drag). You can even create a vertical insertion point and anything you type or delete will appear or disappear on all selected lines.
828.
by frankus 18y ago
This is a gray area. If your personal project overlaps in any way with current or potential future projects that your employer might undertake, be very, very careful. I presented one such idea to an employer I worked for, and they actually
829.
Real Advice Hurts(43folders.com)
64 points by frankus 18y ago|7 comments
830.
by frankus 18y ago
The problem with wheel motors has historically been unsprung mass (the mass of the portion of the car that moves with the wheel, rather than with the chassis -- typically the tire, wheel, brakes, suspension upright, and half of the drivesha
831.
by frankus 18y ago
While the angular momentum of wheels and tires does make a pretty large contribution to overall vehicle inertia, the fact that the wheel is rotating won't influence the specific issue of unsprung mass one way or another.
832.
by frankus 18y ago
The article has been updated to reflect that it's overriding an undocumented method on the UIApplication class called -proximityStateChanged. I've tried it and it looks like it's not a delegate method. Gruber has a much better article on
833.
by frankus 18y ago
The article is a bit naïve in that most popular sites will get slammed by exploit-seeking bots. At my previous employer I had a setup to silently log known exploit URLs that reached the 404 handler, and blacklist the IP if more than a few s
834.
Reminder: Vancouver Hacker News Meetup at Noon today
4 points by frankus 18y ago|2 comments
835.
by frankus 18y ago
Anyone ever play with DrumCircle on BeOS? Basically the same concept, but with cowbells and an extra checkbox marked "Hippie AI."
836.
by frankus 18y ago
I was thinking about building a service on top of BrightKite, but at 1/20th the number of visitors vs. Twitter I'm not sure. Are there any other location-based social networks with a published API? Loopt seems to see itself more as a progra
837.
by frankus 18y ago
It's a lot like how one-off pieces of art always seem really expensive, but the fact of the matter is that to make that art someone has to be able to support themselves doing something that typically doesn't really scale.
838.
by frankus 18y ago
I understand where he's coming from as an investor, but it's kind of a shame that there doesn't seem to be a mechanism by which these sorts of features can be turned into reality. Companies can't really accept unsolicited ideas from the gen
839.
by frankus 18y ago
The realization I keep coming back to is that a carbon tax is the most fair–and only reasonable–way to let consumers trade off the climate-change impact of one product over another. Markets don't lie, or at least do so less often than polit
840.
You can't tell people anything(thefarmers.org)
77 points by frankus 18y ago|18 comments

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