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by geedy 13y ago
Crowd fund energy initiatives. Depending on your views on various energy sources, i.e. solar, take a look at https://www.sunfunder.com/ https://joinmosaic.com/ Also, don't become too pessimistic. Eve
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by geedy 13y ago
They go on to say that the photo had to be cropped due to the equipment they were using. "The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512 x 512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 in
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by geedy 13y ago
Keep up the great work. It's a very interesting project, one I'll continue to keep an eye on. One thing I wish would get added are more aggregators. This would add a lot of valuable use cases, in my opinion. At least one of my
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by geedy 13y ago
I had a similar idea a couple of months ago, but the issue I found with it is that a virtual "vote" for a product is borderline worthless. When an idea is funded on Kickstarter, people are putting real money on the project, somet
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by geedy 13y ago
Have you used this resource much? How easy do you think it would be to adapt some of the projects in this book to javascript? Thanks!
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by geedy 13y ago
This is a good point. I'll have to get a better handle on his ability to focus / get distracted.
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Ask HN: What is good language / project to teach 12-year old to code?
8 points by geedy 13y ago|11 comments
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by geedy 13y ago
Seems similar to claim that you can identify a person based on a handful of locations she visits from her regular daily routine.
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by geedy 13y ago
Natural gas prices are volatile at this point. Seems they have increased in recent months: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/coals-us-comeback/2...
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by geedy 13y ago
Really, most of BC is awesome in terms of a place to live. My favourite areas are the island, the Kootenay's, and the Okanagan valley. Love ability to experience different seasons in the interior. That said, I highly doubt there is a "bes
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Tesla could raise $830 million through offering, payoff DOE loan(gigaom.com)
3 points by geedy 13y ago|0 comments
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by geedy 13y ago
> That's a big debate! For a lot of people, I would, though, yes. There are serious economists who posit that universities are mostly about signalling, rather than actually learning much. I don't think I agree with that entirely, and be
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by geedy 13y ago
Curious, would you call University education dicking around as well? Seems to me challenging the brain is never a waste of time. We would not have some of the medical technologies we have today if it were not for massively parallel GPUs, w
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by geedy 14y ago
This. Even as a guy whose main interests lie in theoretical aspects of computer science, I need to learn of this stuff.