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by glimcat 14y ago
Rule 34 likely applies.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Good as a functional prototype. Sensor placement would be tricky when moving towards production due to different hands and grips.
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by glimcat 14y ago
I have a hammer, but I have no clue how to get from driving nails into boards to building houses. I don't know what the road map should even look like, or what skills I would end up needing, or how to evaluate them along the way. Thus why s
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by glimcat 14y ago
The time cost of signalling and unit computation is fundamentally physical. Drift and error in inertial and position sensing is fundamentally physical. You can make very good goggles if the money and time per unit isn't an issue. Registrati
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by glimcat 14y ago
I think we're still waiting for the first big thing.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Right now, you don't need to get rich. You need to get some of the pressure off and get stable. If you can reasonably land a six-figure job which you can stand doing for a few years, DO IT. Desperate and looking for get-rich-quick schemes i
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by glimcat 14y ago
Student loans tend to be ineligible.
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by glimcat 14y ago
$100-200 is a great spot for small e-commerce businesses to target in general. No faffing about with tiny margins on a $5 transaction, no chasing overly-general markets to make up the transaction volume you need to stay alive. For Kickstart
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by glimcat 14y ago
"I rarely find anything suitable for my classes, so I usually do direct searches by subject on Google, sometimes site-restricting to sites of educational institutions, to find suitable materials for my classes." Can you clarify why they're
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by glimcat 14y ago
Clever, but maybe not very wise. Doesn't this open Greenpeace up to all sorts of liability? You can bet Shell's legal team is already going over this in detail, and their response is not going to involve a bunch of retweet whoring on twitte
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by glimcat 14y ago
The text is a bit mangled, but it's still better than doing CAPTCHAs. There's a table on Wikipedia if you want to make your own chart. It helps if you understand Gini coefficients. But in short, they attempt to represent wealth distribution
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by glimcat 14y ago
The MK802 looks interesting. But in the USA, it's showing as $99 versus the Raspberry Pi's $35. https://www.miniand.com/ My main interest in the Pi is that it represents a newish class of computing devices which are cheap enough to treat
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by glimcat 14y ago
Here's a cool chart showing Gini coefficient versus GDP. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Gini_coe...
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by glimcat 14y ago
I know we often look down on the mushy stuff in engineering - but most of all, be kind. It's surprisingly easy to crush people without meaning to, particularly when they look up to you.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Given the way Google has been using high-pressure onboarding through several of their existing customer bases, I'm not surprised. And "visitors" likely counts people who got linked to a single post.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Jelly Bean added a bunch of stuff that I'm very happy to see as a developer. But it will take a long while for that to trickle down to the user level, even for people who get on Jelly Bean quickly. On the other hand, this translates into bu
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by glimcat 14y ago
> It's possible that if ISPs had not agreed to six strikes the MPAA/RIAA would have agitated for new laws which would be even more expensive to lobby against/comply with. I don't see where "giving in a little bit this time so they'll go
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by glimcat 14y ago
The animation of the images sliding goes off the sides of the phone's display area. It would be nice if it were a bit slower as well. Sounds good, I'll flag it to check out again later.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Reasons I didn't sign up for a trial: * Got Faceblocked. * No obvious demo until I looked here. * Demo profile suggests it's iOS-only. * Demo profile has flawed animations.
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by glimcat 14y ago
It counts for more than doing nothing.
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by glimcat 14y ago
You could emulate this: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/37signals-campfire/id37740198...
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by glimcat 14y ago
It's not presented in a usable fashion, but the existing Pro tiers are having their storage doubled with price held constant (50GB @ $10, 100GB @ $20 --> 100GB @ $10, 200GB @ $20). They're also adding an additional 500GB tier above thos
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by glimcat 14y ago
Negotiation is negotiation. You get what you can convince the other party to agree to.
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by glimcat 14y ago
They probably saw their hit count go through the roof as tens of thousands of HN readers all clicked on the link hoping that Apple was releasing official support for Python-based iOS development. They'll get more than a few sales out of thi
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by glimcat 14y ago
This raises the question of A/B testing fake LinkedIn profiles to optimize for the sort of leads you want.
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by glimcat 14y ago
"I was afraid that Nginx might not hold up" Seeing articles get nuked by a sudden spike in traffic tends to give one unrealistic assumptions about what servers can handle. Most can take quite a bit if you're serving mostly static content.
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by glimcat 14y ago
"We will suspend your account and you may be liable for civil damages" wasn't severe enough?
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by glimcat 14y ago
I strongly prefer not to deal with Google in a business context. It's great when everything is running smoothly. But if things break down, there's usually not a damn thing you can do about it besides post to your blog and pray.
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by glimcat 14y ago
"they garden to demonstrate that they are better than people who save money on food" I think you'll find many more people who garden as a hobby or as a social exercise than people who do it for the smug value.
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by glimcat 14y ago
It's very rare that the situation isn't really "develop once, debug everywhere." You might as well promise me a perfect optimizing compiler while we're at it. And even then, is the GUI actually appropriate for all of your deploy targets? Us

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