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811.
by gridspy 16y ago
The smoke is breathable. But combined with a strobe light there is no way to see. Add in typical "screamers" that you have in every alarm system and you couldn't navigate or communicate.
812.
by gridspy 16y ago
It is corn oil, like a nightclub. The trick is a large 300 deg heated plate in the emitter.
813.
by gridspy 16y ago
Proper smoke cloak systems are combined with a strobe light that is completely disorienting. The strobe seems to come from everywhere - I've been in a room with one going, even the shop owner would have difficulty finding their way out. It
814.
by gridspy 16y ago
I prefer to think of this as an internet based brainstorming session
815.
by gridspy 16y ago
I guess it helps that no patients were injured in the accident.
816.
by gridspy 16y ago
Awesome explanation of the physics of why the gun discharged here ( http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/178/5/1092 ) Short summary: - A round was chambered in a safety locked gun. - The "Sear" at the top of the gun that normally mov
817.
by gridspy 16y ago
Moral of the story - if you can make more assumptions about the input data than the compiler, you can beat it. Or in general - if you are considering using a tool or rolling your own, what do you know about your data that the tool author do
818.
by gridspy 16y ago
Contracting enquiry that I am currently to busy to fulfill.
819.
by gridspy 16y ago
The fibre is being built by private companies operating under carefully designed govt subsidy. The main reason Govt exists is to provide services that benefit the whole country but are too "big" for the market to provide, or lack direct sho
820.
by gridspy 16y ago
- Co-founder - Software (High level firmware, all of the web presence / backend) - Marketing - Public Relations - Customer Support See the blog to gain some more insight into my life (all the posts are mine): http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/
821.
by gridspy 16y ago
How could I have a toll-free number in the states, another in New Zealand and forward those calls to Skype, a pair of mobile phones and a landline here in NZ?
822.
by gridspy 16y ago
To add: I'm a startup founder (tick)
823.
by gridspy 16y ago
My main concern is due to timezones I'll probably be asleep when a customer calls.
824.
by gridspy 16y ago
Alex is a friend of mine (and a fellow New Zealander) who I worked with on SingStar. He has just become an independent contractor and could be of great assistance to any startup looking to get a great online image. I hope that this HN "adve
825.
Lead Designer from SingStar PS3 looking for Design work(newroyalstandard.com)
1 points by gridspy 16y ago|1 comments
826.
by gridspy 16y ago
Usually the 'real work' required to process the message would drown this overhead in the noise. The moment the message requires you to establish an outgoing connection, open a file, hit the database or something similar it is going to compl
827.
by gridspy 16y ago
You could try to put into the code the conditions that would cause you to change your strategy. Then when all those conditions are in place you send a signal to all cells to change strategy. Your code then looks at the strategy variable to
828.
by gridspy 16y ago
Thanks for the encouragement, it means a lot to me :) I know what you mean about getting stuck. I've seen others fall into the trap of independent contracting, favoring it over the project they planned to work on. I'm blessed (cursed?) to
829.
by gridspy 16y ago
The Django Book is a great way to start with the Python Framework "Django" - Like Ruby on Rails but in Python (and thus with more awesome) - http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/
830.
Breaking away from "The Man" - GridSpy goes Full-time.(blog.gridspy.co.nz)
29 points by gridspy 16y ago|2 comments
831.
by gridspy 16y ago
Context sensitive joke from Wall-E : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFoDYmTyM8 :)
832.
by gridspy 16y ago
I think that you were supposed to notice them.
833.
by gridspy 17y ago
I think SinkFloat is a cool idea. At the moment, the blog has pretty much no interesting content. Put something intellectually stimulating on there before submitting it to HN again if you want some traction.
834.
by gridspy 17y ago
Just because you invite someone to your party doesn't mean they are your friend. Handing you a press pass is simply the easiest way to tell my security that you are allowed in. It doesn't mean that it makes you a member of the press.
835.
by gridspy 17y ago
Four linked ballast water tanks (Port Aft, Port Front, Starboard Aft, Starboard front) with pumps between them would probably be sufficient and would be much easier to place and maintain than other moving counterweights.
836.
by gridspy 17y ago
Also in the case of Wii, Nintendo probably was expecting a sales downturn "any day now"
837.
by gridspy 17y ago
However in this very article the author talks about the iPad stock shortages.
838.
by gridspy 17y ago
Of course if he used them today the new father would tweet about it and the secret would be out.
839.
by gridspy 17y ago
You are looking for what Steve Blank calls "Customer development" ( http://steveblank.com/category/customer-development/ ) He suggests that you schedule 15 minute interviews (no sales pressure) with a range of people in your target marketpl
840.
by gridspy 17y ago
Incubators that ask you for money _and_ equity make me a little bit sick. Either sell me a service or give me cash for equity. Don't do both.

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