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by grok2 12y ago
HP Stream comes pretty close (I think they are better than the Chromebooks though a bit pricier) -- http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?eS...
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by grok2 12y ago
Goat Grazing? Maybe targeted for April 1?
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by grok2 12y ago
The article is talking about also using the additional WiFi hotspot that every Comcast modem they provide you with has (not leaching from a neighbor). http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/comcast-sued-by
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Rainwater Harvesting to Replenish Underground Water in Rajasthan, India(ecotippingpoints.org)
94 points by grok2 12y ago|6 comments
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by grok2 12y ago
#pragma(pack) or __attribute__((packed)) still won't re-order structure fields for optimal alignment. The directive/extension only prevents holes in the structure.
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by grok2 12y ago
Is there a way to request that the compiler not do this on a per-structure basis?
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by grok2 12y ago
The problem is that when the software works well, it's hard to attribute it to all the experience of the developer whose knowledge of what performance traps to avoid has helped the software. It is only when performance problem shows up
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$19 postage stamp-sized Wi-Fi module for interacting with physical things(spark.io)
17 points by grok2 12y ago|4 comments
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by grok2 12y ago
Another thought -- perhaps an "I" form of statement would invite more discussion in a forum than something that appears to be a factual statement and not a opinion.
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by grok2 12y ago
au·gust adjective \ȯ-ˈgəst, ˈȯ-(ˌ)gəst\ : having a formal and impressive quality http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/august
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by grok2 12y ago
A comment in this article about the "worn-down" telomeres in the lady's white-blood cells makes me wonder if it would be possible to study the size of white-blood telomeres in any person relative to their brain cell telomeres
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by grok2 13y ago
I think, it's not really that communication breaks down, it is more that you don't need to communicate at all because you know the other person so well by now. Then divorce happens because you don't like what you know or you
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by grok2 13y ago
Products by people like Arbor Networks ( http://www.arbornetworks.com/ ) helps with this -- I think they essentially observe traffic patterns and siphon what they detect to be DDoS traffic to alternate routers at the edge of
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by grok2 13y ago
Check out https://gingkoapp.com . I think they can embed images, not sure about graphs. Overall I find this an interesting way to structure and create documents -- sort of like mind-maps but more textual.
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by grok2 13y ago
But isn't that what the TNW post is?
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by grok2 13y ago
It would have been great confirmation of all that he writes about to see some photos from his trip -- specially of the infamous garbage patch.
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by grok2 13y ago
Feels similar to Tonido, but fancier looking. Having been using the Tonido for a few weeks as a development web-server and it has been pretty good so far.
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by grok2 13y ago
Not sure if I am reading the web-site incorrectly -- they are talking about renting planes that you presumably fly yourself? Basically renting airplanes. Am I missing something?
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by grok2 13y ago
Actually people are making a wise financial decision when they do this -- email service is something that you cannot stop or easily change overnight; coffee is something you can. If and when they are in a serious financial crunch (and even
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by grok2 13y ago
If jEdit were written in something other than Java, then it truly would have been an emacs successor. Unfortunately it's Java background is simultaneously both it's weakness and it's strength.
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by grok2 14y ago
Whenever a high-profile company gets an article in a prominent publication touting a "new" feature/hardware/system that really is already in use in the industry for years, then you know that feature/hardware/system has arrived. What they an
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by grok2 14y ago
Software should be optimized for the most common use-case -- not the outliers. Most people usually buy computers in standard configurations (which typically means 4GB to 8GB of memory) or use company provided equipment and they aren't going
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by grok2 14y ago
A big problem is that the photos shown are stock photos (atleast the ones I looked at were marked as stock photos). So in a few cases, the prices don't match the photo. For instance, I looked for Honda Fit and the stock photo shows a Honda
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by grok2 14y ago
Depending on the target audience of the web-site, I can see that there might be large percentages of web-site users who don't know what a FAQ stands for. Anecdotre of one -- I recently emailed a mortgage lender with the word "docs" (instead
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by grok2 14y ago
But why do they add up to 100? What are they measuring to get the data -- traffic in the provider's networks?
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by grok2 14y ago
The appropriate way to take care of this is to file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) which was created by the US government to look into issues like this. http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
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by grok2 14y ago
I find it amazing that the government was able to think and legislate a specific feature of online gameplay (though one may not agree with it, I find it surprising that they even understood gaming sufficiently to try and control just one as
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by grok2 14y ago
(Going off-tangent here...sorry, hacker news makes me think like this). Chris, what do you think about setting up a stats-plotting-as-a-service kind of thing? People would give you data in some acceptable format and you chart it up and send
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by grok2 14y ago
This really is a "Google Apps Scripts" editor for writing JavaScript to manipulate stuff in Google docs...see https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guide_writing_scri...
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by grok2 15y ago
https://themelt.com ?

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