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12y ago
Well, it came pretty close, that's for sure. A few more tries and they'll figure it out!
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12y ago
Can't log into steam currently http://steamstat.us/ Most servers are down.
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Steam / Valve Servers Owned by Lizard Squad DDOS
(twitter.com)
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Hmm I've worked with about 6 different recruiters so far, and all of them have been really helpful. It seems that only the bad apples make it on HN's front page, and a lot of people ride the hate-train. I really don't underst
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the harpoons failed to anchor to the surface, according to mission control, which was just announced on the live coverage. It appears they will try to reshoot the harpoons at some point if possible.
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Chattanooga is a great example of providing internet by the local government http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/17...
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arduino, $20 heating element, $10 relay switch and some PID programming and you can control the temperature too :)
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Use a microcontroller to manage the heating element and couple that with a PID to hit your target temperature. I can give you some tips on how to do it, although tuning PIDs can be somewhat time consuming...
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12y ago
Meh... As someone who worked on a counter-top beer brewing appliance for my senior design project, I can tell you this thing doesn't produce good beer. The picobrew is spargeless and is also a single-vessel system which does not stay t
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Same. I literally scrolled down, didn't see anything, so I figured the page must be buggy / not working and I closed it...
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Sorry I can see how this is confusing, but it's basically what mpthrapp said. I've got a unbranded version of android suited for my phone with an optimized kernel (lean kernel). It runs a lot faster, the battery lasts longer, and
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I'm surprised no one mentioned the ability to use custom ROMs and kernels on android devices with optimized CPU governers and overclocking on demand and how that affects the phone's performance. Android stock branded phones are pa
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ahhh, the good old mIRC! You can do some amazing scripting stuff and really customize it. There are a lot of custom versions of mIRC online with crazy color themes and what not. http://hawkee.com/mirc/scripts/
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Fire Up Your Lanyards: 4 Not-To-Be-Missed UX Design Conferences
(co.agencyspotter.com)
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My biggest gripe about Rails are the model validations and DB adapters. As someone coming from Django, I hate that I have to explicitly define db related validations and catch exceptions thrown by postgres instead of it just being handled b
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I was wondering why the demo site wasn't working.. it 404'd on the js file.
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or knows about space-time complexity and why dynamic programming is important when dealing with problems such as this that might involve large data sets...
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Umm, the knapsack problem was covered extensively in my Design and Analysis of Algorithms class as part of the dynamic programming section. I honestly felt that this class was the most useful and relevant out of all CS classes I took as an
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Interesting. I think the myo armband could be a good competitor, and it sits right under your elbow. https://www.thalmic.com/en/myo/ It's $150 to pre-order and you get full developer access. I got an alpha ve
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I've got (2) 1U Tyan B2881G28U4H servers with Dual Opteron 270 processors, ram, and 15k scsi drives. I shot you an email to see if you're interested. Bought these a while back and they've been sitting in a closet ;( Cheers
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I came from a Python background, due to some hardcore Django experience at a co-op job I got, and I found learning Ruby (Rails too) to be a breeze. Syntax and structure-wise, the two are pretty similar. I thought Python had some tricks up i
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right click => inspect element => set style to "display:none" on the popup and overlay, and you're good to go.
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does SlidePay give you a slider? You can slide cards with Stripe, you just need a card slider that you can use on the phone and implement the stripe API with it. Edit: OK, it appears they give you a slider.
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How is this different from Stripe? https://stripe.com/us/help/pricing It's interesting that the fees are the same for a transaction when a card isn't present 2.9% + 30 cents, but 2.5% + 10 cents per tran
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BOPE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalh%C3%A3o_de_Opera%C3%A7%C3... Elite Squad and Elite Squad 2, the movies, do a good job of portraying what speeder is talking about. The Brazilian favellas are run by drug lords.
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roughly 60 unaccounted for live coverage at http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/live next news conference at 5:30 Pacific time, 8:30 EST
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I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. The batteries will most likely be securely stored underground, not be visible to everyone. I'm sure they'll have at least 1 person at the station or at least security cameras. It'
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So you think a company that designs electric vehicles can't secure the batteries? The damn things come from underground. Not to mention the service station connects to the car somehow before doing so, because well as Tesla said, the ba
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This is a video taken by some random person in the crowd... what did you expect?
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Tesla's batteries aren't your regular cellphone battery... Not to mention Musk said they have partnered with Panasonic and are working on battery research for the future. Tesla's Shareholder Meeting. https://www.yo
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