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by hobin 14y ago
How so? This question isn't necessarily about whether there is room for me, personally, to make a hardware startup. Rather, I would like to hear people's opinions on whether they think hardware startups aren't a completely stupid idea at al
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by hobin 14y ago
(I found another error in my post, but I can no longer edit it: I don't dislike design. I misread that on proofreading and edited it, silly me.)
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by hobin 14y ago
Gee, people, let's chill out for a bit. There's so much anger here that I think my eyebrows were scorched by all the comments. If the previous comments are any indication, you might not want to read my comment if this email client means the
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by hobin 14y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to say that I need to write something in assembly or C per se - I've done some Python programming on an embedded interpreter, too. My point is that I like to stick close to the hardware. I agree with your other point, th
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by hobin 14y ago
Fair enough. I can't promise I'll stop reading HN (I probably won't), but do you have any recommendations for other websites that cover more hardware-based solutions? (I do read Hackaday, but that doesn't exactly count, although it someti
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by hobin 14y ago
I'm not sure whether that would qualify as a startup. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is, after all, a charity. But, your point still stands, because I have to admit that if they tried to make money from it, they could.
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Ask HN: Is low-level programming dead?
11 points by hobin 14y ago|21 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
You can take my life, but you'll never take my 0xDEADBEEF.
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by hobin 14y ago
Why? People who don't get jobs because of their gender is a big issue. Why, of all problems, is this a big issue? In my not so humble opinion, people are simply looking for something to complain about. If there were a supposedly man-degra
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Ask HN: Steam for Music?
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
It doesn't? I thought it was pretty funny.
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by hobin 14y ago
I'm quite certain this would be one of those things people would be uncomfortable with for a few months - a year, tops. Then they get used to it.
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by hobin 14y ago
I'm unfamiliar with many of these certificates, but is there any reason such 'scamware' woudln't be able to get one even though it costs money? Because, if they still can, they the whole certification business definitely seems like a big sc
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by hobin 14y ago
At first I thought he meant something similar to Tesla's idea of building a ring around the earth and the blowing away the pillars. Yet I can't seem to find anything about his 'hyperloop' of sorts.
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The Oatmeal mails pics of cash, Kodiak bear seduction to lawyer(arstechnica.com)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
"Just because we used to do something does not mean it's the most effective way to do it." True, but the fact that we used to do it also doesn't mean that it must be broken. I doubt many of would be better programmers if we had a more child
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by hobin 14y ago
Perhaps this: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/6-best-mac-os-... can be of some use to you.
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by hobin 14y ago
Touché. I see your point.
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by hobin 14y ago
But what point is there to an intellectual exercise if you don't know whether you've done it right in the end?
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Life Without a Phone(i16e.com)
2 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
Ah, I see. Thank you. :)
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by hobin 14y ago
A fair point, and also true where I live. Let me modify my original statement: lying, at least where I live, is in most cases not illegal.
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by hobin 14y ago
Lying is, at least where I live, not illegal.
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by hobin 14y ago
Totally serious question: isn't the GPL GPL'ed in some way?
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An Open Letter to the Founders of Mars One(i16e.com)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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Fighting Ignorance with Videogame Addiction(i16e.com)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
I think it's a shame you were downvoted, because you seem to be asking an honest question: is this possible, or not? I've ranted a bit about why this isn't possible here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4210984 But, if you want to kno
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by hobin 14y ago
This project is completely ridiculous. Those people completely underestimate how extremely difficult it is to even land on Mars. Nearly two-thirds of all Mars missions have failed in some way, and yet these people are convinced they can
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Fighting Ignorance with Videogame Addiction(i16e.com)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
No no no no. Absolutely not. Not, especially if its positive. Generally, only if its positive. I'm a slightly cynical person, so if I told people everything I thought, I'd probably be out of friends by now.

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