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by hugs 9y ago
From my brief trip to Atacama a few years ago, I noticed that the big reasons people are there are for mining, tourism, or astronomy.
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by hugs 9y ago
Which method (Chrome Dev Tools, Node, etc.) did you teach to your students? Any other online resources you recommend?
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by hugs 9y ago
Every time I read an article like this I wonder: "Where are all the three.js users? Am I the only one? And am I the only one not suffering from JS fatigue?"
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by hugs 9y ago
A classic argument about which is better, consumer or enterprise. I struggle with this one myself. I naturally gravitate to finding enterprise niches and targeting specific use cases. But that comes at the expense of being perpetually in &q
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by hugs 9y ago
Are there apprenticeship (or bootcamp-style) programs for hardware? I'm imagining a "maker" focused program where instead of learning to make web apps, one learns 3D design, 3D printing, milling and laser cutting, electronic
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by hugs 9y ago
Over the last several years I stumbled into a killer app for robotics: testing. Almost every manufacturer of any thing has a secret testing lab of robots (and engineers to program them). Robotics are good for dealing with dangerous things (
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by hugs 9y ago
I was that kid in the 80s that played with robotics toys. (My favorite was the Armatron from Radio Shack). When I grew up, I was somewhat disappointed to see that the biggest opportunity in robotics was to make robotics toys to inspire the
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by hugs 9y ago
They also have sponsored Slic3r. ( http://slic3r.org/donations )
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by hugs 9y ago
From the article: "and robotics are in their infancy, a niche, with too few practical uses as yet." Why does it seem like robotics is always niche and not practical yet? It seems like robotics is perennially on the cusp of being t
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by hugs 10y ago
It's a non-trivial problem to provide all the devices with enough electricity and network bandwidth and know how to handle soft & hard resets for devices that were never designed to run like servers. Yeah, a book isn't neede
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Ukulele(theatlantic.com)
1 points by hugs 10y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 10y ago
Thanks, although credit these days rightfully goes to the huge multi-company and org team effort. (In other words, at this point, there are tons of people to blame for those flaky tests!)
493.
by hugs 10y ago
It's not strange at all. I appreciate the article's analysis. As the founder of the Selenium project, I frequently hear people blame Selenium for their problems. Sure, Selenium isn't perfect, but it seems like it is so much
494.
by hugs 10y ago
Yeah, the article hints at that (re: selling the memory chip business). Does the memory chip business include all chips or really just memory chips? (Probably can't expect this level of detail from a Bloomberg article.)
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by hugs 10y ago
I was planning to use some Toshiba motor driver chips (TB6612FNG) in a PCB design because that chip is listed in Seeed's Open Parts Library and used in several SparkFun and Adafruit boards. Wondering if I should hold off, design for a
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Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software(techcrunch.com)
2 points by hugs 10y ago|0 comments
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by hugs 10y ago
My understanding is that because all the required patches and drivers have been pushed upstream, you can use a vanilla iso directly from Ubuntu and it will "just work".
498.
by hugs 10y ago
The nice thing about not having one dominant industry is that the entire local economy is more stable and better able to take shocks to the system. (I've lived in NYC and Silicon Valley and both felt like boom/bust kind of places
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by hugs 10y ago
That's a very open ended question which is hard to answer. Do you have a more specific question? My company (Tapster Robotics) was part of the first Inde.vc "batch" of 8 companies. We were the guinea pigs as we figured out w
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by hugs 10y ago
This is why I enjoyed the Indie.vc program - No demo day. Instead, stay where you are and focus on building your business. Since the goal is growing a business, not prepping for another funding round, there's no need for a demo day.
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by hugs 10y ago
I guess I'm trying to say "wait a year... after actually having the cash in hand". But yeah, AMT sucks.
502.
by hugs 10y ago
Yes, "wait a year" fixes most of these problems.
503.
by hugs 10y ago
Yup, solid advice re: waiting. Generally, I've heard it as "don't do anything drastic with the money for a year". That gives enough time to let the emotions cool down.
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by hugs 10y ago
Sounds familiar to me. I started the Selenium project (original version was written in JS), started a company around it (Sauce Labs). Browser vendors implemented the Selenium WebDriver protocol, and now it's a W3C standard for browser
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How a 'robot artist' creates machines that can solve problems for businesses(techrepublic.com)
1 points by hugs 10y ago|0 comments
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Open Source Democrats(osdems.org)
1 points by hugs 10y ago|1 comments
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by hugs 10y ago
He lists the tools he used in the YouTube description of the video: "All real-life photos and videos (except the last slide) were produced by NASA. Everything that looks hand-drawn was done by me on a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet in ArtRage
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by hugs 10y ago
USDS was modeled after a similar initiative in the UK (the Government Digital Service). Maybe Germany could be next? Or maybe an EU-wide digital service?
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by hugs 10y ago
"suspected, as did Dean, that Doerr was setting them up for an ambush on his home turf" Why the ambush? Was John Doerr previously trying to deliver the same message (that the product wasn't ready), but needed Jeff Bezos and S
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by hugs 10y ago
This is what I did. I lived in the Bay Area (Mountain View) and thought the cost of living there long-term was unaffordable. So I moved to Chicago and now I'm debt free and have a 3-minute-walk commute to work. I wish more people serio

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