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1. 571.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   In the short to medium-term, it's a hybrid product+consulting business model with consulting gigs to add features, custom sizes, or integrated with specific testing frameworks. Long term, competition is based on brand, build quality, d
2. 572.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   I'm a making a robot for physical testing of devices (phones, tablets, touchscreens, wearables, etc.). I learned tons of lessons and had success in the open source software world over the years (I started the Selenium project), and am
3. 573.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   I love the easter egg at 3:13. ("ALL PROPRIETARY AND NO OPEN SOURCE MAKES INNOVATION A SLOW PROCESS") The text is upside down in the video, so it's easy to miss. But on that note of open source vs proprietary, I'm buildi
4. 574.▲
   New fritzing release 0.9.3b(blog.fritzing.org)

   3 points by hugs 10y ago|0 comments
5. 575.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   "many angels" Can you name a few? The difference with Indie is that paying back via cash distributions is not something to fear and is not considered a failure.
6. 576.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   But there is a difference in deal structure. If you want to, you can pay back the investment via profit sharing, which is unheard of in traditional seed/early stage VC deals. (Disclosure: My current company, Tapster Robotics, is one of
7. 577.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   Are you saying a PR firm planted this story?
8. 578.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   Thanks. I'm a fan of Fritzing, but am also concerned by the pace of its development process. I hope it improves!
9. 579.▲
   by hugs 10y ago

   Have a link to the specific PR?
10. 580.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    Thanks. I did miss it. :) Newark/element14's product info page didn't have that info when I checked on my mobile. (Edit: The info about fixed focus is there on the desktop version of the page. The Product Overview section d
11. 581.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    Maybe I missed it, but there's no mention of whether the focus is adjustable. In the previous version, it was glued at the factory to a fixed focus and the default was wrong for close-ups on objects. Sure, you could use pliers to &quot
12. 582.▲
    Checklistomania makes it easy to keep track of relative tasks(18f.gsa.gov)

    127 points by hugs 11y ago|51 comments
13. 583.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    This is one of the "secret" reasons I left the Bay Area to return to Chicago - downtown Chicago (aka The Loop) is beautiful. Please help keep it a secret so everyone doesn't move here and drive the price of everything up. ;)
14. 584.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    It's probably 2nd place. I imagine avoiding writing in C gets the top honor.
15. 585.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    This remind me of RoboCop's ED-209, which also had a linear-motion way of moving the lower leg.
16. 586.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    I've done that redirect-to-github thing in the past. Usually, the intention is that the redirect is intended to be a temporary placeholder until I can create a "real" site at the domain.
17. 587.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    One of my parents has a serious mental illness. It first manifested and became obvious (requiring multiple hospitalizations over the years) in their late 20's after I was born. I don't have the data in front of me, but I understan
18. 588.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    That's what I did in early summer of 2008. I moved away from Mountain View because everything felt over-priced and unsustainable. So I voted with my feet. Hello from Chicago. :-)
19. 589.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    I don't know [1], but!... When you reduce things down to a minimum amount of essential detail, things tend to look similar to other things that share the same constraints. I noticed this when researching Mondrian and the De Stijl (neop
20. 590.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    An excellent April Fool's Day project idea. Wait, nevermind... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
21. 591.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    I hope not, but then again, the conflict inside the Arduino project (Arduino LLC vs Arduino SRL) is a threat, too.
22. 592.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    Thanks for the correction. I'll update my comment. Either way, GNOME started out as LGPL, and it was the lack of the LPGL in Qt option (added much later in 2009) that I believe lead to GNOME/GTKs larger uptake early on.
23. 593.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    I was wondering how this license change helps them make more money. This is it.
24. 594.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    Qt started off with a commercial license in 1995, adding GPL in 2000. But the lack of an LGPL option is what (arguably) lead to the rise of GNOME/GTK when that project started in 1997, because it's the LGPL that allows organizatio
25. 595.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    Yes, it's the type glyphs. (For me, at least.) Back when I was a DBA writing database back-up scripts in Perl, I could never remember how to dereference a value in an array or hash properly. (It reminded me of my problem with pointer
26. 596.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    Check back later when traffic has died down. The site really is worth a read.
27. 597.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    You have a valid complaint about reusing a letter that already had meaning in other contexts. He does address that in the manifesto, though.
28. 598.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    "90 degrees" is not confusing to me in the same way that measurements in feet and miles is not confusing. I was raised in a system that emphasized degrees, feet, and miles (USA). But in engineering, metric is the standard/def
29. 599.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    I needed a refresher on trig last year for some robotics simulations I was working on. The trig lesson was extremely helpful: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-trigonometry/ And fwiw, I finally learned
30. 600.▲
    by hugs 11y ago

    What about laptops with touchscreens? Not a valid use case?