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by idm 17y ago
Misleading headline from The Register; no fault of alexandros for posting to HN verbatim, but misleading nonetheless. After all, I think this 'lockdown' is a great idea. FF has a totally reasonable interface for addons, so there's no need
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by idm 17y ago
Seriously? A bug report that identifies a DOS condition gets flagged as "won't fix" -- and Zed's followup explains, with details, why it should be fixed, and what the fix should be. I tried, and I couldn't find anything asshole-ish about t
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by idm 17y ago
If you want to actually decode the crop formation, here's how to do it. First, grab tello's PNG, which is a transformed and color-adjusted version of the crop formation: https://files-diers.us.s3.amazonaws.com/cornfield.png Next, downloa
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by idm 17y ago
Cool PNG! As an update, I'm still trying to get the semacode software to work in OS X, and it's just not cooperating. Sun recently pre-released a J2ME environment for OSX, which is frustratingly buggy... Here's a link to the SDK: http://j
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by idm 17y ago
This is really neat looking, but ... how exactly do you execute the code? It appears that the release from semacode.com targets cellphones exclusively, so I can't get it to run on the command line. wget http://semacode.com/download/sem
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by idm 17y ago
...and yet, until the 1990s, Microsoft invested almost nothing in lobbying and political campaigns. Once the antitrust case entered the equation, Microsoft rapidly became interested in influencing government. http://www.opensecrets.org/or
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by idm 17y ago
Compelling demonstration!
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by idm 17y ago
Just an FYI: http://rpy.sourceforge.net/ "RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R Programming Language. It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions). All
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Ask HN: do you have a low-stress job? What kind of job is it?
11 points by idm 17y ago|1 comments
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by idm 17y ago
Did anyone else think that article/excerpt ended a little strangely? First, this investor is set up as an authority figure in bear markets, then it reports where his current trajectory is headed, at which point the article abruptly ends. G
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by idm 17y ago
Agreed - delivery is the important aspect, when it comes to just-in-time order fulfillment. If they don't deliver, then you don't deliver either. On your last point, I agree again: scale is critical. You describe something that might work
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by idm 17y ago
once. not twice.
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by idm 17y ago
The more I think about the video, the more disappointed I become. You're right: these "genius entrepreneurs" were selling the time of their classmates. The 3-minute slot had no value if their classmates didn't tolerate the fact that their
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by idm 17y ago
... and you've just created an inductive proof for how the US financial system collapsed. Don't get me wrong: I think step 3 has a good chance of working. BUT if you, like your customers, assume that a commitment is equivalent to the actua
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by idm 17y ago
Agreed. I think there are some strange syntax quirks ("go to", versus "enter" would be hard to parse into separate tokens because whitespace isn't a token delimiter). However, the syntax for "variables" is obvious, and the nesting of paren
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by idm 17y ago
The bandwidth cap sucks, but compared to DSL, that's a great deal for 10MBps. In Cambridge, MA we were paying Speakeasy more than that for 1.5MBps. <rant topic="speakeasy"> It turned out to be terrible, but our contract locked us i
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by idm 17y ago
I definitely put extra weight on my friends' opinions, if only because I can interrogate them about what they've said. If I want more information, I know how to directly contact them, and I also feel like I'm building context for the next t
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by idm 17y ago
Just a followup... I was sucked deep into a rabbit hole on the basis of this article, and I ended up experimenting with Chameleon: http://chameleon.osx86.hu/ I don't have anything to report about the Rebel EFI (the "limited trial" aspect
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by idm 17y ago
From the Psystar site: "Rebel EFI is free to try and download, though it will have limited hardware functionality and a run-time of two hours." Huh? Has anyone tried this yet, and do you know what that means? ...have they somehow crippled
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by idm 17y ago
I had to laugh every time the starry-eyed "interviewer" somehow stumbled into the shot, but I suddenly respect Moby a lot more. I think this is a pattern, too: every time I see someone's workshop and the tools they use, I understand the pro
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by idm 17y ago
Links from the article: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fawnproj/ http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/andersen-sosp09.pdf
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FAWN: scalable datacenter key-value storage at 4 watts/node(networkworld.com)
2 points by idm 17y ago|1 comments
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by idm 17y ago
My guess is that if you solve #1, you get #2 automatically.
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by idm 17y ago
Just yesterday, I was watching a pack of Komodo Dragons ... well, eat the corpse of some mammal. It was a video - I didn't see it in real life. But the point is: they weren't eating each other.
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by idm 17y ago
Did you just use "hackers" and "too extensible" to describe your problem? :) As I see it, ledger has two excellent interfaces: text files (i.e. the ledger itself, where the transactions are stored) and the command line. You extend it with
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by idm 17y ago
I can vouch for ledger. There is a learning curve, but it works great. Hledger is another implementation in Haskell. I went with ledger, and I'm not looking back. I'm so sick of Intuit, and I got burned badly when I bought into their 3-y
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by idm 17y ago
It was about 20 seconds before the end of the footage. I was underwhelmed, but... you know... science and all. They basically have the approach as live, streaming from the vehicle, footage. Then, when it gets close enough, they switch ov
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by idm 17y ago
Yeah - I had the same reaction. In the defense of the OP, the title comes straight from the article... Like you, I'm skeptical that the author of the article is going to connect with their audience by choosing a title like that.
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LCROSS Lunar Impact - watch NASA footage of impact(youtube.com)
3 points by idm 17y ago|2 comments
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by idm 17y ago
Thanks for correcting the voltage/current error - you're totally right about that. Great idea about the voltage pulse! Let me see if I have this right: with a known voltage, the current will rise in proportion to the nearness of the penny?

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