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by ja27 12y ago
~1985 on a 12-user TRS-80 Model 16 running XENIX: cat > /dev/ttyNN and drive other students nuts with seemingly random stuff appearing on their screen. I don't remember even knowing there was a root account or &#x
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by ja27 12y ago
Those 3 cold days every other year in Florida are pretty amazing. People wearing every warm piece of clothing they own, old sheets and towels flung over all the tropical plants outside, heat pumps running nearly 24x7 trying to pull a bit of
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by ja27 12y ago
Or a local makerspace / hackerspace. http://makerspace.com/makerspace-directory http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
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by ja27 12y ago
Because people keep buying them. No idea why.
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by ja27 12y ago
I got one of the Motorola lapdocks for $50. They were meant to adapt an Android phone (Atrix or Bionic) to a laptop form factor, but with micro HDMI and USB keyboard/trackpad they're popular accessories for the Raspberry Pi. But t
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by ja27 12y ago
That's similar to what I do. I have a pair of 2TB bare SATA drives that I rotate offsite. I got two different brands to try to minimize the possibilities of them both failing at nearly the same time. I used to use Synctoy on Windows to
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by ja27 12y ago
My wife has taught as an adjunct (music) at a pretty large state school. She had to decline the last couple of offers from them because we self-imposed a rule that she can't lose money by teaching there. That's right, the cost of
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by ja27 12y ago
What I can't understand is how there is so much money in YouTube views for the same demographic. Who is buying ads on Tobuscus, Captain Sparklez, etc. for a primarily 8-12 year old male audience? I guess I could just watch some and see
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by ja27 12y ago
It was a lot more than an hour (two days of making lasagna).
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I remember when I first realized that the dream of GNU+Mach wasn't moving very quickly. That was 1991.
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That's the most useful thing I saw for my current development. The integration, widgets, etc. will open up a lot of new possibilities too. I'm not too excited about Swift but it looks like it could speed up the code, compile, load
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by ja27 12y ago
Senior consultant or even principal consultant.
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Yep. I was just a couple years too late for a lot of tech. In high school, they retired the card punch and card reader the year before. In college there were still card decks being run and bins of printouts but everything new was being done
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by ja27 12y ago
Barely related, but it's surprising how often DSLR newbies show up on photography forums asking how to disable the shutter sound on their cameras.
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by ja27 12y ago
Dammit. Finally updated last night. No crashes or kernel panics since then, but I agree that switching graphics modes seems to cause most of my crashes. I get the "rainbow crash" where the UI freezes and garbage appears in stripes
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And rotating a tangram on the iPad takes two touchpoints, where the physical one can be rotated with a single finger.
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That was one of the hardest-to-find password changes I've ever seen.
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by ja27 12y ago
I've been following his blog for a few years now. He's done some other really neat stuff like histogram work ( http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/09/idea_the_histogram_as_the_... ) and sort of an inverse Tetri
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by ja27 12y ago
"Edward Snowden didn't go to work for Disney," Rice said. "What did he think the N.S.A. did?" Obey the law? "If I were Edward Snowden, I'd watch what I eat," Rice said. Threatening assassination?
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by ja27 12y ago
Absolutely. I'm sure the companies behind Common Core are licking their chops to provide that training for everyone.
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A week. I probably average 2-3 weeks. I almost never shut it down though but it will crash or need a reboot for a patch.
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by ja27 12y ago
I've been trying the somewhat similar Yik Yak (mobile app) for about two weeks. It had flood of college students home for the summer so I assume it's taken off at colleges.
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Movie soundtracks. Right now it's mostly the Daft Punk Tron soundtracks (original and remix), but also the Lord of the Rings.
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by ja27 12y ago
Hacking tinyMUD and bots for tinyMUDs is how I really learned C programming.
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by ja27 12y ago
I know Theo and others are opposed to it, but I still would like to see it on the Raspberry Pi. Kind of a missed opportunity to make it easy for lots of people to give OpenBSD a try. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=13
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Box is also tied up in a big patent lawsuit from OpenText. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230488690...
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> the ports can be kind of fragile I have two Kindle Fires with broken micro USB ports and I've seen two LEGO NXT robotics controllers break USB B ports. Even with DB-9 connectors soldered to boards, I don't remember a lot of
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by ja27 12y ago
After kids ate up our spare bedrooms, my home office is a desk in the corner of the master bedroom with my MacBook Pro. I mounted a monitor on the wall with a swivel arm to clear a little desk space. A few hard drives for backups in the cor
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Not sure. I'm also one of the few that used A/UX on the 68k Macs.
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by ja27 13y ago
Find one of Rey Wenderlich's tutorials that matches something you're interested in and follow it. I don't think I would have gotten my first app done if it weren't for his site. They're just the right depth for gett

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