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by ja27 14y ago
I have both Hacker and Hacker II and they weren't that exciting to play. It's pretty disappointing because we played a lot of Illuminati in college. It's the Illuminati game play with a lot of additional pieces and rules scattered on top, a
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by ja27 14y ago
Wow. I think I still have that brochure somewhere, in a box that's survived two colleges, four apartments, and a house.
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by ja27 14y ago
I tried to start a company with 6 co-founders once. Never again. More co-founders increases the odds that one of them will kill the entire thing. More co-founders increases the odds that two of them will have a fight and split. Start with 2
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by ja27 14y ago
T-shirt designs. Find a decent-sized fan community on Facebook and design a shirt that would appeal to them. Use Zazzle or - better yet - Teespring to print and sell the shirts. http://spottedsun.com/how-i-made-money-with-teespring/ Mobi
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by ja27 14y ago
I really wish IBM would open up some sort of emulation environment for educational use. Their customers desperately need new z/OS developers but it's hard to break into that space and learn it.
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by ja27 14y ago
Also, productivity issues. Oh, I'll wait until tomorrow to talk to Bob about X, when he's back in the office.
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by ja27 14y ago
Steve Job's death on Oct 5 is about as big a real spike as I'd expect to see.
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by ja27 14y ago
I use LastPass with the Google 2-factor authentication app. I also keep some secure notes in it.
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by ja27 14y ago
I don't think there is any acid in a Li-ion battery.
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by ja27 14y ago
Silverlight, MFC, ATL, Active Server Pages (pre-ASP.NET), MSN Messenger, Windows 7 desktop gadgets, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 RT (wait, I got ahead of myself - give it a few more months).
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by ja27 14y ago
Mostly "this is stupid and I'm going to sign up anyways". My daughter created her own fake Facebook accounts twice before she was 10 and has had one we allowed since she was 11. She original did it to play Farmville and the other Facebook g
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by ja27 14y ago
That's my question too. Maybe I'm just old, but 40 gigs is what, about 8 DVD-length movies or 400 hours of MP3 music? All that to display text and colored squares on the screen? I mean, I appreciate that there is a lot to the different runt
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by ja27 14y ago
All the time, I hear people with ideas and developers with apps where their plan is to put it in the store and hope it takes off. At best their plan includes making a video that goes viral, but they've never done that. If you're targeting a
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by ja27 14y ago
Low-power amateur radio (QRP) enthusiasts communicate many miles apart with well under 5 watts.
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by ja27 14y ago
Student accounts had "." in their PATH by default. I'm sure someone did it to keep students from asking why their program wouldn't run at all. Fun times.
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by ja27 14y ago
Boolean true / TRUE wasn't defined in any standard way before C99. Back in the "olden days", most programmers #defined it as 1, but not always. I ran into one of those "not always" cases in some inherited code.
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by ja27 14y ago
At least once a quarter I'd have a student working on some programming assignment on one of our unix-ish systems where they named the executable "test" and couldn't figure out why it wasn't doing anything they expected. I also got to the po
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by ja27 14y ago
Ugh. I still have a couple NeXT magneto-optical disks that haven't been used in 20+ years. Maybe I should donate them to a time capsule.
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by ja27 14y ago
Years ago I joked about starting a service that sold fake kid packages after seeing so many co-workers that were able to leave early, work from home, not work over the weekend, etc. because of their kids. For $20 a year you'd get a frame wi
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by ja27 14y ago
I wonder why they haven't started automatically suspending new apps after they start getting an abnormally high percentage of refund requests and one star reviews especially if they have words like "scam", "refund", "money back", etc. Or ma
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by ja27 14y ago
There's RobotC for NXT. It's a little funky and runs $49 for a single user. http://www.robotc.net/download/nxt/
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by ja27 14y ago
Tetrix with an NXT brick is the basis for FIRST Tech Challenge robots, if you want to see some examples of what high school age kids build with it. http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc
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by ja27 14y ago
I don't think they added any sensor ports - still just the four. But now it comes with a gyro sensor built into the brick. The 4th motor port is huge for some things. It was almost impossible to build a holonomic drive with only 3 motor por
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FIRST Robotics Challenge kickoff at 10:30AM Eastern on NASA TV(robotics.nasa.gov)
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by ja27 14y ago
We've gotten a bit of feedback from blind (and non-blind but "low vision") users of our educational apps. We even got requests for better Voiceover support for an app that we thought was so visual that someone with impaired vision wouldn't
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by ja27 14y ago
$280 a month? Is that maybe an employer plan that your wife is on? If not, I've got to get more agressive in my insurance shopping. We haven't gotten a quote below $1000 a month for a family of four.
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by ja27 14y ago
I know several friends that deleted their accounts over what they read about the TOS changes. Not one of them was an actual active user.
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by ja27 14y ago
I think Amazon Prime video works on the Nexus 7 with Firebox beta and the Flash plugin.
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by ja27 14y ago
As a Nexus 7 user, those direct updates from Google aren't much of a selling point. https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+7+4.2+problems
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by ja27 14y ago
I expect to see people change jobs often early in their careers. But once they've been in the business for a few years, changing jobs or projects that often is a bad sign. It's not just the fear that they'll leave quickly, but it's a sign t

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