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721.
by ja27 15y ago
This post makes an important general point. Developers and management don't appreciate and respect upper-tier support people nearly enough.
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by ja27 15y ago
It's the only Yahoo product I've spent a dime on. In fact, except for Netflix, I've spent more on Flickr than any other online service and I'm a cheap bastard. That said, I did downgrade and stop paying them last year.
723.
by ja27 15y ago
Partially due to all the couples going to sleep with their phones?
724.
by ja27 15y ago
And/or ice packs on the upper back. I did it for a while and felt like it made a difference. Then I fell asleep with an ice pack on my upper back and got a patch of mild frostbite.
725.
by ja27 15y ago
Audio conference calls as just as bad. I noticed a long time ago that a lot of my co-workers, especially executives, never bother to set passwords on their conference calls, check who's on a call, or drop all the lines between back-to-back
726.
by ja27 15y ago
I stumbled on it last month and was surprised that I'd never heard of it before.
727.
by ja27 15y ago
A DSLR can solve the first two problems with manual focus and setting the white balance to a fixed value. The cat is more difficult.
728.
by ja27 15y ago
Before 9/11 it was legal (per the FAA) to fly with a knife with up to a 4" blade. Some airlines limited blade length to 3". I regularly flew with a 3" folding knife. I could often walk through the metal detectors without even taking the kni
729.
by ja27 15y ago
I carry a knife almost everywhere. I regularly carry a 3" lockback (Spyderco Caly 3) but don't usually let anyone know I have it. I was at a work conference a few years ago and that morning I decided not to carry it, partly because I would
730.
by ja27 15y ago
Yes or from fewer, if you can find a good niche: http://blog.lescapadou.com/2011/10/how-ive-made-200000-in-io...
731.
by ja27 15y ago
Yes, it's a much simpler game than I'd expected. Except for the squishiness of the foam basketballs it sounds more like a game from 5-10 years ago to me.
732.
by ja27 15y ago
No only one was programmed to balance in autonomous. They'd only ever done it with just their bot in the middle of the bridge, but they were able to balance with the other one on there because they just kept backing up until the gyro sensor
733.
by ja27 15y ago
It's like that in FIRST Tech Challenge (the "JV" level of FRC). Unless the team somehow ends up with a kid that loves programming or has FIRST LEGO League alumni (their game is all pre-programmed autonomous), a lot of teams have little or n
734.
by ja27 15y ago
Friends of ours in FTC last season balanced on a bridge like that with an opposing alliance robot that accidentally got on their bridge, all in autonomous. They paused for a few extra minutes between autonomous and tele-operated period to l
735.
by ja27 15y ago
This year's game is a take on basketball. Game description videos are already on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FRCTeamsGlobal/videos
736.
by ja27 15y ago
Dean Kamen (Segway and more), Woody Flowers (MIT), and others speaking and introducing the FRC challenge for this season. This is the 20th season of competition. One of the things Dean is promoting this year is building and using a network
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FIRST Robotics Competition kickoff live stream (10:30am eastern)(science.ksc.nasa.gov)
45 points by ja27 15y ago|23 comments
738.
by ja27 15y ago
I disable plugins in Chrome and only run Flash as-needed, mostly for video and occasionally for something like the Facebook photo uploader. Life without Flash is certainly possible today.
739.
by ja27 15y ago
It's not a new idea. I had - among others - a SQL Server 2000 book that had the ebook (either HTML or CHM) on it.
740.
by ja27 15y ago
I'll probably just play with it, but a project I could use one for is a squid / DansGuardian server for our kids.
741.
by ja27 15y ago
No. I've wanted to for a long time but it's a pain. The domains alone are a bit of work but we have almost a dozen Wordpress blogs hosted by them as well. Migrating all of those is a bit more than I'm willing to take on. Maybe if I start sl
742.
by ja27 15y ago
My daughter grew up with LEGO and still plays with them. She doesn't need pink or purple blocks or over-sized female figures. All she wants different is a few female minifigs once in a while. I don't think there is a single one in either ad
743.
by ja27 15y ago
But you wouldn't even see those broadcasts without something listening for them, right? Not too many years ago a lot of these same use cases were talked about for irDA and didn't really go anywhere.
744.
by ja27 15y ago
What about instead using a little base 2 to memorize? So 'b' can follow 'a' or 'o' and be followed by 'a', 'e', 'i' or 'o'. Take a as 16, e as 8, i as 4, o as 2 and u as 1. So if you memorized '18b30' you could decode that in your mind to t
745.
by ja27 15y ago
I've done this quite a few times. If Amazon has the book for 40+ percent off and the bookstore has it for full retail, it's hard to overcome that though. Borders and their constant 25-40% discount coupons also made it hard for me to conside
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by ja27 15y ago
I like the idea of putting it on a bot. I was thinking to just use it as a wireless camera there, but with the ADK the phone could drive or even run some lighter computer vision code.
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Ask HN: Interesting things to do with old smartphones?
1 points by ja27 15y ago|2 comments
748.
by ja27 15y ago
We used to have a ping pong table in an abandoned part of our office space. It was great for a quick break to get the heart-rate up and burn a few calories.
749.
by ja27 15y ago
Truecrypt filesystem with a copy of Portable Firefox, Portable VLC and image viewers.
750.
by ja27 15y ago
I do. Not so much from my wife, but from the kids and co-workers. Nothing like seeing a dude's browser history pop up on the conference room projector.

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