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by jackhack 9y ago
I make this same argument for today's Code Schools. They teach high-level language/frameworks like Ruby on Rails, and the graduates can do productive work, but often have no idea what's happening underneath. Take serializatio
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by jackhack 9y ago
>>Knitting is another analogy that can be used. And it's not mere coincidence that one of the first programmable machines was a loom that took paper-tape instructions, in the year 1725. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jackhack 9y ago
All television from the 60s and 70s had extremely long shots by today's standards. Just for fun pick any show on any channel with modern content. Drama, comedy, even news broadcasts -- the average shot duration is only 3.5 seconds. SEC
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by jackhack 9y ago
A long time ago, I taught community college course on programming for children. Here's my approach. Very young children aren't ready for abstract concepts as the first introduction. We need to progress very slowly and relate to th
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by jackhack 9y ago
I've heard the same argument applied to automobiles. Would people drive more safely/carefully/considerately if a metal spike were attached to the steering wheel rather than an airbag? I can't pretend to know the answer,
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by jackhack 9y ago
Sure. It's an evolution of the idea I saw here: http://hackaday.com/2015/12/15/feeling-force-through-a-servo... Using a flexible servo horn, this allows some degree of deformation when torque is applied.
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by jackhack 9y ago
No, this is the first I've spoken of it, really. I've a few notebooks filled with sketches, thoughts, designs, etc. and a pile of prototype joins and brackets littering my workbench. It's actually a very challenging project f
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by jackhack 9y ago
Recreating the Sony Aibo robot dog using a pile of cheap servos, 3 axis gyro, the camera, wireless, neopixel lights, LiIon power, etc. Shoulder joints, body shell and chassis 3d printed. Total cost is around $150. Locomotion is largely base
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by jackhack 9y ago
And thanks to demand from the yankee transplants, Spiedies is easily found on supermarket shelves as far south as North Carolina.
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by jackhack 9y ago
The video game has a parallel. Voice actors or visual actors in the ever-increasing hollywood-ized titles get a royalty paycheck every time a box of software is sold at retail or on Steam. They may be paid royalties for a decade or more, wi
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by jackhack 9y ago
>>People might be holding off on buying the S because they think that the 3 is better. But model 3 is $35k vs Model S @ $80k-$120k. These feel like two very, very different markets.
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by jackhack 9y ago
>>getting some tech (JS) to do something it was never ment to do That's pretty much my reaction to the entire modern WWW. What started as a way to serve some simple static text has evolved into something that is truly amazing. Us
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by jackhack 9y ago
No, that's not the point and now you're antagonizing the moderating team. You were asked, and warned, "Do not do that" so, don't do it under your usual name, or a throwaway. There is no shortage of places on the int
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by jackhack 9y ago
It depends on the particular bird, but some species will sit on eggs, even to the point of their own starvation. "Broody" is the term -- referring to a general nature to sit on and nurture eggs, working themselves into an almost h
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by jackhack 9y ago
The same thing that, at the turn of the century when one in ten people were employed in agriculture. (today it's closer to 1/100) they go find other work. Same goes for a farrier or a blacksmith or milkman, or ice delivery, or new
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by jackhack 9y ago
Econ 101. More income is chasing the scarce resource that is housing. Thus prices increase (supply/demand curve). It is the same with the cost of education increasing horrifically due to the open firehose of student loans making price
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by jackhack 9y ago
It's refreshing to hear something like this, from a couple that is obviously so well grounded and living a balanced life.
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by jackhack 9y ago
If it's any consolation, your doggie didn't mind. That's what makes them such great companions. edit: r/care/mind
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by jackhack 9y ago
same here. Switched to a modern reel mower* and my poor thin lawn has benefited. it cuts like scissors, not like an axe, and it's both small and nearly silent so mowing the lawn isn't as stressful as before, what with fumes and no
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by jackhack 9y ago
And if the bees continue their die-off, they'll take a majority of the mammals and insects with them, because as much as 80% of plants are pollinated by these creatures. Goodbye food chain. As if that's not enough, imagine global
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by jackhack 9y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-p2-instance-type-for-am...
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by jackhack 9y ago
"supercomputers" are archaic in a day when one can rent a 40,000 core GPU system with 732GB of RAM for $14/hour, on demand, via Amazon Web Services. Available whether you need one or a hundred (4 million cores crunching on a
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by jackhack 9y ago
I hate to break this to you, but the feds are snooping on your company emails/texts/phone calls anyway and filing them away forever in a nice big data center in Utah. And a passcode isn't much in the way of protection, except
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by jackhack 9y ago
>>generate gluten Unless I misunderstand, gluten is a protein in the wheat. How is gluten generated? If anything the yeast will break down the carbs and fats in the flower into simple sugars and alcohols. Or was this a misnomer?
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by jackhack 9y ago
I'd rather see the cable industry executives' proclivities broadcast than some random constituent.
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by jackhack 9y ago
sadly, I think shock-value is becoming the new norm for much of our culture. A goal of Hacker News is to avoid this though.
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by jackhack 9y ago
Meetings are velocity roadblocks. They rob energy and momentum. Stop the meeting and instead of asking what people are missing, watch velocity. The test of a productive team is spontaneous meetings, whiteboard sessions, and conversations. I
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by jackhack 9y ago
>>We do not hear anyone suggesting restricting civil liberties to reduce gang violence. We hear about it all the time. It's just so pervasive we no longer see how extreme is the intrusion! Civil asset forfeiture, stop & frisk
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by jackhack 9y ago
>>every Intel platform with AMT, ISM, and SBT from Nehalem in 2008 to Kaby Lake in 2017 has a remotely exploitable security hole in the ME (Management Engine) not CPU firmware. >>there is literally no Intel box made in the last
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by jackhack 9y ago
I don't think it was that deep -- I think Jobs was simply being a self-absorbed asshole in this case. I've not read of him routinely buying new cars - quite the contrary. In this case I believe it was a simple disregard for the la

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