jamesmcn

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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Assuming that the insurance company actually pays out, this seems like a win for both SpaceX and OrbComm. SpaceX got a paying commercial customer, and had an opportunity to test out yet another part of the Falcon stack. OrbComm got a bit of
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Wow, it wasn't that long ago when this was flamebait of the highest order. Linux has always been better at supporting a wider array of consumer hardware than *BSD. That combined with the Unix(TM) lawsuit lead to the quick early commercial s
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
People who want to be coding at all should follow this advice. An easy way to turbocharge a team of hot-shot young developers is as follows: Tell them to not come in over the weekend (unless there is a seriously important deadline that cann
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
If you use these things, you are a bad person and should feel bad. Korg is a perfect example of why you shouldn't use them. All of Korg's product images have been on rotating sliders for years. When I want to take a closer look at how the c
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
> I could easily see my parents falling for this. Sometime in the mid '90s, not long after my dad got email, I decided to warn him about Nigerian scams. Instead, he ended up telling me about how these these kind of scams started popping
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I really hope this guy doesn't start a kickstarter for the hardware side of the project. I would be completely unable to restrain myself from backing it.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Pick up a copy of Popular Mechanics from the 1960s. Makers were alive and well back then, and there was a lot of marketing effort put into making it sexy. Do we need a dose of humility? Certainly. But we absolutely can, and should enjoy mak
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Microsoft bought out a large part of SGI's patent portfolio in the early XBox days. Then they sold the company to Rackable .
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
The bias you are looking for here is survivorship bias. Minorities have to outperform their majority-peers or they don't get hired or promoted. So those that remain are disproportionately skilled. But my concern is the narrative fallacy - w
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Perhaps it is because I've spent the majority of my career as a developer that I when I put my manager hat on, I want a team full of Rodrigos. Quick standup meetings and dev-owned granular task breakdowns are easy ways to address Rodrigo's
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I'd love to have a 24" or 30" USB-driven eInk screen or three for fairly static stuff like documentation. Running a terminal on an eInk display is probably less painful than repeatedly bashing your toes into a cinder block. Probably. An iPh
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
You are right - I should have been running Git in 1993!
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
It seems like Blue Toad's customers were intermediaries between Blue Toad and the final end-users of Blue Toad's apps. Much like the RSA breakin a few years back, it makes sense for Blue Toad to make a general announcement and leave the dir
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I started doing something like this in paper notebooks in the early '90s. The main difference is that my notebooks keep all of my notes. This makes the review process a lot more tedious. Maybe it is time to start a new notebook for ideas,
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I'm also bad at spelling.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
The last time I checked, if you receive something for your donation, you have to subtract the value of whatever you received from your total donation amount. You can then claim that difference as a deduction on your taxes. Example: Donate $
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
It is worth highlighting that this sale was via a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. That is, Thiel made the decision to sell prior to the IPO.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
There's a big difference between the kind of "learning" that is absorbing a lot of data (reading business books, studying chemistry, reading history) and using that data to draw solid conclusions. The former is kind of fun, in the same way
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
This is a thing that happens. Be careful who you pick as your business partners.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Not-manifesto here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14963589/Have_You_Got_Any_Matches.p...
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This Is Not A Manifesto About The Music Industry(analogindustries.com)
2 points by jamesmcn 14y ago|2 comments
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Not just parchment, but also Iron Gall Ink. Which will eat both your paper and your fountain pen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
It's funny because it's a pun.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
> I'd wager that most of us brush our teeth Woah, woah, woah! Let's try to be realistic here!
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Most of us carry smart phones that could, at any time, be recording audio, photos or video. It is useful to know if the police can abuse you simply because you are suspected of recording them. Some of us are building or contemplating buildi
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Microsoft is screwing over its customers like this. Apple is screwing over its customers like this . Both of them are pushing the tabletification of computing. I see how that works for the vast majority of users, but it isn't really for me
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
The trouble with two-factor authentication is that it tends to be a nucleus around which a monoculture of security procedure forms. It is convenient to have a single sign-on that is believed to be beyond reproach, even if that sign on is a
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
Is a thermocouple more efficient than a Sterling engine, or just more reliable because of the lack of moving parts?
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I can see how team sports are interesting, I'm just not that into them. They definitely require problem solving.
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by jamesmcn 14y ago
I'm not a diver, but the overall logistics of how to get exactly the right amount of oxygen into your system is fairly interesting. Rebreather technology has been pushed and developed by the same people who use it.

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