jgeorge

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by jgeorge 12y ago
So much wrong for such a short article. Sure, if we covered that many square km of Algerian desert with solar panels, we could generate enough electricity to power the world. Electricity generation is not our primary problem, electricity
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by jgeorge 12y ago
I have a Nest an generally love it. I upgraded to it from a previous "smart thermostat" mostly for new-technology and to support some friends who were working on Nest when it launched. I have kind of an unusually-shaped house and
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by jgeorge 12y ago
I also hear Hitler made a mean strudel.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
For a while my way to unwind after a rough day at work was to fire up GTA4, turn off the cell phone (to pause the story mode) and just drive around like a lunatic and blow stuff up. It's actually surprising just quite how effective thi
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Kudos to him for recognizing his personal bias and also to not allow it to color his views of research. This is a hot button topic for many on both sides of the issue, and it's rare to see someone - even in the research field - who is
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by jgeorge 12y ago
My first thought is I would never get into a personal vehicle if the decision to "sacrifice myself for the greater good" was not my choice. [1][2] How do you program "greater good" in a split-second decision making scena
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Like others here I'm a little short on sympathy for the author specifically, if Google bans one app, I think I'd be upset about it enough to not just let it go under the assumption I was innocent - obviously someone or something a
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by jgeorge 12y ago
The platform I learned to develop on was a very small cellphone; learning to live in tight resources is a skillset that sadly not enough people practice. Even today on much larger systems I still out of habit minimize code and resources mor
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Oh, like THAT'LL work.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
I've had very good success with an he.net tunnel. And for those saying "in 2014 there should be no need for a &%%^ IPv6 tunnel", congratulations on living in the big city. For rural Internet (blazing 6mpbs here!) IPv6 is
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Thank you! Much obliged, good sir.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
I signed up for it but I'm still some power of 10th in the queue, if you have extras, thanks in advance! my username here at nbi.com please
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Don't you realize now that your professional and personal success hinges on the fact that you've never said anything ever even to your most private and intimate friends that might in any way be offensive to anyone at all at any ar
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by jgeorge 12y ago
The mods could auto-flag this site and it wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. As much of a space nerd as I admittedly am, these science-lite and content-free (and not typo-free) articles don't add anything to HN at all.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
A competent Hiptop user could easily type 60-70 wpm on the keyboard without too much trouble. Clever use of the autotext dictionary could easily fake out 80wpm or more by replacing "txt spk" with actual words and phrases.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
The device catered to the HoH community - the keyboard was great, and there were several "tty to voice" relay apps available where a HoH person could type messages to an operator from the device and an operator would place a voice
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by jgeorge 12y ago
I will take to my grave the "true" amount of actual live shipping code that I have written via Terminal Monkey.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
The ability to control the RGB notification LED (and the vibration motor) via the audio engine made for some really nice notification effects (and the ability to differentiate between dozens of different types of notifications at a glance,
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by jgeorge 12y ago
I miss the Danger developer community every single day. A finer bunch of people (in general, there were exceptions... :-) I've never known.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Makes me think of the Centralia PA underground coal fire that's been going for almost as long. Not QUITE as spectacular though. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/01/pictu...
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by jgeorge 12y ago
As far as I know, the OMGP keeps this - listen to Pandora, for example, and then click on "why are we playing this song?" or whatever it's called - I don't have it in front of me. It'll list out a list of criteria t
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by jgeorge 12y ago
The one thing I wish I could do with Pandora, or the OMGP in general, is to search based on individual criteria, versus searching based on a song/artist/genre and then seeing the criteria I get. Much of the music I listen to on Pa
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by jgeorge 12y ago
34 is an older man now? Geez, I guess I should go check myself into the nursing home now and beat the rush.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
Thank you. Came here to say exactly that myself.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
It's you. Who's to say the pink icon wearing a dress is female? Who's to say the blue icon in pants is male? Isn't making that assumption sexist in itself? Edit: removed snark
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by jgeorge 12y ago
My father taught me at a young age to question overly specific statements of denial. "I didn't hit her 117 times" says nothing. It implies "zero" but its just as easily "116" or "118" or more.
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by jgeorge 12y ago
The downloaded updates are just deltas from the previous release of the OS. These updates are assembled into (more or less) a "new OS image" on-device and then installed in the same manner a monolithic OS install is done. Since th
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by jgeorge 13y ago
This is great, fantastic work stefanom! I'm already addicted to it.
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by jgeorge 13y ago
I need one of these for conspiracy theories, to prove a point to a colleague that one of his OTT conspiracy theory friends is nothing but a bad AI construct...
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by jgeorge 13y ago
Hooray! A solution to global warming!

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