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by jhaglund 14y ago
IIRC, early touch screens were resistive, rather than capacitive, which didn't support multi-touch. without multitouch, no pinch. the interface has existed in movies for a long time and it just took bringing down the cost of capacitive touc
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by jhaglund 14y ago
if you've got an old computer that you're trying to make useful, it's a lot easier (for most users, who can't config the alt-installer) to just download and burn xubuntu.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Well, I'm curious who wins. And why they had to extend the submission deadline by several months. for the record, the patent system is broken and i doubt humanity benefits as much as in a system with more cooperation.
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USPTO Contest: Patents for Humanity (patentsforhumanity.challenge.gov)
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by jhaglund 14y ago
100 acres is relatively "massive" compared to existing American solar installations. But it's really not that large an area in the industrial sense. I searched "acres refinery" to get an idea of how much land an oil refinery takes up (requ
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by jhaglund 14y ago
tldr: more efficient WIFI = longer battery life I think maybe some of you missed the part where they say: While the back-end elements of wireless have been digitized long ago, the front end—phase modulation, frequency synthesis, and RF pow
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Pretty sure I wanted an analog tuner/video VLB-card in the 90s. Couldn't afford one, but I imagine the people who bought them, did this stuff with them.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
2008, why didn't the patent office say this is basically Tivo? Is there really anything new here? It was filed in 2002, but Tivo (and diy copycats) were already out in 2000, iirc.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
These are probably low earth orbit satellites, still protected by the geomagnetic field and their orbits wouldn't spend much time in the Van Allen belt. To be safe, I imagine they gave the phone a tinfoil hat.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
I wonder how many other people, after reading this, ran: sudo apt-get install gnome
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by jhaglund 14y ago
I am not an engineer, but seems a retrofit like this adds un-sprung weight which increases wear and changes handling. How about put the motors in a new differential? It'd take a larger casing, but you could apply the electric torque to eac
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Supports only 64 bit CPUs.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Also, with this much money involved, I'd pay someone to handle it for me.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Still sounds a lot like "the hustler mindset" to me. I like the comments from that page. Here's one I'll cherry pick: Indranil Roy Chowdhury wrote: Seems like Jugaad has become a fad these days as I keep hearing the term every now and then
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by jhaglund 14y ago
I think we call that "hustling" in America. It is common amongst poor folks around the world and can lead to run-ins with the authorities. It seems more like treading water than a path to independence, to me. It appears to me that the mos
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Dictators and corrupt governments are bad. State monopolies can be bad. IMHO.
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by jhaglund 14y ago
Yep, it made me rage a bit when I found that in a project I'm working on. Comments are for people, people!
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by jhaglund 15y ago
I think his point is that sucrose is quickly transformed into fructose + glucose. And our bodies aren't equipped to process that much fructose. glucose is processed by cells all over. fructose in the liver, depleting phosphorus and makin
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by jhaglund 15y ago
Just because it's written in js on node doesn't mean it's just for that tool stack. As someone who would like to hack on his own IDE and spends most of his time working with web languages, i think it's a cool project.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
FYI, MySQL supports R-trees on MyISAM tables: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/creating-spatial-inde...
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by jhaglund 15y ago
The first step to transferring a domain is to unlock. It should be checked or you left your domain unlocked.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
Sprint kinda did the same thing. Seems they hid it better tho -- http://www.sprint.com/spendinglimit 4th paragraph mentions the charge. Anyone who didn't sign up for auto-pay is charged an extra $5 a month, even if you pay on time.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
I recently found this site useful. I wrote a script that glued together some commands to be run by cron. Then the requirements grew and the script's complexity grew, and grew, and before long I learned that bash scripts support functions.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
wow. the only thing that could make that worse is imagining it screened in front of an audience of suits, clapping and head-bobbing to her rap.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
I was doing something similar to this article (feeding json directly to JS functions) with PHP. I think this is better for the browser. server side, it's heavier: <?php //inject json //this puts the json in a div //t
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by jhaglund 15y ago
I think we should all get a few months off a year. I wish the people complaining about teacher "vacation" benefits would instead demand more vacation time for themselves.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
^^this sums up my impression of the bitcoin community. Bitcoin is backed by what? Oh, right, scarcity.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
i thought the low-end makers switched to using coffee pots and french presses. larger producers probably wanted that lab equipment anyway.
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by jhaglund 15y ago
among the other routes here, people print fake credit cards (and ids) and use them at cash registers. the magnetic strip doesn't need to work, just need those raised numbers and the logos. cashier will enter the digits and expiration. ge
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by jhaglund 15y ago
I think the argument here is that we inherited a country which always paid it's debts. If we decide we don't HAVE to pay our debts, then this is a different country, the world will recognize this and we'll find it more painful to borrow. I

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