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by jluxenberg 17y ago
FYI, for AT&T customers considering making the plunge: The currently available Nexus One device is unlocked and will recognize SIM cards from any mobile service provider using the GSM standard, but is incompatible with the frequency ba
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Seriously? Parts can't be more than $200 for this. I mean, they sell the iPod Touch for $200 which costs $155 to make ( http://iphonetouch.blorge.com/2007/12/19/ipod-touch-bests-ip... ). Is a GSM radio IC expensive? Hell no. They're
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FYI, this is know as the Streisand effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect )
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by jluxenberg 17y ago
Re: rental car tax, interesting article about the rental tax on Zipcars; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121383390638486797.html Bottom line, the rental car tax was intended to tax tourists and Zipcar has been fighting against it because
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by jluxenberg 17y ago
Looks like, in addition to regenerative braking, the wheel gives you all sorts of statistics about your ride. Seems like this could be more easily accomplished with a bike computer (even one permanently attached to your back wheel would be
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by jluxenberg 17y ago
Reminds me of this article on The Daily WTF, it's the same concept applied to database IDs: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-automated-curse-generato...
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Sweet, another reason not to use Comic Sans!
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He's spot-on about Java being a safe-haven for "data modeling" geeks who are afraid of doing real work. Writing a whole bunch of getters and setters in a freshly minted Java class certainly feels like work. However, I think he gets it wro
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No mention of dygraphs either, although it is only for time-series data. http://danvk.org/dygraphs/
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by jluxenberg 17y ago
I think you might be looking for Alice: http://www.alice.org/
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If you want to learn how a computer works, I'd agree that BASIC is a great way to go about it. A processor pulls instructions out of memory and executes them. The instructions mutate the state of the machine to produce a result. BASIC mo
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Rich isn't asking for handouts, he's asking for funding for a project which users derive a lot of value from. I think we can all agree that software takes time to develop, and everyone's time is worth something. I think Rich's time develo
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by jluxenberg 17y ago
Cuil's shtick is that they don't store any search history http://www.cuil.com/