jonah

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A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job(businessinsider.com)
5 points by jonah 11y ago|1 comments
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Markus Kayser's “Solar Sinter” – a sun-powered 3D printer(markuskayser.com)
2 points by jonah 11y ago|0 comments
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by jonah 11y ago
Markus Kayser made a "Solar Sinter" e.g. a sun-powered 3D printer. http://www.markuskayser.com/work/solarsinter/
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by jonah 11y ago
They could allow higher-density housing. People wouldn't have to commute as far as if they were building houses up in the mountains.
815.
by jonah 11y ago
The team from these MetaTools and related companies has gone on to permeate the industry - and others. From CoreImage to f.lux, from Sonos to Google - always interesting to see how people move through the industry.
816.
by jonah 11y ago
Somewhere I have an Alien Skin button I picked up at a trade show. "Computers = Ticket to Hell" I think a lot of (especially graphics) companies were more irreverent back then.
817.
by jonah 11y ago
Lots of sites! Big and small. There are even several excellent Open Source CFML engines.
818.
by jonah 11y ago
Super bummed. I've been a subscriber from the very beginning. Loved their interfaces and service far more than any of the alternatives. (Though these days 90% of my Rdio listening is through Sonos, but still it worked great.) You'
819.
by jonah 11y ago
I haven't read much of his work, but I love his art.
820.
by jonah 11y ago
> We'll be in some deep shit in the coming years. Yup, as we always have been since we were humans. Sad.
821.
by jonah 11y ago
The challenge is to separate the legitimate refugees from those with nefarious intent isn't it. :(
822.
The Land That the Internet Era Forgot(wired.com)
2 points by jonah 11y ago|0 comments
823.
by jonah 11y ago
It just reëntered and here are some photos & video: http://gizmodo.com/that-mysterious-object-on-a-collision-cou... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJT-q8_dl88
824.
by jonah 11y ago
For those interested in verifying the f.lux they downloaded from 3rd party sources, there is this thread on the forum providing a hash of the official file. https://justgetflux.com/forum/topic/1267/sha-1-for-i
825.
by jonah 11y ago
Yep, we can air-freight tomatoes on individual foam pillows. Then we'll talk about transportation and packaging costs. ;)
826.
by jonah 11y ago
In about 15 minutes, I'm going to get up from my desk, go outside and walk two blocks. There I'll arrive at one of the 8 weekly farmers markets in my area. It takes up two city blocks of the main street, every Tuesday evening year
827.
by jonah 11y ago
That's one metric. How about all the others?
828.
by jonah 11y ago
How is small-scale organic farming not "environmentally friendly or especially sustainable"?
829.
by jonah 11y ago
It's just not physically possible to ship a tomato that's been fully vine ripened for a thousand miles. Once they're fully ripe, they're too fragile to ship an appreciable distance. So, the big producers pick them hard a
830.
Video Analysis of Trident Missile Test Shows How It Delivers Warheads(foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com)
3 points by jonah 11y ago|0 comments
831.
The Unlikely Struggle of the Family Whose Neighbor Is Area 51(foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com)
3 points by jonah 11y ago|0 comments
832.
by jonah 11y ago
On the old version of their website you could download the raw rip, a cleaned up version, and the settings file for whatever software they used for the audio processing. You could download the original rip and the settings and adjust them
833.
by jonah 11y ago
Yep, and that's where we're heading.
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by jonah 11y ago
My grandfather died a couple years ago. He was 95. He was up at his lake cabin fishing with some family and friends. He woke up one morning not feeling well and was dead by evening with his wife and a son at his side. I think that's th
835.
by jonah 11y ago
Any idea of the max and min temps seen inside the box during the flight? How'd the potato fare?
836.
by jonah 11y ago
He didn't mention it, but if you look carefully in the third image: http://i.imgur.com/r1EvMIwl.jpg
837.
Police Stingray Tools Can Record Calls(wired.com)
4 points by jonah 11y ago|0 comments
838.
by jonah 11y ago
How many did you attempt to hack total and how many did you not succeed at?
839.
by jonah 11y ago
Well before that volume of sales, people generally set up a merchant account and use a payment processing gateway like Braintree or Authorize.net instead of one of these intermediated systems. You can then negotiate your rates down below wh
840.
by jonah 11y ago
Great anecdote! He just needs some sort of Rube Goldberg device to do it for him. There's the whole Shabbat Technology industry - finding Kosher ways of using modern conveniences in accordance with the Sabbath laws.[1] For example, the

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