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by joshu 5y ago
Any good tutorials or beginner articles about this?
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by joshu 5y ago
i wrote a thing about this 12 years ago: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners (hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545565 )
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by joshu 5y ago
> Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it what were you expecting?
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by joshu 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease
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by joshu 5y ago
wow, that page is festooned with adware
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by joshu 5y ago
This is absolutely stellar advice
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by joshu 5y ago
Downside: another founder's transformational angel might be your malicious angel.
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by joshu 5y ago
In one sense, Verilog
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by joshu 5y ago
laser cut a frisket and spray glue through the holes.
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by joshu 5y ago
The first one is a perlin vector field plus a deformation. I haven't heard of those artists but I will look them up. On the brush: That's a chinese calligraphy brush. I spent a bunch of time making a bearing holder to let the brus
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by joshu 5y ago
So I have a 5' x 5' router table that I've modified to hold pens. I was using paint pens that require the nibs to be indented to get more paint to flow. They run out every 2-4 feet of line. It doesn't make great lines. H
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by joshu 5y ago
sixteen FEET? unfortunately sharpies aren’t very good. i use paint pens but they require significant pressure to open the valve behind the nib. i am currently working on making my own markers...
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by joshu 5y ago
on older plotters: there were many manufacturers. the ones that seem to be higher quality were HP and Roland. alps made a tiny one that was repackaged for commodore, atari, etc. and there were a plethora of other manufacturers (graphtec, ho
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by joshu 5y ago
there is a big plotter enthusiast community. i was able to find full documentation for my late 80's plotter online easily enough. plotters are still made today, they're just called "vinyl cutters" and don't have the
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by joshu 5y ago
i saw a great documentary about this on hulu
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by joshu 5y ago
i have been hoping for this for a long time: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/12/blogging-tools
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by joshu 5y ago
moot, not mute
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by joshu 5y ago
I have a 7575a. It will do some light reordering by pen number, nothing more. My Roland DXY-1150 which does "RD-GL" or whatever (but is functionally HPGL) does none at all.
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by joshu 5y ago
You misremember. It doesn't do any of that.
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by joshu 5y ago
HP-GL has a few convenience functions for text and fills and so on. It doesn't do any reordering aside from grouping pen operations together (so it doesn't change back and forth) but only if it fits in the buffer.
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by joshu 5y ago
here is my HP DraftPro DXL going full tilt: https://www.instagram.com/p/CF048Zlpu2u/?igshid=1xsl4wmrcx2f... Here is my CNC router with a paint pen also zooming along: https://www.instagram.com/p&#x
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by joshu 5y ago
the plotters themselves don’t have any, really. i do an optimization step before sending anything to the plotter.
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by joshu 5y ago
yes, i just mean “current state of fundraising, if any”
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by joshu 5y ago
yes. also, a bunch of times cold pitches i've ignored went on to do huge things.
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by joshu 5y ago
i get a lot of cold pitches. 1. don’t play coy. lots of people don’t actually say what they are doing. 2. guess the next questions and reply to them. “can i see your deck?” often comes next, so attach the deck. explain your current state of
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by joshu 6y ago
it's really just if it's in an area that i'm interested in.
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by joshu 6y ago
yeah, definitely selective enforcement happening. i have a neighbor with a modified exhaust that is insanely loud.
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by joshu 6y ago
i’ve been angel investing for 15 years in approx 250 companies. check into angellist and nfx signal. also post your project to show HN and people might reach out (i do.)
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by joshu 6y ago
the places with lots of people do not allow you to do this. for example, california has CARB regulations which prevent many engine modifications unless they are certified. it can’t be too loud, etc. my local racetrack (laguna seca) even has
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by joshu 6y ago
not the constant barrage of modders?

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