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by jotux 13y ago
>I was referring to the silly things undergrad involves. >What good is paying taking boring irrelevant classes that aren't related to what I'm paying to learn about? "Irrelevent" Classes are to college as boring ta
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by jotux 13y ago
> I just can't bring myself to mundane, boring work. The problem is that even really interesting/fun projects and jobs consist of an overwhelming amount of mundane and boring tasks. Building a race car? Someone still has to cri
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by jotux 13y ago
A trivial example would be a commit that shows something was implemented and then later removed because of a patent/IP violation. 1-jan-2003 - bob: added new feature X 5-jan-2003 - bob: Rev 1.0 8-oct-2012 - frank: Turns o
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by jotux 13y ago
Why would a large company release the commit history of source code when it could open them up to all kinds of lawsuits? It seems perfectly reasonable for them to release it as a zip.
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by jotux 13y ago
There's a bookmarklet that will do something similar for any text on a page. It's called Force Feed: http://qwerjk.com/force-feed
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by jotux 13y ago
>I believe this will go down in history as the largest fraud ever committed. Madoff was estimated at ~$65b, the Enron settlement was $7.1b, Lehmen folded with $600b in assets, Comp-u-card overstated income and costed investors $14b, etc.
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by jotux 13y ago
Github account linking would be fantastic!
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by jotux 13y ago
Bram Cohen had an article about this a few years ago that offers a different perspective: http://bramcohen.com/2011/12/04/never-make-counter-offers
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by jotux 13y ago
Secret?
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by jotux 13y ago
There is no ban on computer vision professionals. I'm sure we'll have at least a few competing.
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by jotux 13y ago
Contest organizer here (Fryguy[1] is the other one). When we were in college we competed at defconbots in 2007 and 2008. The contest ended in 2009 but we continued it at RoboGames (the event at RoboGames was called "Robot Shooting Gall
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DEFCONBOTS - An Autonomous Robotics Competition at DEFCON(defconbots.org)
35 points by jotux 13y ago|21 comments
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by jotux 13y ago
Private currencies were local to small areas and national currencies were created to consolidate control and distribution to citizens -- making transactions easier between states, controlling inflation, etc. Why not look at bitcoin as the n
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by jotux 13y ago
Reminds me of an HP67 programmable calculator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-67/-97
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3D Systems announces continuous-tone, full-color ProJet 4500 3D printer(3ders.org)
1 points by jotux 13y ago|0 comments
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by jotux 13y ago
Relevant: http://www.theonion.com/video/ceo-worked-way-up-from-son-of-...
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by jotux 13y ago
Distance and angle with respect to the laptop would be the immediate and most dramatic drawbacks. Also the fact that image processing is a lot slower than using on-board high-speed sensors.
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by jotux 13y ago
This is why it's not practical.
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by jotux 13y ago
I've had basically the same idea as the the article, but for flossing, since I was a kid. You would mold your teeth and then cut slots in the mold between the teeth. You would then string floss through all of the slots and put the whol
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by jotux 13y ago
>There are more web developers than there are any other kind of programmer Is there any data to back this up? I would think Java or VB or C++ programmers far outnumber web developers.
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by jotux 13y ago
I just turn all notifications off (as I do with all of my social networks) and use it to connect with past and present coworkers that are either uncomfortable or unwilling to connect on facebook.
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by jotux 13y ago
I like parts of this but don't understand the addition of the google search box in the new tab page. Isn't one of the big "innovations" of the chrome UI the unified address bar you can search from? I use chrome as my pri
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by jotux 13y ago
I've thought about this before and attributed it simply to bikeshedding. When something interesting pops up people really want to be part of the conversation but don't have the background to talk about the main topic so they comme
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by jotux 13y ago
Solidworks has had a svn-like system built into it for the last few years: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/product-data-managemen...
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by jotux 13y ago
What I mean is ease of editing in a typical CAD tool: Solidworks, AutoCad, Sketchup, etc. STL is imported as a solid blob and you lose all the individual features from the source model.
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by jotux 13y ago
Yes, it's the output from a CAD tool and used for 3d printing but STL is a binary file type and not easy to edit. Committing STL files to a repo is analagous to commiting EXE files instead of source code or PDF files instead of TEX.
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by jotux 13y ago
A neat feature but I wish they had support for 3d source file types instead of exported "binary", for lack of a better term, file types. If you wanted to truly open source your mechanical project you'd need to add an extra st
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by jotux 13y ago
By this sentiment would it be acceptable for phdtree to go to every article on hn that mentions golang and post an identical comment with a link to their project? If I have a project written in js should I post a link in articles mentioni
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by jotux 13y ago
Yes, blatant spam is a great way to promote your project.
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by jotux 13y ago
I felt the same way when reader was discontinued. "Meh, I never used it and don't see the big deal." Then google got rid of Latitude, which I used extensively, and I finally knew what it felt like. Google will arbitrarily dro

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