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by jpwright 13y ago
You can watch HBO on any computer/tablet/smartphone plus Roku and Apple TV using HBO Go. (I hate to sound like an advertisement here. I'm not a customer of HBO Go, but it's worth noting that they were actually one of the
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by jpwright 13y ago
Looks great! Out of curiosity, why go with the hub/node approach using ZigBee for sending such a small amount of data? There are WiFi modules like TI's CC3000 ( http://www.ti.com/product/cc3000 ) available for
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by jpwright 13y ago
I say "can" because most Cortex-A15 design implementations don't actually run that fast. Mostly 1.6-2 GHz. Of course, we are comparing a design that's licensed out from ARM to a fixed product from Apple, so it's not
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by jpwright 13y ago
The Galileo actually only emulates a subset of the Arduino libraries. The AVR libraries themselves are, for the most part, not supported. This makes many popular libraries unusable even when hardware is not an issue.
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by jpwright 13y ago
Cortex A-15 can also run at nearly double the clock rate though: 2.5 GHz vs 1.4 GHz.
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by jpwright 13y ago
To be honest, I was in a bad mood when I wrote that and made a negative assumption about what you wrote. I'm sorry. I wish HN would let me take that one back.
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by jpwright 13y ago
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! The rainbow coloring is an interesting technique for visualizing the structure of mazes. For those interested, I wrote a similar maze generation tool in Python which includes implementations of Kruskal&#
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by jpwright 13y ago
> maybe even nab a few dudes Hate to nitpick, but let's not forget about the awesome women engineers and designers out there, including at Oculus.
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by jpwright 13y ago
You're leaving out Glass, Fiber, Nest, Chromebook, and the 8 robotics companies they just acquired, among other things.
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by jpwright 13y ago
A consumer product like the Rift is an entirely different proposition with an entirely different set of challenges. The Open Compute project was essentially Facebook giving away some of their data center designs and specifications (mostly t
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by jpwright 13y ago
I agree. There are other incubators with domain expertise for hardware products (Bolt, Haxlr8r, Highway1, RGA), robotics (Grishin), biotech (Harlem Biospace). These places can also offer shared facilities and lab space, which is hugely impo
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by jpwright 13y ago
In that case your computer is a death trap certain to cause fatal electrical shock the next time you connect your printer, flash drive, or USB nerf missile launcher. Your expensive multimeter probably won't save you in time (seriously
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by jpwright 13y ago
That has nothing to do with the trademark issue at hand, and no one is cheering for the demise of Fluke (the post is actually very complimentary of Fluke products). For people working with 5V circuits (e.g. Arduinos), you don't need to
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by jpwright 13y ago
I think you are jumping to conclusions. The situation could have changed during the time she was there. It's also quite likely that she put a positive spin on things when describing GitHub publicly because it was part of her job, and s
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by jpwright 13y ago
Having a speaker series featuring women in tech is not "anti-male discrimination". Maybe it would be if there weren't 1000+ other tech conferences where the majority of speakers are men. How someone can say stuff like this in
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by jpwright 13y ago
Yes, thank you! It seems like every time this sort of issue comes up, a large number of men both (a) take it as a personal attack, and (b) decide that the best way to handle this attack is to counter-attack someone's character with ran
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by jpwright 13y ago
I love the idea, and since Amtrak started the writers program after a tweet, I sent it to them on Twitter. Please RT or add more... https://twitter.com/jsnwr/status/442741220851216384
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by jpwright 13y ago
> There is no institutional racism, what exists is a black latino culture that looks down upon education. I'll bite my tongue here for what I really want to say, but dear god was this an extremely ignorant and offensive thing to say
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by jpwright 13y ago
They are a UK-registered charity organization, and the Raspberry Pi is much more than just the Broadcom SoC.
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by jpwright 13y ago
But then you have conflict of interest if you're asking SEC employees to investigate companies they hold stock in. The incentive would be to not investigate or impose milder penalties.
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by jpwright 13y ago
Love it. Please keep it going!
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by jpwright 13y ago
I'm not inhibiting any progress by pointing out the fallacy of "more jobs = less inequality". That, by the way, is a classic example of syllogistic reasoning. We need more women to get CS jobs to increase equality, and i&#x2
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by jpwright 13y ago
No interest in debating philosophy in a HN comment thread, but saying that gender diversity has intrinsic value (and I'd argue it does, especially from a deontological/Rawlsian perspective which considers fairness an intrinsically
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by jpwright 13y ago
On sites other than HN, which has nothing to do with welding? I'm sure it's very easy to say that gender inequality in the workplace doesn't matter at all when you are not the one affected by it. see: http://www.a
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by jpwright 13y ago
No one is saying that more women in CS courses will eliminate sexism everywhere. There is intrinsic value to having gender diversity in any field, and CS is one with a notable lack of it. This is a classic example of "moving the goalpo
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by jpwright 13y ago
The article explains the case pretty well: > ...the language in the subpoena reads much like the state’s computer fraud act, which carries some stiff penalties. Last year, New Jersey alleged that E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) hijacked th
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by jpwright 13y ago
> The NFL has revenues exceeding $4B which are nearly all "profit" (that is, revenues>opex). This cash flows through the league and then is distributed to the teams, who all of which run on essentially zero taxable profits.
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by jpwright 13y ago
Do you have a source about how much the NFL itself spends on hotels/etc for the Super Bowl? Because I don't think that's where their claim to economic activity from the game comes from. It also wouldn't matter very much
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California Cracks Down on Hacker Boot Camps(wired.com)
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by jpwright 13y ago
I don't believe I stated a position, and I didn't want to elaborate more without knowing the context of the previous comment. I would be pretty appalled if s/he seriously thinks Benioff is an asshole (over the one bus comment

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