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by kejaed 11y ago
While not a patent, I have always thought this schematic for the Appoe I, signed by Woz himself, would look great in the office. http://signedbywoz.com/products-schematic.php
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by kejaed 11y ago
If Amazon is going to be using these aircraft to deliver packages they are going to have to be a fair bit larger than the prosumer drones out there now to have any sort of useful payload capacity.
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by kejaed 11y ago
Using epoxy It would also allow the production line to only make one model to sit on the shelf and then epoxy the ones going to Customer X when they need to go out to them. If you cut the traces then you'd have to make 2 different type
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by kejaed 11y ago
I don't get the down votes. If you have several hundred pounds on the bar, you are by definition in balance. If you can move through the full range of motion of the movement you are flexible enough. Being able to squat above your body
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by kejaed 11y ago
There is absolutely nothing inherently dangerous or injury prone in lifting a barbell. It is the second part, the desire to slide on huge plates that gets people in trouble. One could say the same thing about someone who decides they are go
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by kejaed 11y ago
Rippetoe is all about being strong, because being strong is better than being weak. For the average dude starting to lift, that will likely involve gaining weight and adding muscle. This is, however, not the be all and end all of what he is
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by kejaed 11y ago
As others have said, the best thing CrossFit has done is introduce people to the barbell, and more importantly, Mark Rippetoe. Rip was the barbell SME for CrossFit in the early years and while they parted ways, a lot of CrossFitters still f
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by kejaed 11y ago
Could be related to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9815464
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by kejaed 11y ago
There are four lights!
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by kejaed 11y ago
Well, for 2015 it's cause the Habs can't score any goals, tabarnak.
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by kejaed 11y ago
With the salary cap, revenue sharing, and everyone paid in USD, the gross salaries available for most teams to spend is about the same. A big difference between playing Canada vs. the USA would be income tax. It's going to be north of
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by kejaed 11y ago
I have used the PowerSSR Tail at home and now at the office for switching mains power on and off with an Arduino, works quite nicely and comes in a nice little package. http://www.powerswitchtail.com/pages/powerssrtail.
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by kejaed 11y ago
One of the slides in the WP story credits Edward Tufte, who has written and published an essay on the subject, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within" [1]. This, along with his seminal text "The Visu
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by kejaed 11y ago
There was an episode of Planet Money that covered why cars made for Europe can't be driven in the USA and vice versa. IIRC one of the differences was in the airbag requirements, where cars designed for USA driving have air bag systems
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by kejaed 11y ago
There's a reason they have the nickname Crappy Tire, eh?
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by kejaed 11y ago
They'll even help you with ITAR controls too: http://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/faqs/
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by kejaed 11y ago
Ah yes, great point. I suppose that ties into the whole trade off one has in using Matlab in the first place: locking in to a proprietary commerical product to spend more time on problem-space work and less on managing memory and I/O e
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by kejaed 11y ago
I'm curious why you consider Matlab not an option to distribute software widely? They have the Matlab Compiler that allows you produce executables that work with the freely downloadable Matlab Compiler Runtime. I know of at least one s
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by kejaed 12y ago
A link to the last time this was discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472175