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by kfury 13y ago
Quirky's blog post is also an informative read: http://www.quirky.com/blog/post/2013/04/quirky-meets-an-imp/
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by kfury 14y ago
Nothing. The pins were allocated such that plugging an imp into an SD-card slot won't hurt it or the device, and putting an SD card into an imp slot won't hurt either the card or the device.
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by kfury 14y ago
Hi, Electric Imp co-founder here. We made the card format first to facilitate folks who wanted to make products that could optionally use an imp, as well as those who wanted one permanently installed. We're currently developing a solder-dow
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by kfury 14y ago
Perhaps a t-shirt that says "If you can't downvote, upvote!"
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by kfury 14y ago
It's like a burqa for your nipples.
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by kfury 14y ago
Can you imagine the abuse? You forward a cat video and they see 'Help I'm trapped in a strange city and need money!'?
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by kfury 14y ago
An actual exploit like this designed to monitor the hacked computer would likely either talk to a small range of IPs in the infiltrating organization, or a widely scattered botnet. Trying to contact a small variety of servers of various dis
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by kfury 14y ago
Our neighborhood uses Nextdoor (about 950 homes) and it's fantastic for community building. It focused more on personal interaction than hyperlocal news aggregation, but in my opinion that made it more useful. Neighbors in our community who
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by kfury 14y ago
To be fair, recent congresses have actually pushed through so little significant legislation that there's much less to veto. Seeing these stats broken out as a percentage of legislation that crosses his desk would be much more interesting.
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by kfury 14y ago
Bluetooth would have been a much better solution.
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by kfury 14y ago
I agree.
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by kfury 14y ago
(my comment on the Arduino blog, cross-posted here) Massimo, you asked the Arduino community for comments, so here’s mine. It’s obvious that Dimitri isn’t trying to do you or Arduino harm. Did he over-represent his team’s association with A
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by kfury 14y ago
Relevant, from Arduino's FAQ: "Note that while we don't attempt to restrict uses of the "duino" suffix, its use causes the Italians on the team to cringe (apparently it sounds terrible); you might want to avoid it." http://arduino.cc/en/Ma
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by kfury 14y ago
If the point of the blog post was to get Kickstarter to change their policy then it was very poorly written. It read like a hit piece on Smartduino. I'm a backer of the project and have been following it closely. You don't seem to want to g
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by kfury 14y ago
Unresponsive? Whatnow? He has more comments on the blog post than the post's author! He's asked repeatedly for the author to email him directly, allowing him to release the invoices for the orders the post author claims are nonexistent, but
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by kfury 14y ago
This comment is about Kickstarter in general, and not about the Smartduino project, right? Even the linked blog post doesn't imply that they're not capable of delivering their product, and looking at their collateral they appear to be very
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by kfury 14y ago
Author here. You're right, and this was an intentional omission because it was irrelevant to my larger argument. If you want to go to the full depth of determinism then yes, with complete knowledge you can eliminate any chaotic factors in t
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by kfury 14y ago
I'm disappointed by all the folks calling mail fraud a 'loophole'. Mail and wire fraud are the ways people prosecute domestic 419 (Nigerian prince) scams and other confidence games. This case shouldn't be given a free pass just because the
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by kfury 14y ago
My biggest problem with this explanation is that even if the star-filled universe were infinite that doesn't necessarily mean there would be a star at every point you look at in the sky. Depending on the density of the stars in space, it's
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by kfury 14y ago
So with a top speed of 2,300-3,000 mph and a range of 1,000 miles, it could sustain top speed for what, 20-25 minutes, assuming no fuel required to achieve altitude or for landing? It's hard to imagine the mission profile such a vehicle wou
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by kfury 14y ago
I think the point is that they're trying to average the load across the datacenter, only part of which is Glacier. If they can offset all the Glacier requests by 12 hours, they'll help normalize load when combined with non-Glacier activity.
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by kfury 14y ago
I'm impressed by PopCap's openness and candor in this blog post. Tough business decisions are tough, and it's nice that they're up front and transparent about it. They really have no obligation to be.
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by kfury 14y ago
The flaw with this analogy isn't likening Yahoo! to a Lamborghini. It's saying that startups are all the same, regardless of who's starting them. If Elon Musk and a new Stanford grad started brand new companies on the same day, would both c
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by kfury 14y ago
TL;DR: "Amazon's going to wreck retail now that they're giving up their unfair advantage and relying solely on better service." Boo hoo.
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by kfury 14y ago
I've donated to several kickstarters without a backer reward. They're usually film or music projects though, where the finished product is available to everyone for free.
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by kfury 14y ago
I can absolutely see Dropbox, Google and Facebook creating a class of SSDful machines as a middle performance layer between RAMful and Diskful machines, but price point and storage limits have a long way to go before there's any wholesale r
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by kfury 14y ago
Nevermind. :-)
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by kfury 14y ago
There's an error in Rule 52. They specifically say variables shouldnt have any capital letters but their example does.
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by kfury 14y ago
It was still a bit unclear: What the static firing intended to be just 2 seconds, or was it cut short?

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