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by mik3y 12y ago
Naively I would have guessed you include something like a 1kW resistor + heat sink package, and divert to that. Assuming such parts exist, are they just cost prohibitive, or is there more to it? (Thanks for taking questions!)
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Ask HN: What software/hardware do you use to display metrics around the office?
1 points by mik3y 12y ago|1 comments
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by mik3y 12y ago
Prev HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7752528 Congratulations to Anupam and team!
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Google acquires Lift Labs, the maker of a self-stabilizing spoon(thenextweb.com)
4 points by mik3y 12y ago|0 comments
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by mik3y 12y ago
Source: Comcast's propaganda on the merger: http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/more-support-pou...
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San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Supports Comcast/TWC Merger(apps.fcc.gov)
1 points by mik3y 12y ago|1 comments
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by mik3y 12y ago
Does the BBB not have a watchdog mechanism capable of triggering a board-level reset?
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by mik3y 12y ago
Discovery happens less and less in the App Store proper, and more elsewhere (search, in-app ads, etc). This is not to say the article is very wrong -- only that the placements Google can sell will be, for the most part, outside of the Play
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by mik3y 12y ago
Home-printed (not etched) PCBs? This is awesome. Sure, the traces look thick as hell and you're obviously limited to 1-2 layers, but it's what progress looks like. Just as the barrier for entry has come down for software -- in the
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by mik3y 12y ago
My killer app for this needs webhooks, or some sort of event notification when mail arrives. Bonus points for making that condition a stored procedure/filter. Until then I'll probably run out of "quota units" polling th
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by mik3y 12y ago
3D effects are neat, but I'm betting Amazon is more excited to get a high fidelity eyetracker in your phone. Instant heatmaps, new types of ad creatives, new ad conversion modes, ...
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by mik3y 12y ago
Fascinating; aren't fires like these typically extinguished by starving them of oxygen, for instance with an explosive charge? Wikipedia doesn't even say if it's been attempted, and the panaorma makes the site look like it w
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by mik3y 12y ago
Have you considered asking for unpaid leave? I'm not sure about New Zealand, but many companies in the US offer bereavement leave. The company might prefer to have you back, hopefully refreshed and in better spirits, rather than lose
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Reddit: We will be launching reddit Mobile apps.(reddit.com)
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by mik3y 13y ago
I only have anecdata, but, I saw her speak at Google in '09. She took questions, which were largely softballs, when finally one guy had the courage to ask something along the lines of, "Don't you want to apologize?" She
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by mik3y 13y ago
The only part that was done outside is the design of the plastic enclosure. I found a good designer in china Would you mind sharing how you located this designer/plastic shop? I've had mixed results with mecheng partner
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by mik3y 13y ago
There's a fix for this that the HTTPS site can add to <meta>, which works with newish browsers: the "meta referer" header: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer (Looks like HN doesn't set
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by mik3y 13y ago
In late 2008, Facebook seemed to ramping up hiring (and recruiting aggressively, with good reason, from Google). Any "truce" would have been severely one-sided for Facebook. I'm sure they weren't worried about bleeding
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Tinnitus tips (2010)(blog.szynalski.com)
1 points by mik3y 13y ago|0 comments
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by mik3y 13y ago
Oh, awesome!
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by mik3y 13y ago
So is this the moment where all the bitcoin fanatics pool together a bunch of BTC for Dorian as.. a sort of apology? The guy should at least get a new train set outta the whole mess..
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by mik3y 13y ago
Anywhere in the app-private data dir, ie Context.openFileOutput().
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by mik3y 13y ago
IIRC one of the bigger obstacles to RPi Android support was that the driver libs were linked against glibc. There will be other bumps, but just getting these linked against bionic will be a big help. I'd love to see Android support, i
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by mik3y 13y ago
This was a great point: That's 20 years ago. And for bundling a browser in the operating system that couldn't be uninstalled or easily replaced? Sure, no operating systems do that in 2014. I wonder if I can swap
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by mik3y 13y ago
It definitely happens in the valley; Cisco was notorious in the 90s and 00s for acquiring "spin-ins" (startups founded by ex-Cisco leadership/teams with an almost certain expectation of returning to the mothership), and I&#x2
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by mik3y 13y ago
> Makes me wonder how Larry Page was convinced > that Facebook was a threat. Larry wasn't the only one. I don't think it was hard to see how Facebook posed (and still poses) a threat to Google: Their site gener
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by mik3y 13y ago
Having recently designed and produced a low volume (<1000 units), low-complexity (2 layer / 30ish placement) board, I was very happy that my relationship with the assembly house was not fully abstracted behind an API! I suspect th
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by mik3y 13y ago
Citation needed; I'd certainly love to know whether J2ME devices were a significant chunk of WhatsApp's actives, but there's zero data to back up the suggestion..
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by mik3y 13y ago
I think that's effectively what Ripple is trying to do ( https://ripple.com/ ) -- a sort of Hawala-like exchange protocol with an open ledger, mixing in their own cryptocurrency. At least, that's the way I thought
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by mik3y 13y ago
I'm guessing low acceptance. It was an interesting hack, but honestly, could you picture anyone clamoring for this feature? And then getting past the setup steps? Frankly I thought it was a pretty shocking product to launch, for al

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