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541.
by mrbill 13y ago
Mea culpa: a few hours after I posted this comment, I got my "Your Leap Motion order has shipped!" email.
542.
by mrbill 13y ago
Too bad a lot of people who pre-ordered via Kickstarter haven't even gotten their shipping confirmations yet.
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by mrbill 13y ago
For once, AT&T acquiring another company might actually result in improved service for the customers. I say this as a 2-time former Cricket customer (once with a phone, once with a 3G hotspot) in a major metropolitan area. Wonder if the
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by mrbill 13y ago
I stopped using Firefox and switched to Chrome when, even on an x86 Mac, I could see the browser's UI redraw itself. Not going back at this point.
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by mrbill 13y ago
I learned that I'd been ghostbanned for over a year when someone finally contacted me off-site and let me know. I figured out which comment it was, emailed info@ with an explanation (that it was actually complimentary and relevant to
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by mrbill 13y ago
Of course the guy pushing an alternative is going to say that FB is doing it all wrong.
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by mrbill 13y ago
Still not moving back from Android (love my Nexus 4, 7, and 10) but this will be nice to play with on the iPad Mini I picked up a couple of weeks ago so I can stay current on iOS and help Mom with stuff remotely. It's interesting to se
548.
by mrbill 13y ago
Out of 56 projects backed over the past two years, so far, yes. Nobody has outright "taken the money and run" (yet), and even on the long-delayed projects, semi-regular updates kept people satisfied. My biggest complaint is the lack of a b
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by mrbill 13y ago
I've found that the more over-funded a Kickstarter project is, the higher the probability that delivery of perks and products will be delayed or have problems. In my experience over the past two years, I've seen a number of projects that I
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by mrbill 13y ago
Yep, had an iMac G5 with this problem. Apple shipped me an entire replacement system board assembly. Later they started having people take them into Apple Stores for the repair. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/62059256
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by mrbill 13y ago
Most likely they have zero interest in any kind of "partnership", and you're far from the first one to ask. Think of how many similar requests they've had to field..
552.
by mrbill 13y ago
I've given away 10-12 complete CAH sets to friends. Not a single person has said "oh that game is boring", and more than one of them has come back later and told me it was their favorite birthday/Christmas present, etc. It's also a great w
553.
by mrbill 13y ago
(... and I just put up a nicer index page for this content)
554.
by mrbill 13y ago
I've got images of Coherent install media and a PDF of the (really awesome) manual. It was a great "UNIX" for people who couldn't afford a real AT&T distribution, before Linux came on the scene.
555.
by mrbill 13y ago
Hi, Bill here, owner of sunhelp.org. My own site is the last thing I expected to see on HN this morning. :)
556.
by mrbill 13y ago
That's the one "add-on" lens I bought after lots of review when I figured it was time to add some variety to the kit lens.
557.
by mrbill 13y ago
Disagree. My first SLR (and still my only "really good" camera) is a well-used original Canon Digital Rebel with 18-55 kit lens that I bought off a friend for $100, then added some accessories and a 50mm lens. My entire setup cost less th
558.
by mrbill 14y ago
Loved my Wakemate, but have since moved to all-Android. Are there any decent equivalents to the Zeo/Wakemate that work with Android phones and are still in business?
559.
by mrbill 14y ago
"It’s easy to forget this today, but there was no such idea as open source software before 1998; the concept’s seeming contemporary coherence is the result of clever manipulation and marketing." Okay, even after reading and re-reading tha
560.
by mrbill 14y ago
And the book is $7.20 on Amazon for the Kindle, FYI. I just bought it (versus $14something @ pragprog)
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by mrbill 14y ago
github: billbradford (thanks)
562.
by mrbill 14y ago
Damn, this was one of the only reasons I have a machine in the corner churning bitcoins. I liked being able to directly swap them for Amazon credit.
563.
by mrbill 14y ago
Been using Torque on my Android phone (~$5) along with a $12 OBD-II bluetooth dongle from Amazon for over a year now, to do much the same thing.
564.
by mrbill 14y ago
I started reading and saw "A big gun" and "armor" and thought it was going to turn into a normal MIT prank, with a guy wearing a metal suit of armor and carrying a cardboard cannon. Was displeased to learn it was an actual hoax and not a ha
565.
by mrbill 14y ago
My Wakemate worked great, and I even bought the bigger wristband for it, but didn't use it after I switched to a Galaxy Nexus from an iPhone 4 back in December.
566.
by mrbill 14y ago
I'm sorta sad that this is even newsworthy; his personal life has nothing to do with his work regarding technology.
567.
by mrbill 14y ago
I highly dislike manipulative posts like this. They don't mention that the Speak for Yourself founders are ex-employees of the other company. It's presented very one-sided and in an "OOH FEEL SORRY FOR OUR DAUGHTER" way.
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by mrbill 14y ago
I ordered two RPi boards on February 29th or whatever day they became available for pre-order. The first one shipped from Newark/Element14 about 2-3 weeks ago, and the second one arrived this past Friday. Did I just get lucky, timing-wise
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by mrbill 14y ago
I have multiple machines. I'm a UNIX/Linux sysadmin "by trade" since 1995 and use whatever machine / OS combination fits the task at hand best. At work I have a Core2Duo Mac Mini that runs Windows 7 in a VM for my "work stuff" on a second
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by mrbill 14y ago
It's not x86. ARM11.

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