newman8r

49 ms·

511.
by newman8r 8y ago
I contemplated a startup a few years back that would let people copy the text from coding tutorials. Uploaders would include a text file/repo for the work they're referencing in the video and it would get cross referenced when sho
512.
by newman8r 8y ago
As a child of the 90s, I always thought that was a Duke Nukem quote. Gonna watch this movie.
513.
by newman8r 8y ago
Yes that's also a very good question. I think if you combine the two, you get "would you prefer to give email access to your friend or to a random stranger" - it's actually a tough question for me to answer. I guess mayb
514.
by newman8r 8y ago
Are you positive you didn't actually sign up for 2 github accounts and got mixed up on the login email, and then tried using the same password on the second account for the first?
515.
by newman8r 8y ago
I wonder if your friend would object if you asked to browse through his email right then and there, or download it all as an archive to look through later. I imagine most people wouldn't really want to do that, even if they believed th
516.
by newman8r 8y ago
How long before LCD is obsolete in consumer devices? I've heard a few estimates, haven't looked into it though.
517.
by newman8r 8y ago
Users submit the reports, you should vote that one down or reply in the comments with some evidence if you disagree. I actually don't like the fact that it's a controversial site by nature because I generally try to avoid controve
518.
by newman8r 8y ago
I personally submitted one of my past projects, https://www.quod.us - I stopped working on it, but with a grant I would put some more time in. It's already built and live (although it didn't take very long to make). It
519.
by newman8r 8y ago
>Right now, their lenses can block light emitted from LCD and LED screens, but not OLED screens. I think the only solution for selectively blocking nonpolarized light sources would be AR glasses. I don't think they'd ever be ab
520.
Ask HN: What are your most common typos in your workflow?
1 points by newman8r 8y ago|0 comments
521.
by newman8r 8y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/ is an active community You can also search on github for active projects, https://github.com/topics/sdr is a good place to start I also like to browse https:
522.
by newman8r 8y ago
hey it looks like you're #1 on the leaderboard - what are you working on? Must be interesting.
523.
by newman8r 8y ago
I got back into the hobby after letting my license expire years ago. SDR and GNU radio are what pulled me back in. I feel like it's a renaissance for amateur radio.
524.
by newman8r 8y ago
Those sound good here's a link I found to 'In the Penal Colony' for anyone interested http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha/793CA_web/PenalColony.pdf
525.
by newman8r 8y ago
make it a bluetooth-conneted LED indicator and you've probably got a solid kickstarter project.
526.
by newman8r 8y ago
Good article. I've only read The Metamorphosis but I think this makes sense. Looking back on it, the 'three lodgers' in that book present a funny, absurd scenario. I prefer reading relatively short and simple classics like Th
527.
by newman8r 8y ago
yeah I built one of these out of pallets when I was 10 and it had to be torn down when a neighbor kid stepped on a rusty nail. Fortunately they didn't sue my family. I understood the concept of a hammer and nails, but that was the limi
528.
by newman8r 8y ago
I would be interested in checking it out. my email is steve@tamarin.us
529.
by newman8r 8y ago
Yeah I gotcha, sometimes that's all you can do. Sounds like they were terrible managers. I hadn't even considered the (obvious) fact that automating your own job can be dangerous.
530.
by newman8r 8y ago
I think the main issue is when they just completely revamped digg in a way that destroyed the community driven nature of the website - they tried to "personalize the front page to each user" or something like that. But people didn
531.
by newman8r 8y ago
Wouldn't the company own the scripts you wrote to automate their processes while you worked there? Sounds kind of spiteful not to hand them over, although I can empathize with your frustration (been in similar situations as well).
532.
by newman8r 8y ago
I'm curious how those disputes ended up - did you end up getting any of them taken off?
533.
by newman8r 8y ago
I just watched a video about them, it's an interesting operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADg90GQ-zE If they could do it all in the truck and cut out the kitchen it would be even better. I guess that's es
534.
by newman8r 8y ago
I wouldn't call it the best documentary, but I think people here will like it, it's a 4 part documentary: "A Video History of Japan's Electronic Industry" I. Birth of the transformer: https://www.youtube.
535.
by newman8r 8y ago
I like the concept. Here's a repo I put together with an OPML list of the 22 top US newspapers https://github.com/newman8r/us-newspapers-opml if anyone would find that useful feel free to add the list to your site
536.
by newman8r 8y ago
JIT pizza delivery - will probably be a thing some day
537.
'Lion King' Puppet Technician Arrested for Allegedly 3D-Printing Gun at Theater(npr.org)
1 points by newman8r 8y ago|0 comments
538.
by newman8r 8y ago
I could boil it down to a thought experiment: If you could trade being alive and healthy today, for hitting it rich 10 years ago but you have no idea if you'd still be alive/healthy/happy today - would you do it?
539.
by newman8r 8y ago
That's similar to Matthew Lesko's strategy (AKA question mark guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lesko ) Many of his books consisted of freely available government publications.
540.
by newman8r 8y ago
I'm curious if there's any examples of this ever happening. Some company keeps ignoring a contractor's requests for a couple of years and ends up owing ~$20 million on a thousand dollar debt. But like you, I'm pretty ske

More ›