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by nickporter 9y ago
If you're shopping around for a different distro, you should try out Gentoo or Funtoo. It's fast, customizable, and you'll learn a lot when installing it.
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by nickporter 9y ago
Congrats guys :) Also good call on the name change!
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by nickporter 9y ago
Looking at the videos, it seems to be some kind of carbon nanotube sensor that checks the resistance of the water its dipped in. This is hooked up to an arduino and the data is pushed to a smartphone via bluetooth. Not sure how she made the
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42 is looking for a data engineer in SF
1 points by nickporter 9y ago
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by nickporter 9y ago
You can get to the level select screen in Sonic 3 using a similar process. 1. Open Sonic 2 and enter the level select cheat 2. Freeze the game by wiggling the cartridge 3. Replace the cartridge with Sonic 3, and hit the reset button This bl
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by nickporter 9y ago
Ahhh you beat me to it :) Nice work!
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by nickporter 9y ago
This. I just bought 0.007 btc and sent it to a friend, and it cost less than 10 cents in fees overall.
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by nickporter 9y ago
I think you're looking at either a different API, or an older version of it. The blog post links to this documentation page: https://developers.google.com/nearby/connections/overview
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by nickporter 9y ago
Is it really unencrypted? The blog post says it's encrypted.
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by nickporter 9y ago
And if you had that much hashing power, you'd be better off using it for mining. It's explained in more detail in the (surprisingly accessible) bitcoin whitepaper.
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by nickporter 9y ago
A little bit off topic but, there's a screenshot of some SPI analyzer thing. Looks quite nice! Anybody know what the application is called? The screenshot: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/600d273da01fdefca1c72c27c...
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by nickporter 9y ago
It's been a few years since I've touched QT. The official documentation was quite good at the time.
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42 (YC W14) is looking for a software engineer
1 points by nickporter 10y ago
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42 (YC W14) is looking for an engineer in SF
1 points by nickporter 10y ago
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by nickporter 10y ago
When going back to the United States from Canada, I was sent to secondary screening because I said I had a TN Visa, when the correct thing to say was TN Status.
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by nickporter 10y ago
This brings new meaning to "gentoo is for ricers".
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by nickporter 11y ago
Damn, I will miss those breakfast burritos. These guys had some great food and the service was incredibly fast. Bummer!
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by nickporter 11y ago
Congrats guys!!
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by nickporter 11y ago
Thanks for the help Garry, enjoy!
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by nickporter 11y ago
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by nickporter 11y ago
42 (YC W14) | https://42technologies.com | Onsite in San Francisco | Full Time We're looking for a software engineer to join our small team. Our stack is Angular, Node, Go, Spark and Python on AWS. We're looking for so
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by nickporter 11y ago
If I made an ad system that needed to track a user, I would want to use my own domain because then I can save the user's state between websites using my own domain's local storage.
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42 (YC W14) is hiring engineers to help fix retail
1 points by nickporter 12y ago
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by nickporter 12y ago
I've been following his stream and it's fantastic. I wouldn't say it's just about old-school game programming; It's more like full stack game development. No math libraries or pre-built components are used. Everythi
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by nickporter 12y ago
What's wrong with informing the public that his exit node might be compromised? I would want to know. Also, IMO it's unlikely that these events are unrelated. 1. Tor says they might get compromised. 2. Guy's exit no
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by nickporter 12y ago
I would start with implementing some backend in Node and Express, and with LevelUp for the database. Since you're familiar with Rails and backend development, it should be easy to build something quickly. Just make a simple API. That s
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by nickporter 12y ago
Hah, I read this as Firebase.. I was bracing myself for the google hate.
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by nickporter 12y ago
I have a product that lets our users (who are non-technical) export data. CSV exports were a source of many support requests. We switched to XLSX exports and everybody seems happy.
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by nickporter 12y ago
Right now, SFTP as a service ( https://github.com/42technologies/docker-sftp-server ) I also used it when our landing page was wordpress-based.
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by nickporter 12y ago
I don't think docker is accessible enough right now to kill Heroku. You have to put on your devops hat when you use it. With heroku, you push and it works. I'm not trying to bash Docker. In fact, I use it quite a bit, and I never

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