nrjames

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   by nrjames 11y ago

   Think of the money that could be saved if the Danes and Norwegians would just use the same keyboard...
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   I say start with Processing. It's a simplified superset of Java. With strong visual feedback, you'll get up to speed in no time. Very simple IDE. All Java is valid Processing. Also, you can make Android apps with it. It's ver
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   I've had a Nest for ~ 3 years now. It was a mistake. The "learning" on it is not intelligent enough to understand the idiosyncrasies of our 60 yr old house. I have to manually adjust it every day to make sure my kids are roas
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   I found that diving into openFrameworks (looking at their examples, etc...) and hacking my own stuff was a great way to learn. Cinder would do the same.
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   We recently used Kobo Toolbox ( http://www.kobotoolbox.org ) for a health related survey in a developing country... The Ministry of Health required the data stored locally to be encrypted on the device and during sync (not just ov
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   My mother is cultish about Toto toilets. The sad truth is that it rubbed off on my wife and me and we're replacing the toilets in our house with them. Not fancy ones, mind you -- just the base model efficient flush ones. The swirly flu
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   That could just be from gentrification pushing lower income people out of the city center. Similar things have happened in DC, Chicago, etc. This Wired article shows some of that effect. http://www.wired.com/2013/08&#x2
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   If you click through to the "SYNTHPOPVIEWER," you can see other factors on a similar map, but not overlaid. http://synthpopviewer.rti.org
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   by nrjames 11y ago

   Here's a direct link to the tool instead of to an article about it: http://synthpopviewer.rti.org/obesity/viewer.html
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    by nrjames 11y ago

    This sounds so familiar... Here's a story about my 1961 house that is built on concrete slabs. About 18 months ago, we noticed a bit of the hardwood floor was bubbling up. We ignored it. About 6 months ago, our water pressure started t
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    by nrjames 11y ago

    I would love to see a SQLite extension to support graphs...
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    by nrjames 11y ago

    Great list! I would add the Clouds Documentary: http://cloudsdocumentary.com
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    by nrjames 11y ago

    That happened to me in a similarly restrictive field. I eventually just quit my job so that I would be forced to reinvent myself. That led me back to a graduate program in analytics, where my programming background was enormously useful. Wh