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by pingswept 12y ago
I wouldn't fight it, but I wouldn't sign it either. I won't develop for a platform with that level of restriction.
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by pingswept 12y ago
Gerbers? Where?
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by pingswept 12y ago
By "open hardware," do you mean open source hardware, or something else? From the responses, it looks like "open hardware" means something like "can install any OS on it" in the network switch world.
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by pingswept 12y ago
The Beaglebone Black is the most open board, so far as I can tell. Here are the PCB sources for the latest revision: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Hardware_Files The datasheet for the AM3558 processor is her
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by pingswept 12y ago
Referring to this part, I suspect: "population will have to drop to pre-industrialisation levels"
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by pingswept 12y ago
True, but the GPL wasn't widely used until Linux took off in the mid-90's, roughly 20 years ago. So I was off by a few years, you're right. (But I'd say the idea of free/libre software certainly predates even the GN
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by pingswept 12y ago
There is a push for open source hardware, but it is a substantially smaller movement. The Open Source Hardware just formed a year or two ago: http://www.oshwa.org/ The movement is growing, but it appears to be around 15 yea
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by pingswept 12y ago
I would prefer to see Project Ara evolve into Novena. Google can keep their "NOT FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE" developer's agreement.
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by pingswept 12y ago
This appears to be similar to the open source hardware Novena laptop ( https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop ), but closed source hardware. From the Purism crowdfunding campaign: "The Librem 15 is th
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by pingswept 12y ago
Or maybe s/dark sheep/dark horse/g ? In any case, I think the g is superfluous, as "dark sheep" only appears once.
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by pingswept 12y ago
The article was written by Geoff Wozniak, not Steve Wozniak. Different guy.
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by pingswept 12y ago
If it makes you feel better, each hour you spend exercising extends your life by around 3.5 hours (net 2.5 after the hour you spent) on average. These are just rough numbers, backed up by the Framingham heart study and an analysis of the Fr
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Novena: Building a laptop from scratch [video](youtube.com)
45 points by pingswept 12y ago|5 comments
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by pingswept 12y ago
I used to work at one: http://www.mindtribe.com
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by pingswept 12y ago
There is a lot to dislike about him. A man who becomes the preeminent patent troll after already having a enough money to do anything he wants-- worst kind of person, if you ask me.
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by pingswept 12y ago
It appears that you're being downvoted, but I've found Wendell Berry to be one of the most insightful writers about the weaknesses of technological advances, despite the fact that he doesn't use a computer. Reading his essays
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by pingswept 12y ago
(I''m not the OP.) I have a degree in English, and another one in mechanical engineering. The 9 English classes that I took were uniformly less difficult and less rigorous than the 25 or so engineering classes I took. When I studi
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by pingswept 12y ago
I agree that Google's efforts, as you have described, have been exemplary. Have they not also gone along with the NSA in what appear to be violations of the 4th amendment? I'm mostly ignorant of this stuff, but reading the quote b
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by pingswept 13y ago
My parents are both pilots. The numbers are just my estimates from having flown with them a bunch. Maybe my numbers are a little high, but I think I'd stand by them. There's always a bunch of dealing with cranking open the hanger
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by pingswept 13y ago
True, but it takes around 45 minutes to prepare a plane for flight and about 20 minutes to put it away. Also, you have to drive to and from the airport. Planes are incredible, but you have to fly pretty far before they're a timesaver.
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by pingswept 13y ago
A group of programmers who make a popular version of Linux have decided to make their version of Linux start with a new program when the computer boots. Instead of using a program from the 80's called "System V init scripts",
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by pingswept 13y ago
That function just retrieves the rating for one course, based on the course ID that the user has retrieved by searching for some courses. It is certainly requesting data from Yale's server, but I wouldn't call it scraping. To qual
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by pingswept 13y ago
I see where you're going with that, but I don't think delivery of software over a so-called "network" will ever be feasible. Even with a 1200 baud modem, transferring a multi-kilobyte .exe would take hours, and that&#x27
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by pingswept 13y ago
That's a pretty good idea, but don't you think it would take too long for the shipments to get there? They should come up with a way of tracking what pictures people look at and then shipping the stuff in the pictures to the wareh
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by pingswept 13y ago
Ah, similar to Amazon's "shopping cart," the shop could provide a physical cart (imagine a cross between a baby stroller and a faraday cage) to help customers carry inventory to the exit of the store.
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by pingswept 13y ago
Thanks for that. Very interesting read.
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by pingswept 13y ago
You have a decent point here.
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by pingswept 13y ago
But I am OP. That's what I meant when I wrote corruption-- the idea that a nonprofit will be more user-focused since they can't be acquisition-focused, since they're not an acquisition target.
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by pingswept 13y ago
To paraphrase John O'Nolan in his original Kickstarter video for Ghost, Ghost is designed for users, not to please investors or potential acquirers. You can hear the original here: https://ghost.org/features/ star
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by pingswept 13y ago
> Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine Ghost itself is produced by a nonprofit organization. Though I suppose the surrounding ecosystem may eventually be just as commercial as that of Wordpress, the main

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