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by quux 12y ago
I imagine the cost savings would be huge. The fuel and oxidizer for a typical satellite launch is only a few hundred thousand dollars, but the rocket is in the 10's of millions. Even if you add a million or 2 for refurbishing the used
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by quux 12y ago
He actually wasn't that passionate about enterprise stuff, but could clearly make it look like he was in important events like this. I think at this time, he was getting tired of NeXT and was looking to sell the company so he could fo
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by quux 12y ago
Once the plane leaves the ground it enters federal jurisdiction and medical marijuana is contraband. I learned this during training for my pilot's license. One of the examiners in my area liked to ask candidates about this during thei
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by quux 12y ago
Here's an appendix he made with some more details about the mechanical DAC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SC7oWL78A&list=UU2bkHVIDjX...
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by quux 12y ago
It's a Freedom Chair by Humanscale
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by quux 12y ago
I love this video of him getting it working for the first time. Must have felt so good :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEYaCAQLy4s
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by quux 12y ago
Or you can do what some people have done and carve an AR-15 receiver out of wood. Making your own receiver isn't really news.
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by quux 12y ago
I got some info about this from my local UPS store a few weeks ago. They can print STL or Autocad files, and have a designer on call who can create a CAD file from drawings at a reasonable hourly rate. They couldn't give me an exact ra
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by quux 12y ago
I think there were also some technical reasons for the character design, or at least the costume design. When the team was interviewed on Debug they said they had to make a choice to keep the polygon count low: Non skintight costumes? or mo
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by quux 12y ago
Nice project! anyone know how this compares to using an Objective-C sqlite wrapper like FMDB from swift?
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by quux 12y ago
NeXT had X buttons to close windows before windows 95, with a very similar look to to win 95 window button styles too. I think NeXTStep 1.0 was in 1989 or thereabouts.
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by quux 12y ago
There aren't any traffic lights and crosswalks on this street?
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by quux 12y ago
Now that you mention it, yeah it is... It looks like a lot of the symbols and punctuation characters in Garamond Pro are slanted with no logical pattern or reason. Would drive me nuts if I were using it. http://i.imgur.com/C
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by quux 12y ago
Been running it since beta 2 or so. Latest build is pretty good. Wifi drops out every once in a while and something weird is going on with my audio routing where it keeps trying to route to airplay devices that may or may not be present. VM
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by quux 12y ago
The owner or operator of the bot.
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by quux 12y ago
Doesn't the codename usually come before the project?
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by quux 12y ago
Doom and Doom 2 were 32-bit games...
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Why The Best Way Into Your Customer's iPhone Is The Headphone Jack
2 points by quux 12y ago|0 comments
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by quux 12y ago
I wonder where Weird Al Yankovic would come in on this ranking.
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by quux 12y ago
I think the difference is that I used the word API in my submissions title, which immediately makes the developer part of my brain say "Comic book API? What's that about?" and want to know more.
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by quux 12y ago
How was this reposted so many times? I was sure when I posted it that someone would have beaten me to it and I would be up voting their post.
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by quux 12y ago
Via John Carmack's twitter feed: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/459728407169728512
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Marvel Comics API(developer.marvel.com)
197 points by quux 12y ago|62 comments
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by quux 13y ago
You don't have to use .* and friends when operating in 2 scalers, 2 * 3 works just fine. But if you have 2 matrices A and B, A * B does a matrix multiplication, And A .* B is needed for element wise multiplication. I'm still new t
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by quux 13y ago
As I read the article I kept expecting the part where he was suspended from school for the rest of the semester for breaking the school's zero tolerance policy on "cyber attacks" or something.
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by quux 13y ago
Anyone else getting deja vu? Makes me think of Sun open sourcing Java.
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by quux 13y ago
Doh they something changed... when I posted that comment the full article was readable.
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by quux 13y ago
Link to article without hitting the paywall: http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2...
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Oculus CEO Palmer Lucky responds to Notch's "cancellation" of Minecraft for Rift(i.imgur.com)
12 points by quux 13y ago|7 comments
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by quux 13y ago
Didn't/doesn't Nintendo have similar restrictions? I don't think this is such an unreasonable reason to reject an app.

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