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by robertfw 13y ago
It may be your first result on google, but thanks to individualized filtering and filter bubbles [1] there is no way to tell what the first result will be for someone else. [1] http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ted-talk
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by robertfw 13y ago
> The experiment drove enough interest that Rhinehart decided to do a pivot, and change his YC-backed startup from working on wireless networking to making Soylent full-time. That's really stretching what pivoting is, no?
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We'll just have to cross our fingers that they don't run into any cylons... More realistically, I wonder what the attack surface of a highly computerized, networked ship like this is? What kind of separation can you achieve betwee
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by robertfw 13y ago
Did this lead to anything or is this project abandoned? It looks very interesting, but the repo shows the latest work being a year ago.
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by robertfw 13y ago
When alternative text input comes up I always feel compelled to share Dasher[1]. Dasher is designed with accessible computing in mind, and can be driven using a wide variety of input method. The project appears to be abandoned - so no leap
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by robertfw 13y ago
It also cannot deal with occluded fingers, which also makes things tricky.
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by robertfw 13y ago
Absolutely - why o why do you have random purple icons taking up half the screen, pushing your content below the fold? Ditch em! edit: Having browsed the rest of the thread I see this may be a bug. If it helps, I am using: Version 28.0.1500
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by robertfw 13y ago
There has been some interesting work from Johnathon Edwards @ http://www.subtext-lang.org/
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by robertfw 13y ago
I have done some searching and have not turned up anything. The functionality that datomic enables is really intriguing, but I have trouble bringing myself around to using a non-open source bit of tooling.
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by robertfw 13y ago
considering e=mc2, it's not surprising that matter and energy can both accomplish the same thing - they are the same thing
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by robertfw 13y ago
I've been wondering if lisp languages would be a good fit for this, as they have a minimum of syntax.
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He'll probably serve a fraction of that :(
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The idea is that once a sizeable enough amount of bitcoin is in circulation, the amount of risk associated with it will go down, thus making it more useful to people - volatile money is of no use to me.
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by robertfw 13y ago
I'm finding it faster to do the tab polling than it would to extract out the items I want to bin from one unified inbox. Definitely making my morning email cull faster.
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by robertfw 13y ago
really interested in this language, seems to be fairly timely with the heightened level of interest in distributed services.
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from the article: Battery removal can be equally deceptive. Even once one figures out how to extract the primary battery, there may be additional power sources within the apparatus. “Some phones use an additional battery for memory manageme
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by robertfw 13y ago
We're just about to embark on moving our uploaded files to S3 and were discussing yesterday how we should structure our dev/production environments. Thanks for the timely article!
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radicalphoenix at gmail.com, thanks!
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in the study they only printed four letters in colour, not the entire alphabet
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by robertfw 13y ago
Back up now. Linode has definitely been doing all they can to scare me off!
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by robertfw 13y ago
seems to be slowly coming back up in fits and starts, but not looking real stable.
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Linode Fremont Experiencing Network Outage(status.linode.com)
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by robertfw 13y ago
it's possible on my laptop keyboard as the alt/ctrl are right next to the arrow keys, but admittedly it's not a particularly natural or comfortable way to do it
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by robertfw 13y ago
sort of answering my own question from deeper in the comments, https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/323177177367601152 looks like Armin is gearing up to take care of business!
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by robertfw 13y ago
The one thing that has me worried about using Flask is python 3 support; the last I heard, Armin had moved on and it wasn't looking like he would be putting much work into Flask. Does anyone know if there is ongoing work to bring Flask to p
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by robertfw 13y ago
I've often wondered if our "divide and conquer" approach to dealing with various inequalities is missing the point, and in pursuing specific, targeted policies, we're simply exacerbating the problem
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I think his point is that without a time estimate, you don't know how long it is going to take and thus if you are charging hourly, you don't know what the 100% is that you're taking 50% of. This obviously doesn't matter if you are charging
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by robertfw 13y ago
For a consumer, perhaps, but for protecting thousands of individuals...
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by robertfw 14y ago
they are mnemonics for remembering the various note icons above: a below: b etc
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by robertfw 14y ago
How does this affect the ability to run staging vs production environments? We had been looking at using dotCloud thanks in large part to the ability to run as many staging environments as we needed on the same infrastructure. With that sai

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