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by robotmlg 10y ago
I always liked this story, also from Andy Hertzfeld: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
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by robotmlg 10y ago
I know, and it's a great series. I just always liked this story about Jobs.
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Technically speaking, Woz was employee #1 and Jobs was employee #2, although Jobs assigned himself #0 and always had 0 printed on his badge.
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Ah, I remember this model from the episode of Mythbusters where they escape from Alcatraz. They used the model to test potential routes across the bay.
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by robotmlg 10y ago
In the sphere of "talks," I know TED puts a big round carpet on stage that you're supposed to stay on while speaking. More generally for "carpets on stage," I've seen some smaller music venues and studios with
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by robotmlg 10y ago
People seemed to like Scratch [1] a lot a few years ago. Haven't heard much about it since, but IIRC it can switch between flowchart and text mode. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_languag.
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Just buy a spool of wire, a ruler, and some wire cutters and cut your own!
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Yeah, I saw that and wondered if my comment was the inspiration for that post :-)
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by robotmlg 10y ago
The name reminds me of the Solitaire cipher from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, which is calculated using a deck of playing cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher)
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by robotmlg 10y ago
It does happen at sunrise, just on different dates, around the Winter solstice
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by robotmlg 10y ago
NWS actually stopped using all-caps in its forecasts back in May: http://www.noaa.gov/national-weather-service-will-stop-using...
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Can a US court order compel you to provide your nose print?
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by robotmlg 10y ago
I consider that to be at least partially cooked. Enough to destroy the anti-nutrients? I dunno.
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Good thing no one eats raw eggs then
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Cool, thanks
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by robotmlg 10y ago
What about the soil? I'm no botanist, but does the fact that you're using sand affect the types of plants that grow well?
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by robotmlg 10y ago
It's not supposed to be a public domain. They use the domain for the router's internal config page. So instead of going to 192.168.1.1 to configure your router, you can go to tplinklogin.net. Of course, if they don't own t
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by robotmlg 10y ago
I'm betting "Yes you’ll get all the usual benefits, but if you’re really going for perks, Google is your best bet! If you want to make an impact, then please apply." and "We’ll have a large variety of alcohol in the offi
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by robotmlg 10y ago
The bathrooms in Snow Crash are full bathrooms with showers and such. Plus you can pay more and get the super-deluxe bathroom with plush towels and an attendant.
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by robotmlg 10y ago
Gmail doesn't need any config. Add whatever you want to your usual email after a + and it'll just work
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by robotmlg 10y ago
When they announced RoboRace, I was fully hyped, but lately I've grown skeptical. The season is supposed to start in October, but they just announced that the cars would be powered by NVidia chips in April, and they still haven't
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by robotmlg 10y ago
> And figure out where a piece of plastic that popped off a chair is supposed to go. This has happened in every car my family has owned for the past 20 years. Some piece of plastic appears on the floor one day and not even the dealer kn
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by robotmlg 11y ago
That was mostly the audience that showed up to watch the launch, not so much the SpaceX team
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by robotmlg 11y ago
What would you consider a good IOT company?
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by robotmlg 11y ago
> It's easy to build it in a way so that the worst that the software can do is cause it to turn into a "dumb" fridge. If it's so easy, why don't more companies do it? Why didn't Nest build their thermostats
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by robotmlg 11y ago
They're still order cetacea though, which is then split into baleen whales and toothed whales, which is where dolphins and orcas are found.
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by robotmlg 11y ago
Thank you for de-clickbaiting the title
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by robotmlg 11y ago
> In future Group chat may evolve to be Slow-First, instead of Fast-First: Present an email style interface - no chat context, lots of white space, Subject line, etc. Then if you are both online and the recipient(s) respond quickly, dump
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by robotmlg 11y ago
I met Marc Edwards in 2010. when I did a summer program at Virginia Tech. One of the most passionate people you'll ever meet. The big news then was water contamination in D.C. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea
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by robotmlg 11y ago
The NQC implementation for the new Mindstorms kits hasn't been updated since 2011: http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/ A better and more up-to-date C implementation for Mindstorms is RobotC: http://robo

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