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1. 691.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   It depends where you are in the world. I believe they're exceptionally popular in some parts of Asia like China and Korea. In places where everyone has a personal computer powerful enough for everything they do with it, and with a tablet/la
2. 692.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   There are many reasons: * Inspiration - the space program was a huge morale booster and directly responsible for a lot of people going into the science/engineering professions. * Dual-use technologies - most of the problems you end up solvi
3. 693.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   > There's really no way you could have provided a worse experience unless you actively tried. Oddly enough, that's been tried at least once: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pa...
4. 694.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   There seems to be quite a lot of controversy over the lineage of quite a few of the top chess engines, from what I recall reading. I can't find the article I'm remembering this from right now, but I think it was focused on [a] decision to d
5. 695.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   Single-page app for something that really doesn't need to be? Not even a <noscript> so you're not actually sure if the page loaded or not[1]. Gratuitous animations between slides? Barest hint of content scattered across slides? If I
6. 696.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   > Your highest investment pledge ($10k or more) is an insult to the investor. They will essentially pay for 1/7th of your company, while getting no % of your company in return. There's absolutely no way that this 70k is the value of
7. 697.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   Does this mean all the current "Markdown" implementations out there are in violation of this licence term[1]? How would one reasonably convey that their formatter is markdown-capable? It would seem to me that there's a significant differenc
8. 698.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   I'm currently in the middle of a very similar situation. It's fine for dev, but throwing hundreds of queries at a single request just isn't going to scale. We've ended up with stuff like: class Meta(SomeResource.Meta): c
9. 699.▲
   by shabble 14y ago

   There's at least one US company I know of called TechShop[1] who have 5 or 6 places around the US with pretty well equipped workshops, along with instruction/safety classes etc. On the more DIY front, Hackerspaces[2] are a sort of community
10. 700.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    There is of course the apocryphal story of Henry Ford and the junkyard analysis[1]: "Ford sent a team of agents to tour the scrap-yards of America in search of discarded Model T Fords. He told them to find out which components never failed.
11. 701.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    That assumes your end goal is actually using the provided models in your application. It sounds like this is using them as pure data only. I can think of a couple of reasons why you might want that, maybe if you wanted to create a relations
12. 702.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    The limiting factor there is primarily the domain name length, rather than the specific content reference, or at least the thing least easily changeable.
13. 703.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    Also see http://www.devthought.com/2012/01/18/an-object-is-not-a-hash... from earlier about some pitfalls that you might not immediately consider. (HN Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4629544 )
14. 704.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    Low-level tools that just spam requests at your webserver will give you a pleasingly high number (hopefully), but are unlikely to be an accurate picture of how many 'users' you can concurrently sustain. Try to come up with some automated te
15. 705.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    I totally missed that, thanks. Tested and working now.
16. 706.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    Never heard of Pow before, but on inspection it looks very interesting and could save a bunch of time. Anyone know if there's any way to make it work with python (WSGI or similar) services? It's kinda hard to search 'pow' without ending up
17. 707.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    I was hoping this would involve some sort of crazy energy transfer like cavitation heating or something. Still a neat project, but I'm sure there are better things to do with a functional pulse-jet. This led me to wonder: what's the fastest
18. 708.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    I wonder what the minimum viable wifi-jammer is here? Have you considered any sort of pingdom style monitoring for that sort of thing? (Obviously, it's a really unlikely scenario right now, but if they can keep it off the air long enough to
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    Custom discrete microswitch keyboard(mykeyboard.co.uk)

    2 points by shabble 14y ago|0 comments
20. 710.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    This is an excellent compilation of info and tricks and I look forward to using some of it myself on the software side. On the hardware side, I don't think I've ever seen anything surpassing http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/ in sheer d
21. 711.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    You could potentially store them inside/along with a virtual machine image which would be capable of rendering them, and then document the crap out of the VM (which would require as few, and as simple, external interfaces as possible), such
22. 712.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    pretty sure the major selling point of mobile phones was to have a phone, that was mobile. They existed in various forms before the 90s, but were far too bulky and expensive for popular use; it was the reduction in those factors which resul
23. 713.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    As someone who watches far too much "How It's Made" and other engineering porn, one of the things you start to notice is the amount of 'human glue' logic in production processes. Whenever there's a weird-shaped widget that needs to be inser
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    by shabble 14y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
25. 715.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    I find this really annoying, I use '/' to use the browser find-in-page, and apps hijacking it for their search field instead ruins it. Yes, there are other bindings, but / is in finger-memory at this point. I wonder if there's some sort of
26. 716.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    I wonder if the Dice-o-Matic[1] creator offers an API? Also, how much harder it would be to support multiple shapes of dice for true authenticity. On a more serious note, looks interesting (although I'm not really the target audience), but
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    by shabble 14y ago

    I've watched a couple of these 'casts now and they're really quite informative, although I do wonder if the author constantly adding/editing comments as the main narrative/exposition method is the most instructive. Obviously there will be t
28. 718.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    I've found cmd <(another_cmd) to be particularly useful in the past for pushing generated data into something that doesn't accept - as an alias for STDIN. I'm not sure if it's a different way of expressing one of the listed it
29. 719.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    Thanks, I should probably have actually mentioned what it does initially :) Couple of minor points: -F is actually 'quit immediately if the input is less than 1 screen-worth of text'. It means you can just pipe any old thing into it, and if
30. 720.▲
    by shabble 14y ago

    Also, you should consider: export LESS=-i -g -M -R -x4 -X -f -F -z-1 for a much happier pager.