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HackaDay for sale; look at the candid numbers(hackaday.com)
2 points by sown 13y ago|0 comments
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by sown 13y ago
Thank you for your input. :) I was expecting 1099, just not sure about the specifics. Thanks for the tip about hours.
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Ask HN: How to do freelance jobs and a full time at the same time
10 points by sown 13y ago|4 comments
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by sown 13y ago
> I don't understand why everyone thinks it's terrible if a government surveils its own citizens but it's totally a-ok if it does foreigners. I think a lot of people are in the "right is might" way of thinking. C
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by sown 13y ago
> There are 7 billion people on the planet and we're all going to be dead in about 100 years. Stop being afraid. I never said we shouldn't go. You did not refute my central point. Instead, you seem to be implying that I am sayi
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by sown 13y ago
> They do it because want to, not necessarily because they can or because it's safe. I think they'd do it for the money some how. In the Americas, that was mostly the motivation for the Virginia Company and the Massachusetts Ba
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by sown 13y ago
You know what's terrifying to me about colonization? The chance of failure. It just seems...more probable. In the Americas there were numerous failed colonies. The Virginia company's Jamestown had half the colonist die in the firs
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by sown 13y ago
So I guess the near-term future is to commoditize the battery like Blue Rhino propane tanks you can swap around at the grocery store?
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How did you or do you get to know a group of users and their problems?
2 points by sown 13y ago|4 comments
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by sown 13y ago
> The business case for serving web content isn't as strong as you might think from a back of the envelope calculation about cost/power vs. performance. How do you feel about other applications of ARM in the datacenter? I seem
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by sown 13y ago
Has any of this been peer reviewed?
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by sown 13y ago
> Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors. I wonder what would happen if they try to find a way to sell that as a service?
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by sown 13y ago
Thanks for doing this. :) Does it help to have a prototype or not? have a startup being planned or not? I've done kernel stuff before but does that hurt or help?
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by sown 13y ago
> Volunteering has to do with helping people in need. I've volunteered before, as I mentioned. Given what you wrote I think you may have missed that sentence. The way you write it, you come across with less warmth and more smug; like yo
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by sown 13y ago
> Question: did you volunteer alone? Nope.
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by sown 13y ago
> EDIT: Oops - nevermind. Dude ninja-deleted his comment that basically said that he wants to travel and have fun but he just doesn't know how to do it. Sorry about that. Whatever I said was so offensive, so I deleted it. > Go to La
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by sown 13y ago
> Have you ever learned another language, or lived in another country for an extended period of time. Yes and yes. > Often when people say 'travel' they mean immerse yourself in another culture. One of the deepest learning experien
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by sown 13y ago
> It sounds like you've made your mind up about how the world works and that's fine, but I think you'd be missing out on some great experiences by not doing at least a little travelling. I have travelled but I don't see what great exper
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by sown 13y ago
> Volunteering and traveling both put you in a position you are not normally in. Volunteering is work. Sometimes hard work, back breaking even. I don't do it for fun, and certainly not the pay. I did it a few times to try to see what it
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by sown 13y ago
Why does everyone say 'travel' or 'volunteer' when these questions get asked? I'm not being rhetorical or sarcastic. I genuinely don't know. I can only assume that it's something I'm missing and everyone else just 'gets' without having to s
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by sown 13y ago
> "I'm not what you want – I'm not Chinese! I don't want to be Chinese. Why can't you get that through your head? I hate the violin. I hate my life. I hate you, and I hate this family!" Her relationship with Lulu in crisis, Chua, finall
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by sown 13y ago
I remember World of Warcraft had a similar issue. The total amount of copper and in turn gold a player could have was the positive half of a signed 32-bit integer.
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by sown 13y ago
Just another suggestion: invoices was something I needed last year. I imagine, though, a lot of such services exist.
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by sown 13y ago
I remember one of the characters from the story, Robert Gu's friend, clutching a laptop -- a hopeless relic in that era -- saying, "I want to see what is really there, not what they want me to see." I get the impression that would be me in
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by sown 13y ago
Neat. I looked at the Raspberry Pi schematic and it seems comprehensible, aside from my ignorance about the bcm2835. now i just need to pick a SoC. Are there any hobby/startup friendly HW vendors out there? The calxeda chip looks like what
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by sown 13y ago
Here's the twist for me: Can I design my own? I've been reading some books on embedded design or making your own PCBs and they had tutorials in eagle. I took digital electronics courses and...is doing a schematic really as easy now for SoC
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by sown 13y ago
Neat! How long have you been going on and how do you get so much content?
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Ask HN: I get GAE and django. I don't really get RoR. What am I doing wrong?
1 points by sown 13y ago|1 comments
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by sown 13y ago
You can probably do just fine with what you know. One project that might help out is to re-write the 8150 USB network adapter project. The devices that have this chipset are easy and cheap to find and the data sheet is easily available. The
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by sown 13y ago
I worked as a linux kernel programmer for a time. All I really did was work slowly on bugs. It seems that there are always neat features that need implementing but the number of engineers with the now specialized skills required is relative

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