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by spchampion2 9y ago
There was a period for me around 2008 where Mashable was one of my go-to sites for tech news. It was like a more fun, less grumpy version of TechCrunch. And then over time I read it less and less, until one day I realized that my Facebook f
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by spchampion2 9y ago
Discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15656931
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by spchampion2 9y ago
My experience with JTAG (and it's been a little while since I've used it) is that the device clock must be stopped before you can read the instrumented flip-flops. This is because they're serialized together, meaning you shif
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by spchampion2 9y ago
It would be interesting to take the modeled number of MACHO black holes based on lensing studies and compare it to the modeled numbers of intermediate black holes based on LIGO data. I'd love to know if those two numbers substantially
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Restaurants Rethink Everything as Market Pains Pile Up(upserve.com)
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by spchampion2 9y ago
This brings back some memories from 2012. I was updating an internal tool at the company where I worked, and after a lot of thought I decided to replace a tried and true MySQL database with Mongo. It really seemed like a good idea at the ti
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by spchampion2 9y ago
Check out Third Rail Projects. I saw one of their productions in Denver, and it was incredible. http://www.thirdrailprojects.com
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Americans no longer have to register non-commercial drones with the FAA(recode.net)
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One Google Employee on Trump Order: ‘It’s Turned My Life Upside Down’(wsj.com)
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by spchampion2 10y ago
Have they ever figured out compatibility with iOS? I feel like this is the biggest thing holding them back from broader adoption.
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by spchampion2 10y ago
I so wish I could have learned CS this way in college. I ended up doing EE instead, which really came down to a preference for the order in which I learn things.
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by spchampion2 10y ago
I sort of wish he'd write a new edition of Applied Cryptography. I learned so much from that book in the 90s, but so much has changed since then.
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by spchampion2 10y ago
> I wish that there was a site with an hn-level of moderation that covered issues like bikes, local news, etc. You mean like Metafilter? http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/scrdr/
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Runkeeper has been acquired by sportwear company ASICS(thenextweb.com)
1 points by spchampion2 11y ago|0 comments
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by spchampion2 11y ago
I've been an REI member for longer than I can remember, but I've never voted in one of their elections. Lately though, I've been questioning my loyalty to the brand. Their prices are substantially higher than some of their on
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by spchampion2 11y ago
I got the impression that Kylo Ren was toying with him. The whole chest thumping bit was Ren saying "I'm kicking your ass without even trying."
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by spchampion2 11y ago
I flew on an L-1011 in 1997 when I was a senior in high school, and the aircraft felt very old. I saw a nameplate near the galley that showed the aircraft having been made in the early 1970s, and I was amazed that something could possibly f
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by spchampion2 11y ago
Related: "Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride" http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
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ScaleVP's Sharon Wienbar on Being the New CEO for Hackbright Academy(hackbrightacademy.com)
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by spchampion2 11y ago
This reminds me of the treasure supposedly hidden in the American Southwest by Forrest Fenn. He says it's still out there and has not yet been found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure
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by spchampion2 11y ago
The article mentions that companies could increase their valuations by increasing the number of shares in the option pool. But how would that work? I'm not seeing the math on that.