swamp40

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811.
Fitbit Force fitness and sleep tracking watch officially announced(engadget.com)
8 points by swamp40 13y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
The US military loves its hi-tech toys. And that trickles down significantly into the US hi-tech private sector. Like NASA back in the 60's.
813.
by swamp40 13y ago
Here in the Midwest, you can't stop the lawn from growing beautifully on its own, at least in May thru July. You can take an abandoned field and mow it once and it will look good. Maybe not great, but nice. Watering only gets you from
814.
by swamp40 13y ago
> Lono includes bluetooth 4.0 (LE) so the Lono app will be able to recognize the device by proximity (no pairing required). This will make setup of the device a snap– especially on iOS 7 which has an API to automatically setup wifi acce
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by swamp40 13y ago
Saurik eviscerated this announcement in yesterday's post about Login & Pay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6516948
816.
by swamp40 13y ago
The spot where I am sitting (near Chicago) has been under 100+ feet of glacial ice at least four times in the past - most recently less than 20,000 years ago. As a reasonable thinking person, I see no reason not to expect that to happen aga
817.
by swamp40 13y ago
> "wake up, initialize sensor, take a reading, store it to flash, set timer, go to sleep" Actually, you can do all that in about 30ms. Less, if you just save to RAM and then only write to flash when you have filled up your buff
818.
by swamp40 13y ago
Honestly, you would think that a company that has experienced "massively larger than anticipated" once before would be a good choice for this project.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I'm pretty jaded w/r/t the fed gov, but I don't see where anyone gains here. People are so outraged that they call up their senator and demand...what? The only thing people will demand is that the website gets fixed ASAP
820.
by swamp40 13y ago
Well, not everyone can be a star.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Sounds a lot like the unpaid internship positions I've seen offered at plenty of startups. Just on an industrial scale.
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Obamacare website resets all passwords(usfinancepost.com)
1 points by swamp40 13y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
This article on the Healthcare.gov authors ( Development Seed ) from back in June makes me so mad I could spit. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/health... Especially these paragraphs
824.
by swamp40 13y ago
The Treasury Secretary is charged with paying the interest on the US debt. It doesn't need the approval of President Obama, nor can he explicitly prevent it.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Lessons from my father: Shit is best eaten in small bites, as it is served.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Well, ever is a long time. Give it another 1000 years. We will get fusion sooner or later - just to say we did it, if for nothing else.
827.
Bach for Engineers(edn.com)
5 points by swamp40 13y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
Why should I take advice on how to stay married from some guy that intentionally and systematically drove his marriage into the ground? Especially since the main point of his article seems to be to further promote his business ( BzzAgent ,
829.
by swamp40 13y ago
Well, riddle me this: Why is the Cayman Islands, with a population of 56,000, the 5th largest financial center in the world?
830.
by swamp40 13y ago
I think one of the unintended consequences of shutting down Silk Road so publicly will be that the existence of the Tor network is now being advertised to lots of people for the first time. A lot of regular people are probably now say
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by swamp40 13y ago
It's from some kind of character generator software package. You pick a 'beard' and drag it onto the person, etc. This similar looking one is all over the internet: http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/SUPERV
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by swamp40 13y ago
Where's the glory in that?
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by swamp40 13y ago
Yes, that paragraph jumped right out at me as well. Those are some radical statements. The rule of law is the foundation of civilization. People most certainly do have the right to enact laws which protect themselves and their families fr
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by swamp40 13y ago
> said to be found with two bullet wounds near his heart. Certainly sounds like Mossad. Fum, Fum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM4h4TsEDqE
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The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up(gizmodo.com)
10 points by swamp40 13y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
I agree, DPR figured they were the same person. Payed off anyways but at the same time negotiated a discount and scared the guy into not trying it again. This is corroborated by the fact that the FBI knew the name, date and city yet could
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by swamp40 13y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention here that the pills actually contained steroids and muscle relaxants, and all of the fatalities involved issues with long-term steroid use and/or withdrawal. Doctors and the FDA began to get suspici
838.
by swamp40 13y ago
I agree with most of your argument, but almost every Android phone for the last 3 years has had NFC installed - so I'll bet the installed userbase is actually more than for Apple's Bluetooth LE.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I've been wondering recently if iBeacon is the first showing of a 2 year long plan to crush NFC and take over POS payments, or whether Apple released iBeacon just for better Passbook functionality, and then the world anointed it as the
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by swamp40 13y ago
Everything is iBeacons these days. Doesn't matter that Bluetooth LE has been out since 2010, and was first developed by Nokia in 2006. I actually don't mind. I've been waiting for years for Bluetooth LE to take off. If this

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