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by talkingquickly 12y ago
I'd argue that so far, that's exactly the point, their response makes it worse. "We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns" is a laughable statement to
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
That means there's approximately a 30x markup from raw ABS to a spool of 3D printing filament being sold over the counter in a shop to a consumer. I don't know how much filament costs if you buy industrial quantities rather than c
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
Really? My impression has been that filament is pretty cheap e.g. < $30 per kg. For printing small objects, enclosures, small replacement parts etc, the filament cost has been pretty much negligible. That's why a lot of 3D print sho
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
Yep absolutely, have been wondering about the C1, my only concern is that getting OpenCV and some of the supporting libraries to build on the Pi was a big challenge but doable because there's such a large community to help out. The sam
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
Definitely agree with this. I got Face Detection using OpenCV on a 320x300 video stream to work at about 2fps (e.g. two detection cycles per second) on the B+ over-clocked to 1Ghz so hopefully the Rpi2 will be a substantial improvement on t
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Painting with Code(labs.ideo.com)
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DIY EKG (electrocardiogram) with Arduino and JavaScript(talkingquickly.co.uk)
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
This is one of the languages covered in the excellent Prag Prog book "7 Languages in 7 Weeks" ( https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-we... ). It wasn't until I went through that b
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
Often (in the UK at least) if your insurance is provided as a benefit through a company rather than buying your policy directly, pre existing conditions will be covered even though the provider would normally exclude them if purchased by an
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Auto Generate Vagrant Definitions from Chef Solo JSON Nodes(talkingquickly.co.uk)
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
I was incredibly impressed with how easy it was to create a simple VR app which works with Google Cardboard using Unity. Took me less than a day to get to grips with despite never having done any 3D modelling or game programming before. Put
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Creating VR Applications for Google Cardboard with Unity for beginners(talkingquickly.co.uk)
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The Cult of Done Manifesto (2009)(brepettis.com)
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
I'd be interested to see the method behind any data which looks at whether giving the issue much thought correlates with thinking that eating animals is immoral. In particular with reference to the study you mention, whether it include
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
To use a contrived but parallel example, if I were to suggest that "we should not use walking as a method of moving around" I'd expect the onus to be put on me to explain why this was a good suggestion. So if accept that from
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
I'd agree that the line in this case seems to be quite arbitrary but I'd respectfully suggest that it's not fair to say individuals whom eat meat having not given it much thought. Although that may be true for some people, my
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
That's basically what we do with https://www.makeitwithcode.com , we take people through building things and teach them theory as they go along. Then we go through deploying something to Heroku etc as part of subsequent less
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
Thanks for sharing that, solves a problem which bugs me on a daily basis!
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
I see your point but I think it's still fair comment when the parent isn't suggesting a better approach, they're just saying "don't use this one".
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
This has been driving me crazy for months, I had one version of the old buggy Adobe Air app running and one of the new Native app. Somehow just creating a copy of the new native app just never occurred to me. You just made my day substantia
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by talkingquickly 12y ago
I used to work in business modelling and a part of that was creating and auditing spreadsheets so complex they fell into the "this should never be a spreadsheet" category. There are several proprietary excel addons which are desig
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Have been consistently impressed with the way these guys have iterated on the developer experience as well. The first version of the SDK was completely usable although admittedly limited in what you could do with it. We worked with them for
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I've got a fair bit running on both DO and Linode. Fairly happy with both but still for anything CPU bound (to me the speed part of that), Linode is substantially outperforming DO still and both leave Rackspace Cloud in the dust. So fo
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I think the use case for this is the reading we do because we need to consume the information as quickly as possible rather than the reading we're doing for pleasure. Not that the two are mutually exclusive by any means. I love reading
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
And in a way which so many people relate to. As soon as I saw "xkcd" I knew which one was going to be linked to...
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Very cool. The thing I really like about the early ones was that as an experimental class, you could get boats that were incredibly different to one another but still technically "moths". Much like early formula racing, there real
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I had a very early moth (before they put foils on them) which was still statically unstable. Inland waters with unpredictable winds meant you could go from strong wind to nothing almost instantly and with very little indication it was going
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Didn't know it was displayed in settings, really useful, thanks. My suggestion would be that there should be some sort of notice on the Droplet list page if you're at your limit. I suggest this because I've been using Digital
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I also use them and in general like them but would add to this list; * Can't add backups to an already provisioned node * Undocumented "droplet limits" e.g. one day you'll click "Add Droplet" and it will say &q
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
that's an awesome story. Currently compiling a blog post series of interviews with people who have interesting stories about how they learned to code, would be great to interview you! If you're interested my emails ben at talkingq

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