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by tdicola 12y ago
This is great news, but aren't there bigger fish to fry with really supporting node.js & npm on Windows? The 255 character path limit bug has been around for a long time and still unresolved/broken on Windows (see https:&#x2
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Show HN: Raspberry Pi NFC Minecraft Blocks(learn.adafruit.com)
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by tdicola 12y ago
The Microsoft ad on the page facing the Alien article is awesome too. Way cooler logo and funny to see them selling an accessory for the Apple 2!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Master of Puppets is one IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbXIUCUb20
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by tdicola 12y ago
The guy that made the music (Bobby Prince) was a lawyer, so I bet he knew exactly what you could and couldn't get away with.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow beautiful site, nice work to all involved! I found there's a good blog post about how it all works too: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go... It's all static pages wit
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm pretty sure leaving a job, even on your own accord, is a qualifying event that you can use to get subsidized healthcare. You should definitely look into what option are available.
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is just the build system that powers Visual Studio projects. Rosyln is a compiler as a service that lets you compile and inspect .NET code programmatically with an API.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Oh that would be too funny if you could do it. Given how MS fired all their Windows org QA folks it wouldn't surprise me if something like that slipped through too.
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by tdicola 12y ago
The iPhone alone is making more in a quarter than Microsoft makes in an entire year. I'm pretty sure Apple couldn't care less about Microsoft right now.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Don't get your hopes up, by all accounts 'Windows 10' on the Pi 2 is a special version just for running GUI-less embedded applications. Look at what they have already for the Galileo/Edison (C++ only apps, no GUI) and e
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by tdicola 12y ago
Ah, so reading between the lines I'm going to guess they're building Win 10 devices with a built in kinect-like device that does depth sensing in addition to photo recognition.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'd love to understand more about how the face recognition works. Does it have any way to combat someone just printing out a picture of your face and holding it up? I've done some simple face recognition stuff with OpenCV and it
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by tdicola 12y ago
If you're super enthusiastic about python, why not start contributing to its development by fixing bugs, etc? It's also a long, slow process to get plugged into a big open source project but it's a nice thing to put on a res
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by tdicola 12y ago
This should be stickied at the top: http://www.thoughtworks.com/talks/the-death-of-agile
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by tdicola 12y ago
Presumably they're just spraying the walls in something like that Neverwet spray ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrjXSsfxMQ ). I wonder if they realize that it breaks down in sunlight and won't work after a few
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by tdicola 12y ago
Anyone who wants to actually build the board. USB 3.0 is a whole new ball game and has lots of gotchas with board layout & design. Check out Jared Boon's Daisho talk for some good background on USB 3.0 challenges: https:/&#
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by tdicola 12y ago
Is there a layout yet or is it just a schematic? From what I understand USB 3.0 is so crazy fast it requires quite a bit of RF magic/knowledge to even just route from the connector to a chip on a board.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I've had a Chromebook for over a year now and my best advice is to skip straight to installing a real Linux distribution (either using crouton or just natively). The reality of ChromeOS apps is much further off than the dream of some
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by tdicola 12y ago
From what I understand the pixel is basically built by and for Google employees. They use it to SSH, VNC, etc. into remote servers and development machines to get actual work done.
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by tdicola 12y ago
They were probably trying to play chicken with Ellen and hope that she would be scared off by having to testify about her relationships, etc. in a trial. However it seems like they played right into what she wants and now all their dirty l
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by tdicola 12y ago
That $600/month was what the company was paying for your health insurance, not some number they made up. Think of it like you were earning more than $9/hour but some of that money went to pay for your health insurance.
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by tdicola 12y ago
You can pick up a 7" touchscreen (1280x800) that works with a DPI display like this blog post mentioned right here: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2354
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by tdicola 12y ago
I was really hoping to enter that contest with an entry that just used rand to flip a coin and invest. Never had the time unfortunately, but would still love to see how a completely random strategy compares to some of the algorithms.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Sure, but 99% of Pi users are going to use the default Raspbian OS and won't have the luxury of a ramdisk and read-only filesystem.
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by tdicola 12y ago
> Even if it were corrupting the FILES being written when hard booted, it shouldn't corrupt the FILESYSTEM being written. That's not how SD cards work unfortunately. When an SD card erases data, like if it's updating a fi
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by tdicola 12y ago
This comes up with every Pi post on HN for some reason, but if you're getting SD card corruption you either have a bad card (check the known good cards: http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards ) or are not shutting the Pi down
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by tdicola 12y ago
I think in later Uno revisions they added a IOREF pin for shields to read what voltage the IO is at and could in theory adapt to 5V or 3.3V as necessary. But yeah it's still a pain in the butt for older shields that assume they'r
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by tdicola 12y ago
You won't find many powerful ARM chips that are in a DIP package. There are a couple from NXP (like the LPC810: https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-the-lpc810/i... ), but otherwise it's just not w
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by tdicola 12y ago
These guys are far from being the first to automate handwriting and signatures. Chances are if you get a form letter back from a politician, important person, etc. it's been signed by a robot like this.

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