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Reverse Engineering a Bluetooth Low Energy Light Bulb(learn.adafruit.com)
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by tdicola 12y ago
If Google is back into separate services can we get Reader turned back on please?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Well for whatever reason it certainly didn't help MS in the long run to produce that video. They missed the technology that actually mattered like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad and are still scrambling to catch up to everyone.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'd love to know why companies even waste time making videos like these anymore. Looking back at past stuff (like the 'smart home' from Microsoft in the mid 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_0xDUg
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a long time, thanks! It's so annoying to switch between JS, python, etc. and have to remember simple stuff like appending to an array, etc. again. Very handy to have this c
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by tdicola 12y ago
Err, McDonalds is significantly declining and their CEO is stepping down this weekend: http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ceo-is-out-2015-1 Don't assume what you see locally is how things are at a macro level.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Neat concept, but I can't help finding it ironic that this would make an actual reality of the stereotype that Googlers and tech companies in general are living in a bubble cut off from the rest of society. Also hopefully they won&#x27
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by tdicola 12y ago
Not really, there are two people in the world who have the power to completely obliterate it with a full scale nuclear strike. A small committee of people making a proposal, giving 9 months to comment on it, then vote on it sounds like a no
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by tdicola 12y ago
Look at GPIO expander chips like the MCP23008. They're only a couple bucks and give you GPIO pins you can control over the Pi's I2C bus. You can run a few of them off an I2C bus using different addresses too. Can see the chip a
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by tdicola 12y ago
That's awesome. I have a friend who's really passionate about this stuff and has some development experience in the area--are you guys hiring?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Any idea what battery life might look like on the Linux version? Really hoping it can get near the 10+ hours of the Windows version.
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by tdicola 12y ago
IMHO having everyone call in to listen to a pre-recorded message telling them they're fired is just as bad as the public firing Armstrong gave. At least have the decency to have a face to face conversation or meeting.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Does it really matter? I'm sure countless Apple II's, etc. were bought and barely used too.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow I was curious and it looks like there were only ever about 5-6 million Apple II computers produced (according to Wikipedia). That's pretty darn amazing that the Pi is already on track to surpass the Apple II--what I remember as th
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah the problem is getting to that point. Check out the docs on setting up an apt repo: https://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository Good luck figuring out the easy way of using reprepro and S3 from that page.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I've been looking at hosting some apt packages in a custom repo and am truly impressed/horrified by the layers of complexity necessary & suggested to create one. It boggles my mind why an apt host has to be more than a static
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by tdicola 12y ago
Didn't Will Smith study computer science before he got into acting, music, movies, etc?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Given that the median home price is over $1 million if you want to own a home you're going to be paying closer to $4k/month for a mortgage. After taxes that 125k is closer to 90k take home and once you put away more of that for r
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by tdicola 12y ago
Neat hack but aren't there free tools to do this with a laptop and its wifi adapter? http://www.ekahau.com/wifidesign/ekahau-heatmapper
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by tdicola 12y ago
No these were false alarms at completely random times with no cooking, dusting, or other activity going on. A couple were late at night well after 2am and were pretty nerve rattling.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Does it matter?
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by tdicola 12y ago
The problem is if you have too many false alarms people will rip the smoke detector down and disable it. There's a fine balance.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I don't think it's just Nests, I bought a First Alert smoke alarm a year ago and it just recently started giving me random false alarms. Battery is fine but something is setting it off (not fire or smoke, and yes it has both atom
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by tdicola 12y ago
I think it's a bit looser of analogy, where MacPaint was one of the first desktop computing apps people saw and immediately realized how much better than the old command line tools something could be. Word processors, spreadsheets, et
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by tdicola 12y ago
Is the data behind this visualization available anywhere or do people need to run the BigQuery queries themselves?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Alright I put the Pi 2 in a cardboard box and held the flash at the same spot (but the box obscures the light). It keeps running just fine and doesn't have the nasty spike. Definitely is something light related.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'll put it in a box and try in a little bit, sorry have to do a few things first. I'm 99% sure it's light dependent though, I had to aim the flash at the board and keep it somewhat close to get it to lock up (like 6" a
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow that looks great, nice work!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Oh neat, I just reproed it with a Pi 2 and a Canon Speedlight flash. I'll put my scope on the power lines and see what's happening when you flash the board. Sounds like from the thread one of the power ICs is photo sensitive. ed
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by tdicola 12y ago
Ok, my honest takeaway is that you have too negative an attitude. I'm not a docker cheerleader, and there are likely some good points and issues raised but I couldn't help thinking this came across as just being mad at the world

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