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by tdicola 12y ago
Neat looking library, but it seems woefully out of date for today's modern graphics pipelines. Would be cool to see a similar library but that uses OpenGL and modern GLSL shaders to more closely emulate drawing vectors on a CRT. Stil
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by tdicola 12y ago
That's awesome, but it's weird to me that Facebook, etc. will happily pay a senior engineer a total compensation of $200k+ yet only pledge $50k for the maintainer of a critical tool. Not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth h
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by tdicola 12y ago
Not to mention there's a huge difference between a used car with 890k! miles vs. a used car with closer to 70-100k miles. Sure that Lexus is a well built Toyota with good reliability, but at that mileage you're going to be expect
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by tdicola 12y ago
To put it another way, why is a calendar application worth $100 million?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow what drives up the valuation that much, is it a big userbase, lots of investors to pay back, or something else?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Actually the team that fixed healthcare.gov got quite a bit of rockstar treatment (deservedly so) and were even on the cover of TIME magazine (sadly the article is behind a paywall now I think: http://time.com/10228/oba
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by tdicola 12y ago
Adafruit has it in their shop: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2358
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow I respect him a million times more for having the courage to come out and admit his problems. Good luck on the road of recovery!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah you can actually take it further and see Aliens as a struggle between two mothers, Ripley and the queen alien, fighting over the child Newt. It's also interesting that the strongest characters in the movie are women. Ripley is th
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by tdicola 12y ago
Parts in the engine can only take so much speed, heat, power, etc. before they fail. Sure you could push out a slightly higher performance tune but at some point you're going to need to get into the engine and upgrade moving parts lik
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by tdicola 12y ago
At this point people have been hearing "if WP just had more apps it would be a huge success!" for over three years. If that were true then why don't we see app developers porting apps to Windows Phone in anticipation of the
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FAA public service announcement, “No Drone Zone”(youtube.com)
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice work! There's a great presentation from BSides Las Vegas a few years ago about the ANSI art scene, definitely worth checking out if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILNs1GChGDk
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by tdicola 12y ago
Looks like Adafruit will have the book in its shop too: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2356 Can see some better pics of it there.
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by tdicola 12y ago
No, don't start with this book. Start with something focused on beginners like Make: Electronics by Charles Platt.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm with you, it's just not a big enough time saver to be worth it beyond the novelty IMHO. Also it's way easier to store some dried pasta vs. this hydrated pasta (that presumably has to take up some precious refrigerator sp
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by tdicola 12y ago
Is catching up on your work email after 8pm really freedom from your job?
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by tdicola 12y ago
"8:00pm - Freedom! I usually spend some time in the evenings catching up on email" - I guess Google managers have a slightly different view of freedom from work than I do.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm not an expert, but by all accounts the financials for them are somewhat grim: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/03/24/boxs-ipo-rev... They're spending more in sales than they&
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by tdicola 12y ago
You probably need to make a lot of custom little jigs out of wood and use them to bend pieces around curves and such.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I would make a separate blog post on it and post that here, or even just an Ask HN type post. That said it sounds interesting, but I would love to hear how committed the team is to keeping these things alive. What VP is behind PTVS and wil
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by tdicola 12y ago
Folks interested in interactive fiction (aka text adventures, but that name implies something a little different these days) should definitely check out the annual interactive fiction contest: http://www.ifcomp.org/ The wi
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by tdicola 12y ago
Android, iOS, etc. have strong separation of application data and consumers definitely care about the enhanced security that comes from it.
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by tdicola 12y ago
It's sad because there's a lot of nice developments with modern operating systems like containerization, transactioned updates with rollbacks, etc. and as far as I can tell Windows 10 has none of it. They've just been spinni
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by tdicola 12y ago
Sad that this story isn't getting more interest from the HN crowd. I think this is great news and am really interested in checking out what Ubuntu Core is like on some small Linux boards. After learning a lot about CoreOS, I love the
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow looking at some of the images and what their setup recognized them as, I am really impressed. The bathtub in particular is pretty amazing.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Weren't they building some insane barge in San Francisco and New York to be a consumer showcase for Glass? Guess that's sunk now.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice work! I had no idea about that rabiscoscopio tool, but it looks really neat.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Funny, I had just switched over my last GoDaddy domain yesterday to start using a different nameserver and finally move it off their system entirely. Might have to give this a try.
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is not news or a secret: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2011/05/19/500-million-frien... You can learn more about the tech here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

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