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by tdicola 12y ago
That reminds me, earlier this month I saw a great PBS Nova episode about Neil Armstrong's life: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/first-man-on-moon.html It talked a bit about the X-15 and some crazy si
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by tdicola 12y ago
Agile came about somewhat as a reaction to huge processes like waterfall, RUP, etc. that were espoused by many books, conferences, etc. at the time as the best practice and 'right' way to build software. The point being made here
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by tdicola 12y ago
Why can't this argument be flipped on its side, if 95% of the best programmers are outside the US then why aren't the venture capitalists investing in and building companies outside the US? Surely we should see 95% of their portf
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by tdicola 12y ago
The image of the job posting is from craigslist.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Go to a good hair stylist and get their opinion on what looks best like shaving it off entirely, going for a buzz cut, etc. They work with hair all day and know what looks best with your head shape, baldness, etc.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome work! Do any classic DOS demos work like Second Reality?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Have been holding off on upgrading to Yosemite until the dust settles. I find it funny that I'm not even getting nagged at all to upgrade (unlike on iOS where I was getting nagged constantly to upgrade to iOS 8). It's almost lik
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice, I've been doing a bit with packaging python modules and have found the current lay of the land incredibly confusing. This article helps quite a bit and seems to be the most authoritative guide I've seen on the subject.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I was always so jealous of the kids on Mr. Wizard's World that would get to play with the Heathkit HERO-1 robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT7nZwxb-DI Sad that the current owners are letting the name & IP la
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome estate, but wouldn't it be more fun to buy 70 $1 million homes across the entire globe?
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by tdicola 12y ago
I find HN's infatuation with SR-71 kind of amusing. I think the site should have a logo that's the SR-71 flying over a globe or something similar. If you think about it the Y logo kind of looks like an SR-71... :)
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by tdicola 12y ago
> I as a moviegoer would be extremely scared to go to watch this movie in it's opening week. Sadly, that's exactly the fear the hackers want you to have. You have much higher odds being hurt or killed in a car accident on the
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by tdicola 12y ago
Interesting to see a Cortex-M4 on board, certainly no way it's running Windows. Maybe they have some simple RTOS?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Techreport.com has a great podcast (and website in general).
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow what a bummer--it will definitely be missed. I fondly remember reading great articles about graphics programming and C++ development back in the 90's.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm actually going through and setting up KeePass with two factor auth (just using Google's Authenticator app for now, maybe a yubikey in the future) right now and have a similar question. After looking into KeePass and kicking t
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by tdicola 12y ago
Agreed on the safety concerns, but I think the point of the project was learning, not saving money.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I think I've read this exact same story for the last 25 years. Will believe a Mach 5+ commercial jet when I see it.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Everyone has a price. Everyone.
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by tdicola 12y ago
In a lot of cases there are multiple CAN or similar buses, like one for engine components, one for accessories, one for emissions (OBD2), etc. There definitely are valid concerns with malicious attacks, but they can be mitigated a bit by s
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by tdicola 12y ago
It was a peak of the architecture astronaut era unfortunately.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I just bought an unlocked Moto G and couldn't be happier. It's not the latest and greatest specs but it's good enough for most people. The best thing is getting out of the rat race of carrier subsidized phones. Good riddan
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by tdicola 12y ago
Teensy boards are really slick, they're great small ARM boards with a lot of power. The audio filters and such here look great.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yep I can't agree more. These are just things that can be replaced. Losing something or someone you can never replace is truly sad.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm in the same boat and am curious, how is Dart and Polymer.dart? I watched a few videos from Google I/O, etc. and am really impressed with how much more sane Dart seems to make the frontend development world. Anyone gone down
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm not sure why you're ruling out Mac laptops, perhaps you think they're too expensive? I was a long time Thinkpad user but converted to a MacBook Air a few years ago and haven't looked back at all since. You can run
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by tdicola 12y ago
Dumb question, but can you just root these and install a stock Android 5.0 image on them? That's about the only way I'd be interested in this phone unfortunately. Even then a Moto X or even Moto G is probably a better idea.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm surprised this issue wasn't caught at Apple. You would think they must have a huge network of Macs and iPhones--surely someone should have noticed the poor WiFi performance.
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by tdicola 12y ago
It almost feels like this was setup to be leaked. Instead of paying $1M to dig up dirt, now they can just pay for a few faux-pologetic PR messages and have even more journalists worried about covering them badly in the future.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I wonder what chip they're using, Quark SoC perhaps?

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