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by tdicola 12y ago
The ability to make a popular game franchise exclusive to their gaming hardware. Just take some money you would have spent on advertising and dump it into buying some franchises for exclusivity. Also since Mojang is a European company MS c
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow, good for Mojang and notch. I kind of fear that this is just going to be another Rare though. All the talent will move on after the handcuffs are off and the popular franchises will just languish. edit: Also I hope this wouldn't
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by tdicola 12y ago
Very useful feature for werewolves. This watch will be a hit in the Twilight universe.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm with you--I thought the iPad was dumb and happily ate crow after using one. Looking at the Apple Watch today I'm scratching my head wondering what's the point and who really wants to be even more distracted by their devi
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by tdicola 12y ago
I worry this will be a massive target for theft. If someone sees you wearing an Apple Watch they know you have at least a $350 watch and $400+ phone on your person.
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by tdicola 12y ago
The cynic in me winces when thinking of the mess all the banks and interested companies would make trying to get together and build a payment standard. Just look at the terrible mess of stuff like OFX.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Impressive how much Intel can shrink their X86 processors and supporting hardware. However I think Intel is making a mistake trying to push Arduino 'compatibility' with this and the Galileo. Unless they actually put an AVR micro
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by tdicola 12y ago
On the contrary congressmen are incredibly busy people. Something like 60-70% of their time is campaigning and raising money for the next election. If you aren't raising money for your election, you're raising money for your par
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by tdicola 12y ago
So what was new-agey about this interview?
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by tdicola 12y ago
I think a lot of people like the idea of a fresh cooked meal a lot more than the reality of actually making it.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Price. You can find lots of cheapo regulators for pennies each: http://www.aliexpress.com/7805-voltage-regulator_reviews.htm... However you usually get what you pay for so it's worth getting a genuine part.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I thought the same thing while reading the description of the lecture series. I loved Connections!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Don't believe the hype of pico projectors. I have one on a Sony camcorder and it's really not useful at all. You need a very dark room to get a good image. To make something usable in normal light conditions would require a sup
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by tdicola 12y ago
Depends on the area but 300k is probably pushing it outside management and less than 15+ years of experience. Most fresh out of college offers at big companies these days I hear are slightly north of 100k, so 150-200k for senior folks isn&
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by tdicola 12y ago
I would also add Macbook Air with Parallels/VMware/etc. running Linux. Price is in the $900 range for an entry level one, build quality is great, and battery life is amazing. Running Linux in a VM is nice because you get working
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by tdicola 12y ago
The TI-89 destroyed my ability to do calculus. It was just too easy to plug in a problem and get an immediate answer. Great calculator, but be careful not to depend on it too much.
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by tdicola 12y ago
The thing that impresses me the most about the shuttle is that it was designed in the mid 60's, built in the 70's/80's, and flew 100+ missions to space over ~30 years. I have a car that was built in the mid-80's an
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by tdicola 12y ago
I wouldn't write off the shuttle so quickly. It flew 100+ missions, brought up the Hubble and helped fix it, brought up parts of the ISS, etc. Sure it didn't get past low earth orbit but it did a lot of great stuff.
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by tdicola 12y ago
XSLT is kind of like complex regexs, it's a write-only language. I've written a few XSLT transformations over the years for various things and every single time without fail I realize at the end it was a huge mistake. Also most d
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by tdicola 12y ago
Inkscape is a nice open source SVG editor.
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by tdicola 12y ago
If you're on Windows, you owe it to yourself to check out a little known Microsoft utility called logparser: http://mlichtenberg.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/log-parser-rock... It effectively lets you query
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome! How do you boot up the processor, do you still have to use the GPU firmware blob to get the processor to do anything? edit: Looking at the source, yeah you have to use Broadcom's firmware.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Even better, it's a language called beans. None of the kids today know about it so you'll have massive street cred.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Let's call it the common object request broker architecture or CORBA for short. Someone check if anyone is using that name already.
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by tdicola 12y ago
My thoughts too--I couldn't understand why so many words had to be written to describe an interface and a concrete implementation.
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by tdicola 12y ago
How much longer does Amazon have before investors start beating the drum to become profitable? Would love to see where Twitch fits into their bottom line--I guess it might help sell Fire TVs?
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by tdicola 12y ago
So what beverage do SV burners prefer to be doused in at Burning Man, grass-fed butter and coconut oil infused coffee?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Do you really expect someone with the authority to make a strike is going to post about it on the internet?
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is a very entertaining talk that was just released from the latest DEF CON. The topic is how Gene turned a cat and dog into autonomous WiFi wardriving and hacking tools. Lots of funny anecdotes and advice from someone new to hardware
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DEF CON 22 – Weaponizing Your Pets – Gene Bransfield(youtube.com)
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