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by tdicola 12y ago
It's nothing compared to something like the B2 bomber which cost $40+ billion to develop and each one costs over $700 million. We built 20 of them. (they are still pretty awesome cold war relics though) edit: Or Nimitz class nuclear
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome! Been looking forward to this to play with some of the new stuff like collections.
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by tdicola 12y ago
From the supported platforms it looks like it should work on a BeagleBone Black (arm, am335x, armv7-a, cortex-a8)--anyone been brave enough to try?
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by tdicola 12y ago
What about a kickstarter for $3000 or so? Enough money to run the site for 10 months and see if there is enough interest to keep it going. Not so much money that it's impossible to raise from small donations over the course of a mont
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice, I was going to ask if maybe Google or someone invested heavily in Android could step up and provide a secure source of dependencies for everyone.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Good luck getting your users to come back and trust you after a major security incident that compromises their systems. I would turn it around and think of it this way, is it worth giving up some profit to help ensure you don't have e
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by tdicola 12y ago
As a counterpoint I bought a car for about $3000 4 years ago and have put a bit over 40k miles on it. Maintenance, insurance, registration, etc. have added up to about $7k (you don't need full coverage insurance on a $3k car). Fuel c
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by tdicola 12y ago
Not to mention since the car is paid off/owned outright the calculation doesn't take into account the price of the car. I would wager a majority of car owners are financing or leasing their cars and pay a monthly cost to do so.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah this scrolling seemed kind of bad to me, I got halfway down and had to use a lot of force to proceed. I'm looking forward to this gimmick going away.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah I would definitely go for a nicer IPS display vs. a larger TN one. I switch between a cheap TN monitor and nice IPS MacBook display a lot and the IPS display is so much easier on the eyes. The TN panel looks really harsh, especially
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by tdicola 12y ago
What a weird article, it spends more time describing links to the science than the actual solution. Is this some new form of scheming/optimizing search engine rank by quoting and linking a lot of tangentially related academic topics?
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is kind of a bad link since none of the videos are on the site (if they are I would love to see the link though). I found a link with actual videos here: http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/hopex1 Some that
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by tdicola 12y ago
I feel like there's more to this story than what the article and charts show. For example, what's the total number of PhD students over time? Has there been an increase in PhD students relative to demand so that naturally there
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by tdicola 12y ago
Given the reliability of many device drivers I've seen, I'm pretty sure they're already written by throwing code against the wall to see what sticks.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Neat animation effect as your scroll down the page. Is it using SVG to animate the morph from star to cannabis leaf?
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by tdicola 12y ago
There's quite a difference between a 10 week old child and a 10 year old child.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Adafruit has a great Raspberry Pi 'game grrl' kit you can make: https://learn.adafruit.com/pigrrl-raspberry-pi-gameboy/overv...
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by tdicola 12y ago
I would extend it out to laptops and Linux in general. I've tried a few times over the last 10 years or so to use Linux on normal consumer laptops (Dells, Thinkpads, etc.) and it's always a really bad experience. Wifi issues, ba
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by tdicola 12y ago
I wonder how much of the growth is just a transient bump from businesses dumping the last of the XP machines.
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by tdicola 12y ago
The SDET role varied a lot by team, but in my experience it dealt a lot with building automated test tools and not manual testing or other rote tasks. The skills are definitely applicable elsewhere.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Housing costs don't really make it practical in WA to put away $4k/month when you're pulling in $6-7k/month after taxes. A mortgage on any decent-ish place is going to be around $2500-$3500+ a month. If you just bought
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by tdicola 12y ago
The thing that really shocked me about the Apollo missions was how quickly they jumped from testing the hardware to actual mission to the moon. The _second_ manned launch of Apollo (and _first_ manned launch of the incredible Saturn V rock
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by tdicola 12y ago
Surprised I'm the first to mention For All Mankind as another great Apollo documentary. It was nominated for an academy award and is really well polished. Brian Eno did an amazing score of ambient music for it too. Don't go in
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by tdicola 12y ago
> XBox Live accounts for a large share of Netflix streaming usage Is that an anecdote or is there some data behind it? I would be surprised to hear a majority of Netflix users are using it from Xbox live accounts since for the longest t
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by tdicola 12y ago
No, Microsoft didn't get the patents in the sale: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-nokia-microsoft... They only have a license to the patents, not the ability to use them to go after ot
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by tdicola 12y ago
No, MS isn't in dire straits that they need to start letting the lowest guys on the totem pole go. For the first couple years focus on being the best employee possible and making your manager's life easier. Don't shy away f
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by tdicola 12y ago
Microsoft is a publically traded company, they have a fiduciary responsibility to return their profits to shareholders and not employees, for better or worse.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Microsoft has made billion dollar blunders too. Look at aQuantive, it torched almost 7 billion dollars.
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by tdicola 12y ago
The other botched part of that 2009 'downsizing' was that everyone who was left didn't get a bonus, raise, etc. right as silicon valley was firing up and other big & small tech companies were hiring like crazy. A year or
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by tdicola 12y ago
It's certainly not good news for someone who might lose their job. It's also not good because it can scare off good people too--if you're watching the company you work for go through a massive round of layoffs and make the c

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