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by tdicola 12y ago
Never good news to hear about layoffs, but for those that are affected I can say there is life beyond Microsoft. (it might even be better!)
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by tdicola 12y ago
The Model T is over 100 years old now, surely Ford can't have a monopoly on a name that long right?
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by tdicola 12y ago
If leading the way is making a bad decision that has a huge public backlash, sticking with it for 3 years while the service languishes, and then reversing it in a last ditch effort to save face... I really hope no one else follows.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Bing image search too, holy cow is it horrific if you turn off safe search.
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by tdicola 12y ago
You're missing the forest through the trees. People are still going to consume more than they need regardless of how many labels and apps are warning them otherwise. High calorie/sugary drinks taste good and bring pleasure to th
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by tdicola 12y ago
There have been clear calorie counts on foods and beverages for many years now. I seriously doubt a phone telling you how many calories you've consumed vs. reading it right off the can in front of you is going to change anything. If
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by tdicola 12y ago
Grocery stores already know what you purchase through tracking with the the club/value cards they promote. The information is sold to marketers, etc. and even in some cases used by the police and insurance companies.
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by tdicola 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. The tech of a 'smart' cup could have cool applications to the kitchen, like measuring how much liquid you're pouring for a recipe. However as a weird 'fitbit for what you drink' device I'
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wine connoisseurs would probably scoff at drinking out of a giant cup. There's a whole art/science to the cup shape and ritual of drinking wine.
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by tdicola 12y ago
From what he said it helped that they partnered with folks who had built hardware like this before. However they still had to do a ton of work in the software to customize the OS, build applications, partner with services, etc.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I saw Jon Callas talk about the Blackphone at ToorCamp over the weekend and it looked really nice. One interesting factoid he mentioned is that the Blackphone went from initial conversation with manufacturer to actual shipping product in a
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by tdicola 12y ago
Check out sshfs or similar user-mode filesystems to make the Pi look like a drive. Cyberduck is another tool that has a decent file explorer UI around SSH/SFTP and is cross platform. If you're writing C/C++ you can set up a
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by tdicola 12y ago
Running Linux in embedded projects is still super useful. You can use pretty advanced software like speech recognition (PocketSphinx, etc.), image processing (OpenCV), and more to make cool stuff that would be miserable/nearly impossi
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by tdicola 12y ago
There are lots of little embedded projects the Pi is great for, check out this for some inspiration: https://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi
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by tdicola 12y ago
Very cool, better mounting holes and microSD are nice improvements.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Anyone know if there will be a live stream of the talk?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yep the libraries I've used can generate a hash byte by byte luckily without loading everything in memory. Here's an example of how I call Amazon services and generate a signature on an Arduino: https://github.com&#x2F
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by tdicola 12y ago
Sorry didn't see it was just a local instance you were running so it probably doesn't matter. In general I wouldn't let your public and private keys get out because anyone could start writing, deleting, etc. with those keys.
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by tdicola 12y ago
You should edit out those public and private keys.
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by tdicola 12y ago
You might check out stuff like Amazon's web services (DynamoDB, etc.) for inspiration. They sign requests with a hash of the request data and private access key (and date, etc.) so the private key doesn't need to be sent in the r
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by tdicola 12y ago
Does it support SSL? I ask because the examples just show normal non-SSL usage and I'd be very careful of sending the public and private key in a request as authentication without SSL. How easy is it to revoke your access keys and ge
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice to see this was finally added. I remember trying this when I got a Chromebook earlier in the year and was really surprised and puzzled to see the lack of support on Linux. There's even a year+ old thread about it that didn'
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by tdicola 12y ago
No WebGL enabled on Linux Chrome in my experience. Kind of annoying when cool visualizations get passed around and you can't see them.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Diners at the potato salad party will need to be careful that their dish isn't being manipulated in some way too. I hear they're putting no salt in some dishes and no pepper in others, it's an experiment!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Unless your university is really weird, I can guarantee you will learn many more languages than just the intro language. When I got my computer engineering degree in the early 2000's I was exposed to C, C++, Java, Scheme & Lisp, S
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by tdicola 12y ago
They've certainly lost trust from the thousands of folks they broke who weren't involved with the botnet at all.
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by tdicola 12y ago
What if you want to go for a weekend camping in Yosemite, or drive down the coastal highway to LA, or maybe up to Portland and Seattle? I agree owning and keeping a car in the middle of a city is expensive and tough. There are certainly s
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by tdicola 12y ago
It's also a weird screed against cars as if they have no utility. I guess this person has never lived outside a big city in the suburbs or country where having a car is absolutely a necessity to get to work, the store, etc.
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by tdicola 12y ago
What a weird idea, I wonder why Wired would want to allow anyone to post content under their site. I know it's not the 'real' Wired site, but still seems odd. What's to stop some crazy person like timecube guy from mak
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah I've noticed with a lot of the recent Pi competitors they're pushing out powerful stuff but failing (or choosing not) to realize the Pi is successful because of the huge community of support available. The Pi is definitely m

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