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by tdicola 10y ago
> we, and life, are just massively complex self-replicating patterns DNA
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by tdicola 10y ago
Yeah fascinating that they have nuclear missile ships and even icebreakers, but no carriers. Explanation above makes sense though!
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by tdicola 10y ago
It's odd to me, why didn't Russia/the USSR develop nuclear aircraft carriers? The USSR ran out of money before they could be developed perhaps?
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by tdicola 10y ago
Any reasonably sized company is going to have the dollars and IT smarts to not worry about former employees causing damage (passwords, keycard access, etc. are all immediately cut off on the day of leaving.. and any actual damage someone do
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by tdicola 10y ago
Bring it up in the interview process, particularly when talking to HR, etc. You don't have to make a stand right there but at least find out what's typically in an employment contract (a very reasonable question to ask even in an
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by tdicola 10y ago
I've been fortunate enough to have an employer with no non-compete, but in the past with my first job out of college I just signed everything and was under one for a year after leaving. My thought process now is that a non-compete is
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by tdicola 10y ago
Not sure it was mentioned in the last thread on this computer but if anyone wants to actually use a real Alto and many other vintage computers check out the Living Computer Museum in Seattle: http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org&#
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by tdicola 10y ago
Wow a stackoverflow question that hasn't been closed or removed for some trivial reason--thought I'd never see something like that again.
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by tdicola 10y ago
The US is much larger than individual European countries and has an order of magnitude more credit card readers, etc. in circulation. Every single one of those had to be updated to use the new system.
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by tdicola 10y ago
I'm going to be very cynical and say that based on their track record of major OS overhauls I am _not_ looking forward to the bugs and issues that will sneak past their QA. I still have nightmares of all the bugs with their wifi &
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by tdicola 10y ago
Look past the disruptive startup hype and read the fine print, AirBNB absolutely is warning you to abide by all local laws and regulations. If they didn't do that they would be open to big lawsuits. At the end of the day your insuran
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by tdicola 10y ago
If you aren't comfortable renting your home to random people then don't use AirBNB, plain and simple. Buy a second home for commercial purposes and AirBNB rent it out instead (and if that gives you pause then maybe you should rec
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by tdicola 10y ago
It's not a severe diet restriction--you can't completely get rid of carbs but you can easily get down to 20-50g per day. Stick with eating proteins (meat, sausage, chicken, etc.) and most green vegetables. Some nuts and berries
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by tdicola 10y ago
These rules can be boiled down to an even easier set, don't eat sugars and don't eat grains. Make your body adapt to burning fat for energy and you'll feel better (no mid-day crash after a carb-heavy lunch) and lose weight.
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by tdicola 10y ago
Sadly if you're actually implementing Bresenham's algorithm today you're doing something very wrong (or don't care about performance). Drawing lines and shapes is all a matter of pumping the desired geometry and shaders
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by tdicola 10y ago
Go start up any Android phone and look at the installed apps.
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by tdicola 10y ago
It's tricky, metal tabs are soldered right to the battery terminals. It's a lithium battery so you don't want to heat it too much so desoldering will be annoying and potentially dangerous. What you can do instead is cut bot
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by tdicola 10y ago
> A note to HN users: The intention behind Apply HN was to do something new to excite and interest the community and engage it with YC in an interesting way. That did happen, but it pains me that it also partly turned into the opposite.
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by tdicola 10y ago
Not to mention the community around it is very much alive and well. Today is the day for monthly 2600 meetings ( http://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html ) and this July is their 11th HOPE conference ( https://ho
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by tdicola 10y ago
Not anymore, almost all of them today are based on Intel's SoC architecture that can use embedded eMMC memory (basically a SD card on a chip) instead of a SATA SSD that you can replace. It's a cost cutting thing.
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by tdicola 10y ago
You want one of the myriad of super cheap tablets from China: http://techtablets.com/
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by tdicola 10y ago
Look at running OpenWRT on a cheapo consumer router (I use a TP-Link router, but nowadays TP-Link is being stupid and shutting down the ability to load custom firmware so avoid them). You can install all kinds of packages like mosquitto MQ
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by tdicola 10y ago
And almost all of it (99%) is going to charity: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-giving-away-9...
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by tdicola 10y ago
You don't need a self driving car to do this today, just hail a cab or get an Uber.
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by tdicola 10y ago
That weekend is also Maker Faire (5/20-5/22) just up the road in San Mateo, so something to consider checking out if you're in the area for IO.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Go to www.bluez.org and try to figure out how to use BLE. Like how to scan for BLE devices, connect to one and read its GATT, interact with characteristics, etc. Bonus points try to figure out how to do it using their APIs and not command
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by tdicola 11y ago
Perfect, thanks for clarifying! Yeah it wasn't really obvious if this is an account Painless 1099 owns or the user owns. Thanks!
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by tdicola 11y ago
There's a system for this already, sign up for EFTPS and the Treasury Department will automatically schedule and take out estimated tax payments. I just set mine up for next tax year and it's easy. Their website is awful and stu
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by tdicola 11y ago
Ok but who owns the account and how do you know they're trustworthy? I could open a bank account anywhere and ask you to start depositing your income there. You have to trust that I'll give it back to you though--FDIC won't
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by tdicola 11y ago
Just to be the devil's advocate, what happens if this company goes bust and your tax money is stuck in their account and inaccessible? The IRS isn't going to accept some sob story about not having access to funds... I'd be

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