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by tdicola 11y ago
Surface Book looks neat but is it an admission that the Surface Pro and its flexible keyboard, kickstand, etc. perhaps aren't the best design?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Why? Are you really going to drag an Oculus out to a coffee shop etc. and flail around in a VR world to everyone else's amusement? Not to mention you'll have a heck of a time getting positional tracking setup in a public environ
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by tdicola 11y ago
They're not taking the cars back and destroying them. They'll send letters to all the owners telling them to come in to a VW dealer for some warranty service. A tech will flash the ECU and they'll be back out on the road in
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by tdicola 11y ago
Go back and watch their weekly review sessions. They were all publically streamed and had inventors pitching ideas to a panel of Quirky folks like their CEO.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Yep, on Ubuntu here too and it's exactly like that.
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by tdicola 11y ago
You probably want to make it more clear that you're supposed to mouse over the dark lollipops and avoid the blue trees. I assumed the dark chars were the walls I shouldn't touch and just about gave up on it after it was constantl
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by tdicola 11y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, it's very good advice for someone who is computer literate enough to not run things they don't trust. Keep your OS and software up to date, uninstall Flash, disable crap that aut
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by tdicola 11y ago
1 hour transit time to the airport? You need to get a new helicopter pilot. Seriously though, you're forgetting timezones. Hop on the jet at 11am NYC time and be in London at 7:30pm London time. Leave London at midnight and be back
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by tdicola 11y ago
If you're working with a lot of different point types then it probably makes sense to define your own point type that provides type conversion to all the other point types used in your codebase. That way you're not coupled to one
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by tdicola 11y ago
Sure but to the ultra rich the Concorde lets them wake up and decide they want to eat dinner at the best restaurant in London that night, then fly back home to party all night in NYC.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Why does he continue to recommend people use Ghostery and block ads on the desktop though? Blocking ads on mobile is bad, but blocking them on desktop is ok--huh?
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by tdicola 11y ago
I doubt it, lots of python projects stick 'Py' on the front. PyGame, Pyglet, PyQT, etc.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Is HP one of the companies banging the drum of a tech job talent shortage? Because this is a pretty powerful message of just the opposite.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Wow weren't they already in the process of cutting around 30k people? Is the total now up to 60k+?
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by tdicola 11y ago
It's funny to think in another 20 years kids might see this movie and wonder what are those weird small rooms with phones that people go into all the time. And they have to pay money to make a call!?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Or Sneakers, that's my favorite Hollywood hacker flick. It's a little campy in parts but surprisingly authentic and a lot of fun to watch.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Just because you don't get a 1099 doesn't mean you earned that income tax free. It still needs to be reported and people are breaking the law if they don't report it as non-1099 income.
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by tdicola 11y ago
"If you see a fail whale they blew it."
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by tdicola 11y ago
After the disaster of Windows 8 and 8.1 for the desktop can you blame people for being a little bit gunshy about upgrading?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Actually I don't think sexual orientation and definitely not weight are 'protected classes' against discrimination with hiring and firing. Sexual orientation might be protected now with some of the recent Supreme Court rulin
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by tdicola 11y ago
You mention healthcare as a concern for your family--make sure you look at your state & federal healthcare exchange (healthcare.gov, etc.). Losing your job, for any reason like quitting or being fired, is deemed a 'qualifying even
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by tdicola 11y ago
Or just use a bluetooth keyboard and forget all the dongle and wire mess.
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by tdicola 11y ago
You can use XCode on any Mac and compile and upload apps to your iPad just fine. No need for a $99 developer account anymore too. There are plenty of programming apps in the app store too if you just want like a Python, Javascript, etc. sh
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by tdicola 11y ago
The original front-loading NES is quite infamous for having a poorly designed cartridge mechanism that bends and loses contact with the game cart pins. This is why people were always blowing on games and jamming them back in the NES back i
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by tdicola 11y ago
Dan Kaminsky has a great presentation from the latest Defcon a few weeks ago about how ads and other junk on the web eat up a ton of CPU cycles and slow down page rendering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wx2TnaRSGs
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by tdicola 11y ago
I didn't pay for my Linux install and it has zero ad-supported junkware.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Cool project, and great write up of the experience!
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by tdicola 11y ago
Isn't systemd a daemon manager that solves all the pain of managing daemons though? If you want D-Bus activation and good daemon control then just use systemd as it was designed.
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by tdicola 11y ago
That's awesome, it's always great to have more choices of OS. Cool to see they're looking at other boards like the BeagleBone Black too.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Yeah if details of configuring the WICED SDK can be sorted out then it would be a nice little wifi & internet connected board. You have to register an account to download it but if you're curious the WICED SDK is here: http:&#x2F

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