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by tmuir 12y ago
Wait, what are these unusable surfaces? I have a $25 logitech wireless mouse and keyboard that I use roughly 8ft from the usb receiver. Besides the screen of my monitor, I actually cannot find a surface in my direct vicinity that my mouse
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Some of the first world problems of HN users using technology are beyond the pale. I was arguing mouse vs remote/phone for playing media on a media server, and someone's retort was that a mouse would require them to have a surfac
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It's still 32 bit, only has 1GB RAM and it's $91 at Digikey, but the Olinuxino A20, from Olimex seems to meet just about all of your other criteria. I've only used the A10, which is $42, but single core, no flash, no analog a
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I realize that you're being somewhat facetious, but don't think of the hobby itself as the income generator. Think of something that is difficult or expensive, or time intensive about working on your car, and try to make it easie
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I've found that you have to work on something that you're passionate about, something you want to use. I don't have the magic formula for finding these things, but after trying several side projects and having them fizzle ou
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Except that there is no way to scale assembly. You write every instruction. There are no companies that offer prewritten assembly for different common functions. Toga vendors offer all sorts of ip. Understanding assembly and choosing to
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If cities arent allowed to include projected seizure revenue in future budgets, but D.C. has budgeted for their seizure revenue through 2019, whats going to give this new reform any teeth? Whats the difference in flouting one law or two?
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by tmuir 12y ago
The PRUs are a waste of perfectly good silicon until there is a C compiler for them. I haven't seen any project outside of TI's demos that uses these in any advanced fashion. It sounds like an excellent idea. Completely separate
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Too interactive? That's like saying a type of food is too healthy. Pointing is essentially random access. It's the difference between RAM and cassette tapes. Why punish me for having lots of content? It is _completely_ about ho
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I mean that the integrated media players in the TVs themselves add $300 to the price of the TV.
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Perhaps Windows would be a problem, but I've been using a Mac Mini in this fashion for 3 years now, and have never once been interrupted by OSX. Would you at least concede that everything else being equal, there is no faster input to s
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I can't believe that people buy integrated media players with their TVs. They are usually multiple hundreds of dollars on top of the base TV model price, have terrible interfaces, and are crippleware, using apps with very few services
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I've recently gone through similar rejection myself. I found a company through a Who's Hiring post. I breezed through three phone interviews, and it felt like the company had hired the NSA to find me, as what they seemed to be l
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by tmuir 12y ago
Commercial CNC machines and other motion control applications will _never_ run off of web-based software. Not to say it isn't possible under the right conditions, but those conditions can't be ensured. There will always exist ap
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Can someone explain AnyPerk to me? Is it just a middleman for employee perks? What is the added value? Why couldn't a company look at their landing page and say "thats a good idea, I should buy my employees movie passes",
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by tmuir 12y ago
It's ironic that you mention diminishing returns, as many automobiles in the $200,000+ range appreciate in value, rather than depreciate. A $60,000 car is still, by all objective standards, a luxury car. Mercedes-Benz, founded by the i
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James Clapper, is that you? Perhaps you like to play fast and loose with the definitions of common words like "almost" and "certainly", but there is a wide gulf between "many people" and "almost everyone&q
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Stopped reading at the luxury car point. Some people of means choose to drive luxury cars because they are powerful, comfortable cars with lots of safety features and bleeding edge technology. I'm sure there are plenty of people that
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by tmuir 12y ago
Here's a little stream of consciousness from another EE that has dipped his toes in the CNC world : ME's scoff at the very existence of Sketchup, but for a free modeling tool, its good enough. If you like something more programmin
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Yep. $152 http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Series-204-Pin-SO-DIMM-PSA316G...
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No one stacks shit taller than audio hardware companies. Warm rich bass on a half square inch speaker? 24-bit DAC to faithfully reproduce your lossy audio files? Come on.
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Maybe some people like reinventing the wheel with every piece of code they write Or, they like having a pool of only a couple hundred people that can help with problems, instead of a couple hundred thousand. Or they don't like the fr
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by tmuir 12y ago
I've been using Node Red for a little bit now, and Freeboard looks sweet, but what does Vagrant do here?
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It was a sarcastic remark. My original comment's gist was that all of the naysayers, at least with respect to the amount of funding required, are basing their analysis on a faulty assumption. So far, we've seen a very narrow nic
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Compare, contrast, whats the difference?
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To everyone sure this will fail because of the amount of money required, ask yourself this: if you told your mom, and your neighbor, and your mailman, and your boss about the Occulus Rift, or Pebble, or The Peachy Printer, or Zach Braff&#x2
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"Journalism is printing something someone else doesnt want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
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Its ridiculous how many companies are keeping the human in the feedback loop of the internet of things. Sending notifications to a phone is not automation. Just imagine if your traction control system only alerted you to your loss of tract
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I'm a huge Neil Young fan, but Pono is bound to fail. Throughout the evolution of widely adopted audio formats, the sound quality has always decreased. The average listener doesn't care about fidelity. They can't tell the
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From TFA, it sounds like they might finally understand the dynamics of piracy and drm: "Bono tells TIME he hopes that a new digital music format in the works will prove so irresistibly exciting to music fans that it will tempt them aga

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