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by tmuir 12y ago
$2200 for the Othermill and $2500 for the Nomad for what amount to hobbyist machines seems way too high, especially for being unable to cut steel, and having such limited tool sizes. I'd also venture a guess that the speeds for cuttin
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by tmuir 12y ago
Maybe they've never heard of Eclipse.
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by tmuir 12y ago
As opposed to all of those other languages that lend themselves so well to the task? Since tricorders will most likely run linux, by default, they will have lots of C.
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by tmuir 12y ago
I don't understand why Node-RED hasn't blown up on HN yet. Its ridiculous how powerful it is for connecting hardware, web APIs, websockets, HTTP Servers, twitter, push notifications, shell scripts, you name it. Additionally, it
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by tmuir 12y ago
Sure, there will always be some people who can afford a $200 phone, and others that can't. But for those who can, I'm amazed at how much emphasis is placed on the upfront cost of the phone itself, versus the total cost over the 2
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by tmuir 12y ago
If you make a Venn diagram in your mind, with one circle people technically savvy enough to use something like IFTTT, and the other circle people who shop at best buy, is there any overlap in that diagram?
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by tmuir 12y ago
Using any computer in any fashion is technically programming that computer.
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by tmuir 12y ago
I have a Solidoodle 3 at home, and a Makerbot Replicator 2 at work. In terms of print quality, the Makerbot is significantly better than the Solidoodle. There are certainly things I like better about the Solidoodle, such as the ability to
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by tmuir 12y ago
http://flows.nodered.org has a bunch of examples. It looks like the program is serialized to JSON, which you can open in their editor to edit graphically. Pretty cool.
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by tmuir 12y ago
The part that really irks me is the optimization for revenue that seems to occur with red light camera intersections. They are hoping that you will run the light. For instance, a north-south road has the red. The intersecting east-west ro
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by tmuir 12y ago
This seems fairly straightforward, but I am not a lawyer. The common carriage rule says a private pilot can't offer to fly people around for money. The exception to this rule is if the money is only defraying the cost of the flight. T
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by tmuir 12y ago
I mean judging your own happiness against the mean or median of 300 million people who live in vastly different locations and climates, with different population densities, prevalence of poverty and opportunity, availability of social servi
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by tmuir 12y ago
Average happiness sounds absolutely preposterous.
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by tmuir 12y ago
What really makes you happy is the experiences the stuff affords you. Movies and sports are enjoyable. staring at a nicely mounted TV that isn't showing any content is a fleeting novelty. The kitchen isn't enjoyable on its own.
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by tmuir 12y ago
I think your sentiment is true of technology and tools in general. If you have a pain point that a particular tool solves, then that tool is probably a good fit for you. But if you buy a tool because you've been sold on all of the coo
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by tmuir 12y ago
Innovations may be happening, and perhaps it's unreasonable to expect major leaps, but none of these incremental innovations seem big enough to make anyone stand out for very long. It goes against the whole idea of open source hardware
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by tmuir 12y ago
Another big problem that makes it hard to raise this kind of money is that none of these FDM printers have anything that differentiates them from every other printer. There are only a handful of different gcode interpreter/motor drive
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by tmuir 12y ago
This tutorial has SPI, I2C, PWM, GPIO, ADC, and UART. Its in Python, but it almost exclusively uses the sysfs interface, so porting it to C, or the language of your choice, should be very simple. https://learn.adafruit.com/
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by tmuir 12y ago
Adafruit has a ton of tutorials for the beaglebone black. They even have their own Python library. https://learn.adafruit.com/category/beaglebone Derek Molloy has several video tutorials: http://derekmolloy
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by tmuir 12y ago
Oh, come on. Chromecast is a way to display PC content on a TV. An HDMI cable allows you to display PC content on your TV. Perhaps you mean't Chromecast doesn't compete very well with HDMI?
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by tmuir 12y ago
But you're giving up the freedom to decide what content you consume. Chromecast is the media equivalent of AOL. I know what I want to watch/listen to, so let me decide, instead of hamstringing me with apps, or making me jump thr
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by tmuir 12y ago
Why are there recent Macs without HDMI ports? You'd think that would be ubiquitous by now.
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by tmuir 12y ago
A valuation based on an investment round is the valuation of the complete company, not just the amount invested. So if I invest $1M for 10% of a company, that "values" the company at $10M.
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by tmuir 12y ago
Isn't basing the multiplier on valuations at the latest investment round disingenuous? After all, its just a number the owners and investors hope someone will eventually pay for the company. It's the asking price set by people h
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by tmuir 12y ago
I've been developing a theory of Reddit in my mind for about the last year. It's mostly grown out of the ubiquity and monoculture of AdviceAnimals/memes, but I think it applies to most of the frontpage reddits. Redditors hav
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by tmuir 12y ago
Yet another hammer looking for a nail. There is no killer app in home automation. Hackers like this stuff, because we like technology for technology's sake. But everyone else has a higher standard for adopting new gadgetry. It has
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by tmuir 12y ago
Does anyone have any shred of information about this at all? Since when do placeholder pages completely devoid of any details whatsoever make it to the top of HN?
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by tmuir 12y ago
Gold plated cables actually serve a purpose, although the average consumer does not have a need for them. In a studio environment, where cables are frequently plugged and unplugged, the gold plating protects the contacting surfaces, extend
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by tmuir 12y ago
I remember printing off hundreds of pages of video game cheat codes/walkthroughs on the internet at the local university's computer lab in 1995. That was the first time that I got free information from the internet that I would h
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by tmuir 12y ago
Acetone and ABS slurry make the parts stick almost too well. I usually have to pry with an exacto knife to remove prints. You pour a thin layer on to the glass, and its like liquid plastic at room temperature. As long as you can properly

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