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by troymc 12y ago
You're right in general. In fact, comparing Kickstarter and GoFundMe is a bit odd, because they're not competitors. Kickstarter is more than just pre-shipping tech products like the Oculus Rift. In fact, they originally marketed i
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It would be fairly easy to design an inexpensive removable bumper that wraps around the outside edge of the Ara, holding all the things in, and protecting against damage.
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Here are five reasons why you might want to serve a small static website over https: https://www.bitballoon.com/blog/2014/10/03/five-reasons-you-...
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by troymc 12y ago
I suspect it's a student project, maybe done for a class at UCSC. The two authors worked together on another project [1], as students at UCSC, in the Spring 2013 semester. [1] http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/06/entr
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by troymc 12y ago
A BBC News article says, "Over the next 20 years, 20,000 people will move into new homes, built around a new town centre…" [1] Wikipedia says the population of Kiruna is 18,148 (from the 2010 census). [2] In other words, almost ev
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by troymc 12y ago
If you're curious about the biggest tech companies in Canada, then one source is the annual Branham300 list: http://www.branham300.com/index.php?year=2014&listing=1 You can drill down into various categories (e.g.
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by troymc 12y ago
It seems only certain sellers can. I know I tried to sell one of my used DVDs on Amazon recently (and I sell used stuff there fairly often, so I know how it works). They let me enter all the details but when it came time to list it, they sa
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by troymc 12y ago
It seems we've unearthed a good nerd-sniping [1] question for readers of HN: "What was the first computer?" [1] http://xkcd.com/356/
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by troymc 12y ago
I'm pretty sure they could send the live video signal up to a communications satellite in geostationary orbit. That satellite would relay the signal to a base station which would then broadcast it however they normally do. There are lo
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by troymc 12y ago
That's true. Unfortunately, current Tesla battery packs use lithium, which isn't super-abundant in Earth's crust. That's why companies like Ambri are looking at using other materials in the batteries they're develop
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by troymc 12y ago
Today, the majority of grid energy storage is done using pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH). "PSH reported energy efficiency varies in practice between 70% and 80%, with some claiming up to 87%." [1] [1] https://en.w
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by troymc 12y ago
Last year, I read the autobiography of Isaac Asimov (the first two books, not the later memoirs) and he wrote that he was terrible at remembering names of the people he met. I thought this was very odd, because he was famous for remembering
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by troymc 12y ago
In the WordPress world, there are many "managed" WordPress hosting providers (including wordpress.com) which will apply WordPress core updates automatically. In the Drupal world, there are some similar managed Drupal hosting provi
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by troymc 12y ago
I use CloudPull, a Mac app, to backup all my Gmail emails on my local hard drive. It also backs up my Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. (My local hard drive is then backed up in two ways, one local, one in the cloud.) I us
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by troymc 12y ago
Perhaps the tweeting bird could get its own Unicode character code. Then it would compress nicely (because the details of how to render it would be passed along to the font files).
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by troymc 12y ago
In the email, you can click "Sign in & remember me". I guess that sets a cookie in your browser, so next time you come back, you'll still be logged in (until the cookie expires).
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by troymc 12y ago
Source?
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by troymc 12y ago
Why do you prefer "the enforced look of Facebook"?
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by troymc 12y ago
You're right, everyone loves to wear exactly the same clothes in real life. It only makes sense that they'd want to wear the same "clothes" to express their online identity. It's obvious in retrospect. Silly MySpace
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by troymc 12y ago
You should really read the article before you say anything about it.
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by troymc 12y ago
The software industry has a tradition of inserting a "Disclaimer of Warranty" and a "Limitation of Liability" into all licenses. Do those hold up in court? I don't know. It is bizarre. Imagine if car companies did
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by troymc 12y ago
From the article: "A spokeswoman for Dorset police told the BBC: "There were six incidents, but we don't know how people wiped them." You'd think the police would know that some smartphones have a remote-wipe or kil
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by troymc 12y ago
I heard that Carrot includes beta -carotene. I think I'll wait for it to get out of beta.
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by troymc 12y ago
Most real-world economic systems aren't anywhere close to linear. Economists do love their toy models, and some of those are linear. They also make wrong predictions. Anyone who thinks economics has useful, reliable mathematical models
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by troymc 12y ago
According to CanIUse.com [1], SMIL is supported by all modern browsers except IE and Opera Mini. I guess the idea is to provide an animated GIF or video fallback for those browsers? [1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-smil
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by troymc 12y ago
Maybe. The two-laser setup of STED microscopy has similarities to this recently-developed technique: http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20140309-26116.html
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by troymc 12y ago
Here's the Wikipedia article about their history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop
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by troymc 12y ago
What about all the Stack Exchange communities (e.g. Mathematics Stack Exchange, English Language & Usage Stack Exchange)?
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Qwiki pivoted in the past year or two. They made an iOS app with the tagline: Share your life through brief, beautiful movies “Qwikis” created in just one tap. --- Their blog shares several example "Qwikis" (videos): http:/&
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by troymc 12y ago
DMOZ is still around, but I think the best directories end up being the niche directories maintained by people who are really into something. Wikipedia also has some amazing lists.

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