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by twrkit 13y ago
The EU mandated in 2011 that all new smartphones must use mico-USB to charge [1] [1] http://www.dw.de/european-commission-says-standard-mobile-ch...
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Numbers Every Technologist Should Know(everythingisdata.wordpress.com)
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I studied Computer Science at USC and was a student in 2 of Professor Redekopp's classes. Suffice to say that he was a top notch educator and the favorite professor of most students in the Engineering school. At USC, at least while I w
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by twrkit 13y ago
> I believe this will have to come in the form of a reboot, a protocol designed from the ground up to combat these issues and a way to search the web that makes it infeasible for a single party to control such a large volume of traffic
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Yes, because otherwise they would create their own version of it, backed by more/better engineers, more resources, and more visibility, which would slowly crush your own product. Sure it's heartbreaking to see your labor of love dismantled
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This is very helpful, great job and thanks for putting this together. e: nvm, I made a request for a feature that already exists!
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by twrkit 13y ago
To back this concept up, check out this post[1] on Zerohedge which points out how it's becoming more lucrative to work a minimum wage job (or no job at all) and collect entitlements than it is to work a 'middle-class' job. [1] http://www.z
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link for the robot?
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Not to pile on, but there is a certain irony in the error message being returned: Error establishing a database connection
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must be a slow news day, this got picked up by beatabeat: http://betabeat.com/2013/05/to-hug-or-not-to-hug-hacker-news...
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When I run into a male acquaintance, I know exactly how to greet him: shake his hand. Doesn’t matter how long we’ve known each other. I even shake my dad’s hand. Maybe I'm too friendly or completely oblivious to how socially awkward and c
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I wholeheartedly disagree. Even if they wanted to regulate it at the time, they would have no idea where to start. The legislative body is, even to this day, not exactly comprised of technologically savvy individuals. Rather, these are peop
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To clarify, the hypocrisy lies in the fact that the Twitter 'internet activists' are supporting freedom for their kind and to protect their common ground (the Internet), while simultaneously lamenting that the freedoms of another coalition
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It's hypocritical to both support and oppose liberty
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source: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ce77o/weekend_p...
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Reviewlu: site to see what women have written about you on Lulu(reviewlu.com)
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Couple this trend with the progress being made in 3d printers (eg, recent developments in 'printing' simple circuits and electronics) and one can easily see that the low-end consumer electronics market segment is due for a paradigm shift (c