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by watchdogtimer 11y ago
We were given some airless tires a few years ago by two different manufacturers to test on some bicycle trailers. Our experience was the tires performed find when the trailers were empty, but the rolling resistance was noticeably higher tha
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by watchdogtimer 11y ago
I had been using a C720 with crouton up until a week ago. I usually just close the lid to hibernate it, but that particular day I turned it off. When I turned it back on, I couldn't restart crouton ("Cannot open /dev/tt
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by watchdogtimer 12y ago
They're not in the OPL, but Microchip makes several chips that support full-speed USB, and they provide a CDC driver, too. I prefer them to using an Arduino because almost all of them are available in a DIP form factor, making them gre
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by watchdogtimer 12y ago
I work in manufacturing, and one thing I've noticed here in the U.S. is that metric hardware (nuts, bolts, etc.) is consistently more expensive than comparable-sized imperial hardware. I've never received a satisfactory explanatio
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by watchdogtimer 12y ago
Maybe I'm just missing it, but one statistic I would like to see is how long it takes your battery to fully recharge, and how that statistic has changed over time.
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by watchdogtimer 12y ago
There's also Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org
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by watchdogtimer 13y ago
The real disruption is occurring in the MVNO space. The things the major telcos are doing pale in comparison. For instance, our family and parents share 5 phone on 1 plan on Ting. There is a flat $6 monthly fee per device, and our charges a
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by watchdogtimer 13y ago
I used this to parse some XML when creating a shipping calculator. It was a huge time-saver.
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Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Problem(theatlantic.com)
83 points by watchdogtimer 14y ago|73 comments
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by watchdogtimer 14y ago
We manufacture products that we ship to our customers via fedex ground, and they require a signature for anything valued at > $500, regardless of what we or the customer wants.
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Windows PC Sales Down 21% Since Windows 8 Launch(tomshardware.com)
1 points by watchdogtimer 14y ago|0 comments
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by watchdogtimer 14y ago
You can also program 8+bit PICs in JAL, a Pascal-like language.
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by watchdogtimer 14y ago
This of how the top of the home page looks on my phone: http://i.imgur.com/yJjXT.png Hope this isn't indicative of how mobile-friendly their output is in general.
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Apple's poisonous touch silently kills the GNOMEs of the Linux forest(theregister.co.uk)
32 points by watchdogtimer 14y ago|25 comments
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A Close Reading of Two Apple Apologies(mobile.businessweek.com)
29 points by watchdogtimer 14y ago|13 comments
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by watchdogtimer 14y ago
We started and operated a grocery delivery service like this for some 15 years as a sideline to our normal delivery business. It was an operational nightmare. Picking one order for a customer at a grocery store quickly is hard enough. Two
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by watchdogtimer 15y ago
I've been in business making products for almost 18 years, and I still have problems estimating how long it will take to complete a custom job for a client. Whenever I am asked to bid on a project, I try to remember the "3X" rule: estimat
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by watchdogtimer 15y ago
I think Microchip has made more of an effort to be hobbyist- and open-source-friendly than Atmel in several ways: 1) Microchip's IDE is cross-platform (Linux, OSX, and Windows), while Atmel's IDE is Windows-only. 2) Microchip has a comp
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by watchdogtimer 15y ago
http://icons.mysitemyway.com/ has several nice icon sets.
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
"'When something is commoditized, an adjacent thing becomes valuable' is an old truism that O'Reilly seems to be repeating in the video." Agreed. Clayton Christensen said this exact thing at an O'Reilly conference back in 2004: http://itc
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
And I thought I was the only person left who still uses nvi...
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
Not recommended. The cross-chain links will gradually wear from grinding on the pavement to the point where they'll break. When that happens, the loose chain can get snagged in the frame (or--even worse--the fork) and lock up the wheel.
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
We have had several different merchant accounts and bank accounts over the years, and have found that your bank is probably the last place from which you want to obtain a merchant account. These days most businesses (online businesses, at l
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
She did. Check out the Sitepoint podcast where they interview the book's authors.
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
If the goal is not take your hands off the keyboard, why not save, then Alt-TAB once to get to Firefox, then Cntrl-R to refresh? This works with any editor (including my favorite, nvi).
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
We've had a merchant account for several years, the last few on an interchange-plus plan. Last weekend, we sat down and calculated the average interchange-only discount rate, i.e., before the "plus" of the merchant account provider, for th
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
Another good book for teaching Python to young people is "Hello, World" by Warren Sande and his 10-year-old son, Carter: http://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Computer-Programming-Begin... Scott Hanselman interviewed the two on his podcast b
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by watchdogtimer 16y ago
It's nice to see people are still finding Ken's pages on the internet useful. He was tragically killed by a drunk driver back in 2003: http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-37758.html