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by wtracy 14y ago
I've already seen something similar with JList/JBox: http://www.jbox.com/ (JList.com contains some NSFW content.) JList and friends actually maintain products in stock stateside, I'm not aware that they order products on demand.
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by wtracy 14y ago
So, it turns out that Orca was a skunkworks project by volunteers. It fails, and the person behind it gets blamed for losing the election. I think the lesson to be learned here is, "Never volunteer for anything."
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by wtracy 14y ago
A lot of big, established tech corporations don't give their employees equity. If you can offer pay and benefits equivalent to ${BIG CORP} I would expect you to do alright.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Does anyone else see the memory slot on that motherboard? I don't.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Now that you say that, that brings up the possibility that the guy was actually hoping to sabotage the purchase.
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by wtracy 14y ago
This. This is one of the reasons that PayPal will lock accounts without giving a reason why--it's potentially criminal for them to tell you why!
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by wtracy 14y ago
Christopher Columbus had financial backing by the Spanish crown.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Can you elaborate on why you think it's currently a second-class citizen?
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by wtracy 14y ago
Some people are elitist snobs. Get over it.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Not that I have any love for MS, but is any of this really worse than what Apple does?
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by wtracy 14y ago
I could see that. I pledged at the "cluster" level ($1000) when the project looked likely to fail, then when it crossed the finish line I backed off to the "personal cloud" level ($500).
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by wtracy 14y ago
It might be BS, it might not be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
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Ubuntu Powered Parallella Supercomputer Is "Almost a Reality"(news.softpedia.com)
3 points by wtracy 14y ago|0 comments
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by wtracy 14y ago
Since you already went to the work of implementing everything from scratch anyway, is there a reason that you don't compile the code up front? My understanding was that the big bottleneck for Javascript on iOS was the inability to use JIT (
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by wtracy 14y ago
I personally know someone who once maintained a heated greenhouse full of tropical plants and chameleons. (He was almost breaking even on his electrical costs by selling baby chameleons for the pet trade.) He finally quit and sold the house
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by wtracy 14y ago
The fact that it won for "worst abuse of the rules" doesn't help your point much. :-)
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by wtracy 14y ago
Just curious, since you're handy to ask: How do the judges view code that depends on external (but cross-platform and FOSS) libraries? Only Xlib is specifically mentioned in the rules. I'm specifically thinking of libpng, but I'm sure one c
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by wtracy 14y ago
Not a single functional language on that list? Someone has a lot of learning left to do. :-)
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by wtracy 14y ago
If you want an OS written in a high-level language, pick up JNode < http://www.jnode.org&#62 ; or House < http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/&#62 ; or HalVM < http://halvm.org/> . Oh, look, here's a web page dedicated to o
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by wtracy 14y ago
Huh. I'm actually getting tested for ADD on the recommendation of my therapist (the preliminary answer seems to be that no, I do not have ADD). I most emphatically cannot work while I have a TV running. In fact, I can't even seem to program
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by wtracy 14y ago
"It’s important to test on every device you can get your hands on and make sure to test across a variety of screen sizes, OSes, makes and models. We’ve listed six devices in the checklist as a good starting point." I sure don't see this lis
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by wtracy 14y ago
s/Paypal/The credit card issuers/g I'm a Paypal employee, so I'm biased, but when the credit card company decides to reverse a payment, Paypal really doesn't have a lot of options.
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by wtracy 14y ago
The quote is still meaningful in the context of social movements, but I agree that using it in the context of market competition is pretty tacky.
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The Closed PlayStation Platform is Over(digitaltrends.com)
3 points by wtracy 14y ago|0 comments
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by wtracy 14y ago
Since I thought I saw an Adapteva person posting here earlier: If the Kickstarter falls through, what options could you still make available to hobbyists? Is there some version of your current prototype setup that you could sell, even if it
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by wtracy 14y ago
There are two ARM A9 cores (running Ubuntu) and 16 custom Epiphany cores.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Yeah. They're not getting paid to report news. They're getting paid to bring in eyeballs.
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by wtracy 14y ago
In fusion-based nuclear weapons, a fission bomb is used to create the temperature and pressure needed to kick off nuclear fusion. Calling that "combined fusion/fission" is like calling my car an electric hybrid because it uses an electric s
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by wtracy 14y ago
At the risk of wading into a pointless flame war, let's apply Occam's Razor. First, public belief/interest in alien flying saucers has been mostly dead for decades. Performing a cover-up operation now would accomplish nothing. Second, if th
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by wtracy 14y ago
Indeed, that would have a lot more teeth than FTC complaints and threats to boycott.

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