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by zafka 13y ago
Thanks, I emailed the address on the G tech Press release, but that might be a journalism major.
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by zafka 13y ago
They say for $300.00 but neglect to say where to get the ink. Large amounts of appreciation to anyone who finds out.
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by zafka 13y ago
Thanks for mentioning this book. I think this book by Robert Pirsig should be on the short list of "Must Reads" of any true hacker
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by zafka 13y ago
Actually, there are a number of places with large Lanthanoid deposits, but since China was supplying them so cheap, the mines were not economical. Now that China is tightening supplies, they have reopened the California mine in Mountain Pa
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by zafka 13y ago
It would be possible to build a more compact motor using NFeB magnets, but the cost outweighs the slight weight/performance gain. It is also my understanding that induction motor that Tesla uses is more efficient at regenerative brak
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by zafka 13y ago
Goldscott, I would like to compare notes with you. Would you send me an email? Regards, Jim
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Rram challenges flash(electronicdesign.com)
1 points by zafka 13y ago|0 comments
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by zafka 13y ago
I did not find your comments, but I did a quick google search. Here is one refutation that I found: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201... It says just about what I would have guessed too.
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by zafka 13y ago
This sounds rather much like speculation to me. Do you have any sources to back up your "Most" statement. Since the disease is generational, quite often children of addicts will have a stressful upbringing, but your theory of bra
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by zafka 13y ago
I recently bought my third TI-85 on Craigslist, I also still have my Cannon A-1.
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Ask HN: Startups doing SCM plus
2 points by zafka 13y ago|0 comments
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by zafka 13y ago
Well there is one quite obvious way to avoid this, but it has a serious downside. I did not take that route, thus I am now over 50 :) My advice is to live on way less than your means while you are younger, and then you can have an air of no
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by zafka 13y ago
While I am saddened by the fact that this is coming to an end, I understand it. I have always wanted to work in a "Bell labs" type of environment. Now that the little fish I was working at got bought by "big Corp" I have
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by zafka 13y ago
I think your opinion of what this piece implies is a bit skewed. I see this scenario played out over and over everywhere I look. I happen to be one of the lucky ones, I won the genetic lottery, and the geographic one too. I expect
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by zafka 13y ago
I am not real familiar with "Jaws" which is what I think you are referring too. I had worked for the company that had been called Blazie Research. Blazie made "laptops for the blind", their products used a Z80 processor and a hardware based
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by zafka 13y ago
I worked for a company that built products for the blind. I did a quick search on the optacon, a product I did some work with, and came up with this site of a user: http://www.blindcanadians.ca/publications/cbm/6/support-opta... The comp
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by zafka 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out again. I really need to give this a try. As soon as I do, I will let you know how it works for me.
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by zafka 13y ago
This stuff is very cool, and I feel extremely outclassed. Is there a math camp for adults who just made it out of engineering school, but never absorbed the real beauty of math? People post this very interesting stuff, and I see something s
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by zafka 13y ago
This is a fascinating subject. It would be nice if most of the article was not behind a pay wall. Quite a while ago, I heard of Paul Stamets who has done amazing things with fungus: http://www.fungi.com/about-paul-stamets.html We are star
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by zafka 13y ago
I read the article, and while it did not say how she made her "Invention" , it sounds like a graphene based super capacitor. Here is one video about them: http://focusforwardfilms.com/contest/84/the-super-supercapac... There is lots of
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The Science of giving(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by zafka 13y ago|0 comments
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Plants use underground networks to warn of enemy attack(nerc.ac.uk)
5 points by zafka 13y ago|0 comments
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by zafka 13y ago
I think this is a topic that deserves careful study. While this story considers replacing social security and Medicare with a basic income, I think the basic income should be in addition to Health care, and free education. It seems
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by zafka 13y ago
Damn!!, That is really cool. Now I want to spend next week drawing pictures on the computer. There is a special place in the next realm for folks who bring math to life for us simple folks.
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by zafka 13y ago
I like Elon Musk more every day. Someone who makes cool products that look to improve the quality of life for everyone, while still making some decent money from it. It would have been sad if he had not bailed when the group started pushing
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Mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, capture CO2 (pubs.acs.org)
2 points by zafka 13y ago|0 comments
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by zafka 14y ago
I was older when I started-36 year old freshly minted Computer Engineer. Dumb lucky enough to take the first offer I got from the folks I had been interning with. Siemens Communications in Boca, 1996. I was working with about
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by zafka 14y ago
This article ties in with a book I just started reading(culled from Fog Creek's Reading list) called "The design of Everyday Things" It inspires me to resist "cool" at the expense of what works best.
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The Right Touch for Control(rdmag.com)
1 points by zafka 14y ago|1 comments
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by zafka 14y ago
I have fond memories of programming my "Arnesh" 68 K board around 1995. We used them in our microprocessor course, and since I had so little time in the lab, I bought my own board. After the class ended I would lend it to friends until it c

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