BenSS

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by BenSS 3y ago
National Grid | Remote from NY, MA, ME, CT, PA, NJ, RH, NH | Full-Time National Grid is an energy company but currently highly committed to a large digital transformation, along with green energy efforts and DEI. My current team is hiring a
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Citizen science traffic monitoring with Raspberry Pi(raspberrypi.org)
1 points by BenSS 7y ago|0 comments
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by BenSS 7y ago
Discord is one crisis away from imploding if they don't get serious about moderation tools and parental controls. They're turning a blind eye to the issues around tweens/teens interacting with much older folks online in pursu
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by BenSS 7y ago
The way we currently do it doesn't work, but that doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile thing to do! If we were all slightly less lazy and were willing to separate things more like other countries, it would work much better
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Do.com bought, gives customers 1 week notice of shutdown(blog.do.com)
3 points by BenSS 10y ago|1 comments
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by BenSS 11y ago
It's very worth it. I can't find the link now, but there was a great article about traditional wier/retention pond building in Africa that both provided water but also helped recharge the local wells. The system had fallen in
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by BenSS 11y ago
Shorter range, proprietary setup/configuration process, cycle IDs (crashing some android bluetooth stacks). They really want you to pay for the backend - wouldn't be surprised if they're sold at cost. The batteries don't
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by BenSS 11y ago
You can definitely get the hardware for <$15 in bulk if you source it yourself. There's a huge variation in quality though, as with most of the China stuff. If you're willing to deal with the caveats&lock-in of the Gimbal B
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by BenSS 12y ago
The other one on iOS is edge-dragging to go back/forward in the navigation stack. Neither of these things is -hard- to implement with current tech either!
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by BenSS 12y ago
I'd pledge in a second if there was any mention of fixing the rules that made it boring to watch in the first place. Everything became a wedge or a spinning can o' doom.
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by BenSS 12y ago
Great news, I've avoided touching my iPad reader because of the whole scraping issue to get at some of the data. Now I can justify updating for iOS8 + the new API. (just hope it gets approved in time)
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by BenSS 12y ago
There are TJs in Pennsylvania, and they can't sell alcohol at all. It might be a factor but not the overriding one.
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by BenSS 12y ago
It's been viable for at least a year in other forms. (Have a small demo system) However, there are some technical and social challenges associated with such a database. Most notably it would be very easy to poison the well as a thief&#
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OHours Shutting down Sept 26th(ohours.org)
1 points by BenSS 12y ago|0 comments
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by BenSS 12y ago
Fixing broken projects is a super valuable skill to have and can be rewarding in its own way. I've reached the point where I hardly ever say "whoever wrote this was an idiot" and see why it ended up that way in the first plac
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by BenSS 12y ago
Very curious about this too. 198 points when I returned to the discussion and it's not displayed anywhere in the first 5 pages.
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by BenSS 12y ago
What's going on with the moderation here? Nearly 200 points and it's vanished from the first 120 results of the site.
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by BenSS 12y ago
Xcode still has some weird bits, but it's greatly improved lately. I well remember cursing the crashing multiple times a day. There are some wonderful additions to it I wish Apple included by default that NSHipster covered recently. FW
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Pitch me this Billion dollar idea(medium.com)
2 points by BenSS 12y ago|0 comments
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An even creepier experiment by Facebook(forbes.com)
2 points by BenSS 12y ago|0 comments
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How evil is too evil?(morton-owens.info)
1 points by BenSS 12y ago|0 comments
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by BenSS 12y ago
Same thing I thought about! Strategically it was a terrible decision. Why build a native OS/2 app when a win app will run on both.
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by BenSS 12y ago
I want this, but: The product is not explained. It actually took a bit of clicking to finally find the setup process under documentation. Minor nit, your blog header doesn't link back to the main site.
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by BenSS 12y ago
Does your manager know that so much of these meetings a redundant? A good manager insulates other employees from this kind of meeting brutalization and avoids adding to it if at all possible. Unfortunately, there are many managers that thin
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by BenSS 12y ago
Your reward tiers are pretty good, but the video goes for a full minute utill you get to the actual game. Lots of talking heads doesn't make the user want the game! Has anyone else written about the game yet? You want it covered in oth
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by BenSS 12y ago
There's a HUGE difference between a corporate open office plan and a co-working layout. Corporate typically is "here is your desk, don't change anything" combined with the judgmental politics of having to watch what you
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Readlang – My Bootstrapped Language Learning Web-App(steveridout.com)
65 points by BenSS 13y ago|51 comments
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by BenSS 13y ago
Half days aren't worth it. An entire day off is worth at least 3 half days. You still have work hanging over you for the rest of the day, and it usually ends up being far less time 'off' than you planned on.
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by BenSS 13y ago
Would be awesome if we soon see OpenCl on the RPi. Now I've got to go find mine!
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by BenSS 13y ago
Funny that I tweeted @ the author this morning since they've written about TestFlight before, wondering if they knew what was up. One way to get an answer when the company isn't talking! I hope Apple keeps the essentials here, and

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