adoyle

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Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed(theguardian.com)
42 points by adoyle 1y ago|17 comments
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by adoyle 2y ago
The text says “a current with a potential of up to 1 volt.” The key word is potential, i.e. electrical potential whose SI unit is the volt. That must be the amount of potential that this particular chemical reaction can create. Since the cu
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by adoyle 2y ago
March 20, 1996. Before that I worked on so many different computers that I didn't manage to keep a continuous archive. Early on, my files would have been on punched cards, then 9-track tape, then 8" floppies, etc. I do have some u
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by adoyle 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of https://nextdns.io which works on iOS.
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My Ted talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair(theguardian.com)
6 points by adoyle 7y ago|0 comments
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by adoyle 8y ago
This sounds similar to Radiant Earth https://www.radiant.earth/ They are also spearheading the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF project http://www.cogeo.org/ and the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog spec https:/&
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New England's Largest Battery Is Hidden Inside a Mass. Mountain(wbur.org)
2 points by adoyle 10y ago|0 comments
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by adoyle 12y ago
I found v3 on the App Store by going to the Sketch 2 page and noticed "More by Bohemian Coding" on the right side had a link to the Sketch 3 app store page.
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by adoyle 13y ago
National Security Agency, not Administration ;)
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by adoyle 14y ago
It went to the 'allmit' list ( http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/allmit ) which goes to "all current students (including incoming freshman and graduate students, special and cross-registered students) and all employees listed in the M
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by adoyle 14y ago
App Inventor is here now: http://www.appinventor.mit.edu/
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by adoyle 14y ago
I just got this on Fidelity: Attention: FB order execution slowness Certain marketplaces are experiencing slowness resulting in delays in execution for Facebook orders. Industry technology teams outside of Fidelity are working to correct
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L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president(web.mit.edu)
23 points by adoyle 14y ago|2 comments
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by adoyle 14y ago
The fine for jaywalking in Massachusetts is one dollar. It's unheard of here to be stopped for crossing the street anywhere. When I first arrived in Boston, years ago, I was waiting for the light with a bunch of other pedestrians when a cop
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by adoyle 15y ago
Rats. I don't think there was archery back in my day. I did pistol, sailing, and 2 sessions of fencing. At least I didn't have to sign up at 8 am.
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by adoyle 15y ago
My math teacher in the 8th grade in 1971 made up a virtual machine with an assembly-like instruction set. He had us write programs and then 'execute' them by thinking about them as though we were the VM. Once we got the hang of that, we lea
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by adoyle 15y ago
The site itself: http://apfel-kind.de/
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by adoyle 15y ago
EarthNow provides a live-looking (it's delayed) stream from Landsat 7. US/N. America only, uses Java. http://earthnow.usgs.gov/earthnow_app.html
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by adoyle 16y ago
Perhaps finding all the politicians' sites that use rollovers and pointing out how they are in violation of the patent might help.
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by adoyle 16y ago
Sounds like Chandler. http://chandlerproject.org/vision Maybe one of these days someone will succeed in this space. It would be nice.
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by adoyle 16y ago
In the US, these discussions are pretty much always about gross pay. People also don't include the value of benefits other than bonuses, and as you see, bonuses are explicitly stated. I gather that in other countries it makes more sense to
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by adoyle 16y ago
I often go to the comments page for a submission first, then click the article link. Particularly if it looks like it's going to be one that drifts off. That way the back button puts me in the right place, even if I come back to it hours la
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by adoyle 16y ago
You definitely can hit different sweet spots with plugs vs Minis. That's one reason I was playing with the Eee Box. They cost just under $300 with a decent amount of RAM and disk, plus HD DVI out. If you don't need a display then even that'
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by adoyle 16y ago
Reliability is a key factor for me with low-power being important, too. I've been running Mac Minis as servers since they first came out. Right now I have ~25 of them running at the MIT Museum, about half of those run exhibits and shut them
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by adoyle 16y ago
I just found this, not sure what a good HN title is for the submission, but it looks pretty useful.
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One-click browser window sizing(resizemybrowser.com)
1 points by adoyle 16y ago|1 comments
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by adoyle 16y ago
If money is not a problem, then I think you should not try to hit the perfect solution the first time. Trying to do that will make it harder to get started. I had to build a linear motion platform last spring. Since I had never done anythin
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by adoyle 16y ago
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/ is a good place to start. I think ESA has similar data but possibly not as easily available.
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by adoyle 16y ago
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/
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by adoyle 16y ago
This is a Fraser spiral - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_spiral_illusion Here's another great spiral-based visual system hack - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JVJsPpg1-8

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