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by catch23 13y ago
Good article. It reminds me of the stories Wozniak would tell about his chip reduction techniques back when microchips were really expensive.
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by catch23 13y ago
I guess it depends on the game. Starcraft 1 "Broodwars" is pretty cheap, but only super-serious gamers play it.
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by catch23 13y ago
Wow, that's already a huge endorsement.
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by catch23 13y ago
Probably because it leverages the security built into bluetooth.
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by catch23 13y ago
Heroku is great for clients though. When I was a freelancer, I built these apps for other companies that assumed that I would do the admin & hosting. Heroku is great way to just "tack on a fee" for doing the hosting. If the
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by catch23 13y ago
Paypal is ancient. It's likely they developed their web framework before any open source java web frameworks became popular. Paypal existed around 1998, Java Struts 1.0 came out in 1999. Struts 1.0 is probably one of the big reasons
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by catch23 13y ago
This reminds me of a blog post I wrote a year ago about proxy technology: http://www.deanmao.com/2012/08/28/modify-a-site-you-dont-own... I did it the same way -- parse & rewrite js code, and have a serve
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by catch23 13y ago
The copenhagen wheel looks pretty cool. Too bad nobody can buy it. I guess those copenhagen people can put whatever they want on their press release since they will probably never turn it into an actual product.
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by catch23 13y ago
Seems like it's a good pre-filter. The designers who do know Jekyll are likely to be pretty good and well rounded. If they only required HTML, you might end up with a bunch of guys that think they know design because they're gre
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by catch23 13y ago
Right, but libraries consist of many other things, including ORM or testing suites. There aren't many great ORM libraries written in C, and you need the test suite to work in lua because you're testing lua code. In general, the
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by catch23 13y ago
having written a fair amount of lua code, there aren't many libraries out there. Their npm equivalent is called 'luarocks'. To give you an idea of how old the libraries are: many of them mention the perl package it was tran
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by catch23 13y ago
hopefully there is a documented process so that one doesn't have to make a blog article to post on HN to get this stuff resolved.
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by catch23 13y ago
Similar experience here as well, but it's eons better than linux on laptops. Just getting linux to support your laptop's video card for multi-monitor displays is a complicated beast already. I would rather deal with crappy packa
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by catch23 13y ago
Nice. Can you send me $1 so I can be accelerated into the beta? :-)
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by catch23 14y ago
If you want to extract the most out of your batteries, wouldn't you use a boosting reg so can extract every last bit? I think for most projects, the uC uses far less power than the auxiliary components around it, like a LED. If you boost
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by catch23 14y ago
I think the core argument of the blog post is to use a voltage regulator with a low quiescent current. It doesn't really matter what uC you're using since it's only turned on every few seconds with the watchdog timer, however if you used c
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by catch23 14y ago
is it a permanent install?
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by catch23 14y ago
weren't some of the security holes found in the json & yaml libraries? Those weren't rails specific and could have just as easily happened in a Sinatra-like framework too.
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by catch23 14y ago
The daughters spoke a language distorted by a lifetime of isolation. "When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing." It's interesting how isolation does to a spoken language in only one generation. I'm gu
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by catch23 14y ago
It looks like it's trying to be a better datasheetarchive.com, which is definitely nice to have because those sites are utter crap. However, I guess these guys will have to play catch up getting google to index all their datasheets, so whe
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by catch23 14y ago
this was posted an hour ago, pg is probably in bed already.
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by catch23 14y ago
did he have a history of depression? perhaps it was simply due to stress or pressure? The thought of spending the next 35 years in prison for downloading documents can be pretty painful... probably as bad as someone who was wrongfully tr
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by catch23 14y ago
This feels like spam, but anyway I actually have these. They don't work as advertised sadly. I put a temp sensor on the cup and the temperature curve didn't look any different than without the joulies.
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by catch23 14y ago
Yeah, unlike reddit with their "catchy" titles. This place tries hard not to be another reddit. Your post titles would get edits by a moderator if it seems a little "too" catchy.
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by catch23 14y ago
I think you can get one of those sonar sensors for $6 on amazon. They're cheap. I don't think the obvious solution is to use a general purpose computing machine...
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by catch23 14y ago
why isn't icsp cheap? can't you just make a usbtiny with $10 in parts? my icsp consists of 1 tiny85 chip, 3 resistors, 2 diodes, and 1 usb cable.
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by catch23 14y ago
Ember-Data isn't easy, and I'm sure when your frustration is running high it's easy to just say screw it and jump to backbone, but you'll be paying for it later if your frontend has more than 5 deeply connected models.
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by catch23 14y ago
Ember data docs are pretty sparse, but once you get up and going, the learning curve is pretty flat. Backbone is pretty easy to get going, but the code complexity gets exponential when you have lots of collections and references that need
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by catch23 14y ago
So maybe the best way to encourage adoption is to convince a researcher in the field to implement their new math algorithms in python 3. Anyone who wishes to use these new algorithms would be forced to upgrade.
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by catch23 14y ago
I doubt a manufacturer will switch chips because it has better power consumption. There are lots of other power hungry components in a mobile phone. I'm guessing the CPU might only use up 15% of the total power consumption, so a CPU with

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