dionysiac

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by dionysiac 12y ago
Thanks, Whoaa. I was always carrying the iPad plus a pad of paper to every meeting three years ago when I started this fiasco :) There were other drawing & notes apps out there, but this is the one I wanted.
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Show HN: After three years of self-bootstrapping, InkFast launches (free today)(inkfa.st)
4 points by dionysiac 12y ago|2 comments
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by dionysiac 14y ago
Have a look at http://betterexplained.com/ - Kalid's got some of the most intuitive explanations I've seen.
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by dionysiac 15y ago
And things are continuing to change, too. More and more FPGAs and CPLDs are showing up in end user electronics - our hardware is becoming software.
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by dionysiac 16y ago
It's an old one, but I still think of it every time someone is trying to come up with an acronym: http://dilbert.com/fast/1993-06-23/
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by dionysiac 16y ago
IMO, A big danger of implementing centralized authentication across multiple sites is that will make social engineering schemes aimed at stealing a user's credentials more plausible and effective. I know that systems such as OpenID and othe
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by dionysiac 16y ago
Hence the -maxdepth 3 param: # time find / -maxdepth 3 -perm -7 -type d -print /tmp /var/tmp real 0m0.034s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.028s This was run on a pretty anemic VPS. Might have to up the depth to 4 if it doe
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by dionysiac 16y ago
find / -maxdepth 3 -perm -7 -type d -print and tweak as needed.
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by dionysiac 16y ago
He did do some trading when he was around: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/einsteins-relative...
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by dionysiac 16y ago
"The rest just want to forget about whatever is going on in their lives and get high. Why can't people just admit the truth?" Many people consuming alcohol are doing so for similar reasons.
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by dionysiac 16y ago
Storing something like a username in client-side data and then trusting its accuracy is effectively delegating your authentication outside you circle of control. Saying that encryption will make this magically secure is like saying encrypti
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by dionysiac 16y ago
"..Dozens of people collaborated spontaneously, motivated by loyalty, friendship, or the love of craftsmanship. We were hackers, creating something for the sheer joy of making it work." This.
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by dionysiac 16y ago
It's getting there. Check out http://ccmixter.org/ .
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by dionysiac 16y ago
The man wants to enrich himself by boning the hottest chick he can, and possibly at her expense if she is seeking a longer relationship. It's perceived sexual gratification vs perceived financial gratification. Both are similarly illusory I
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by dionysiac 16y ago
For those interested, "The (Mis)Behavior of Markets" by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson examines, among many other things, the 1987 "Black Monday" event. Mandelbrot theorizes that sudden, disproportionate events such as these may be mu
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by dionysiac 16y ago
Masers (microwaves) were actually developed before lasers were, and do work pretty well for power transmission (as these things go - still quite a loss). You have the problem of directionality and tracking, though.
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by dionysiac 16y ago
I have been looking into drafting tables for this very purpose - used ones can often be found in the local buy & sell for quite cheap. Being adjustable by design, they look ideal (not sure about weight capacity though). Anyone have any
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by dionysiac 16y ago
"It's all about expectations with the iPad." My thoughts exactly. Purely as a reading device, it will be fantastic for scientific papers which are usually in hard formatted PDFs. Reflowing them for a small e-ink device sucks and makes them
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by dionysiac 16y ago
The touch screen will not provide an adequate replacement for buttons and knobs - if you emulate buttons and knobs, that is. With capacitive multi-touch, there's a real opportunity to rethink the interface here. Interaction in the past was
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by dionysiac 16y ago
It upgrades well to a HTML page if you don't have flash. FTFY :)
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by dionysiac 16y ago
"I need a Mac to program the iPad? Why?" You need a computer to transfer data to it, so why not to program it? Yes, the toolchain is not available for windows, but that's at least understandable. The iPad is not currently marketed as a stan
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by dionysiac 16y ago
Government control of private property - this is how some public utilities operate. Private industry builds the infrastructure, but the government aims to bring stability through regulation to what a large part of the general population see
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by dionysiac 16y ago
Simplicity.
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Nature giving free full journal access via iPhone app through April 30(nature.com)
2 points by dionysiac 17y ago|0 comments