jjindev

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by jjindev 12y ago
Convergence devices have a long history. I read in Steward Brand's 1988 book, The Media Lab, about devices that would converge, collect the functions of our small electronics. Xerox PARC was starting on ubiquitous computing and "p
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by jjindev 12y ago
I was one of those boys who bought a TRS-80. The thing is, I don't remember it as a peer accepted pursuit for me either. This was before anyone noticed, let alone Hollywood recast it as their version of Revenge of the Nerds. This was
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by jjindev 12y ago
I think this is a "stages of moral development(1)" thing. In post-conventional levels of development, all tools would be valued for their strengths. We wouldn't denigrate a tool for belonging to a class of tools. 1 - with ap
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by jjindev 12y ago
Yeah, I had a Cherokee and knew that the road out from my house flooded every 3 or 4 years. When if finally did ... the police got there first and blockaded it. I had to drive around anyway. That was funny, I cussed for the next few miles.
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by jjindev 12y ago
As a guy with a chem degree, I prefer Metric in the lab, and Imperial (US) in the kitchen or workshop. It isn't really that hard to shift gears/units for your task. Even better is when you learn to cook or build without measuremen
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by jjindev 12y ago
Went camping this week. Left my Prius behind, took my girlfriend's 4x4 up the forest service road to the campground ... found 3 Prius there ahead of me. We need less car than we think we do.
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by jjindev 12y ago
I enjoyed this review from 2012, but in 2014 we are past a 2013 "MOOC backlash" and live in an era where lines are well drawn. There are still some educators committed to true distance learning, but some also who have circled the
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by jjindev 12y ago
I always considered it a mild anti-theft measure. "Hey, that's my ..." [meaning sticker combos should be pseudo unique]
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by jjindev 12y ago
I personally (redundantly) am an android/linux user, but I perceive that iPhone and iPad are accepted in rich and powerful circles, and are precisely the market for an IBM effort. I don't think IBM wants to sell _both_ a corporate
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by jjindev 12y ago
thank you, noted.
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by jjindev 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
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by jjindev 12y ago
You know, companies with the size and wealth of MS sometimes employ people just to have them NOT innovating elsewhere. Consider 18K smart people freed of that as the bright side.
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by jjindev 12y ago
While I defend "disruption" as a thing, that happens sometimes, I don't think this is it. What Apple and IBM have really done is join an ongoing movement, something that has been going on for years. People already have these
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by jjindev 12y ago
Should karma be an ephemeral thing? Should it age off in a week or so? There could be a downside to the early entrants benefit. Sure, you can explore new territory and carve out a huge position, but you become a "Land Barron" in
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by jjindev 12y ago
Are there too many bad questions? Why not the Google answer, which is that search brings you "good" no matter how much "bad" there is?
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by jjindev 12y ago
The striking thing for me was to Google a few questions in a row, to find good answers on SO, and then to see that each one was also closed/rejected for some reason. It was strange to see that the answers to these questions all had hi
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by jjindev 12y ago
Curious on the "hybrid progeny have wildly different/non-uniform offspring." I bought some "Big Thai Hybrid" chilies because that's what the store had (rather than just regular Thai chilies). Any idea how far
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by jjindev 12y ago
As logfromblammo notes, this is a very old thing. Perhaps as old as agriculture itself. That said, I see nothing wrong with the branding, as an education and promotion drive. If it gets more gardens in, all the better. (I try to beat the
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by jjindev 12y ago
In many older parts of California you can rent an apartment over a garage. Great system. Revenue for the home owner, good environment for the renter, distributed rentals. Of course that was then, right? When people talk about rentals v
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by jjindev 13y ago
1. We have a currency without government! 2. We were robbed, and will now contact the government.
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by jjindev 13y ago
I am not a nutritionist or a biochemist, but as a guy with an old BS Chem and a general knowledge, it does not surprise me to hear (again) that we are not all bomb calorimeters. We have long known that our metabolic pathways are neither un
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by jjindev 13y ago
If you believe in technological plateaus ... it's possible that ReactOS has all the time in the world.
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by jjindev 13y ago
I have a related suspicion ... that Google made the deal in part because they believe Lenovo will run Motorola well, with goals compatible to Google and Android. I don't think Google was ever into Motorola to make it pay. They were th
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by jjindev 13y ago
Once, as a relative UNIX newbie, I "cleaned up" a Sun box, until I had moved things I needed for boot off the boot partition. I got it all back, manually mounting partitions, and etc. but I was certainly in a cold sweat for about
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by jjindev 13y ago
But don't most people here, at HN, want that right to decide their own openness? I mean, does everyone here plan to do a web startup and then produce a tarball of [their] full work? A full DB API? I understand that we all, or most of
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by jjindev 13y ago
This is a digression, but it is slightly more complicated. The top US software companies, by market cap, all use FSF tools, but then in turn decide their own separate levels of openness. Entrepreneurs here will use FSF tools, and then dec
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by jjindev 13y ago
So, I was at the park watching soccer. My friend introduces me to a "world famous neurosurgeon." We all talk and he says that he'd interested in giving her son (now in CS) an internship, and then something about not trustin
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by jjindev 13y ago
"AMD says Kaveri has 2.4 billion transistors, or basic building blocks of electronics, and 47 percent of them are aimed at better, high-end graphics." This sentence would have been so much better off if they'd just punted on
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by jjindev 13y ago
"that more money makes you happier does not mean that any amount of money can make you as happy as you want" And "more money" is not always the easiest or most available "life hack."
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by jjindev 13y ago
In a literal sense we have gold coins. I guess it's interesting that governments mint and sell them for a thin premium on bullion prices. And then, yeah, I'm sure there are things you could buy with a pocket full of Krugerrands.

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