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by mc42 5y ago
Thea's work is immaculate, and always an interesting read. Her synthesizer modules use FR4 PCBs as the front panels as well, a technique that's pretty popular but executed so well it's beautiful. [1] Even her documentation i
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by mc42 6y ago
It's a very cute box, and I particularly enjoy that this small blog reflects a microcosm of development, fixing bugs for a product, and making it usable for a "customer". That said, games for the author's child remind m
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by mc42 7y ago
In the same area, both my hometown and the district I attended had 1:1 Chromebook policies. They also had Orwelian programs to allow teachers to see what was on student's screens (!) and later a list of recently closed tabs (!!).
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by mc42 7y ago
If you're thinking about FIRST Robotics Competition, then yep that's nail-on-head about what they do. I briefly talked to one of the folks responsible for that system and they mentioned looking into using a CDN, but couldn't
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by mc42 8y ago
I thought Linus Torvalds was almost wholly responsible for the initial development of git? Even so, everything, especially software, is easier in hindsight....
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by mc42 9y ago
I believe this is part of their announcement on how the SEC will be handling ICOs, but IANAL. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15902054
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by mc42 9y ago
Several years ago during the MTGox collapse, /r/bitcoin over on reddit had a suicide hotline pinned to the top as multiple evangelicals had sunken their life savings into BTC. It's going to be a very difficult situation if &
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by mc42 9y ago
Their banner graphic says that pre-Quantum Firefox scored 32 runs per minute, so I think it's quite the improvement.
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by mc42 9y ago
What leaves me curious is what's to happen of the Vive hardware line that Valve sells made by HTC.
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by mc42 9y ago
I very much find myself agreeing with the items on this list. However, I think it can be expanded to anything that's the "opposite" of programming. Hands-on projects that are as far away physically and mentally from programm
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by mc42 9y ago
In this case, their free time breeds free time (barring an employer issuing more work). The logic works in some situations.
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by mc42 9y ago
Though I find the sentiment appreciable, how the author persevered, goes to show that good backups always are always needed. Backups are only backups if you test them...
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by mc42 9y ago
There are single-off tools to dump password databases from all 3 major browsers instantly. Terrifying yes, easy to deal with, not so much.
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by mc42 9y ago
Just reading the story now, but I can confirm that college radio stations (and in general radio stations) are build to run and then be forgotten. My campus still uses a rather old copy of Simian which relies not only on IPv4, but filepaths
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by mc42 9y ago
Reddit, YouTube, Twitch for media. Chief Delphi for Robotics-related content (FIRST Robotics Alum, so it's an interesting thought pattern to watch as an outsider.) HN, Hackaday and on occasion Slashdot for Tech-related content.
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by mc42 9y ago
Though the site is visually appealing, I fail to understand why nearly 550kB of JS is needed (548kB to be specific). A site like this could get away rather well with just using on-hover and some elegant links. Overall a decent idea, but it
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by mc42 10y ago
The whole "main" page being under 2kB is an adventurous thing indeed. Overall, interesting implementation and incredibly clean layout (CSS is 541b.) What languages are the site written in?
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by mc42 10y ago
My biggest point of contention with this is... what should replace it? PGP is the current and retroactive psuedo-standard for verification for everything from email to code to builds. Any replacement would have to be at least semi-compatib
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by mc42 10y ago
A cursory Google search suggests you could use a package like poppler to convert the pdf to raw text, and then in theory use regex to create data your server could use and serve. If the pdfs are published as scans like so many municipalitie
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by mc42 10y ago
Precisely. Though I've never been to one personally (as a man), the women I know who have attended their events seem to benefit from it, as have the few men I know who have. The name may be "Girls Who Code", but the Boy S
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by mc42 10y ago
Oh my goodness, I actually forgot them... Editing my comment, thank you!
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by mc42 10y ago
I would say to organizations that directly support people, be it Direct Relief, The ACLU, or Charity: water. Other good options are FIRST, Girls Who Code, and The Geek Group, all orgs that focus on STEM Education and getting people into the
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by mc42 10y ago
Though I don't personally like the color scheme, the new logo was by far the best of their options. [0] I wish them the best of luck with their rebrand and hope they realize that they don't need to sink their limited funding int
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by mc42 10y ago
This is absolutely incredible, and the load times are incomprehensible for a modern site. What software powers the site? I did some looking and discovered it uses Bulma [1] instead of Bootstrap, and it's absolutely amazing. Another co
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by mc42 10y ago
JS is actually 21 now. According to wiki, it was developed under codename "Mocha" and shipped with Netscape Navigator 2.0. [1] "May 23, 1995" Personally, I'm pretty sure the version of "JS" when it was
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by mc42 10y ago
This also seems to be a direct result of GitHub's move to limiting GitHub Pages [1] Good work, and keep it up GitLab Team! Lovely product, and well designed. [1] - https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-github-p
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Ask HN: What is the ugliest code you've let slip?
6 points by mc42 10y ago|4 comments
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by mc42 10y ago
This looks absolutely wonderful. However, Thunderbird seems to be stuck in a development limbo... I legitimately wish that the 'Mozilla Core' approach like they originally created Thunderbird from either needs to be done again fro
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by mc42 10y ago
The way I see it, this would be the perfect way to produce semi-altered terrain sprites automatically. Right now,the textures are pseudo-randomly rotated for things like dirt blocks, grass tops, and stone. [1] However, with this you could
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by mc42 10y ago
On one hand, I think that it's a matter of policy due to NASA's downright prohibition on working with China [1] " China has been barred from the ISS since 2011, when Congress passed a law prohibiting official American contact

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