roqetman

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by roqetman 11y ago
You can get a taste of that soviet lander towards the end of the (fiction) movie Apollo 18
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The Empathy Vaccuum(eod.com)
3 points by roqetman 13y ago|0 comments
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Helios - an extensible open-source mobile backend framework(helios.io)
2 points by roqetman 13y ago|0 comments
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TableTopDay is Saturday, March 30th, 2013(tabletopday.com)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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Change the Thinkpad and it will die - Fortune Tech(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
3 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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The USPTO Would Like to Partner with the Software Community(groklaw.net)
123 points by roqetman 14y ago|128 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
I used to also wait for all the data before I tried things like this. Then due to "reasons" I actually started meditation, daily, for just 10 minutes. I've now been doing it for 3 years and I have no data to give you, but the effects on me
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The ghost of Jobs: Apple’s challenge to decide “what would Steve do?”(arstechnica.com)
2 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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Cryonics Photos Delve Into the Frozen World of the Immortality Faithful(wired.com)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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MongoDB developers team with EdX open learning collaboration(arstechnica.com)
2 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
I've learned to keep a log of all the work I do (so I can search for information on request or if I want to recall something months or even years later), but I just use a specially formatted vim file (that has references to other scripts et
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by roqetman 14y ago
I guess this would be useful in the case of an apocalypse scenario involving mass EM pulses (assuming anyone is still around to build new computers with OCR to reload the code). Better use good acid-fee paper stored at near-vacuum though.
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Zynga employees sound off about the company's stock price drop(quora.com)
9 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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MG Siegler doesn’t think App.net will succeed(marco.org)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
Absolutely! Confronting the people who are abusing the system is much more effective and doesn't affect the group morale (the general email would effectively punish everyone because of those few). Managers should, y'know, manage.
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by roqetman 14y ago
I wish someone would - they would make a great addition to a discordant soundtrack.
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by roqetman 14y ago
I've taken apart a couple of discarded pianos. The saddest part is cutting the wires with a wire cutter (watch it, they whip outward) - the sound is so mournful and haunting.
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by roqetman 14y ago
How will it get future funding for upkeep etc?
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Twitter Revokes Find Friends Access for Instagram(thenextweb.com)
2 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
it's only been 3 days. I would hope that apple checks very carefully before they pull an app. False claims can also be made.
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What if? - answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every tuesday (what-if.xkcd.com)
4 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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A future full-time job(marco.org)
2 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
Now this is the kind of stuff I love to see on HN!
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by roqetman 14y ago
One indicator to me that an article would be a time-waster (to me) is the "numbered lists" (10 ways to do X etc.) By avoiding those, my quality to waster article ratio has increased.
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Twirc - Twitter+irc(github.com)
1 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
I wish it were so, but though I hate to be cynical, this has been going on (for me) since the early 90's (back then Microsoft was the one everyone connected to) so I doubt that anything is going to change.
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by roqetman 14y ago
I still get goosebumps when I listen to some of the greetings on the "golden record" and imagine someone out there listening to it one day: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html
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WWDC Keynote 2012(s3.amazonaws.com)
2 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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Open US government reboot focuses on APIs instead of data(arstechnica.com)
3 points by roqetman 14y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 14y ago
Looks like that's what Oracle has been working on lately: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/nosqldb/overview/...

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