surgeterrix

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by surgeterrix 14y ago
This site isn't coming up for me, I'm in the U.S. Strange form of karmic justice I suppose.
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
My guess is the same reason ArduSat uses phone hardware. All the sensors one might want on a Satellite (motions sensors, cameras, magnetic field detection) are all built into phones now. Android (or more to the point Android's Linux kernel)
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
Well, if Ouya is successful, they will eventually become a corporate behemoth too. What was it, maybe 7-8 years ago Google was still a scrappy start up sticking it to MS and AOL?
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
60,000 pre-orders for a completely unknown company months before launch is not small. Usually they sell more once the thing is actually in stores, and they already have the best kind of marketing they can get, hype and people putting dollar
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
No, assuming filters are easy and foolproof is intentionally stupid and ignorant. Google took years to develop the technology and it was because they had the massive capital at their disposal. But all it takes to get around the technology i
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
Yeah, I go to Grooveshark to listen to remixes and artists I find on turntable.fm I can't simply listen to through Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, etc. Grooveshark provides a legit service, as long as they take down the music when requested by a copy
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
"But the professors say their bigger gripe is with the procedural, rules-based approach in all of Mr. Khan’s videos." Well, that's how they teach it in public school, here are the steps, no explanation of why it works, just accept that it w
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by surgeterrix 14y ago
Try EggDrop, it does basically the same thing and has been around longer.
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by surgeterrix 15y ago
He also wrote some of the code for the first iterations of Digg himself, so its not like he didn't do any coding originally. He just passed in on to more skilled people once the requirements were out of his league.