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by ulf 11y ago
Creator here, I used a camera so that I would have video of everything that is happening. As seen in the follow-up post [1], I rebuilt the system so that the nut-release is triggered by a proximity sensor. The camera only records now. [1]
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Show HN: Squirrel feeder based on Raspberry Pi(blog.ulfster.com)
20 points by ulf 11y ago|9 comments
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by ulf 14y ago
Looks more promising every time! While I like the idea to not work on your stuff as files, I have a question in that regard: Do you have specific plans on how to incorporate version control when not primarily relying on files?
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by ulf 14y ago
Try looking at it the other way: 99.8% of the world's population would like to have a car like mine...
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by ulf 15y ago
Maybe one step too far. more along the lines of: "Hi there <yourname>. Your usual big latte today or something else?" "The usual please (It's nice not having to make those big decisions.)"
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by ulf 15y ago
> Increase the average income of residents of your community. Let's aim for raising the median income instead
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Business Models On The Path Of Least Resistance(tabbedthinking.posterous.com)
1 points by ulf 15y ago|0 comments
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The Amazon Playbook(forbes.com)
2 points by ulf 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Markdown2Deck.js - write your presentations in plain text(tabbedthinking.posterous.com)
1 points by ulf 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Your Startup Doesn’t Need a COO(bothsidesofthetable.com)
2 points by ulf 15y ago|0 comments
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by ulf 15y ago
Integrate an emergency energy unit and you do not even have to reboot for changing your location
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by ulf 15y ago
"We have seen reports that one of the major weapons Amazon wants to use against the iPad is price." Finally someone gets that this might be a good idea.
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by ulf 15y ago
I think he meant it more in the context of olden times, where neither pirates nor navy had "high tech playtoys" and piracy was a little more common than today
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by ulf 15y ago
Wall street just followed a general theme among banks. Once upon a time they were institutions built to control capital flow, from where it was available to where it was needed, to provide some social value by allowing enterprises to thrive
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by ulf 15y ago
I was thinking about marriage proposals when I got to the page. "Use ProposalMatic to save snippets of text that you use often and mix and match to create personalized proposals" This really struck me as odd...
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by ulf 15y ago
Furthermore, if you say "at least X", then guess what: their offer will be "X"
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by ulf 15y ago
The service is not free, you just don't pay with money.
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by ulf 15y ago
The major problem with the much cheaper taxing of capital gains remains the growing inequality: Of every you dollar you earn through your own labor, you get less (until you pass the max threshold). And this while your capacity of personal l
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by ulf 15y ago
Great subset, one has to hope people do not read this as "this is how you game the interview process" but rather as "reflect about your idea with these points in mind".
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by ulf 15y ago
This might be another incarnation of the "Nobody ever gets fired for using IBM" phenomenon. HR are more likely aiming at avoiding errors, and not necessarily hiring the best people possible, if those come at a risk. So you can always say "b
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by ulf 15y ago
The "quickly" argument is a strawman, if you plan on having a working relationship that lasts longer than 3 months or so. If you just need someone to upgrade your current Rails 2.3.8 project to 3.0.6 and then move along, by all means get so
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by ulf 15y ago
This is a very big problem: the constant focus on tools and specific technologies instead of looking at the people and their abilities. A great developer will always be able to pick up a new language/framework/paradigm quickly. So if you pl
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by ulf 16y ago
"Let your limits be determined by physics and other real world constraints, not by the lack of imagination or (wrong) knowledge of others." Awesome takeaway! Without people taking that attitude, we probably would still be living in caves.
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by ulf 16y ago
This is more likely just a publicity stunt to calm down the people, since there are elections coming in several federal states and the reigning party CDU already lost a lot of ground. I would be surprised if anything really changes
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by ulf 16y ago
Awesome. A real hack. Beautiful, simple, useful.
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by ulf 16y ago
Even better is to additionally setup a fake SSHd at port 22, so that port scanners do not even bother keeping on looking for the port and instead use what they suspect to be working
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Make your site more responsive with Ajax(tabbedthinking.posterous.com)
1 points by ulf 16y ago|0 comments
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by ulf 16y ago
Another way to look at it: If all companies only hire the top 1% of software developers (as a lot say), and in total employ 100,000 developers, this would have to result in 10,000,000 unemployed developers. Sounds a little unrealistic, does
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by ulf 16y ago
The Kitten-Color-Clock: https://gist.github.com/849093
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by ulf 16y ago
"So here's a shout-out to my new BFF's Jon Hamm and DJ." Can someone please make it happen that Linus gets an appearance in Season 5 of Mad Men? He could play an IBM salesman or something like that...

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