bockris

Did you even read his post?

This is a key-value DB that he needs 1/2 sec response time to. Glacier is primarily a 'vault' type service where your access time is measured in hours.

IIRC this was a joke patent that they put forward just to see what they could get away with.

Talk to an accountant, preferably your accountant.

A friend from work who gives private swimming lessons at her house was asking my advice for a site/service just like this one. I've forwarded the link to her and I'll post any feedback she gives. I don't have a need for it but it looks nice and professional. Way too nice for an MVP. :-)

http://www.myrobotnation.com/ is similar and it has a much larger set of styles/parts/colors.

I don't even know if I want to try it without seeing a demo or at least a product tour.

Yeah, I left a comment on the SO post noting that and my need for bigrams rather than trigrams.

Oddly enough, I found out about this restriction just yesterday. I wanted to play around with Google's ngram dataset. Amazon hosts it for free in S3 making it a no brainer to run in EC2 or EMR.

Google doesn't have it available in Google Cloud Storage and I would burn a ton of bandwidth and time just to get it there.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11990839/is-there-a-way-t...

This makes it too difficult to kick the tires on BigQuery IMO. A file that will upload in a reasonable amount of time is more or less a toy dataset and if it's big enough to be a valid test, you will probably spend days trying to get it uploaded.

Something from here? http://adafruit.com/category/105

I like the 'Cobbler' and the 'Prototyping Plate' but I haven't got around to buying either of them yet.

Also https://www.adafruit.com/products/597 if you want to have a more generic case to build around.

First page for me still shows a 2005 date. doesn't matter, it's just weird.

http://imgur.com/Iwu0d

It's weird. The first page lists an Aug 3, 2005 date when I view it.

That would be quite a trick since it was 2 years before the project was even started.

The other pages have what I assume is the correct date.

I too pledged for the MakeyMakey. It was a no brainer because they already on V3 of a working prototype. The money was to gauge interest and get a deal on parts.

Nathan Seidle had an interesting blog post on it. http://www.sparkfun.com/news/909

41 edit: I amend to 40. I was double counting 1 square

http://research.swtch.com/qart ???

Also check out Data Wrangler. http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/

It focuses on more mechanical transformations but has the ability to save the steps to a program which you can then use in a process pipeline.

(disclaimer, I haven't played with it in a few months so this is from memory)

My guess is higher but I don't care to research it.

The '500 mile email' and 'The story of Mel the Real Programmer' are trotted out on a regular basis also.

As long as you can glean the story from the headline, you can ignore it. It's a tiny bit annoying but I'm not asking for a refund.

via Andrew Gerrand (enneff on HN)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106356964679457436995/posts/iuMr...

question 5

be sure to walk a few commits forward.

Or a MakeyMakey (http://www.makeymakey.com/) and go barefoot.

It's an interesting idea.

I'll play a couple of games on paper with my son and let you know.

You can add an 'else' clause to the 'if' block by clicking the '+' which launches a sub-editor.

see also:

http://benjismith.net/index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/

You mean this piece of text:

  If you don't know which version to use, start with Python 2.7; 
  more existing third party software is compatible with Python 2 
  than Python 3 right now.

Which is almost directly above the link to the 2.7.3 installation link for windows.

+1 for the Teensy (a lot of newer Arduinos can also act as a HID)

The MakeyMakey would work but is overkill because it's designed for sensing capacitance rather than a key press.

Actually, if you have any modicum of skill at soldering you can easily use an old keyboard. I turned a GuitarHero guitar I found at Goodwill into a Frets on Fire controller that way.

other discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002418

It's not just Word. Lots of microsoft programs have modal dialogs that lock out other open windows. Outlook is the one that give me the most trouble.

Make magazine has a similar project featured this month.

http://makeprojects.com/Wiki/30#Section_12_000_Mile_Universa...

Well I don't know for sure but here are couple of reasons I can think of.

1. to make a new chapter/section always start on a facing page.

2. I used to work for a banking software firm and they provided very large paper manuals (several thousand pages) to their clients for the various systems. They would always leave blank pages scattered through the manual so they could ship paper corrections to the manuals without reprinting the whole thing. This allowed the page references in the later pages of the manual to remain correct. (This was 20 odd years ago, I'm sure their manuals are PDF now.)

Sorry but I hate this.

Some people at my work do this with credit cards.

e.g. Everyone at the table puts a CC in a hat and you ask the server to pick one and that person pays.

It's pretty much stopped me from going to lunch with that group.