beardicus

I'm really in love with dokku:

https://github.com/progrium/dokku/

so I signed up for the mailing list based on that alone. I would've put out a bit more information up front myself, but I guess if you've got enough whuffie, you can be a tad handwavey for a while.

No? Why would it be? What is design's purpose in your mind?

> Does shape matter for yogurt?

In this case, yes? Gogurt is full of sugar. Of course the same can be true for yogurt in tubs as well. I feel the straw-manning of Pollan's writing is usually achieved by taking what is meant to be general guidance, pretending it's quite specific and stringent, and then poking logical holes in it.

Generally, the more packaging and marketing that went into something to get you to buy it, the more horseshit you'll find in it too. Generally.

> You need to lift a 10KG weight about 2 kilometres to get a teaspoon of kerosene's energy, so it's not a great replacement on that front

This says nothing of light output. If you want light, and most of kerosene's output is heat, your energy calculation is not helpful.

> and having 10KG weights dangling around at variable points between ceiling and floor sounds if anything even more of a liability than a lamp with a naked flame

This seems like an incredibly contrived "problem". What's the liability? Somebody may bump into a somewhat heavy object that is moving downwards at a barely perceptible clip? Somebody may tweak their back lifting the weight? That seems lower risk than my housing burning down with me in it.

Perhaps that particular machine did (I suspect you're mistaken though), but that is not the norm. Mutilating coins is not illegal in the United States.

Well. The comments here so far are about what one would expect. We're well on our way to making a 2MB+ file of "LOL USE VIM/EMACS" comments.

I've been using Atom for a bit now. I like it. I started out with vim but it never really stuck. I still use vim bindings in Atom for basic movement/yanking/pasting et cetera, but I admit, I am a GUI using creature and I like to grab the mouse every once in a while.

I rather enjoy the fact that I can poke at my editor just using a basic understanding of web development technologies. I enjoy that Atom was easy to set up and install plugins, unlike the dozen different ways you can/should customize vim. I already have a much more tweaked environment with Atom simply because slogging through .vimrc and vim bundles (even with vundle) was a major pain for me. I've never run into performance issues or the 2MB file limit (yes, I do have to deal with log files, but opening them in a text editor is not part of my workflow).

Clearly, others have different skills and priorities and Atom doesn't work for them. That's great. I'm glad there are options out there. Vim isn't a giant pile of shit just because it doesn't work for me.

There are some efforts to breed better hygienic behavior into bees, so they clean out parasitized brood or clean themselves of the mites. There are a few chemical treatments, including formic acid. And there are a few management techniques you can employ to disrupt their life cycle. So, it is manageable, though even with close attention and management they are clearly weakening hives and contributing to the mess of problems beekeepers are having.

Alas, those are Varroa mites. Not helpers, but blood-sucking (or the bee equivalent to blood: hemolymph) aliens that are causing quite a problem for beekeepers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor

If you find this interesting, the story of Luther Burbank would be a good choice too:

http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Invention-Burbank-Business-Bree...

Every mention of the policy in this article states that it applies to the hiring process. The fact that eliminating all salary negotiation would be an even bigger headline leads me to assume the reporter didn't just miss this detail.

Well that's an unfortunate title truncation. For those scratching their heads but not reading the article: Pao is eliminating salary negotiations for new hires. No word on negotiation of raises though.

I've been casually looking around for data-only plans with no (or really low, at least) monthly fees and pay-as-you-go per MB data... I'm not coming up with much, but roamline [ https://www.roamline.com/roamline-sim ] might do the trick. No monthly feed, twenty eurocents per MB.

Truphone [ http://www.truphone.com/us/consumer/sim/ ] is another one I've seen pop up. No monthly fee, $0.09 per MB in the US.

Does anybody know of anything else? This seems like a market that typically buys access for thousands of devices at a time, pushing just a few MB per month. There's not much out there for the hobbyist looking for just a SIM or two.

> without actually explaining how it would benefit any users other than him

He seems to make it pretty clear: "You give me a place to send them, and when my students join they punch in the required credit card and then they’re done." This sounds like a more streamlined signup process than what his users currently go through, which involves signing up somewhere else, paying, and then receiving an email with a link enabling them to sign up (again) at slack.

> how it would actually benefit Slack

Again, fairly well spelled out: "I promote it, I do the hard work of being in there, and you get to skim your $6.67 or however much the plan costs off the top of the signups." So free promotion, somebody else drives user signups to your product.

Third, by my reading, the author is implying that this setup would be useful for many others who want to offer a good chat service for online learning, paid support, or a multitude of other reasons I can't think up. It sounds like a great idea to me.

Finally: you'll probably get more out of the internet by being more concerned about content than tone.

From the article: "They were springy, chewy, and resilient. They were ramenized."

How do you go from that to assuming they're talking about mushy overcooked instant ramen? Given the authors' previous work on their blog, I suspect they're aware of fresh ramen and its properties.

They probably could've used the term "alkanized" instead, but that's pretty dry and technical.

Piccolo is a neat little plotter/drawing robot that's open hardware: http://www.piccolo.cc/

Unfortunately it seems nobody offers a full kit, so you'll have to gather materials yourself. It looks like it'll take four or five orders... ponoko for the laser cut parts, seeed studio for the pcb, hobby king for motors, and so on. Also not sure it fulfills the "build on top of that" requirement either, though after it is built you could spend lots of time learning programming to make it draw cool things. Think LOGO with an actual pen!

"Offload is a toolkit: a set of APIs and libraries for developers to add multi-screen functionality to their apps. It enables seamless communication between apps running on smartphones, tablets and PCs using wi-fi or bluetooth connections depending on the capabilities of the devices."

I feel like this paragraph, currently buried at the bottom of the page, should be right up near the top. It's a more clear description than the current top matter.

Seems like a fun project. I wonder if it'd make sense to not only support multiple screens, but also other physical knob/button input devices. I often find myself controlling software via various sensors hooked up to a microcontroller. I use the rather popular firmata library:

http://www.firmata.org/

It is embeddable on microcontrollers (mostly arduinos), and has many libraries in a variety of languages to easily interface with said hardware from a host "real" computer.

Odd headline. It's pretty easy to get 2 axis movement with two motors. The big advantage of this setup is that the motor for one axis doesn't have to go along for the ride, which reduces your moving weight and momentum. There are other ways to achieve this, of course, but they tend to require more linear rails, whereas core-xy requires more timing belt (which can be just some cheap nylon fishing line, depending on your application).

"H-bot" would be another good search term if you're interested in this.

Here's a link to a fairly well developed recipe for sassafras-based root beer:

http://honest-food.net/2010/07/04/sassafras-and-homemade-roo...

I'm most interested in the JeeNode, which can be found yonder:

http://jeelabs.net/projects/hardware/wiki/JeeNode

They're basically a stripped down older Arduino (none of the built in USB or other new features of the newer Arduinos) with built in wireless (433 or 915mhz depending on your region), and the developer has done a ton of work getting them to be incredibly low power, mostly by working around some decisions made in the core Arduino libraries. He has had some running off of coin cells doing a test ping routine for more than a year now, if I recall correctly.

You'd need a gateway of some sort to get the data onto the internet proper, of course, but he also makes a usb dongle with the appropriate receiver, which you could plug into a raspberry pi or even a wifi router that supports USB serial devices.

Anecdotally, this is untrue. I've had 800+ with just a credit card and an overdraft line of credit.

404 on the "Read the full documentation" link under "API" on the API page. (Edit: I see you already found the broken link and the file is yonder http://apps.cumulonimbus.ca/PressureNetDataAPI-v2.pdf )

Do you have any examples/links to research being done with the data currently? I poked through the blog quickly and didn't see anything in depth.

What am I missing here? Aren't all the graphs in that paper just a correlation/causation joke waiting to be made? I could probably fit "number of mobile phones sold" to the same curve and have "proof" that mobile phones are causing gluten intolerance.

The rest of the paper is way above my head, but certainly seems speculative and doesn't appear to have any actual evidence or study behind it. Given the motivated reasoning that happens often regarding topics such as these... I'm suspicious.

This looks fairly neat. The "don't pay for a plan" part is a bit odd though... as far as I can tell you're only getting a year of free low-bandwidth data, and after that it'll cost you.

I queried the creator on kickstarter... he said $3 a month would be a worst case cost for said connectivity after your initial year is up.

Perhaps more importantly, he indicated that it would be possible to not use their server as a middleman, but that they need to get their analytics right before allowing that. Currently going through their server allows them to maintain sane data rates, apparently.

Personally, I couldn't find a one-off GSM data only SIM for less than $8 a month in my searches... even at multiple year prepay... so this sounds like a pretty good deal. I'm maybe more interested in just the cheap dumb pipe option, but really their "middleware" server does sound handy.

Nothing to do with the feed reader at feedly.com though? Granted all the names are taken everywhere for everything, but this seems confusing.

Where are all the one, two, and three letter words? Does Gibson never use "a", "or", or "and"? More importantly, how is this an effective placeholder for English text without them? This seems all too common in these alternative ipsum generators. I guess people aren't actually supposed to use them?

This happened to me on February 4th of this year. And Etel got to break the bad news to me as well:

" Unfortunately it looks like the hypervisor that bean is on has failed. We were working with the datacenter technician and it seems that they had replaced the wrong drive which has corrupted the RAID volume.

We are unable to recover the system so if you have any backups or snapshots of that server please create a new virtual server from them. "

Between a signup credit, and my SLA credit from this event, I wont need to pay them for over a year after my initial signup. Besides this event, I've had no issues, though I'd think twice now about how/if I store data on the service if I were doing any real computing with them (as opposed to just noodling around).

This confused me as well. I had assumed 1 color front and back would be the 1 color column, plus 25 cents for the second location. Your explanation here makes good sense... but maybe it could be clearer on the website.

Arduino's are usually $30, though you can get the clones for $20. The ethernet shield alone is $45. The cheapest Arduino-a-like with built-in ethernet, as far as I've found, is the Nanode v5, at $40 in unassembled kit form.

http://wickeddevice.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&...

Many of your other points are valid. For tons of projects a Pi would be overly complicated overkill, but I can think of many times when I'd want more video in/out capabilities, plus the ability to blink some lights, drive some motors, and accept non-usb sensory input.

Glyphosate == Roundup(TM). This is the most used herbicide in the US... certainly not banned. Regardless, I agree with your conclusion.

Hmm. Hackerspaces.org has been running global livestreamed hackathons monthly for over a year now:

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon

Indeed it will be the same weekend as your event... not to discourage you or anything. Lets see what you've got!