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This is about being able to package and provide the Weta toolset to Unity developers. Imagine making video games with the Weta toolset.

Exactly what I do and I love it. The AppleTV Plex app was a game changer.

If we learned anything from Lawn Darts, it was this.

Maybe.

Roll? Pitch? Yaw? Engine RPM? Prop pitch?

Those are “most” of the controls... none of which require touchscreens.

What controls are you referring to specifically?

Then don’t upgrade.

Unfortunately, just because you spend more doesn’t mean you get what you pay for.

I spent 3 years in an education startup and I never saw such a correlation.

First time I saw it was surreal.

I was on a wine tour and on the way back to the hotel looked out the window and was gobsmacked. “Woah... that’s the Spruce Goose! The Spruce Goose is here!?!”

Cancelled the next day’s tour and hit up the museum instead.

Highly recommended.

If your team can't check on that stuff manually for a few hours while Slack is down, then I think you may have bigger problems.

If anyone on my team came to me and cited Slack being down as a reason for their inability to do their job, then they wouldn't be on my team.

Is it less than ideal? Yes. Is it a little bit less efficient to pull info instead of having it pushed to you? Yes.

Is the sky falling? No.

Then how do you explain the Maersk blockchain-based insurance trial that they found very successful?

Bitcoin is not the only incentive that can be had in implementing blockchain technology.

There are a number of very promising use cases for blockchain, in education, healthcare, energy... none of which involve bitcoin at all.

Someone watched Jon Oliver...

Try to set up a sprinkler on the roof and just leave it... it'll go a long way to knock down any embers that may land on it.

I've always known it as a battery isolator, and have purchased/installed 3 of them, and that's what I bought them as.

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

https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-IGD140HP-140-Battery-Isolator/dp...

It's called a battery isolator, and it's basically a monster diode from the alternator to the battery. Very common setup for RV's, etc.

I had one set up in my Jeep so that it would charge the deep cycle marine battery for my fishing pontoon's electric motor... way, way faster than anything you plug into the wall.

There were 5 of them that competed in this year's 24 Hours of Daytona, and Lambo is looking at an LMP1 car for Le Mans next year.

Don't know about you, but an SSL certificate does nothing to increase my level of trust of a website.

It's based on freely available data in the first place, and I'm sure an Open Source option will pop up to replace it.

If it's truly "mission critical", then I don't see what's wrong with paying for the service.

Call me crazy, but I don't see this as being a big deal.

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Saw this pic on Reddit that kind of sums it up.

http://i.imgur.com/DkdgGnQ.jpg

As a long distance shooter, and lover of technology, I would most assuredly get a lot of joy out of this.

Also, you'd be incorrect about this doing the hard work. They add the concept of "windage" almost as an afterthought, and I can tell you that at long distances, it is anything but.

In long distance shooting, pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Funny, the first thing I thought of was long-distance target shooting or hunting, not mass killings.

The fact that you immediately go to the sniper mass killings angle is what I find to be pretty fucked up.

Whatever you do, don't Google "Unimog".

Agreed.

It seems that she involved them in a battle not of their choosing, one that they apparently don't want to fight, and she has since suffered the consequences.

True. My bad, and edited previous comment appropriately.

Seems that she got the attention she sought, but it quickly became a case of "be careful what you wish for". A little bit of digging into her tweet history brought some real gems to the forefront which didn't help her current situation.

No.

She made a big stink about what she overheard in a private conversation between two friends, and posted it on Twitter. Probably would not have been a big deal except that one of them, a father of three, was fired as a result. Not her direct doing, but seemingly a consequence of her actions.

She then was found to be a bit of a hypocrite, based on her own tweets: https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425 (she makes her own dick joke)

Some more digging found that she's made some strangely bizarre comments about racism, saying "Black people can't be racist". https://twitter.com/adriarichards/statuses/6039856858

She then says that her company stands behind her, bringing them into the mix. https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/314452708549603328

That was her undoing.

She made a big deal out of something that shouldn't have been, handled it in a totally unprofessional manner, brought a bunch of unwanted attention to her and her employer, and made her association to her employer a problem for her employer.

She was the author of her demise, nobody else.

EDIT: Edited to better reflect the timeline, which I totally mis-tense-ified initially.

What constitutes a DB? Can we have "custom" as an option? We wrote 2 very light, single-use DB's for two specific use cases in order to get some performance we needed on real-time data, but they don't really have any kind of management or generic SQL-like access.

Yep. I routinely watch a torrented/PVR'd race with the iPad App running the 'live' timing and scoring. It really does make a huge difference.

I _LOVED_ the fact that they had an engineer co-hosting the webcast. He wasn't the typical pretty-boy spewing stuff from a teleprompter that he didn't understand, and his post-launch elation said it all.

Go for quality information, even if it's a bit rough around the edges from a BS marketing standpoint.

Get a REAL rocket scientist spreading the word.

I had to chuckle at how he nonchalantly just whips up a mill simulator or a Python script for the shape of the blade. Each of those alone would be worth digging into in detail.

Needless to say, this article is my motivator for the day.

True, but I tend to believe that the makeup of the community is a dynamic thing; it's going to change over time.

To start with, it might be a few of the hard-core early adopter, hacker types that will help develop the product, but it will eventually move away from that and become more a straight consumer community. (That's my guess, any way).

For instance, my dad will probably buy one and use it a fair bit for various projects, but he's not at all someone who'd give anything back to the "community", other than his cash.

And while it is the initial "hacker" community that will give it some momentum and critical mass, it's the "cash paying user" community that will really drive development forward.

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I showed my dad the Replicator 2 yesterday, and he's really close to ordering one.

I also showed him the RepRap, and he was immediately turned off of the idea... he just wants something easy, polished, and more consumer grade, not "hacker" grade.

I am a huge fan of Open Source, and have no problems with using Open Source in a commercial manner (I actually have a commercial software product that uses some Open Source components), as long as the licenses are being adhered to.

Bri Pettis strikes me as being a solid guy, and I believe his intentions are honorable, and he will do as he says, and ensure that everything will follow all the license requirements.

It's understandable that he has to be a bit protective of some aspects of his products, as I think the big players (Epson, HP, etc) could become a real threat as soon as they twig to the fact that there's a reasonable market there.

I can't blame him for trying not give the proprietary aspects of what he's doing to his competitors, especially when they're 800 lbs gorillas.

I think that balancing the need for protecting your investment and meeting the requirements of various Open Source licenses is a bit tougher than some realize. It's not just a case of "release everything to the masses", it can be quite complicated.

For now, I'm willing to give him (and MakerBot) the benefit of the doubt, and trust that they'll Do No Evil.

I think you spelled "sarcasm" wrong...