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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 trigger…

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 versio…

Try looking at it the other way: 99.8% of the world's population would like to have a car like mine...

Maybe one step too far. more along the lines of: "Hi there . Your usual big latte today or something else?" "The usual please (It's nice not having to make those big decisions.)"

> Increase the average income of residents of your community. Let's aim for raising the median income instead

Integrate an emergency energy unit and you do not even have to reboot for changing your location

"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.

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

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…

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" T…

Furthermore, if you say "at least X", then guess what: their offer will be "X"

The service is not free, you just don't pay with money.

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 th…

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".

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…

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…

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 pic…

"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 …

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 grou…

Awesome. A real hack. Beautiful, simple, useful.