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I am a software guy but always wanted to get into hardware a bit more. What are good books to read and tools to have to start hardware hacking?

Location: Bern, Switzerland Remote: Yes Relocation: Yes (though limited to planet Earth) Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Scientific Computing, [something I …

Bern, Switzerland, Remote | Relocation, Full Time Stack: Ruby, Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, [something I don't know yet] Careers 2.0: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/featu…

There were people rallying against slave masters. Yes, back when it was still legal to own slaves. Do you say these activists had nothing to do with abolishing slavery? Do you say …

I'm surprised that none of them use Heroku. It seemed to be the darling of the startup community for some time.

So, in short, big companies still don't get there doesn't have to be a correlation between GPA, educational background and actual skill to work? Today with the internet, blogs, Git…

I could see a feature were the server side will just be a PaaS-like service, where only the client side code is needed anymore. Database persistence, handling of static assets and …

To be fair, especially the landing sequence (the only thing they couldn't really patch) was very well defined from the start. They knew exactly what the Rover had to do, when he ha…

The bar code was actually just a code to initialize the code generation (I think it is based on that randomly generated seed and the time, so that then server and client generate t…

I'm always dumbfounded when these topics come up and a lot of people start saying how inconvenient it is, that it is all wrong. But these are probably the same people which later a…

There is also a (proposed) file API. http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/

I see there is a lot of nostalgia in that post that I (and others like me) will probably never understand. But, I still don't see the point. It's nice that we could buy and old mac…

The point isn't the security mechanism, but for consumer products the point is physical location. Without two factor authentication, a sweat shop in China could hack you (and thous…

Interesting to see that P2P has gone down 6% and downloads up 3%, whereas physical media has stayed the same. It's clear where the growth market is, now the RIAA just has to read t…

A very interesting post! Thanks for sharing that! I have one question though: Did you grandfather your old customers in? So you still charge them the old price and give them all fe…

Do you have an ETA when you will officially release Meteor with auth?

Mostly training and consulting. There is no better indicator that you know a framework best if you made and maintain it. Another way, that the Meteor guys are trying (probably on t…

(can't answer you directly, so I'm doing it here) My point was, that, for example, language recognition doesn't need human intelligence, a statistical model is enough. Or driving a…

You are right, but to solve most problems, do machines really HAVE to think like humans?

That's exactly what I was going to ask. That's the one thing keeping me from building something serious with Meteor. The rest I tried, and it does look really nice for real-time we…

If I understand Pingdom correctly, they just want to monitor the Twitter API for all their customers that use the API. Pingdom doesn't send tweets for their customers, they just wa…

I took the Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng some time ago. And it was a really great experience. The lessons are interesting, and I really like their concept of quizzes in the …