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Introducing Carrot

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Re: Introducing Carrot

#72

Now that was a complete waste of 60 seconds. Was that supposed to be funny? I get the feeling I've been left out of an inside joke.

There's no joke to be left out of. The community sometimes just blows off steam by mocking itself. I don't particularly care for it, but usually it goes nearly as quickly as it comes.

Gotcha, thanks. Shame you get downvoted without explanation around here for an honest opinion.

Re: Introducing Carrot

#74
Devices like this, nice, sleek and integrated, are, as usual, not very hackable. Try getting it to change colors, for instance. (Though I did see yellow and purple prototypes, not yet on the site.)

On the other hand, the device has an unexpected, but well-documented and very cool ability to run genetic algorithms! It's ridiculously slow, like 1-3 iterations a year (!), but you can run great many in parallel, since the device is so inexpensive — and, you know, sun-powered, so you don't pay for running it at all. Beats your server farm hands down.

Re: Introducing Carrot

#77
This is one of the best things I have seen in a while. Just when I'm hitting my head against a wall giving my pitch to investor after investor each day, answering the same questions...here comes carrot to rejuvenate me. With vitamins. And comedy gold.

Re: Introducing Carrot

#78

I have a few qualms with this food: 1. For a gardener, you can already grow such a vegetable yourself quite trivially by getting seeds, planting it locally with compost, and then using water and potash on the planted seeds. 2. It doesn't actually replace a potato. Most people I know add flour or bread to be able to make stews, but they still carry a potato in case there are thickening problems. This does not solve th…

Alternatively:

No wireless. Less starch than a potato. Lame.

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