Wow. (From: The Great Ruby Shootout)
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While Chas and I were snowboarding in West Virgina, we visited the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank. They have an enormous radio telescope — the largest moving structure on land, they claim. It’s built out of over 2,000 panels, and at the meeting of every 4 panels is a motor so that those […]
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As part of the Zentact project I’ve been working on, we were asked to integrate with various webmail clients. This makes it easy to manage your contacts while sending email.
Doing this was a bit of a pain. Since all code is minified, and they all use Javascript events differently, there was a good bit of […]
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I saw this video of Adam Savage talking at The Last Hope this past year. I recommend it. It’s awesome to see how dedicated he is, and what it takes to produce such great stuff.
Other than getting a preview of (then) new Mythbuster footage and getting to see a downloaded AVI of The Dark Knight […]
Recently I posted some ideas about the characteristics of codes, specifically the codes used to identify the President. Most of it was theorizing on my part.
“…this code has to be easily spoken via phone. No doubt, you’d like a certain about of uniqueness. Also, it should be something that could be understood when spoken over […]
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OK, this is going to be straight to the point.
I got an email from my father this morning, asking me to verify it. It made some amazing claims about Obama, and I couldn’t resist. It was such a shocking bunch of claims, that I decided to write up a reply, and send it to everyone […]
Q. Why is it when you steam or wilt fresh spinach you get that iron-tinny taste? How do you prevent it?
A. We’re guessing you have been cooking your spinach in an aluminum or unlined copper pan. Pans made of aluminum or unlined copper react with the sulfur compounds in green vegetables to create unpleasant odors […]
I saw Max Payne last night. Overall, it’s an okay movie. It wasn’t boring, it wasn’t slow, and we stayed entertained the whole time. Cool CGI and camera stuff also. But, there was too much that broke the suspension of disbelief for us. I mostly think it was the dialog and the fact that it […]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Matt Williams’s presentation on Ruby and Arduino, here are some videos, slides, and notes from the ORUG site.
You absolutely must check this out. The field of robotics is going to play such a massive role in all of our lives over the next few years, and this is […]
Just got back from this month’s ORUG, where Matthew Williams gave a presentation on using Ruby to control an Arduino. Matt is a very natural speaker, and the presentation was great. He even demoed a bartending robot he built, which should be featured on Make very soon.
I took notes during the presentation, and they are […]
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