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Like this so much. I really need to start doing this. I mean, I dump my coffee use and exercise daily...

Like this so much. I really need to start doing this. I mean, I dump my coffee use and exercise daily, my weight loss as I make new records, and my top artists every Monday, but making it into a document? Great idea.

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I like the idea of Oculus, but really, you're in your own little world. I can't think of anything more...

I like the idea of Oculus, but really, you're in your own little world. I can't think of anything more anti-social. So, almost anyone but Facebook makes sense.

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I get mad when I see people with all these random toolbars

I get mad when I see people with all these random toolbars

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Talked to +Chuck Schwarz at open hack day yesterday. He's been poking at the Solidoodle and says that...

Talked to +Chuck Schwarz at open hack day yesterday. He's been poking at the Solidoodle and says that we have two issues that keep us from having better prints with it.



1) the extruder gets overflow and underflow due to voltage irregularities. Some time with a multimeter tweaking the motherboard will fix that.



2) he thought that we were getting banding because the Z-axis screw was oblong, causing jitter on the X and Y axes, but testing with a laser points to the issue being uneven travel in the Z axis, with the fix being replacing it with a screw with a finer pitch. Looks to be less than $20 but has a not-easily-reversible step.



If I got anything wrong, of course he can correct me; LTL has been very enthusiastic in correcting my errors.



I said that, to whatever extent he needs permission to go forward with 1., he has it, but for 2., there should be group discussion. I see that as happening a week from Monday. Comments?

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Meet Vint Cerf. He’s one of the fathers of the Internet, and he wants to hang out with you. RSVP and...

Meet Vint Cerf. He’s one of the fathers of the Internet, and he wants to hang out with you. RSVP and submit a question for Vint: http://ift.tt/1nFpjpr

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The little green octopus came out okay, but the fit between top and bottom could be better. We're getting...

The little green octopus came out okay, but the fit between top and bottom could be better. We're getting there.

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+Chuck Schwarz thought there was a better way to keep the filament from unspooling, and he printed clips...

+Chuck Schwarz thought there was a better way to keep the filament from unspooling, and he printed clips. 

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Our #LoDo Android kit is almost together. We should order a bunch and reach people how to make 'em.

Our #LoDo Android kit is almost together. We should order a bunch and reach people how to make 'em.

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It's repaired, not built, but turns out my headphones were pulled out, not busted. Just needed to pull...

It's repaired, not built, but turns out my headphones were pulled out, not busted. Just needed to pull screws and put it back together.

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Instead of the flight recorder just storing the flight data, when and if it is recovered, how about ...

Instead of the flight recorder just storing the flight data, when and if it is recovered, how about sending it for storage on the cloud? Seems like a no-brainer to me, because beyond "there's a crash; what went wrong?" you can analyze successful flights for other things, too.

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My Body Plans For 2014: March and April, plus Status Report First, my status report: Caffeine: The darker...

My Body Plans For 2014: March and April, plus Status Report

First, my status report: Caffeine: The darker, the more cups recorded. I drank coffee on weekends. I often had more than 1 cup. I sometimes had more than two cups. I didn't drink it late, but I drank more of it. I consider this sort of a fail. Weights: In F...

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Booking.com is evidently a big Perl shop, and as such, improvements to the Perl runtime is an improvement...

Booking.com is evidently a big Perl shop, and as such, improvements to the Perl runtime is an improvement to their bottom line. So, they have Dave Mitchell improving Perl, and those improvements are starting to roll in.

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Truly the next horizon for computing

Truly the next horizon for computing

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Truly the next horizon for computing

Truly the next horizon for computing

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All the +1s. Computer education that is learning PowerPoint and Photoshop is barely computer education...

All the +1s.



Computer education that is learning PowerPoint and Photoshop is barely computer education. Computer education that separates "this is what you want to do" from "this is how you do it" is not education; it is actively anti-education. This writer sounds like he has the right way.

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I've never felt that DST made much sense. Sign this White House petition to get rid of it. https://...

I've never felt that DST made much sense. Sign this White House petition to get rid of it.



http://ift.tt/1nwhM90

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"So What" from Kind of Blue, annotated.

"So What" from Kind of Blue, annotated.

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My new Raspberry Pi case! It's now safe to travel!

My new Raspberry Pi case! It's now safe to travel!

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I have made my first 3D model, and am waiting for the printer to be done with my Pi case to finish, ...

I have made my first 3D model, and am waiting for the printer to be done with my Pi case to finish, so I can print this one.

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While waiting for things to print, I drilled some holes, pulled some zip ties, and now my pedalboard...

While waiting for things to print, I drilled some holes, pulled some zip ties, and now my pedalboard is in good shape. Still need reverb and delay pedals, but this is good for now.

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Attach a GoPro to a pelican's beak. Teach it to fly. Instant awesome.

Attach a GoPro to a pelican's beak. Teach it to fly. Instant awesome.

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** It started out with wanting to take in mass quantities of "ruin my day". I wrote a program that would...

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It started out with wanting to take in mass quantities of "ruin my day". I wrote a program that would traverse a directory tree and run Perl::Critic on everything with pl and pm suffixes. This would bring out all the depression in all the code I've written ...

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Love to know the weathering process and how to metal-plate plastic, but guys, Sneaky Pete Kleinow was...

Love to know the weathering process and how to metal-plate plastic, but guys, Sneaky Pete Kleinow was a pedal steel guitar player. The steel guitar has multiple necks and is controlled through mechanical pedals and knee levers, and is such a complex beast that of course a master of such a thing would be drawn to stop-motion animation.



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My Pi is up and running. Next step, get that Edimax wifi card going. Right now, though, I'm doing apt...

My Pi is up and running. Next step, get that Edimax wifi card going. Right now, though, I'm doing apt-get upgrade before going to work.

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The Indiana General Assembly has an API, and there's going to be a hackathon to make tools with it, ...

The Indiana General Assembly has an API, and there's going to be a hackathon to make tools with it, March 22 at the West Lafayette Public Library. 

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The design is good but off. Way too long. I love the printing, though. The long side covers two important...

The design is good but off. Way too long. I love the printing, though.



The long side covers two important ports: the SD card and the power. I'm fine opening it up to swap out the card, which I'll rarely do, but the power would be crucial.

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+Chuck Schwarz, when you left last night, was the Pi case done? Or will it still be on the tray?

+Chuck Schwarz , when you left last night, was the Pi case done? Or will it still be on the tray?

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Hey! Wanna hear the most annoying noise in the world? No actually this is an interesting mashup. I ...

Hey! Wanna hear the most annoying noise in the world?



No actually this is an interesting mashup. I would not recommend it for roughly 95% of lifeforms with auditory capacity, but I am enjoying it. It's better than Metal Machine Music alone, at least.



via FB.

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Reminder: Lafayettech Labs presents Designing for 3D Printing 7pm tonight at GLC (337 Columbia St). ...

Reminder: Lafayettech Labs presents Designing for 3D Printing 7pm tonight at GLC (337 Columbia St). All are welcome!

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Trying to decide if my work headphones are fixable

Trying to decide if my work headphones are fixable

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Be honest. How long did it take you? #puzzle #FT

Be honest. How long did it take you? #puzzle #FT

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Lots of nice deep system and file system comparison between various open source non-Linux operating ...

Lots of nice deep system and file system comparison between various open source non-Linux operating systems. Good geekery all over. But part to pull starts at 27:00.



+Bryan Cantrill : "We need to end this self-inflicted madness of open source licensing compatibility. I think that it is a bogeyman, and we are letting it holds us back. You say it would be illegal to ship (a GPL-licensed Linux with BSD-licensed ZFS file system); I say no one has standing.



"The GPL was never ever designed to counteract other open-source licenses. That is a complete rewrite of history, to believe that GPL was designed to be at war with BSD or with CDDL. GPL was at war with proprietary software, and thanks to GPL and (Richard) Stallman, open source has won. Open source has won, and we are pissing on our own victory parade by not allowing these technologies to flat between systems."



Richard Stallman would disagree with some of the terms (he says Free not Open) but well worth considering and discussing.

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Good talk about what is going with OpenSolaris that will never be in Oracle Solaris. But, compared ...

Good talk about what is going with OpenSolaris that will never be in Oracle Solaris.



But, compared to that last Python talk, this is totally how to NOT record a tech talk.



Lavalier mic to record. Record the laptop output and cut between in post. Camera on stand. Focus.

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I could share this for three reasons at least, and none are about Python itself. 1) in terms of lighting...

I could share this for three reasons at least, and none are about Python itself.



1) in terms of lighting and camera movement, this is the best conference video I've seen. JSConf has better staging, sure, but this one is shot better. Perl conferences are generally a static low-res camera in a low-light room, statically shot from a strange dutch angle trying to get the speaker and the slides and doing poorly at both, or even worse, shakeycam. This is what we should shoot for, Mongers.



2) Sure, real programmers use Unix/Linux to run their code, real programmers, but beginner programmers don't come in knowing how to set up an environment and come in with the (Windows) computer they have, and the documentation sucks and they feel lost and they don't like it and they don't feel the power, and they're gone. Even if you dislike Microsoft, good tools for Windows and good documentation are important for new programmers, important for building community, important for inclusiveness.



3) Software Carpentry: teaching software engineering skills to scientists, in Python. Love the idea, dislike the language (Monger4Life) but this should be a thing at Purdue.



Aside) I'm starting to use Python. It started with my FitBit; I couldn't get Perl to do OAuth easily but found code in Python that does it. Have built wrapper libs around Pushover, Notify and Festival so that my work laptop can nag me about moving. I'll certainly build more tools in Python as time goes on.



In message, in tone, in production values, in quality of presentation, this is what I wish more Perl presentations, more presentations in general, looked like.

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