Comment NYE cooking! (Score 1) 256
Black-eyed peas and cornbread-- traditionally brings luck for the new year.
Bacon and ham is usually involved as well.
Bacon and ham is usually involved as well.
Submission + - Murdoch's Pirates (yahoo.com)
Presto Vivace writes: "A Murdoch page-turner
"Murdoch's Pirates is an almost unbelievable and meticulously detailed account of how one of the world's biggest media groups created its own security force and what happened when an arm of that force went rogue. This is the definitive story about hacking, about the top hackers, how they differ, how they do what they do and what motivates them and how corporations either employ or attempt to thwart the brightest and the best of these technical geniuses — or pirates, depending on their chosen career path.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Should I consider a Kickstarter (or other) campaign? (blogspot.com)
DidgetMaster writes: "I have over 25 years experience writing data management solutions — file system drivers (DOS, Windows, OS/2), disk utilities (PartitionMagic, Drive Image), custom file systems and online backup to the cloud. I have invented a revolutionary new data management system that is build from the ground up (block-based management, I/O, and cache). It has a great feature set and it can replace existing file systems and many database solutions. The architecture has distributed properties that will enable it to compete with Hadoop, CouchDB, MongoDB, and other "Big Data" NoSql solutions. A few friends and I are now two years into its development and we have a lot of the features working. It is blazingly fast and is designed to appeal to everyday consumers as well as large enterprises (it scales really well).
My problem: I have run out of seed money (self-funded) and I need to raise capital to get the rest of the features finished in a reasonable time. Most of the finished features are necessary for a consumer product, but the enterprise features need the most work. I am considering starting a Kickstarter (or other crowd-funding) campaign to raise the funds. That can be a good way to get cash without having to give up a huge chunk of equity. On the other hand, if we get a bunch of regular users that need to be supported it may take our focus off the enterprise features (the most fun stuff). If we can find an angel investor, we can work undistracted and get a good enterprise product out in about a year. Anyone wanting to know more can find info and links to video demonstrations at http://didgetmaster.blogspot.com/
What do you think is the best route to raise the funds?"
My problem: I have run out of seed money (self-funded) and I need to raise capital to get the rest of the features finished in a reasonable time. Most of the finished features are necessary for a consumer product, but the enterprise features need the most work. I am considering starting a Kickstarter (or other crowd-funding) campaign to raise the funds. That can be a good way to get cash without having to give up a huge chunk of equity. On the other hand, if we get a bunch of regular users that need to be supported it may take our focus off the enterprise features (the most fun stuff). If we can find an angel investor, we can work undistracted and get a good enterprise product out in about a year. Anyone wanting to know more can find info and links to video demonstrations at http://didgetmaster.blogspot.com/
What do you think is the best route to raise the funds?"
Submission + - IDE advice
eggegick writes: I'm an embedded systems software developer, working mostly with gcc, make, various command line tools and lots of (mostly badly written) third party software. I write device drivers, protocols and lots of glue code. I'm interested in learning to work with an IDE to develop some simple GUI applications, hopefully cross platform (windows and linux). I had a brush with Microsoft Visual Studio, and found it a bit thick, and I'm guessing it is not cross platform happy. Any language is fine by me. Any suggestions?
Submission + - A firecracker launching slingshot, start the New Year with a bang (blogspot.ca) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Joerg Sprave is at it again, this time in order to ring in the New Year he`s got something with a bit more bang to it, a firecracker launching slingshot. Being German, Joerg has built a slingshot that will accommodate the largest legal firecracker in that country.
Submission + - Belgium To Prosecute Scientology As Criminal Organization (huffingtonpost.com)
Saphati writes: From the article, "Federal public prosecutors in Belgium will institute legal proceedings against the church of Scientology in that country and seek to recognize it as a criminal organization."
Submission + - What could have been in the public domain January 1, but isn't (duke.edu)
An anonymous reader writes: What could have been entering the public domain in the US on January 1, 2013? Under the law that existed until 1978 Works from 1956. The films Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Best Things in Life Are Free, Forbidden Planet, The Ten Commandments, and Around the World in 80 Days, the stories 101 Dalmations and Phillip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, the songs Que Sera, Sera and Heartbreak Hotel, and more What is entering the public domain this year? Nothing.
Comment Re:Facebook IPO (Score 1) 145
That has never occurred to me in all the years I've had that microwave-- that there would be a setting for dishes rather than food.
See? Bad UI design... sometimes results in a PEBKAC error.
See? Bad UI design... sometimes results in a PEBKAC error.
Comment Re:Facebook IPO (Score 1) 145
Mod parent insightful-- I think that's a major part of iDevice's success. Don't forget that with iDevices you can't really tinker under the hood to get it working, either-- you have to trust that if you keep tapping the screen eventually something will happen. It's easier to make that leap of faith since "it's easy and just works".
No one will ever say "it's hard to get my microwave working" because at the end of the day, all you have to do is keep hitting buttons and something will eventually get hot.. but I find microwaves' UI to be kind of baffling. "Dinner plate" setting? What does that even mean-- is it the same cooking time for collard greens and corn as for a steak? (That's a real button on my microwave, BTW).
No one will ever say "it's hard to get my microwave working" because at the end of the day, all you have to do is keep hitting buttons and something will eventually get hot.. but I find microwaves' UI to be kind of baffling. "Dinner plate" setting? What does that even mean-- is it the same cooking time for collard greens and corn as for a steak? (That's a real button on my microwave, BTW).
Comment Sounds like FPS Russian! (Score 1) 31
The narrator's voice totally sounds like the FPS Russian's voice. Now I want an Arduino controlled 50-cal machine gun with explosive rounds!
Comment Re:solve your problem small (Score 2) 276
Mod parent up. I never realized how much good a PM could do, until I worked with one that was good at his job.
The PM should be the one to put the kaibash on the creeps, both management and feature.
The PM should be the one to put the kaibash on the creeps, both management and feature.
Comment Re:What company (Score 1) 451
Mod parent up. I've found that when providing any kind of software product, a clearly visible FAQ or forums that serve the same purpose can resolve all but the most fringe problems.
Comment Re:What are parents so paranoid? (Score 1) 610
+1 creepy
Comment Re:Nuke em now (Score 1) 319
That.... is horrible and awesome.
Horbawesome? Awsorrible?
You have given that enough thought to be slightly disturbing.
Horbawesome? Awsorrible?
You have given that enough thought to be slightly disturbing.
Comment Re:Anyone else having a hard time feeling sorry? (Score 3, Insightful) 550
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's been a while since you've been a teenage girl. At that age peer/parental/community pressure can seem like the most crushing, overwhelming burden to ever exist in the history of the planet. This is what makes what this guy (allegedly) did so repellent-- taking advantage of those who are more emotionally vulnerable, impulsive, and irrational than they ever will be in their lives.
Sure, "you own your own actions", etc, but for some of these kids the internet is their entire community or peer group, it is much more difficult to shrug off.
It's amazing what a few years out of high school will do to restore one's perspective-- don't kill yourselves, kids, it really does get better!
Sure, "you own your own actions", etc, but for some of these kids the internet is their entire community or peer group, it is much more difficult to shrug off.
It's amazing what a few years out of high school will do to restore one's perspective-- don't kill yourselves, kids, it really does get better!
