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networkjester | 10 years ago | on: Cable Robot Simulator [video]

I believe with that cable configuration, Yaw motion isn't really possible. I'm sure it would help with motion programming with the VR, but perhaps true Yaw wouldn't be entirely necessary. Good questions though.

For your last question, I do think that's the way they would need to add Yaw if desired. Otherwise more cables and/or a different configuration would be needed.

As an example, check out the robocrane design from NIST: http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/gantry-2.cfm

networkjester | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How Do You Start a Dev Shop CoOp

I interpreted the "poor developer" part of the OP to be a statement of financial outlook, not from a development ability standpoint - especially when in the same line he mentions that he's "stuck getting paid 16/hr" at the moment.

But otherwise good advice!

networkjester | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?

Google play does this when watching certain movies and shows. Not sure if it's added manually or does intelligent recognition. However, it's certainly useful - so I could see generalizing that capability for other movies / plays??

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Granted, the movies and shows on Play have at least a context to do the pattern matching with - a cast list greatly reduces the possible matches.

networkjester | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?

Hahaha, I love it. I had this exact idea this morning! Never expected to see it posted, and so soon after. Great minds... ;)

Was thinking more along the lines of direct to fridge and freezer options. Ideally with cooling or refrigeration properties so cold food can stay cool on the ride home, and the whole thing can pop into the fridge.

networkjester | 11 years ago | on: Life Inside an Accelerator

Definitely a good article. Not sure why I opened it thinking it'd be a write up about life working at a particle accelerator... Which would have been awesome, but I digress.

networkjester | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Life advice for 25yo Web Dev, single, no debt, $30k/£20k savings

In your last sentence, you answered your own question. Don't ask us how you would want to live your life, after all it is YOUR life. Just live it!

We can give you as much permission as you want. But all of it won't matter unless you give yourself the permission.

Some say "just ship", in this case, "just start".

Lots of great advice in this thread. A lot of ideas on where to start. But it will be all for not if you don't let yourself start.

Good luck throwing off the bowlines! ;)

networkjester | 12 years ago | on: Stack

Wow. Just, wow.

The first words out of my mouth actually were "that's beautiful".

Nothing else more constructive to say, just wanted to leave kudos here for the OP.

networkjester | 12 years ago | on: Startup lessons

I believe his statement was that of mockery or sarcasm when using the "augment" line. Not actually demeaning some of patio11's work. :)

networkjester | 12 years ago | on: Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you

I personally thought this was a very good article. It definitely gave me a lot to think about with regard to how much I help my family members fix their computer problems instead of "teaching them to fish" so to speak.

First thing that came to mind for this:

> When they hit eleven, give them a plaintext file with ten-thousand WPA2 keys and tell them that the real one is in there somewhere. See how quickly they discover Python or Bash then.

Was "How will they learn Python without Google"? Only to look to my right and see my Python book. facepalm

Agh, the dependence.

Well done!

networkjester | 12 years ago | on: Einstein is wrong. Here's why.

Revising and writing 25 headlines to find the perfect one

                         != 
Doing the SAME thing over again and expecting different results

I feel Einstein would be in the camp of reiterating often, much like Edison's "I failed 10,000 times" quote.

[edit: formatting]

networkjester | 13 years ago | on: Ingress

Very cool. Another noteworthy AR game: http://qonqr.com/

Full disclosure, I'm not affiliated with the company but I knew the team that started it at a Startup Weekend a little over a year ago. Great guys, cool game.

networkjester | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Github for Designers

Looks cool; nice job!

Some notes:

When playing around with the |X|Y| functionality

BUG - Dragging the slider on a compare window beyond the container and releasing the mouse causes the window to follow your mouse around. Your drag and drop "sorting" functionality seems to kick in.

BUG 2 - Adding multiple versions to the compare frame works well, however it was initially hard to tell how to remove a given frame. Some ability from the frame would be nice, but that wasn't the bug. When you add multiple versions to compare you see them highlighted below. Then when you go to another view (i.e. the single revision view) and back to the |X|Y| compare view the frames you were last comparing are still there, however they are no longer highlighted.

Again, this looks great, just keep going! :)

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