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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

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!

Full pilot episode for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxvvnWvffM

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.

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.

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.

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! ;)

Very interesting and nicely done. Surprisingly addictive!

I loved "Understand" by Ted Chiang; thanks for sharing this one!

Eye opening at certain points, dragged on at others. Either way I'm more excited to code. I mean, program. :)

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.

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

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!

Revising and writing 25 headlines to find the perfect one

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

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Excellent article. I love Phil's sense of humor. Seems like a great guy running a great company!

Huh, learned some new things:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_diamonds_flammable Says diamonds are combustible around 1520 degrees.

But temperatures were 1000 degrees at the high-point in the 9/11 events (page 10 end of first paragrah): http://eagar.mit.edu/EagarPapers/Eagar185.pdf

Interesting enough. The bigger issue would have certainly been the buildings crumbling before they ever burst into flames/disintegrated.

A note from Alex on Primer Labs site:

http://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinues

Changed link for the actual post.

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.

With regard to your last paragraph: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartthings/smartthings-...

Full Disclosure: I know one the founders. Amazing guys working on some very cool things.

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! :)

FWIW

If I were you, I wouldn't waste my time and money on getting a degree. If you've had that much experience in various fields it should be relatively easy to find a way into the robotics industry.

Plus, if you have the money and the time to "validate" yourself by going through the monotony of classes which sound like they would already be well beneath your level, I would say you would be better off by putting that money and time toward your own robotics company.

It sounds like you have more than enough initiative to accomplish the tasks you set out on. Why waste time getting a worthless piece of paper to show your level of worth? Just to work for a company that can't understand the value of someone beyond what they see on paper?

Think up the next wave of robotics you'd like to see in this world. Then do whatever it takes to make it a reality.

Build a company to work for if you can't find one that will hire you from your background alone.

Now. ;)

The scaling, though not noted seems to be about 10 degrees per line. Which means the 160-175 is actually shy of where it should be (about 5 lines up from the 110). That bar actually shows it's at 150 degrees, which must mean their marketing is actually very conservative if we are to make grand judgement calls from one graph on a company's page. ;)

Cool library; I'm sure I'll have use for this!

SpiceApps has a ton of other cool stuff too (which the OP no doubt knows). Nice work. :)

This caught my attention because of the large amount of discussions around the MN tech communities of the how-to-become and how-are-we-not like Silicon Valley variety.

I agree MN has a large resource pool of technical ability and more to create great technology/start-up companies; but we'll never be the next "Silicon Valley."

People can argue whether or not that's a good thing. All I know is it's certainly not a bad thing. :)

Fun read; thanks for posting!

That was a fantastic story; I'm wondering if it was completely true, or just an awesome metaphor? Either way, very nice and rather inspiring!

Has that been posted to HN yet? I'd love to see it on the front page!

Edit: I submitted it just to be sure (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946884). I think many will really enjoy it. Cheers!

Made me think of this:

http://www.telemetryweb.com/display/PUB/TelemetryWeb+-+The+C...

Could be a good combination.

Bummer! So close; I'll be in Seattle from the 1st to the morning of the 6th. This would have been awesome.

Maybe next time! haha

I can only imagine what kind of changes are going to take place in terms of computer security if and when quantum computers become a commercial reality.

I thought this was some pretty neat news... :)

All 3 pages in one: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/the-elusive...

Pretty good read, thanks for posting this!