The Daily ACK

The often deranged postings of yet another hacker, pretending to be an Astronomer, pretending to be a hacker who has written a book or two for O'Reilly Media.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Crowdfunding the recovery of a lost spacecraft

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This post was original published on the MAKE Blog The ISEE-3 spacecraft The hackers behind the  Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Proje...
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Sunday, January 05, 2014

The Board Room Hour

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Back in October last year I was out in New York for the Hardware Innovation Workshop and Maker Faire New York where I took part in a pane...
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Hacking the CES Scavenger Hunt

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This post was originally publish on the MAKE Blog   and co-authored with Sandeep Mistry . It has just been announced that at this ye...
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The Snapchat Leak

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This was first published on the O'Reilly Radar The number of Snapchat users by geographic location. Users are predominately located ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Trouble with Things

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At the tail end of last month I was out in Portland at  OSCON where I gave an Ignite talk  on the trouble with things...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

The Makers of Things

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This post was first published in Make magazine The Society isn’t like any other engineering society. It’s a community united by a passi...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Leaving the ivory tower

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I've been planning to leave academia for some time, but kept on putting it off. Unlike the U.S. where tenure is a thing pursued vigorous...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Distributed Network Data

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My latest book, my first not talking about iOS and writing code for the iPhone and iPad, just went to press. It's called Distributed Net...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Making money faster than you can type

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The  3Doodler  is a 3D printer, but it's a pen. This takes 3D printing and turns it on its head... In fact the 3Doodler reject...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The black rectangle won't last as long as the beige box

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It looks like putting  #Linux  on  #Microsoft 's new  #Surface   is  going to be an up hill struggle . I was actually expecting that.....
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