DataJunkie

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by DataJunkie 7y ago
I worked for a startup that bought machines from System76. 2 out of 3 were defective and it was next to impossible to get technical support, though this was 7 years ago. My laptop had a bad video chip. My manager's desktop had either a
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
Just until the next dry year and everyone will be crying about the drought and how the sky is falling.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
Not even close.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
I don't care about seeing other people's comments, but I'd like to be able to prevent people seeing my comments on other peoples' posts unless it is a mutual friend or something. No matter what it is I comment on, a news
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
I agree. I am not good at the stock market.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
I remember the speech. It had no effect on how much I looked forward to waking up in the morning to go work there.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
I used to be a fan of Facebook, but I was never obsessed with it. I even used to work there. I'm over it. It's useful for groups, some of the ads really are useful, it's nice to sometimes keep up with people that are far away
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
WOOHOO!
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
Ok, but do they actually use it for anything?
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
Me neither.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
I tie the concepts back to stuff I've done in industry and try to assign homework and projects that teach skills relevant to new technologies or stuff they may do at work. I tend to use "interview questions" to the class and
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
Yes, but if you're not interested in continuing in gaming, you can speak out and then quit.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
It's possible that the "newest" ones use photo sensors as they now also double as standard desktop scanners, but I'm not sure they would be marketed as OMR. I suspect Scantron and Pearson NCS won't be around much lo
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
This is actually how modern Optical Mark Readers ("Scantron") works. The older models from the 1960s used electrical current passed through the paper somehow.
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
This is a bit more general... I worked there for a very short time as a consultant and I remember Barry. I remember being astonished at some of the things I saw and heard at that company and I am surprised it's not them getting the scr
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by DataJunkie 8y ago
Yes it can happen both ways: pigeonholed to small or large companies, but I don't believe you're stuck with it. You might have a personal marketing problem, or you might have an interviewing problem. Small companies can be great.
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by DataJunkie 10y ago
Google left a sour taste in my mouth after my first interview there. Recruiter was a mess. I had one phone interview with no coding questions. My resume could not be more clear that my best language was Python. Yet, every single question th
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by DataJunkie 10y ago
Disappearing at that altitude, without somebody disabling the transponder, indicates an explosive decompression. These days, that typically only happens with a bomb or a missile. In the older days, structural failure was a common cause (a b
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
Disclaimer: Aviation hobbyist but not an expert. It depends on the size of the drone and where it hits. I am not sure how large these drones are, but if they have the mass of a flock of large seagulls, say, it could disable an engine (like
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
Yeah anything with schools is a nightmare. It would be more of a project than a product for me because Zangle and MMS already have the market completely saturated, at least in California.
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
Super cool. In grad school I developed a system to schedule TAs for a new student counselor. I used simulated annealing because it was related to something I had just learned in class, and because it wasn't heuristic. It's an inte
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
I love Nest, but this is the exact reason why I have not installed one in my mountain home. I have to keep the heater set at 55 so the pipes won't freeze and burst. A bug like this would be financially catastrophic.
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
This was a very smart buy for them, assuming they use the technology and not just the team for some other venture. Their stock price may rebound if they can do this successfully. - $$ for special effects or special "data widgets"
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
If you're talking about for video, VIRBedit can sort of do this. I loaded a GPX file into a mountain biking video, with a little red dot showing where I was. I am sure a map is just as easy.
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
I feel like this would be a worthwhile pursuit, but it would be better as software than hardware. If this were to be a hardware pursuit, you'd have to buy a bunch of sensors, all which have a price tag and their own limitations and iss
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by DataJunkie 11y ago
It's going nowhere because nobody is taking the lead in standardizing the technology. Zigbee is the biggest joke with tons of proprietary and incompatible implementations of an open standard.
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by DataJunkie 13y ago
He found a job about 2-3 weeks after this whole fiasco happened. It was on his LinkedIn.
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Summary of My First Trip to Strata #strataconf(bytemining.com)
2 points by DataJunkie 14y ago|0 comments
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A New Data Toy -- Unboxing the Raspberry Pi(bytemining.com)
3 points by DataJunkie 14y ago|0 comments
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by DataJunkie 14y ago
This guy is in high school? Amazing! Either he is going to amazing places, or education is really coming a long way into better integrating technology and open-source.

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