DougWebb

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by DougWebb 13y ago
I imagine it can carry a bigger payload, so there's that advantage. Apparently we have a bunch of them in storage too, so it might be cheaper to convert them than to build new UAVs. It must be, if they're cheap enough to use for l
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The net immigration trends strongly suggest you are mistaken. Things being worse elsewhere doesn't make things good here. That's like saying the back of the Titanic was ok because so many people wanted to go there.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That control, like the permissions approval dialog, is a blunt tool. Sure, I can turn background data completely off, or I can let my apps run wild with it. There's no middle ground and no per-app control (unless the app developer prov
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Yeah, most of the time my Android is on a WiFi network (office or home) and the cell data connection is turned off. My battery can last a pretty long time if I'm not away from my WiFis much and I don't have the screen on full brig
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I'm in the US. My data plan is capped when I'm on my carrier's network, and unlimited (and much more expensive) when I'm roaming. Typical US carrier. This highlights a good point: it's not just the number of bytes o
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The last thing I'd want is for my apps to each be downloading several MB of data they think I might need in the next few minutes. I can easily control how much battery life is remaining on my phone by plugging it in. I can't contr
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by DougWebb 13y ago
This is awesome, but it's unfortunate that the UI for developing CC code in-game is so primitive. I quickly discovered where my code was stored on the filesystem so I could code using gvim instead, outside of the game. It's a bit
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Now the modern equivalent is "Oh man, how are we going to pay for college for all these kids we're planning on? We'd better have fewer of them or we're going to go broke long before we die or they're able to support
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by DougWebb 13y ago
NYC is already that dense, and much of Asia is even denser, and those epidemics haven't wiped out populations yet. Part of the assumption (mine, at least) is that we're talking about NYC-quality infrastructure too: water, waste ma
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by DougWebb 13y ago
The Manhattan / New Zealand comparison is interesting to me, having lived and worked in and around NYC all my life. New Zealand is not that much bigger than the US Eastern Seaboard metro area, which extends from Washington DC to Boston
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I ran into the same problem, and eventually the only workable solution was to use ranges within the software development group, but to only communicate the high end of the range to the project management group and executive team. Most of th
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Google also knows your Google account password. If you can decrypt the data using any deterministic function of your Google password, then so can Google, so there's no additional security gained. Probably, but not necessarily. All th
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by DougWebb 13y ago
mannix is right; to get the browser to reload the image I have to change the url every time. You'd think in a well-designed webcam API the image would come back with appropriate headers to prevent caching, but I didn't even bother
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I just implemented something similar. I have an IP webcam on my network, but I noticed that the built-in viewer uses 30% cpu time on my laptop when I view it in Chrome. (20% on Firefox, about the same on IE using an ActiveX version of the
825.
by DougWebb 13y ago
...while Android has blundered along releasing phones with 4 hour battery life and jittery screens. Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution? Some Android phones are junk. Some are great. Most are in-betwee
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That's true, but as both get faster the difference between them becomes less and less significant. The layers between non-native and native impose a relatively fixed amount of overhead, which uses a smaller and smaller percentage of ov
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I'm not sure that's true. If Company A builds out a bunch of infrastructure but it's mostly used by Company B's customers, then Company A isn't getting the earnings it needs to pay back the infrastructure investment
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Yeah, it's pretty amazing how much things have changed. That raw log data was about 250GB/year which is nothing today but when we started collecting it we were paying $1000/GB. Actually, they're probably still paying ove
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Development started around 2000, and stabilized around 2008. As far as I know the reporting scripts are still being run every day. During this period we had purchased a 1TB storage rack from EMC for a million dollars, to give you some persp
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by DougWebb 13y ago
More like 5 minutes to set it up.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
I'll bet one of the reasons is the amount of data. At a previous employer I built a system similar to this which produced nightly, weekly, monthly, and annual reports of weblog analysis for an app that had 6 million+ http requests per
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by DougWebb 13y ago
But if it actually does correlate with the truth, if it actually makes predictions more accurate on average, why shouldn't it be used? Because statistics. Correlation applies to populations of data points, not individual data points.
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That's not a progress bar though; the visual metaphor of a progress bar is a container/tank that goes from 0% 'full' to 100% 'full'. What you described is a more general status indicator, bytes received, which
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by DougWebb 13y ago
A progress bar, no matter how bad, can tell me there is progress being made. Except it can't, really, because browsers don't expose any kind of "percentage complete" information to javascript code. Partly that's b
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Lenovo made the T42 too, they were just the silent manufacturer at the time with IBM putting on the branding. I'm not sure of the distribution between IBM and Lenovo for the design and QA aspects, but IBM definitely controlled much of
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Does anyone know what Wolfram would say about the tickrate? I bought the huge book and know that he believes space is quantized, at least, and I assume he believes time is as well, as the rate the universal state machine changes states. But
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by DougWebb 13y ago
That's basically how aircraft carrier launchers work too. There's a long pneumatic tube with a piston running the length of the runway, and huge boilers that build up a lot of steam pressure behind the piston. The piston is attach
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by DougWebb 13y ago
A bitcoin address is just a container for some amount of BTC. Holding an amount of currency isn't taxable, and exchanging currency often isn't taxable either. (I'm generalizing across jurisdictions, but I think what I'm
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Assert.IsNull(null); It's easy to make unit tests pass. To defeat this kind of gaming, you'd need extensive code review of the unit tests. But that circles around to your point: when you look at code there's something that te
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by DougWebb 13y ago
Documents, in the real world, are full of layout that has been difficult to replicate in CSS. And to counter your point more directly CGI and the concept of web applications existed before CSS 1.0, so there was already need for applicatio

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