ElBarto

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by ElBarto 8y ago
You can't discuss the taste of an orange if you only ever saw oranges on TV. I won't reply to strawman arguments from people who have never set foot in China. Suffice it to say that the epithet "Orwellian" does not repre
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I trust you often visit China and know how it is.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's extremely naive. China is not 'cheating' more than any previous power. In fact, having been cheated badly they know that's there no such thing as playing nice. As for 'Orwellian', there's a big diff
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by ElBarto 8y ago
If you're a manager you don't have 20% of your time available to write code... If you want to write code then stay in a position where it is your role.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
How come the keyboard has become some infamous, then? Strange...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I like the feel but the feel means nothing if it stops working after a year.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I'm OK with Macbook's prices, but not with their abysmal keyboards. I'm not buying another one until that is fixed.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
You can/should have visibility of the code base through design specs and code reviews. There is absolutely no need to do a (potentially junior) engineer's job. It might be 'productive' but it's not the best use of y
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"Work on Bug Fixes / Small Features" That's terrible advice, in my view. In your job you should always do what is the most useful and productive use of your time. As a tech lead/manager your role is to manage/l
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Or perhaps you should work on your interpersonal and maturity skills... I didn't imply anything, you lost it over nothing trying to see things where there was obviously none. I was just tongue-in-cheek by putting some scientific facts
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It seems to me that the "ethical considerations" are highly personal and vary from people to people. In any case, I note that tongue-in-cheek comments are not appreciated. Sad.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I'll leave that here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC48023/ "This congruence among multiple lines of evidence strongly suggests, in contrast to traditional and current classification,
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The government is creating issue after issue for themselves. Just another example: EU citizens in the UK automatically get "permanent residence" status after 5 years (if the meet a few requirements). They can apply (with a fee) to
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I believe that fungi are considered closer to animals than to plants. I'll let vegans ponder that one...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I think we need to see the overall efficiency first. As I understand it this process requires that you generate electricity then use that electricity to produce proteins. I suspect that good old plants may be more efficient. This technology
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Bias? I think that our knowledge of the universe does allow me to conclude with some degree of certitude that it is highly unlikely to find a whale on an extra-solar trajectory. On the other hand, we know nothing about the sort of objects t
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the min speed what a simple way to say that their systems do not support congested urban environment, starting, and navigating. Basically, without a min speed people would try to use the car as a fully autono
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's because we can be reasonably sure that no sperm whale is going to fly by from outer space, for obvious reasons. On the other hand, we have essentially no knowledge about what can possibly be flying around out there and thus your
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The "when travelling at highway speeds" in the excerpt I quoted does sound like this is a "field of view" issue considering that Autopilot may be turned on from 17mph. As the car's speed increases, it must be able t
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"While the system can handle a range of driving conditions, it's not designed to stop for parked cars or other stationary objects when traveling at highway speeds." IMHO this means that the system hasn't currently got a
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Whoever is behind Bitcoin is now a billionaire, so well done.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Like many things when it comes to space: We have no clue.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I would say that it's near impossible to assign a probability since this is the very first extra-solar object ever detected.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
> Why should we put the pitchforks away? Lynch away. It's easier than thinking.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
> There is no evidence of any use for tiger penis or rhino horn. I made it clear that I didn't think there was. You guys need to calm down and put the pitchforks away.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
There's a lot of interests in the plants and fungi, or even some animal extracts, used in traditional Chinese medicine because they often do contain active chemicals that may be used. It's like traditional remedies in the West: Th
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The resonant frequency of the atom is not arbitrary, it is a physical constant. That's the key and the point: It allows to measure exactly 1 second anywhere in the universe because the resonant frequency of that atom is the same anywhe
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The definitions are still arbitrary. The important change is that they are arbitrary numbers of a fundamental physical constant instead of being completely arbitrary. That means that the unit may be exactly measured anywhere in the universe
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by ElBarto 8y ago
These seem mostly application level (i.e. high level) software running on embedded systems. I wouldn't call developing on Android "embedded software". The point being that the choice of language is strongly influenced by the
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by ElBarto 8y ago
There are quite a few jobs available which are pure C. But obviously the industries/domains which require C are not the same as those which require Java/PHP/JS. In embedded software no-one is going to use Java or PHP, like in

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