Isamu

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by Isamu 8y ago
>easily preventable mistakes Considering that iPads are machined to very high tolerances, they are extremely flat as built, at least early in the process. Also many of the later steps in construction are highly automated, relying on cust
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by Isamu 8y ago
Also, it seems unlike Jobs to be reading algorithm books or to claim so - he was not interested in writing software. Jobs would involve himself in the user-facing functions of software. Whereas I recall Gates claimed to have read them, or a
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by Isamu 8y ago
In fact they link to a whole website that discusses studies: http://www.factsabouttalc.com/#section-safety [edit] I think the original reply is pretty to the point: >J&J attorneys provided Reuters with hundreds of do
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by Isamu 8y ago
>I'm interested in working on/solving big, "wicked" problems through UX design like self driving cars or improving healthcare. We need more people with these ambitions. Maybe you should be looking to create a forward-
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by Isamu 8y ago
An interesting point from that page: >A full n-body dynamical system such as the Solar System does not contain these periodic orbits, but does contain quasi-periodic (i.e. bounded but not precisely repeating) orbits following Lissajous-c
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by Isamu 8y ago
That Earth-Moon L2 halo orbit is cool, I didn't even know that was a thing. [edit] I mean I was aware of Lagrange points, but not the practicality of the halo orbit. This is a nice explanation: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Way back when you got actual rejection letters, I kept them and started to build a collection and would compare them (which was interesting in itself). Once I made a game of it, I could actually have a tiny bit of fun ("yay! another on
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by Isamu 8y ago
Memories of using TECO EMACS on the TOPS-20 systems at CMU. Anybody else here?
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by Isamu 8y ago
>until Waymo closes up shop Maybe if this was Microsoft, and Waymo was the Zune. Alphabet has given it some 9 years just to get to this soft launch, I think they have the patience to see it through. There is enough money and interest in
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by Isamu 8y ago
I highly recommend the book: Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux >How the twenty-one-layer Apollo spacesuit, made by Playtex, was a triumph of intimacy over engineering. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books&#x2
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by Isamu 8y ago
Absolutely. The news isn’t all bad, and I think most reporting has focused on the decline of the middle, instead of the growth of the bottom.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Yes, the middle income bracket is shrinking. The lower income bracket is growing. Even outside of SV wages have stagnated in the lower tiers (since 1974 in varying degrees.) (edit) I should add this is by percentage. A recent study says the
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by Isamu 8y ago
>Landau said, in the biography, “Don’t waste your time on mathematicians and lectures and so on — instead, find a book with the largest number of solved exercises and go through them all. That’s how you learn mathematics.” Posting this b
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by Isamu 8y ago
It's just a product. Not something to feel betrayed over. >But I don't like owning things I can't tinker with or fix even a little, both out frugality and a desire to create a little less waste in the world. Perfectly good
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by Isamu 8y ago
Not really addressing the transportation issue. >“We could bring as many as 3 million new residents to the city without anyone really noticing a difference, except there’s less redundant spaces for cars to sit all day,” Karalis says. A r
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by Isamu 8y ago
This is a project coming from the self-assembly lab, which has a number of interesting things brewing: https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/
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by Isamu 8y ago
So awesome to hear about making challenging career changes later in life. I think people can get a bit too settled and may believe that it's impossible to change. All the talk about identity in this piece makes me think that is what ma
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by Isamu 8y ago
Thank you for pointing this out, there are so many niches where fans/consumers are taking the creators to task for some grievance or other. One positive way to interpret this is to recognize that fans are passionate and want the projec
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by Isamu 8y ago
> You are responsible for your own needs. If you want things, make them. >I am grateful for the contributions of the community. Every Clojure release incorporates many contributions. [...] Open source is a no-strings-attached gift, an
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by Isamu 8y ago
Focus is a thing you can lose, or regain by active cultivation. Your muscles don't stay the same after you stop running every day. Likewise if you haven't "hit the books" in years, your ability to do so will be affecte
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by Isamu 8y ago
>does anyone think this would be practically useful? Most embedded software projects I worked on did not have an operating system. You'd just have C or C++ program and some ASM to initialize everything. I would expect really small I
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by Isamu 8y ago
++ for Amartya Sen. I think he first covered this in the book Poverty and Famines, where he drives home the point that famines can happen even if food is available and even if food prices have not been driven up sharply. Modern famine is a
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by Isamu 8y ago
>What I find particularly suspect is the idea that "intelligence" is like CPU speed, in that any sufficiently smart entity can emulate less intelligent beings (like its human creators) no matter how different their mental archi
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by Isamu 8y ago
Before this I hadn't known how much I like to go back and forth between the text and picture, sometimes just skimming so I can interpret the picture, then maybe reading more carefully, etc. When the text covers the image, sometimes eve
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by Isamu 8y ago
I enjoy the Uniball Micro, for the ease of use that you mention. It is fluid, the stroke width tapers with pressure, it just feels more civilized than the old ballpoint pen. But I agree fountain pens are pretty nice, I may be getting one to
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by Isamu 8y ago
I thought this was an interesting article although I doubt the argument. >My experience with fountain pens suggests a new answer. Perhaps it’s not digital technology that hindered my handwriting, but the technology that I was holding as
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by Isamu 8y ago
>I think that if people had understood what the algorithm was optimizing for—sleep health of high school kids, getting elementary school kids home before dark, supporting kids with special needs, lowering costs, and increasing equity ove
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by Isamu 8y ago
Very readable, and fun to read. More please!
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by Isamu 8y ago
Actually catinate, which is a real word but less used. But you are still right.
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by Isamu 8y ago
Really nice history! I want to applaud the author on this loving treatment. Also I want to point readers to the commentary of some of the Unix authors: “Old programs have become encrusted with dubious features. Newer programs are not always

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