JunkDNA

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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Some care is needed to not conflate "overhyped" with "useless". There are plenty of software engineering technologies who haven't lived up to the hype because expectations were set way too high. They are however extremely useful. I was taki
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I think the hardest part of this advice is training yourself how to see the water.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I didn't intend for that comment to sound quite as snarky as it did. But my point is that real time speech translation needs to work precisely in those situations. Voice recognition and computerized translation have been around for a while.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
"Google is quick to note that this is very much an alpha feature. In other words, expect a lot of hiccups. They note that background noise, thick accents, and quick speech can all trip up the app." Wow, so it's not practically useful very f
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Yeah, this is especially painful as a long-time iPhone on AT&T customer. If I want to tether, I have to pay more a month and I lose my grandfathered unlimited data plan.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
While this is cool from a techie perspective, I can't imagine mass market appeal for a dual booting tablet. Most average users have trouble with one operating system, let alone two. One of the great things about all the recent innovation in
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I have recently observed that buying and using ebooks is like being put into a time machine and being forced to re-live the early days of digital music downloads. Do we seriously have to re-learn all those lessons in every single industry t
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I know your last point is meant to be sarcastic, but that is the exact sort of distorted behavior you get with these kinds of ill-conceived regulations.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Really excited about this journal. Especially the high standards for code submission.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Just curious, what is wrong with searching via google using site:news.ycombinator.com? As far as I know, all the content is pretty well indexed.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
While I think HN should have this too, I think you're setting that cost pretty low. I've often wished there was a way to post (non-YC, non-startup) jobs to HN. It would be at least as good as if not more effective than what you get from a p
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I profoundly disagree with many of Stallman's opinions. However I have tremendous respect for his timing and ability to capitalize on the buzz surrounding something new, and use it as an opportunity to re-state his position.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
There is a link in the article to a more detailed description of the process. Basically, the viruses are used as a structural component that is then coated with metal. They claim the viruses are inert after the process but don't elaborate.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
While you may be correct about the budget deficit of Texas (there is some confusion since they budget on 2 year cycles), the unemployment rate there is most definitely not higher than California. A quick google search shows 7.9% for TX and
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
He's entitled to his opinion, but I'm still waiting for someone to point me to information in the wikileaks dump that is a genuine public service. I'm not arguing that the wikileaks dump is trivial . There is information in there that is g
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Reading about these stories the last few days, it occurs to me the Wikileaks strategy is a major factor here. They have not been selective and released actual stuff that rises to the level of true whistle blowing. While the things release
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
My employer solved the issue of people not knowing about this very easily. Before you can connect to exchange with a personal device, you had to sign a document saying that that they could remote wipe your device if it gets lost as well as
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I haven't searched it too much, but I suspect a lot of devs are just not interested in wading through the licensing swamp. For some commercial databases, the vendor may or may not allow for linking their drivers without a licensing deal. Fo
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Internships are a great first step. It is good to get out there and see how the world really works. Not sure what kind of school you are in, but one thing that preserved my sanity was that I did work in a lab while I was an undergrad. I fou
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I am always amazed at the number of very senior IT people who have never heard of him. I read his book as a very junior employee and felt like I was in some kind of secret club compared to everyone above me. People can be forgiven for going
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This article is really astute. The headline initially scared me off because I thought it was going to be some kind of Apple/Jobs love fest. My first reaction when I read about this new Facebook component was that it would be hard to use wit
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
"the Galaxy S managed to take the top spot, though only when considering the 32GB and 16GB iPhone models individually." Bit of a link-bait headline.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I started reading this thinking that it was going to be one of his more outlandish style posts. But this strikes me as being not that far removed from what Kickstarter is trying to do in the domain of small creative projects.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Anyone in the know have any sense of whether or not this is "channel sutffing" or whatever it's called? I'm not saying that's the case here, it's just that red flags go up every time I see the word "shipped" instead of "sold".
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I think the point Steve is making is that as the company went along, they should have noticed their prior assumptions about the cellular market were not panning out. They cold have started seeking out alternative revenue streams besides tra
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
As a daily rider of the Keystone line, I will be interested to see if those new top speeds materialize. Also, as others have pointed out, Amtrak has been electric on these routes for some time.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I absolutely love Fogbugz. I find Jira to be a bloated, complex mess. I've also used Trac and Bugzilla, both were clunky and lacking in creature comforts.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I don't have a blog because I have yet to convince myself other people would be interested in what I have to say. I might have to start one.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I worked for a very well known company who licensed some of the early genes that were patented by companies like Celera. It was such a painful experience and the arrangement caused tons of legal knots years later. When the license period en
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
The time issue is the biggest adjustment for me. I'm in my 30's and have spent 2/3 of my life goofing around on my computer in my spare time (which I apparently had boatloads of, though now it is hard to remember what it was like). I now ha

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