Ologn

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by Ologn 8y ago
> Spend some time watching a group of primates or work with a group of them over time as I did a number of years ago, and you will start to see that humans behave in almost the exact same way, our brains lie to us about our motivations s
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by Ologn 8y ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (within a few weeks) Technologies: Android programmer. Android Studio, Android SDK, Android NDK (using JNI). All the latest Android buzzwords - Kotlin (and Java), Jetpack, archi
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by Ologn 8y ago
Ah, I remember when you could get a full list of com domains from the Internic. Hell, I remember when SRI-NIC.ARPA was a root name server. I forget exactly when they stopped the ability to ftp that. Interesting looking at the COM zone for
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by Ologn 8y ago
There are companies out there doing targeted industrial/corporate AR work that are not as visible. Also, they suffer less from the bulky/inconvenient problems. If AR can save a company a lot of money, they can afford a more power
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by Ologn 8y ago
I have worked at several Fortune 1000 companies and several startups. One of the cons I see in even very small startups is trying to be like Fortune 1000 companies. There is an understandable reason for red tape when working at a F1000 com
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by Ologn 8y ago
You are correct that on core routers, the brunt of the work is done in ASICs, and CPU is a slower path. People should know that Cisco takes this discrete fact and then extends and over-hypes it. The differentials between ASICs and CPU are
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by Ologn 8y ago
Hear hear. I run a few small web sites, and in the past few years have gotten zero calls from devops types calling about a problem, and dozens, if not hundreds, of telemarketing calls, to a number that is only listed on my whois data.
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by Ologn 8y ago
> The markets say otherwise, for 9 years now <8 years ago, Bitcoin's market cap was less than $170,000. > Do you ever hear regulators talk about regulating ponzies (in the positive form)? Like how the sub-prime real estate mar
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by Ologn 8y ago
> One value of Bitcoin is in its decentralization Gold, bread etc. have value because they can be consumed as commodities. A bitcoin can not be consumed, thus it has no utility, no use value. Currencies (like gold) are commodities with
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by Ologn 8y ago
> Bitcoin and Zcash are stores of value that allow users to participate in this decentralized application space without the need for fiat currencies. How is Bitcoin a store of value? An ounce of gold is a store of value - someone had to
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by Ologn 9y ago
They did this later on. In 2011, Android Market (Google play) cost $25 for a lifetime developer account. You could develop apps on Windows, Mac or Linux. It came with an emulator. So for the cost of $25, anyone on any major developer pla
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by Ologn 9y ago
For those low on cash, or who want to dive in a little before seeing what soldering station, multimeter, power supply, oscilloscope etc. they want... First buy a breadboard (or more than one). Buy the resistors and wires you need in the ne
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by Ologn 9y ago
I paid $650 for my Pixel last February. One thing it could do off the bat was work with my $50 Daydream VR headset, which only a few Android phones could do at that time. I am an Android programmer so having a nice phone is worth it for me.
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by Ologn 9y ago
New York Transit Wireless has a free, open wifi that is open in many stations, which I use frequently. It is a little bit of a throwback using it on the subway though, as it does not work in the tunnel, so you have to wait to stop at a sta
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by Ologn 9y ago
I used to call him from time to time when I was a teenager, back in the early 1990s. He was always very open and neighborly and curious. There are a number of sub-cultures that exist across the USA - redneck Wyoming ranchers, deadheads, Sa
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First primates born using “Dolly the sheep” cloning(theguardian.com)
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by Ologn 9y ago
> Why are banknotes worth anything? Until 1971 dollars were worth something because they could be converted into one of the thousands of tons of gold bars the US stores at Fort Knox (and elsewhere). Then a magic wand was waved over the p
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by Ologn 9y ago
> There is now too much money in it, and the money directly translates into interest to keep Bitcoin running and succeeding. Like tech stocks in 1999? 2007 subprime mortgages? > It's going to be the new gold You mean my dentist
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by Ologn 9y ago
> When it first emerged, many people questioned it's (sic) basic premise As they did Charles Ponzi's international reply coupons. > That is all kind of the same vibe as Bitcoin You mean the creator(s) who went to great lengt
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by Ologn 9y ago
> Do the work to get featured by Apple & Google Sigh...this is one of the last things to worry about. It's like hoping your roulette number hits. Doing a lot of work is like getting a second roulette wheel number towards getti
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by Ologn 9y ago
Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why people did not follow Buffett's model of investing, since it had made Buffett the third richest person in the US. Buffett replied, "no one wants to get rich slowly".
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by Ologn 9y ago
I upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10. The widget in my Gnome Terminal window that shows me how many columns and rows the terminal has (if I change them) disappeared. I posted this to the Ubuntu forums, they said Wayland kills this feature, but
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by Ologn 9y ago
It can have strange behavior though. The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I di
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by Ologn 9y ago
Bitcoin isn't tulips, because tulips can decorate your property. Bitcoins are absolutely devoid of any value, thus with the limit being zero on the Bitcoin equation, the ultimate market cap for all Bitcoins will be zero. Money for the
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by Ologn 9y ago
For a recent example, Google announced at I/O that it had Android architectural components in beta. They were officially release last week, and can be accessed via AppCompatActivity, and to older Android versions via the support libra
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by Ologn 9y ago
> We’ve seen that Android devices appear to be getting more out of date over time. This makes it difficult for developers to target “new” Android API features, where new means anything introduced in the past few years. This used to be mo
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by Ologn 9y ago
For years the Roosevelt Field mall outside of New York City had a rather crummy food court. The food was mostly junk fast food, the tables were scarce and tightly packed together. In more recent times, they redid the food court. It is big
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by Ologn 9y ago
> Linux distributions have chosen MariaDB Server... It is the “default” MySQL in many Linux distributions (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE and Debian). However, Ubuntu... I think this is a key point. The major Linux distros use m
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by Ologn 9y ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcdKHCp9foY Works on Unix, Mac, iOS and Android Code mirror is here - https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver W.P. van Paassen's metaballs C code is here -
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by Ologn 9y ago
If we look at all of history up until recent times (let's say until 1971), currencies were simply commodities with certain properties. The properties that made a commodity a good currency were portability, uniformity, divisibility and

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