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by Schwolop 12y ago
I don't know why, but I absolute adore these stories of "Why does this obscure thing operate in the obscure way it does?" answered by the primary source. They're fascinating glimpses into the never-ending sea of trade-of
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Well the Melbourne part is definitely true. I was the first hire in a 100 person company that didn't know anyone else here.
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by Schwolop 12y ago
I'm in that world right now. Most here are like corporate employees, with a few exceptions. In most cases people _will_ do a nasty project to help the company, because in the past the company has turned away the nasty projects even whe
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by Schwolop 12y ago
My apologies, I should've just said "banned" or "dead" or some other word. I've seen other people use the "hellbanned" word before and figured it was the right phrase. Out of interest, I did look up t
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Replying to ekm2, who is hell-banned: So,who is Suzanna Musick? Good question! I'm not going to post details here, but she appears to have plenty of public info easily Google-able, including a Linkedin profile and the name of he
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Do those 90% of ridiculous policies cost more than the benefits that enforcing the 10% of abusers abide by them achieves? Sorry, horrible sentence structure, but hopefully you get the point - I purport that this bureaucratic absurdity is mi
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by Schwolop 12y ago
But my preference is _really_ to see no ads. What you cite as "my preference" is really "what the advertising backend has deduced I'm most likely to buy" - that's certainly better for the advertising company, v
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by Schwolop 12y ago
But that's exactly my point - Sprout doesn't do this, but it provides a form factor with all the sensors and actuators necessary to do so. An application could then provide this functionality and support these use-cases. Yes, it
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Yes, you're right - that is unnecessary. I only really wrote it like that to make it clear that you could digitize documents that didn't start out as a digital file.
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by Schwolop 12y ago
The applications will make or break this. In my opinion, the killer app is digitisation of paper documents, tracking changes, and live multi-user editing. The 3d scanning stuff is a neat addition on top of that, but a much more niche use ca
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by Schwolop 12y ago
I'd love to see this done on a bigger scale. Even just this limited subset is fascinating - poor Blackberry... :-(
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Today's Dilbert is highly relevant: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2014-10-22/
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Bollocks. If I augment every pixel and have zero transparency through to the background real world, I've just turned AR into VR. VR is a subset of AR.
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Anyone have anything concrete on what this is, how it works, whether it's more than vapourware? On the basis of publicly available information it sounds a lot like ... nothing. Expensive nothing, for that matter.
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by Schwolop 12y ago
This is both a seriously awesome demonstration of how far GPUs have come, and an interesting explanation of the physics of global illumination as it pertains to simulated recreations of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Best article I've rea
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Nvidia's new GPU proves moon landing truthers wrong(engadget.com)
30 points by Schwolop 12y ago|4 comments
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Wearable Technologies Database and Insights(vandrico.com)
2 points by Schwolop 12y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Ok, ok; bad phrasing on my part. I meant that with Apple's branding around affordable luxury and challenging the status quo, a round screen would most definitely have been a talking point for this product and a differentiator from ever
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by Schwolop 12y ago
I know it's wasteful to cut the corners off LCDs to make them round, but I am a little surprised that Apple didn't go that route just for novelty value if nothing else. Would've made a nice interface paradigm with a rotary di
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Unless what you're describing was a later repetition of a 2012 incident, that was actually Dr Steve Mann being kicked out for wearing his EyeTap - which is physically bolted to his head and cannot be removed easily. Nothing to do with
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Interestingly enough, for robotic vacuums _low_ weight is also a problem: the better your suction, the worse your ability to drive! The tank-tread wheels on Dyson's model are meant to help mitigate against this, but I gather from (now
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Unique? Hmmm... for a vacuum cleaner, maybe. For indoor robotics, not so much. It's fairly standard Visual-SLAM.
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Khusela: Smart fire detectors for townships, slums, and favelas(khusela.org)
1 points by Schwolop 12y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 12y ago
In my experience, the change in business circumstances is precisely what creates the spaghetti code in the first place. It's far easier to write a beautiful extensible system if you have solid unchanging requirements - when the reqs ch
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Disclosure: I work for Planet Innovation, the design house that made this, but I didn't directly work on this project. We're pitching it as a thermostat that doesn't try to be smarter than you. I suspect HN will come to think
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Zen Thermostat(indiegogo.com)
1 points by Schwolop 12y ago|1 comments
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by Schwolop 12y ago
The original article from a year ago: https://medium.com/@jakek/the-distraction-free-iphone-or-why... (to be perfectly honest, there's not much there that isn't in the one-year-later recap)
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Of all the press about this project today, this is by far and away the best article.
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Hal Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014 [probably])
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by Schwolop 12y ago
Negative obstacles (e.g. potholes) in particular are trouble for line-of-sight flight time sensing modalities like laser & radar. The lower the sensor is mounted on the vehicle, the longer (in direction of travel) the hole has to be bef

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