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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   Awesome. I thought "this is exactly the kind of thing my former colleagues would find hilarious". Then I scrolled down. They wrote it.
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   tl;dr - 5 of the top 10 are big technology companies. #1 = Google, #2 = Apple, #5 = Microsoft, #6 = Facebook, #7 = Amazon. Of the rest, ~40% are what HN readers would consider technology companies. There's some further infographics hid
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   LinkedIn’s 100 Most InDemand Employers of 2013(linkedin.com)

   1 points by Schwolop 13y ago|1 comments
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   When the article's title is "Alas poor Oculus, I knew you well", insinuating that like Yorrick, Oculus is dead, then yes, the author is taking a side. The title led me one way, then the rambling prose lost all semblance of cl
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   I love New Zealand's quarantine people. Every time I visit they clean my shoes for me!
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   I have very little idea what this article is trying to say. I can't even decipher whether it is pro-Oculus or against it.
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   Worst graph ever. I know! Let's do linear extrapolation from a graph with a non-linear dependent axis!
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   This is my use case for this too. It would be absolutely perfect for quick and easy web-app remote controls.
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   by Schwolop 13y ago

   Did I miss something? Is there no way to get any of these components' broadcast channels to GET/POST to an API? Or their input channels to accept an HTTP input? I couldn't see this on the roadmap and it seems like such a no b
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    I entirely agree. I'd much rather be tied into someone else's ecosystem with an electric imp or Xively, than have to work with hardware designed by people who think the software is the difficult bit.
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    In Australia - all of them.
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    So take your 20 man project - all of it - and give the entirety to the Ph.D. In fact, since you'll be saving so much money, get three Ph.D.s to work on it simultaneously and independently. In fact, tell them it's first to publish
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    I suspect from the context that the journalist's email(s) was/were fine but that replies from other parents may have been less appropriate.
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    Maybe I'm missing something, but if I were Microsoft, I think (at least my first pass thinking anyway) I'd just say "Nope. No MS Word on iOS. Ever." I can't see what's in it for them. A tiny slice of cash compa
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    In Australia, with a scholarship and a few hours a week TAing during term time, I made enough to buy a half a million dollar apartment with my wife who was on a new-graduate nursing salary. She then got pregnant just as I finished up (good
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    How to price your hardware product(hackthings.com)

    1 points by Schwolop 13y ago|0 comments
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    In this case, the person can't use a computer because people like the author condescend a bit, fix the problem in ten seconds, and don't set them up to be just a bit wiser for next time. When I try to teach people how to f
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    Whoa! Given all the reference Michael makes to MacLeod's hierarchy, I'd just tacitly assumed it was a well-known model in organisational studies. I guess the "I should really read the original work" pangs I occasionally
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    Interesting though this sounds, I get irritated whenever I read about someone changing the existing paradigms of [insert topic here], and then continuing to use all the existing metaphors from the existing paradigms, e.g.; 'desktop&#x2
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    Boom! http://signup.looloopaper.com/
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    Wanted: Young Creation Scientists(icr.org)

    2 points by Schwolop 13y ago|0 comments
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    I don't know where the hell that came from, but I just laughed my arse off for a good quarter hour over here!
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    From my brief experience, you're probably better off assuming that the default price will be triple damages, and any reduction from this is a lucky discount.
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    For books and many other print media however, it's just overkill. You can do it markerless just by tracking known content on the page. It's great for tracking within the whitespace however - that's where it's a cunning s
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    One key to thinking about how the Plan [improves quality of life] is the universality of the grant. What matters is not just that a lone individual has $10,000 a year, but that everyone has $10,000 a year and everyone knows th
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    I agree. I tried web development professionally; loved Ruby, thought Rails was pretty decent, but hated web development (and ultimately wasn't at all inspired by the product we were building). Now every Ruby meetup I attend, 99% of the
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    attr_accessor :sanity Would be a neater way to write this.
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    Curious about this - what if someone (say, me) has a job and has no immediate intention of leaving it, but also wants to get better at programming and is willing to take a 3 month sabbatical to do so. Recognising that you're unlikely
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    This is one of those times when I can't be emphatic enough without crudity. That was a fucking excellent eulogy.
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    by Schwolop 13y ago

    I can completely empathise with this viewpoint. People jump through increasingly complicated hoops because everyone else is doing it, without stopping to think whether the end result they're after can be achieved in a simpler way. Then