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by Schwolop 13y ago
For all the shit Quora gets on HN, it's probably the leading authority on the IIT system due to the enormous number of Indian members. See https://www.quora.com/Indian-Institutes-of-Technology/best_q... for some o
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by Schwolop 13y ago
Sure, but then you have to visit all the adjacent node to deduce whether or not they're lower cost - and that uses equivalent CPU time to A* anyway. A* has been formally proven to be faster than any other graph algorithm using the sa
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by Schwolop 13y ago
Because Hart and Nilsson proved in 1968 that (paraphrasing) no other graph algorithm using the same heuristic can visit a lesser number of nodes than A*. This algorithm is using a specialised heuristic that only applies on constrained grids
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by Schwolop 13y ago
Depth cameras using infra-red projection aren't going to work outside due to solar saturation, so I think Google would be foolish not to embed a second camera and enable stereo vision. It's the only light-weight and low-power way to get dep
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by Schwolop 13y ago
It takes at least five seconds out of my life. Sure, not much. But certainly more than the 0.5s it takes to hit the keystroke to mark as spam. And that five seconds is a lowball estimate if the unsubscribe link is actually to a "manage your
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by Schwolop 13y ago
You measure this by looking at your competitors. And when you're as successful as Weebly compared to theirs, it's a reasonable conclusion that the purported repercussions of this behaviour are close enough to negligible.
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by Schwolop 13y ago
And on every single email the person had the following options: 1. Click the unsubscribe link. 2. Mark it as spam in his/her email client. 3. Actively follow-up and publish his/her site. 4. Ignore it and move on with life. 5. Collect it as
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by Schwolop 13y ago
It actually saddens me that pressing the "Spam" button in Gmail has a material impact on the company that sent me the email. I use that button to mean "Get this out of my hair. Unsubscribe, bin it, set a filter to ignore them - whatever, I
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by Schwolop 13y ago
I disagree. I think most readers here (on Hacker News) are in the 99% category of Patrick's fictional scenario. Perhaps some of the contributors here are in the 1% that would get grumpy, but I doubt even amongst the contributors that it
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by Schwolop 13y ago
The only problem I have with this approach (which I've been using for years now) is that I'm too fast. My procrastination takes less than 15 minutes and then I have to go back to working again! When you've done this sort of thing for email,
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by Schwolop 13y ago
I fucking hate this attitude. "If you don't like it, leave." We're not writing because we've perused all the alternatives, settled on this version of GMail, and are unhappy. We're writing because GMail was the best thing we found, we settle
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by Schwolop 13y ago
Oh come on, get that stupid parenthetical out of the title... It's an interesting idea, and I'd love to see HN discuss it.
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by Schwolop 13y ago
Oh absolutely - but both parties need to work this out. They need to work out that I'm suitable, and I (already knowing this, or at least thinking it) need to work out whether they're suitable for me. The best interviews are two-way stree
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by Schwolop 13y ago
The whole interviewing process is ass-backwards for smart people. I have little interest in working for a company where I'm going to struggle to do the job. I'm not going to apply for a job where I'd be out of my depth for any more than a m
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by Schwolop 13y ago
I absolutely agree. As both an interviewee and interviewer I prefer this approach. There's nothing worse than having someone spend 5 minutes waffling or doing very little, then tell you they're going for the complex solution without having
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by Schwolop 13y ago
I hope this "Who's Hiring" is a sign of things to come - so many more hardware companies than previous months!
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by Schwolop 14y ago
From what I gather, they are capturing the velodyne data and turning it into a thinned point cloud of the areas of the USA in which they drive. Within this point cloud they can then do effectively a least-squares fit of the real-time view i
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by Schwolop 14y ago
It's also not officially water proof. That said, we used ours in light rain a few times and nothing bad happened to it. The data was pretty much useless however (although determining that was a large part of the point of the experiment).
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by Schwolop 14y ago
This came up at work where we needed to audit our code to check we weren't violating any open source licenses by keeping things closed source and/or using our software for profit. Seemed like a problem other people must have had too. I've g
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[ShowHN] Determine your license obligations - my first rubygem(github.com)
2 points by Schwolop 14y ago|1 comments
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by Schwolop 14y ago
FYI - the latest Unity3D can export in Flash format too.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
That's pretty cool too! I had a less similar idea into which your Urgeous was a to-do feature (and never done...) My idea was WikiBlog ( http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net ) and was essentially an (optionally) anonymous blogging platform with p
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Send an email to Yanis Varoufakis @ Valve. He's the economics guy doing analysis of in-game economies and applying various machine learning techniques to determine pricing strategies, etc. I suspect even if that doesn't appeal, there'd be a
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Allow me some time to find the statistics again on this, but from what I've gathered following the NBN debate for a few years now: No. The pipes are more than double our current requirements and growing faster than requirements do due to so
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I used to use SVN. We built control software for robots. We'd take the robots away on a field trial - no internet access - fix some bugs, write some code, add some features. That's five to ten people, all writing code that interacts with ea
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I would have left a comment on the main article, but it asked me to solve 3+53 as a captcha, and expr kept segfaulting for some reason.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Surely there's a sorting metric that could solve this? Something like score = k_1/age_of_post * k_2/frequency_of_posts with appropriate k-weights. Personally, my Google Reader has a folder for 'rarely updated', which I usually check first.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
> I don't think tech is the be-all and end-all of things Absolutely agreed. I just wrote about this recently[1], arguing that to be the best programmer, you really need to do something else as a specialty, and have programming simply as
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by Schwolop 14y ago
This is a bit sycophantic and too personalized, but the general points hold true. This is an excellent opportunity for people who want to optimise for learning, less so for people who want to optimise for innovation.
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More Than a Programmer(drtomallen.com)
2 points by Schwolop 14y ago|0 comments

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