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by Schwolop 14y ago
Joel - try http://hnalerts.com/ to get SMS notifications when your domains are on HN or Reddit. Not my service, just a happy fan.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
The best way I've found to get freelance jobs is to tell people that yes you are unemployed but you're not interested in the kind of work they want done, even though you could do it in your sleep. Then when they push back, quote them an abs
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by Schwolop 14y ago
This sounds like it could be me, a year from now. I'm literally in the middle of an interview* with a SF startup that came about because they read my blog post (via Hacker News) about failing at my own startup. HN is undeniably awesome. (*O
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Absolutely agree, this is a really awesome side-use of this project. Great work!
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Wait a cotton picking minute. I abandoned a bunch of robotic product ideas because I couldn't find a market niche that could afford them. I have the skills to make fully autonomous UAVs and AUVs. Here is a very wealthy market niche. Hmmmm..
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Analysing HN traffic from the front page to job offers in my inbox(drtomallen.com)
3 points by Schwolop 14y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I'm an Aussie coffee afficionado, and the best coffee I ever had in London was at Monmouth. No idea of the address, but it was about 5mins walk from the modern art museum, on that side of the Thames, near a food market. As if that'll help..
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by Schwolop 14y ago
If cars are self-driving, there'll be less of them. And they can better utilise existing road space (faster reaction times means they can tail-gate with comparative safety.)
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Try buying your own lithium ion battery that'll last eight hours then. Companies need to make a profit too...
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Wow. This was always called "Chinese Whispers" in Australia. I guess my country is just plain racist.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
What's cool here other than the fact that it seems to react really quickly is that it has no universal conception of location, like GPS. Nit-picky robotics engineer chiming in: it's not reactive. The planning is done ahead of time,
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by Schwolop 14y ago
The big "what stopping this from being mainstream" part of this is the need for a prior map. It's absolutely analogous to Google's autonomous vehicles needing to be manually driven through the area in which they're planning to later operate
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Where did you get the idea I was doing project management/collaboration software? We were building a hardware device to allow collaboration through existing physical whiteboards. Not another online whiteboard application.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
That was a fun read. A bit further than I take my honesty however...
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Savings. I had almost two years runway to start out. I've only burnt two months worth.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Truly? I don't know yet. I have the luxury of a reasonably large nest egg from my previous job, so I'm not desperate for work. I'm considering whether any of these ideas are licensable (I've never done licensing before, but it doesn't seem
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by Schwolop 14y ago
She's a lot more risk adverse than me, but I ran the numbers, we had about two year's runway, and as I said when I started out "at least if I fail it'll be quick!" :-)
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I can't stress enough that it wasn't just me doing this - I had a great pair of co-founders, even though they weren't as committed and ultimately walked away from the business. They helped a lot with the cold-calling and face to face meetin
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by Schwolop 14y ago
More the opposite - I care about money only to the extent that it allows me to stay out of trouble. I don't want to be a millionaire, I'd just like $5M sitting in a bank account at 5% so I don't ever have to think about money again. The tec
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Well they're still described on the company website, but I didn't want to drive traffic to them when I'm not actually going to pursue them (commercially at least).
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Thank you. I lied a lot as a teenager, became really good at it, then realised my life would actually be easier if I just told the truth all the time. I hope my next gig will be somewhere amongst the union of robotics, consumer tech, usef
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I totally agree that there's a selection bias for stories about successful outliers. On the other hand, it's not as if anyone is out there saying "Try it! You'll probably succeed!" Quite the opposite; almost everyone knows and admits that 9
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I'll have to worry about money eventually, but I'm one of those risk-adverse engineers so by the time I quit my job in the first place I'd saved up almost two years of runway. I'm definitely still creating. Watch this space.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Short and to the point. Keep trying, man.
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Why I Quit My Job, Killed a Company in Six Weeks, And Still Feel Great(drtomallen.com)
95 points by Schwolop 14y ago|49 comments
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Essentially it's ray-tracing but in a grid. Bresenham's algorithm let's you do the ray-tracing efficiently. This is done because a LIDAR/sonar/whatever scanning range sensor returns the angle and range to a reflective object. In most cases,
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Gainfully Unemployed: How To Land the Job Of Your Dreams(technori.com)
1 points by Schwolop 14y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 14y ago
Indeed. I know several young developers and designers whom any games company worth its salt would hire on the spot (and actually, they're all employed by such) who have "come back and talk to us in two years time" memos from Valve. They don
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by Schwolop 14y ago
I really think you should check out iDoneThis, and emulate their once a day email system. Parsing the responses would be a bit harder than what they do, but not a huge challenge.
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by Schwolop 14y ago
The current approach is as follows: 1) User sends next action to OnLive. 2) OnLive renders the frame and sends it to the user. 3) Repeat. The "faster than light" approach is: 1) OnLive renders several frames that could be the outcome of a

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