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by Schwolop 7y ago
This guy needs some PR advice, but the approach is sound. To be ethically clear, the approach must be hard-coded in that it doesn’t evaluate and choose a control output. Instead it is forced to pick one control output that was predetermined
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by Schwolop 7y ago
I write very irregularly, but on a variety of topics around engineering and management. I wrote an article today: http://www.drtomallen.com/blog/satificing-a-powerful-tool-fo...
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by Schwolop 7y ago
Entry to a PhD program is not something that is dangled like a golden carrot as the promise of an interesting life. Anyone offering such a lure is more likely looking for cheap graduate student labour and you should run a mile away. In real
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by Schwolop 7y ago
You should look up 'black noise' on the chart. It's music generated using MIDI so that the printed score maximises the quantity of black ink used. The "music" aspect is like listening for the whitespace in a sea of
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by Schwolop 7y ago
Cooltrax | IoT Software Engineer, DevOps Lead | Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | $120-150K AUD | Full-time | ONSITE but flexible Cooltrax builds IoT hardware and software to monitor temperatures, control fridges, and track refrigerated goods as they
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by Schwolop 7y ago
I'm so irritated by Jira's slowness that I'm actively evaluating alternatives. The leading contender is something I'd never heard of before - Clubhouse.io. It's missing a few things, but it's fast and slick and
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by Schwolop 7y ago
Yes, but I (we? I get the feeling I’m not alone in this...) never finish them. It’s always more fun to start the next one than finish the first.
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by Schwolop 7y ago
That is a great mission, and it's awesome to see it happening in Melbourne! I'll keep an eye on you guys... :-)
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by Schwolop 7y ago
An upvote doesn't seem sufficient here. That was inspiring and heartfelt. Bravo!
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by Schwolop 7y ago
It's very like a Fighter's 'Rage' ability from D&D. They must hurt things or receive damage or they lose the ability.
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Sometimes there are comparatively simple lifehacks you can establish to prevent complacency from leading to problems. A little example from my life is forgetting to secure the buckle of my motorcycle helmet. Once I've done everything e
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Thank you, that was very interesting to read through and is a possible avenue to pitch this idea too. Cheers!
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by Schwolop 8y ago
I'm a motorcyclist as well, and I've often wondered about trying to pitch a vigilante hardware product to our police force. I'd build a product around a button that when pressed marks the previous 15s plus the next 15s of hel
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Something this article really brought home for me was just how f*^king privileged I am. Not because I can trivially afford a $5 coffee each day. But because of all the linked terms in that article like "Stanford Marshmallow Experiment&
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Cooltrax | Software Engineering (Front-end, Full-stack, DevOps, IoT Architect) | Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | $100-120K AUD | Full-time | ONSITE but flexible Cooltrax builds IoT hardware and software to monitor temperatures, control fridges, and
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Cooltrax | Senior Engineers | Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | ONSITE but flexible Cooltrax builds IoT hardware and software to monitor temperatures, control fridges, and track trailers as they transport goods across the country. That might sound sim
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Bwaaaahahahaha! I've only just now realized that's an intended feature, not a bug. I'd been wondering for close to a year now why they'd not fixed it yet, since it happened so often for me. I think that's the nail i
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Re: the mind hack - yes, I agree. However, in light of recent discussions about raising the 9.5% SGL I went and looked at my latest contract which quite clearly says should that 9.5% go up, my total compensation will not change, so my ba
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by Schwolop 8y ago
The rest of the world _has_ worked this first point out. The US is close enough to the only developed country that ties healthcare to employment. The second point is a given in the more socialised parts of Europe, and is a core tenet of mos
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by Schwolop 8y ago
I see yours and raise you this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070244837 "System and method for extracting value from a portfolio of assets" - a.k.a. The process of being a patent troll is patented.
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by Schwolop 8y ago
With a founding team of six for a hardware startup, we couldn't all be paid without going bust, so the best thing was for most of us to keep jobs and accept the reduced speed of development. I've been working one or two evenings a
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by Schwolop 8y ago
This article had a footnote linking to a snide Douglas Crockford retort to a blog post that was dismissive of JSON. The other discussion comments on that page are a fascinating history of the arguments for and against, through the lens of 2
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by Schwolop 8y ago
We are the 1%... :-) Specifically, I do this in Melbourne, Australia where it's free and legal to park a motorcycle on the pavement (aka sidewalk). A 2012 study found that we make up almost exactly 1% of all commuters: http:/&#x2
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by Schwolop 8y ago
As a hypothetical since I'm working on a game that may use this, how would you feel about the following? For a multiplayer .io-style game, you get a score per level, and a cumulative score. The top few players by cumulative score are s
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by Schwolop 8y ago
You haven't seen Nintendo's latest offering then, have you?
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by Schwolop 8y ago
That would be pretty fun to build as a gamified social network. "Bob Smith (2 houses away) received a six-pack of beer from Giselle Citizen (3 blocks away) for cleaning the graffiti off her fence."
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by Schwolop 8y ago
There's a movement towards this; look up "Vehicle-to-Everything" or "V2X". The idea is to enable things like one vehicle transmitting sensory information or intent to others around it, helping to prevent rear-end co
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by Schwolop 8y ago
I wrote the initial interface specification for the co-ordination system in Rio's open-pit mines. The mere fact that we were able to account for the state of every moving thing in the pit makes this a completely different proposition t
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Chirp: Platform to Manage Collections of Google Alerts(github.com)
1 points by Schwolop 8y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 8y ago
I think your impression may well be correct, although I've not tried any Japanese rooms myself, only read reviews of them. For the operators I know, most focus on 2) and 4). Most believe the puzzles are the core hook and must be well d

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