Schwolop

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by Schwolop 11y ago
Crunchbase says you're headquartered in San Fran. What parts of the company are in Melbourne?
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Absolutely agree with the "one of those assumptions" bit. See http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm... for a great list. (And related, see https://www.mjt.me.uk/pos
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Agree with the first part, less so the second. YC is (rightly) worried about signalling risk. If they exposed who they thought the 25% were, the other 75% would struggle to get funding.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Bingo. I've also heard this sentiment expressed as "Flip a coin. While it's in the air, your brain will be wishing for one of the sides. Pick that choice and forget about the coin."
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by Schwolop 11y ago
If you're able to tell, which division is that? Is this really inner-Google product development, or mostly/partial/somewhat outsourced via a prod-dev consultancy?
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Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)(lel.ed.ac.uk)
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Scooping the Loop Snooper (2000)(lel.ed.ac.uk)
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I think you mean that only the _seller_ pays the agent. But yes, I agree the American system is a bit odd. For one thing the listings are WAAAAYYY old by Australian standards - here you list your house with an auction or "sale by"
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Maybe I missed it, but as far as I can tell, this comment is the only documentation of what "research mode" means. You might want to address that somewhere...
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Best of luck guys! I prototyped something like this on two separate occasions in 2012[1]. The first attempt was using a laser projector to do the AR in a way that multiple people could observe - I still think that's the ultimate way to
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Yeah, probably, but I still want a laser projector that works outdoors anyway!
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I tried to do inertially stabilised projection with a laser projector for an augmented reality concept. Unfortunately, laser projectors were only around 15 lumens at the time - I needed bright ambient light for the SLAM stabilisation to wor
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I like the idea of LiFi communications. Might be hard for devices to upload data, but beaming stuff from your light bulbs down to your devices might be a very high bandwidth possibility. My imagination is getting ahead of me, but you could
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding (which I could well be - this isn't my field!) those use several narrow-band coloured lasers and combine the output. This article is a single wide-band semiconductor.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
The best take-home interview I ever did had a time-limit. And of course, I panicked when getting close to that limit, and tried my best to tidy up my solution but didn't really manage. Then a pop-up appeared asking "Would you like
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by Schwolop 11y ago
There's a big difference between QR codes ("Quick Response") - which I agree are mostly encodings of links and shortened links - and Data Matrix encodings of generic data. Both look like black and white squares, and can oft
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Australians are interested in but not big consumers of pour-overs. Cold-drip and other "exotic" coffee styles are increasingly seen, but by far and away the dominant style is Italian espresso. And, presumably for power, space, and
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by Schwolop 11y ago
IIRC, US copyright law includes the ambiguous words "slavish copy" with reference to something that would not be copyrightable. For example, the Vatican sold copyright to the imagery that is the restoration of the Sistine chapel r
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Yes, Google[X] (aka "Special Projects" on their job search portal) is a very different beast to Google proper.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Phooey. Asyncio is the bomb.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Ok, rephrase that as "at least I'm only losing 80% of my salary instead of 100%". Plenty of people who could create great things are also saddled with families and expenses that run to 80+% of their disposable incomes. It&#x2
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by Schwolop 11y ago
How about a conditional yes? e.g. "We've been working on this project( ) for over a year on evenings and weekends, collectively contributing >1500 effort hours, and we have spent $75k on rent and expenses. To keep that going, a
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by Schwolop 11y ago
I agree for the most part, but it may well be enough to break through some inertia. 12k for a two man team is 3k/month, whereas in full time work most engineers would be making at least 10k/month. I know personally I'd be uni
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Are there any plans to do a normal YC program (7%/$120k) but also be inclusive of remote teams? 0% for $12k is obviously a great deal, but my main stumbling block has always been the loss of income from dropping paid work, and $12k ove
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by Schwolop 11y ago
My primary use-case for this would be to go back in time and replace my wedding videographer with this robot.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Uh, you don't. You have to have the box showing the correct arrow type as the arrow enters it. You can press the correct arrow type before the arrow reaches the box.
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by Schwolop 11y ago
Because right now those fired employees still _need_ to work, so they apply somewhere else. Even the most incompetent eventually get past the filters and gum up someone else's operation. So we have a cycle in which we harden the filter
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LiquiGlide non-stick coating saves the food left inside containers(newsoffice.mit.edu)
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by Schwolop 11y ago
This is part two* of a great long-form essay on the topic of a technological singularity, and its impact on humanity. Even if the majority of HN users are familiar with the concepts, the prose of this essay is very readable, and it's a

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