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by angdis 12y ago
At the risk of being a buzzkill: a "smart home" is a home that is easy to manage. Most people have too much stuff, too much clutter, too many gadgets/clothes/vehicles/appliances/tools, etc. All these things tak
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by angdis 12y ago
There is actually a new company, Proteus ( http://www.proteus.com/ ), which has addressed a similar problem. Basically, they've developed a way to make a drug pill "smart" by embedding a tiny disposable transmi
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by angdis 13y ago
FWIW, I thought they were cool when they came out and used a lot in the original Delicious. I still like them! I do click!
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by angdis 13y ago
What I want to know is where was Michelle Bachmann when "the scientists" declared that Pluto is not really a planet!!
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by angdis 13y ago
I agree with the first answer. There is not a whole lot of difference between college and a resort these days. I went to college in the 80's. Rooms were shared, walls were cinderblock, the student center consisted of a dowdy cafeteria,
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by angdis 13y ago
I agree with all the points raised, especially about the rampant authoritarianism that crushes earnest, well-intentioned questions by new users (as well as regulars). Still, Stackoverflow is pretty damn good at what it does: provide answers
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by angdis 13y ago
Anyone can find out how Java is different from Javascript in about 30 seconds. What I would like to know is WHY THE FUCK JAVASCRIPT has the word JAVA in its name?
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by angdis 13y ago
I think part of the problem is that git, like other version control systems, does not enforce any particular way of working (workflow). When authors try to explain how to use git, they often have a very particular workflow in mind and don&#
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by angdis 13y ago
I see this a lot in LabVIEW projects (using it for things in which it is cumbersome). I think it is a symptom of the "golden hammer syndrome". LabVIEW is really, really efficient for some things and people become highly proficient
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by angdis 13y ago
Does it really matter what happened before? She deserved some compassion. By any reasonable point of view this was well-liked competent teacher who gave 25 years of service to her employer. She happened to fall through the social safety net
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by angdis 13y ago
The screenshot of the excel spreadsheet with the title "Important Looking Business Document" is borderline condescending. If you're going to actually use a C++ library to generate an excel spreadsheet, it BETTER BE fucking IM
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by angdis 13y ago
Sad indeed, are those 17" CRT's ??
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by angdis 13y ago
Come on... do you _REALLY_ mean they can't write a line of code? I find that hard to believe.
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by angdis 13y ago
And the real reason that the "candidates are crap" is that too many employers no longer spend the time and resources to train their workers properly. Instead employees are expected to get hired with insanely specific skills and &q
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by angdis 13y ago
Many people are introverted and do just fine in all kinds of jobs. "Introvert" is merely an orientation of personality that a large fraction (~50%) of the population has. Most likely the interviewer said you were "too introve
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by angdis 13y ago
I think it is an interesting product idea if the market is either: a) People who are starving. If the price is right and it has the right properties as far as shelf life and nutrition, sure, it would make an excellent ration for feeding pop
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by angdis 13y ago
Wearing "google glasses" might not make a whole lot of difference. It presupposes that the images and sounds captured by the camera will have enough fidelity to capture the details which actually matter and that's not a given
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by angdis 13y ago
... continuing, because what is a blog post list without a nice round number of items ... 8. You will need to endure a never ending succession of clueless/condescending/abusive project managers. 9. The company you work for, most p
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by angdis 13y ago
OK, so what kinds of things can you do with this data?
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by angdis 13y ago
The fact is projects "fail" all the time. One has to really define what failure actually constitutes. It can be anything from the completion date skidding a few weeks or months or perhaps something worse like no chance in hell of ever compl
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by angdis 13y ago
Interesting idea, but really, crime is opportunistic. If all of a sudden geeks toting iphones start walking a block or two away from what the data (of unknown quality) says is a "hot spot", the crime will follow where the targets are. Moreo
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by angdis 13y ago
IBM system-Z mainframes can and do run 20-30+ year old software that was written for previous IBM mainframes. There's an interesting podcast about them on se-radio: http://www.se-radio.net/2012/03/episode-184-the-mainframe-wi...
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by angdis 13y ago
Yep, you know you've gone too far with "legacy support" when you get a visit from the Computer History Museum !
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by angdis 14y ago
I don't see how an unfunny internet-scale April Fool's prank recruits top-talent. What does it recruit for? People who have a bad sense of humor? ... and yes, I am still bitter about google reader.
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by angdis 14y ago
WTF? Google maps, for me and I think for vast numbers of users, has always been a zero-bullshit application to use when you need to quickly find specific location or directions, where _pertinent_ information is displayed and "frills" stay t
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by angdis 14y ago
Is there anything like this for Java, or .NET ?
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by angdis 14y ago
Interesting, but I am not convinced that the accident data can _really_ correct for things like demographics of drivers. Moreover, there does not seem to be anything in the way of error measurement. In other words, how do you know that a sc
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by angdis 14y ago
The "learn to code" movement has been sadly misnamed. It is _really_ a call for digital literacy (and no, I don't mean "digital" as in logic gates). When Douglass Rushkoff wrote "Program or be Programmed" he did not mean that everyone in th
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by angdis 14y ago
... and its about time! "Android" has somewhat sinister connotations. Motorola ran with the concept in their marketing of their "droid" phones and it looks like something from the movie Alien, probably not the best strategy to entice half t
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by angdis 14y ago
The ugly reality is that the effect of automation seems to be further stratifying the haves from the have-nots. By definition, automation makes things cheaper and more profitable by taking away jobs. If there aren't OTHER JOBS also created,

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