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by austinz 13y ago
As are Google and Apple (albeit not always for privacy). I think the only oft-mentioned companies I've seen that consistently get better-than-neutral sentiment are Tesla and SpaceX, although there are probably others I'm forgettin
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by austinz 13y ago
I don't know about this particular implementation, but MAKE Magazine recently featured a similar DIY project (although this one doesn't use an iPhone, and instead projects the image onto a wall). http://makezine.com&#x2
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by austinz 13y ago
From that link: "In April 2010 Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax was stabbed to death in New York City after coming to the aid of a woman who was being attacked by a robber. Yax was on the sidewalk for more than an hour before firefighters arrived
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by austinz 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect I know the author of the news article pooh-poohs the common depiction of the Kitty Genovese murder as not being true, but that has nothing to do with the veracity of the ef
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by austinz 13y ago
If I felt competent enough to call myself a "10X developer, marketer and entrepreneur", I'd consider becoming a consultant. But I'm not anywhere near that stage yet, and there's a lot I can learn (and am learning) w
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by austinz 13y ago
The truly good student is the one who signs up for the class with the goal of mastering the material being taught as well as possible. The 'good' student in this example cares more about gaming the signaling mechanism than actuall
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by austinz 13y ago
Ooh. I remember "Dynamic-C" and its built-in support for coroutines. TI and Microchip had their own quasi-proprietary extensions to C, but I don't think I ever saw anyone go as far as Rabbit did.
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by austinz 13y ago
This. There is so much more to software engineering/CS than building web sites (not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with that, either). At my last job I wrote firmware for an embedded device that served as a bridge betwe
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by austinz 13y ago
Right. It looks a lot more like a badly-implemented feature for factory validation than a backdoor intended as an easily exploitable point of attack.
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by austinz 13y ago
There are different schools of Chinese philosophy that have differing approaches and conclusions, and even then sub-schools with differing beliefs within them (e.g. the Confucianist scholars Xun Zi and Mencius on the innate goodness of huma
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by austinz 13y ago
My guess is that it's closely related to the collegiate alcohol culture, which is just as shitty and pretty much ubiquitous, and which many younger devs were a part of before graduating into industry.
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DC-3 still in active service, 70 years after introduction(bbc.com)
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by austinz 13y ago
If they're not competent enough to blame this mishap on 'test data', I wonder if they'll prove competent enough to change the data for the final reported results.
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by austinz 13y ago
Good for these researchers. This ban is, as far as I've been able to tell, racism arising from political expediency. If it were about national security, we wouldn't be collaborating with Russia on the ISS (or allowing ourselves to
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Startup building reactors fueled by nuclear waste(nytimes.com)
6 points by austinz 13y ago|0 comments
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High-speed trains transform China(nytimes.com)
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by austinz 13y ago
I find it absolutely frightening how much incompetent instruction there exists for teaching people skills like programming - with regards to the author's experiences, in particular. I'm glad that he finally found something that wo
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by austinz 13y ago
Regarding his assertion about reference counting: Apple's implementation of ARC for Objective-C doesn't handle cycles (it requires the engineer to reason about weak and strong references in order to prevent memory leaks), but it i
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by austinz 13y ago
There's a particular XKCD comic that used to constantly reflect my experience while searching for the solutions to technical problems in one particular area of expertise ( http://xkcd.com/979/ ). Seeing EE answers g
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by austinz 13y ago
At the least, we buy more time to develop more sustainable technologies and/or implement humane population control to arrest and break world population growth, because: - the possibility still exists that we can have these things and a
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by austinz 13y ago
Hear, hear. The sooner brogramming culture slinks back into the slimy, pus-covered hole out of which it originally crawled, the better. I'd like to think that, as technical people, we take pride in the quality of our work - its beauty,
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by austinz 13y ago
The problem is that Verilog/VHDL isn't a "programming language" in the sense that C, Lisp, Haskell, or Python are programming languages. So approaching them with a programming language mindset is asking for a lot of pain
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by austinz 13y ago
Is there a button or something to automatically expand all the topics in a Google Group without having to click on each collapsed message title? Because I've looked everywhere, and I can't find one.
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Bobbit worms, undersea predators(wired.com)
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by austinz 13y ago
Cool blog post! From your resume it looks like you worked at Blackberry earlier this year. Do you have any thoughts about the differences (cultural, technological, etc) between working for a large company and working for a non-profit organi
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by austinz 13y ago
I'd like to know what technical benefits there are, if any, from this roundabout approach by Google. I suspect there aren't many, if any, and this is more of a tactic to 'circle around' and retroactively gain tighter con
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by austinz 13y ago
Thought tptacek's link on Javascript crypto, linked to in the article (and sort of a motivator for the experiment), was well worth a read. http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
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by austinz 13y ago
No, I totally agree that accessibility is possible if your app is JavaScript based. But if you're unaware of or you forget to add in accessibility features, you run the risk of failing much less gracefully for people who need those fea
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by austinz 13y ago
Not to mention stuff like accessibility that ends up being an afterthought for a lot of people.
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by austinz 13y ago
This is dumb. - I don't want to mix work and personal stuff on the same machine. Too much could go wrong in terms of liability (network security, personal vs corporate IP). And if I don't use my personal machine, then I'm she

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