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by bdrool 10y ago
He sounds really immature and irresponsible. If you look at his code on GitHub, it's full of sloppy stuff, commented-out code, and worrisome little loose ends with comments like "should I check this value?"[1] Even his commit
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by bdrool 10y ago
As others have pointed out, the short timeline is mainly due to Hotz himself and his plan for putting the product on the market so quickly.
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by bdrool 10y ago
> He's currently throwing a temper tantrum on Twitter He said the NHTSA made "no attempt at a dialog". What does he call that letter? Ridiculous.
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by bdrool 10y ago
Another one, where they tried to scam a tax professional: https://youtu.be/poFAzDCGLrI?t=36s
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by bdrool 10y ago
> That's part of a chapter of the book called Minimizing Control Structures. Since the book is creative commons and freely available, I decided to download the book and have a look. Figure 8.1, the "automatic teller" examp
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by bdrool 10y ago
Amazon is inching more and more towards a giant fraud operation every day. I'm glad this is getting more attention, however I fear it will continue unabated until someone is seriously injured or killed due to a dangerous knockoff causi
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by bdrool 10y ago
The very first thing I ever heard about Burning Man was how it wasn't cool any more. This was in the 1990s. I've come to believe that the real purpose of Burning Man is to have these kinds of meta-discussions. The actual gathering
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by bdrool 10y ago
Free internet, or just free Facebook (plus a few token sites to look like they're trying)? Seriously, is there anyone left who isn't fully aware this is just a ploy to create more lock-in and entrenchment, disguised as charity?
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by bdrool 10y ago
I doubt most who say this sort of thing mean it literally (although no doubt some naive sorts do, but they usually are self-identifying through the other outrageous things they say, and thus can be ignored). But one counterpoint to keep in
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by bdrool 10y ago
f.lux was pretty life changing for me when I first tried it, but I'm uncomfortable with the fact that it is free-with-no-ads-yet-closed-source. That's just ... odd. Eventually, I uninstalled it and instead just started going into
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by bdrool 10y ago
Soon it will be revealed that North Korea had actually saved up a bunch of zero days and just pwned the machines of millions of curious people around the world who loaded up these sites when they hit the news yesterday.
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by bdrool 10y ago
They should have called it "Cruise Control Plus™" or something similar. Regardless of the usual arguments about how accurate the name is according to the avionics definition of the term, "autopilot" is misleading in the
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by bdrool 10y ago
People who actually understand information theory know why that argument is facile.
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by bdrool 10y ago
Oh awesome, I can't wait to buy a knock off truck from "Ford-Motors" that has a handful of fake 5-star reviews and doesn't meet safety standards. Thanks, Amazon! (See here for explanation: https://news.ycombin
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by bdrool 10y ago
I am unable to read articles about fMRI results without thinking of this: http://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
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by bdrool 10y ago
> [W]hile electron positions are unpredictable, molecular reactions, the sort that happen in the human brain are pretty predictable. Basically, my response to this is "That would be relevant if we had black holes or large hadron col
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Men haven't had that liberation; a large part of society still believes in specific roles and responsibilities for men that coupled females are (at their option) exempted from. It's probably going to stay that way for the for
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by bdrool 10y ago
I'm wondering how many ports they are going to remove. Fingers crossed they will keep plain HDMI and not make us go back to Thunderbolt / MiniDisplayPort. (Oh, and it'd be nice if they did something about the potential for Th
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Non-programmers make this mistake all the time: thinking that the syntax is the hard part of programming. Programmers make it all the time too, or at least something very similar. See all those people who are on the endless quest for t
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by bdrool 10y ago
I knew that would be response, but a tiny handful of token free sites don't help. It's either the internet or it isn't. And guess what: it's not. It's impossible to overstate just how bad it would be to allow Facebo
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by bdrool 10y ago
> I'm curious what others think about the vision for a more-connected world. I don't know about anyone else, but giving people Facebook-only service and calling it pretending that's the same as full internet access is not
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by bdrool 10y ago
There's also this crudely drawn but shockingly engrossing series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHKuF51aPFaq-2UvU-HkS... As well as all the follow-ups and side stories by the same person (check their channel f
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by bdrool 10y ago
Yes, I realize that. I was not saying this is the exact same thing that is being discussed in the article. However, it is similar in that Amazon should be exercising more control over their inventory and logistics, not to mention the case
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by bdrool 10y ago
Amazon is complete crap these days. It's becoming more and more difficult to figure out who you are buying from, and as a result there are outright scams sitting on Amazon's store at this moment that they continue to do nothing
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by bdrool 10y ago
If the intended insinuation of this essay is that somehow there aren't a bunch of seriously over-valued companies out there, or that there isn't a long-overdue downturn on the way, then I'm afraid I can't bring mysel
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Driving in India is only insane to westerners. According to Wikipedia[1], there are 56% more traffic fatalities annually than in the US. Compared to the UK, it's 472% more. I don't think it's merely a matter of perspecti
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by bdrool 10y ago
> a Objective-C to C converter (if there isn't one already) Incidentally, that's pretty much how the language got started -- as a pre-processor add-on for plain C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#
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by bdrool 10y ago
This is what Objective-C looks like if you "unroll" it to plain C. Not too surprisingly, it's very verbose. Other than as an exercise, there's no reason to do this, particularly given that Objective-C is a strict superse
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by bdrool 10y ago
Driverless cars will happen at the same time for everyone. Uber's competitors will get them at the same time they do. It will not amount to a long-term or even short-term advantage.
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Cornell professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that women were paid 79 cents for each dollar a man was paid. Even after adjusting for type of job, industry, experience, location and education, the gap remained 92 cents for ea

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