benjamincburns

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by benjamincburns 10y ago
Anybody have any advice for those who are actually aiming to build a perfectly serviceable airplane, preferably with a reliable-enough autopilot? Articles containing such advice are also welcome.
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
Tiered monthly pricing based on number of sessions tracked is how I would expect to pay for a service like this. Would love to see it integrated with an A/B test optimisation tool.
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
Edit - I actually meant for this to be in reply to jnordwick's comment further down thread (the one with all the rhetorical questions), but apparently I suck at clicking the right things. You seem a bit worked up, and it's hard no
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
No clue how far you'd get, but I'd think you could come up with something interesting in that time frame. It's a lot more approachable than you might think. I'm not well acquainted with Copy, so I don't know how lon
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
Not to detract from Copy's work (it's really quite impressive), but if you're really hard up to have a browser running in your browser, have a look at http://www.jor1k.com
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
> How much work would be required ... Can't speak to his NIC emulation (unless he borrowed it from jor1k), but otherwise it'd take roughly a flight from PDX to CHS for the NIC, plus another 2-3 hours for a dead simple virtual s
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
> Now that I'm a little more senior ... I can see that its pretty miserable doing the interviews as well. I think part of this is that people too often view interviewing as an adversarial process. It may help you to enjoy it more if
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
#2 is soo spot on. As somewhat of a professional middleman (I'm an engineering manager) I find quite often I've maximized the value I can provide when I've negotiated away this distrust and effectively put myself out of a job
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
I think we're mostly on the same page, it's just a matter of degrees. I especially agree with your points that knowledge of self is never a bad thing, and that you are responsible for your own career. I'd never advise ignoran
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
[Edited for tone - first pass was written on my phone.] > You need to track every instance of your good work, every demonstration of your value to the company. You need to know what form your performance feedback will take (quick meeting
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
There is no core privacy promise _built in_ to the core of the internet in the same way that there is nothing in the laws of physics which prevent murder. We have laws and cultural norms for this sort of thing, and it's not at all enti
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
Have you seen light field photography [1]? It would seem that your array is quite similar in concept. I'd imagine that getting images similar to those produced by various SONAR imaging technologies is a similar sort of deconvolution pr
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by benjamincburns 10y ago
I'd guess 5-10 times per year. The bulk of these have been mostly positive followup questions to comments I've posted here. I admit that in a few cases I've dropped the ball and not gotten back to people. I do apologize for t
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
@dang: Apologies if this has been said elsewhere, and hopefully it doesn't get lost in the noise. If upvotes are the most important metric, then vote counts should be hidden to viewers at least prior to their voting. This prevents the
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
It's not humorous because it's funny that he would have low self-esteem; it's humorous due to the irony in the juxtaposition of a demonstration of something so obviously clever and impressive and an over-the-top embodiment of
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
Admittedly I've never raised capital, but I'd expect that if this is your attitude toward raising money or toward investing, you won't do well. Asking for investment isn't begging for money. It's a sales pitch. Like
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
FWIW, I really appreciated this. I think it helped add to the feeling of enormity, and helped me to realize the resolution of the video.
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
Lets let the mods worry about it.
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
If the product people at GitHub don't understand the sales/marketing impact that GitHub's free offerings have on its paid offerings, then they need to hire new product people. I think it's plausible that the authors of t
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
Good point. Will definitely do this.
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
I have been, yes. I don't know if I'll start off with ROS, but as soon as I start attempting to use the camera for nav purposes, I'll certainly go that way.
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
The only real failsafes I have are overcurrent detection on the blade motor (when you hit something bad, current will spike) which triggers immediate shut-off, as well as a big red emergency stop button that will be on top of a pedestal a
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
Would be very curious to see what you come up with if you're willing to flick me an e-mail when it's done (see profile).
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
Out of curiosity, have you seen Toggl? We use it at work for time tracking and find it mostly quite good. Would be curious to know what's different about your use case.
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
FWIW, you may wish to add a 50Hz notch filter as well. If you're in North America 50Hz noise won't be as much of an issue, but if your receiver is sensitive enough there's likely still enough of it floating around from variou
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
What did I start? An autonomous lawn mower. My goal is to get it done for under $1,000 USD using mostly snap-together hardware. My timeline is to have it mowing via RC by the end of January (shipping to New Zealand takes a while, especially
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Fast Data Transfer(monalisa.cern.ch)
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
I'm using Chrome on an older rMBP with Intel 4400 graphics, and it took a little while for the rendering to start for me. Once it got going it was nice and smooth, however.
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
I think you're on to something here. I hadn't seen the cat/laser/cucumber gif prior to reading this thread (after visiting the demo), and after I noticed the cat following my mouse I tried clicking pickles with the expec
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by benjamincburns 11y ago
Would love to see this integrated into an IDE such that it is capable of detecting whether or not what you're typing (or something close to it) already exists. For companies with large codebases this is a major enough problem that a de

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