benjamincburns

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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   Developing Android apps isn't an intended use case of the Chromebook. As such, Chrome OS devs can still "eat their own dogfood" without developing Android apps on a Chromebook. I work for a navigation company. We deploy navig
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   I experience the same thing with devs and 'done' all the time. "It's done ; it just has some bugs that need fixing." To be fair, I've said this sentence myself in earnest several times.
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   Would you care to share some of the new news? I'm presently looking for computationally efficient dense monocular VSLAM (visual simultaneous localisation and mapping) implementations to use in an upcoming personal project. openvis3d lo
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   I don't have much direct experience with lidar, but with my background in in situ sensing I could probably land a job working with/on it. If I may be so bold as to presume that I just barely qualify as an "expert" here
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   Not that I have heaps of experience to base this on, but here's my general thoughts on a good strategy: while(0 == ideas.good_ideas.count || FAIL == start_company(&ideas, &experience)) { // no i
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   I'd suggest talking to a lawyer. My (unsolicited) layman's take: Someone from youtube != Google's legal department, which makes this situation both awesome and sad. If Google wishes to maintain their ownership of the youtube
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? Would love to be able to make such 3D models from go-pro videos - preferably w/ a FOSS toolkit. Would also be grateful for any papers or articles which discuss the algorithms in
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   Please keep writing, Julia. The next time somebody asks me why I spend so much of my life absorbed by a screen, I'll point them at your blog and say "because discovery is exciting!"
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   by benjamincburns 12y ago

   This is the exact advice I would give, minus one key thing -- don't be scared of the hard stuff. So many people are held back by fear of things they don't understand. Learn to run toward it rather than away from it, and you'l
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    FWIW, this response might've been upvoted rather than downvoted if not for the snark.
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    The idea of a heated keyboard is a little gross to me. Seems like it'd encourage bacteria growth.
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    I agree that mods changing submissions is a little like putting words in the original submitter's mouth, but if the practice is well known I don't think there's much harm in it. Like I hinted at in the other thread, and as da
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    I asked a very similar question of dang [1] about two months ago when he decided to change an article's URL to one I added to the comments [2]. His response to me (w/ irrelevant stuff redacted): The short answer is that HN&#
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    So, when I say SQL, I meant ansi SQL, not PL/SQL, or any of the other various extensions of the language. Neither is purely declarative, but the prior is much closer. Also I wasn't suggesting that declarative languages are broadly
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    Post Millenium Tension(trouble.org)

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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    I'm not well-versed on this topic, but I believe this [1] is presently the state of the art. I'd be curious to know whether or not Z3 performance beats GNU's prolog implementation for similar problem sets. 1: http:/&#x2
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    For some definitions of "meaningful," yes. Per my other comment, you're describing a declarative language (prolog). Prolog is known for being ridiculously cool, and just as ridiculously slow. That said, I think the same was t
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    If this interests you, please do check out prolog. Declarative languages let you do something quite similar. In particular, they let you specify what you want the computer to give you rather than what you want the computer to do. Believe it
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    I agree with you, especially when you're writing low-level code which must interface with hardware or implement some protocol. However please allow me to play devil's advocate for just a moment. First, incorrect documentation is h
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    Respectfully, I think you're wrong on your conclusion. There's a lack of alignment between a person's explicitly declared preferences and the things which actually make them happy. This is so ridiculously true when it comes t
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill can be had used off of Amazon for a similar price, and is also quite exceptional.
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    For what it's worth, I think your site makes a great introduction to your cause, but a poor introduction to your contributions to this cause. To someone already experience in analog hardware it's easy to get the reference that &qu
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    We must read that quote in a very different tone. To me he's highlighting a situation where he disagreed with someone in a way that made him angry, but instead of jumping on his anger and telling her to "take a hike" he chose
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    > Have you run into this? Yes. I have two examples. One glaring, and one subtle. First the glaring one: the word "cunt." In the US it's quite offensive to call someone a cunt, and even using the word in conversation is con
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    Personally I think the "geekier" the better. To paint with broad strokes, geeks are passionate and indiscriminate. If you've got some subject matter you're quite passionate about, chances are you don't need to lean
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    I'd highly recommend doing two things in parallel. 1. Read How to win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. 2. Try to talk to someone new every day. On item 1 - I promise that it's not as lame as the title makes it soun
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    I'm in New Zealand. For giggles I tried running this test from my TV via Chromecast. I expected terrible results. Instead I hit 4300Kbps somewhere around the point where the dude was doing the sweet moon walk whilst e-mailing his grand
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    Unless you've got a series of physical safety measures (think GoldenEye style dual keys), your processes are just a series of rules. Enforcement of these rules is probably quite redundant, but I promise you that with sufficient motivat
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    Thanks for saying this. I've worked for companies who didn't trust their engineers. It's terrible. To anyone who read this article and thought what the GP thought, consider that the value of any "thought worker" is
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    by benjamincburns 12y ago

    Also may be of interest - the Apple support forum thread where this issue is being discussed: https://discussions.apple.com/message/25902093#25902093