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by bennyg 12y ago
Combinatorial creativity is a very real thing. So why limit yourself to one intellectual pursuit (whether that's liberal arts, STEM, teaching, etc)? This article could be reversed and still make sense - We need more liberal arts majors
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Huge iPad games coming in the future.
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by bennyg 12y ago
And automate yourself into another one.
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It is a 50k/year job for many, many programmers.
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Yeah, a security clearance prohibits viewing anything like this. Even if you have Top Secret you can't look at things that weren't meant for you to read.
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by bennyg 12y ago
I never asserted that haha. I was basically replying to this line above: > I will absolutely never respect him for his streak of immoral/illegal acts. That just seems foolish to me, since tons of other people garner respect
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by bennyg 12y ago
No, I'm saying it's foolish to criticize an action based on other actions. Criticize an action on its own merit. I think it's a slippery slope to start saying you won't look up to someone because one subset of actions of
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by bennyg 12y ago
Too many variables.
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Blue boxes were illegal too. I just think it's foolish to look at somebody's actions and apply that as reason to like/not like other actions.
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by bennyg 12y ago
I meant demographically age-wise not job-wise. Either way, you're right, it's just anecdotal. But I'd love to see the breakdown for 18-30 year olds in geographic regions around the country, and then for countries in general.
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I agree to some extent. I think that given an equal idea across two executions, the better execution wins. And that's the take away.
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by bennyg 12y ago
Some platitudes and quotes can be removed from the person who said it and still be valid. I think if the quotes from this interview were attributed to some random dude in 1996, that they would be just as valid as coming from Jobs. For some
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by bennyg 12y ago
I hate that statistic. Apple makes far more money from their App Store sales than Google does, and Google supposedly owns a substantially larger part of that market. I'd like to see breakdowns of this market share geographically. I&#x2
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by bennyg 12y ago
Everyone has flaws. MLK, Jr. was a terrible womanizer but nobody brings that up because it, rightly so, shouldn't taint his civil rights legacy.
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Personal development that changed how he approached business. It helps to not frame things in terms of startups/business. Getting kicked out of Apple and failing initially at NeXT was a major let-down that showed (most importantly to h
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Why don't they just pay for all of the major science publications to have free access for everyone - not just requiring it of the authors they subsidize?
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Natural language's main purpose is human-to-human communication. Programming language's main purpose is not. This is a weird semantic argument, but I think you understand the parent's point.
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by bennyg 12y ago
> You don't think the future is decentralized, including the funding of big projects? Wow. Nowhere did I say that. I think there is room for both. You seem to think there isn't.
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by bennyg 12y ago
It's not 20 more cents... It's actually less money over time. I feel like this argument is really working against you rather than in your favor. Extreme libertarianism is awesome in theory, but fails hard in reality. Income tax, w
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by bennyg 12y ago
What other arbitrary aims would you rather scientists work on, since all aims are arbitrary anyways? I don't think you really understand how scientific research works at all. The engineering effort of NASA took a bunch of disparate sci
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by bennyg 12y ago
Not sure if you're trolling... http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html for some. A comment above has many others listed.
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Got a source on "every"?
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Wow. Truly moving stuff. He has an amazing way with words, and the translator did an awesome job of porting it to English. So very sad.
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Writing and recording an album.
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by bennyg 12y ago
You're right - antenna placement is super important with any real-world practical implementation. However, placing them on the ceiling/floor is not always an option.
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by bennyg 12y ago
Yeah no problem, I'll talk to my director at work to reach out about the beacons since he's been the point of contact with Estimote so far. Thanks for following up and fielding my concerns/criticism. Like I said earlier, I ho
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by bennyg 12y ago
I think it's size. Most beacon companies are doing what the phone companies are doing - slimming everything down.
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by bennyg 12y ago
I've had the same experience with battery life on the series 10 beacons as you. Haven't tried the 20 yet. What're those like as far as general battery life goes?
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by bennyg 12y ago
You can monitor for one region per UUID, meaning that if all of your 1100 beacons share the same proximity UUID, then you should be good.
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I thought this too. But even with the plugged in RadBeacon ( http://www.radiusnetworks.com/ibeacon/radbeacon/ ) and no EM interference between it and the phone, I was still getting extremely spotty results. It'

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