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by brucehart 12y ago
It looks like a poor man's version of a Nest except it costs $50 more and has to be purchased through a contractor. The distinguishing feature that they are touting (the geo-fencing capability) is not something I would even want. I don
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by brucehart 12y ago
Interesting parallels between this story and the prologue of the excellent book Fortune's Formula. In the early 1900's a former Western Union employee became rich by setting up a wire service for bookies. He hired men to watch the
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by brucehart 12y ago
When this first debuted, my grandfather (born in 1917) thought that they had a piece of nylon material that was connected between the first down markers on the sidelines. That's when you know a technology is good. It's so seamless
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by brucehart 12y ago
Yes, I distinctly remember trying to convince my Mom in 1992 that paying $75 for the SNES version of Street Fighter II was worth the money. That was more than 20 years ago and it's still expensive for a game by today's standards.
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by brucehart 12y ago
There are a wide range of modules in the Qt library including an OpenGL library if you want to do 3D games. I would say that Qt is strongest in doing basic apps with standard components like buttons, images, sliders, etc. since there is a l
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by brucehart 12y ago
I would recommend developing your code base using Qt, which will export to Android and iOS. I think Windows Phone will be supported in the future, but has not been fully released yet. Qt is open source and free to use under LGPL.
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by brucehart 12y ago
I can imagine a future where energy is priced in real time. The only reason it hasn't been done so far is that it wasn't technically practical until recently. Imagine if you could tell your Nest to optimize the comfort of your hou
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by brucehart 12y ago
Interesting. I guess Google is pushing domain owners to buy a Google Apps account instead of just using mail forwarding. I've been forwarding my personal domain to my Gmail account for almost 10 years now and only pay for the cost of t
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by brucehart 12y ago
Speaking from experience, my advice is to use your job title to land a better paying job at a different company and don't look back. It sounds like your predecessor figured it out. Now it's time for you to do so too. Don't ne
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by brucehart 12y ago
I am interested in parallel computation and computer architectures and thought it would be fun to experiment with. I have worked on some projects developing signal processing algorithms for large GPU arrays and I want to see how the Paralle
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by brucehart 12y ago
I'm looking forward to getting mine. I ordered it back in October and they recently said the Zynq-2010 based boards would be shipped in mid-May. I wish they would have been more up front about the delays. There were long periods where
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by brucehart 13y ago
It will be interesting to see how Colbert structures his new show. Will he still play the sort of character he plays on the Colbert Report or will he be more like his normal self? I suspect it will be somewhere in between. He will have to t
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by brucehart 13y ago
I thought that at first too, but it would actually be a funny plot development if someone later points out that information theory dictates that the claims are impossible. Then the main character would receive more VC funding to pivot into
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by brucehart 13y ago
I would take the option to go to UF for free. Maybe it's more theoretical than you want but you might find you like it. Some of my favorite engineering classes were ones I knew nothing about before college. Also Florida is a pretty goo
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by brucehart 13y ago
I've fallen into this trap myself and understand where you are coming from. You get so burnt out on your current job that you start to treat every job interview as a potential relief from this burden in your life. What happens though i
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by brucehart 13y ago
This is a somewhat common form factor for embedded processor development boards. Critical Link has a whole line of products like this: http://www.criticallink.com/product-cats/system-on-modules/ .
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by brucehart 13y ago
I don't find the recommendations very useful either. Maybe the secret value of the recommendation engine for Netflix is evaluating movies outside of their catalog. When considering how much to pay for the streaming rights to a movie, t
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by brucehart 13y ago
If it's only 20 students, maybe just ask them to come by your office during office hours. Most of my professors would just post grades in the hallway using student IDs, but a few did it this way. It gives you a chance to connect with t
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by brucehart 13y ago
I stopped following accounts like this because of their promotion tactics. They retweet stuff from other accounts and then delete it 15 minutes later. If you look at the feed before subscribing, it looks like it is a bunch of interesting ph
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by brucehart 13y ago
I've experienced that too where a few recruiters bombard my inbox with low quality jobs ("Entry-level Java .NET developer needed immediately for six week contract in Frostbite Falls, MN! Up to $40/hr. DOE!"). I just use
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by brucehart 13y ago
I don't understand why it bothers people so much to be contacted by recruiters. I just send a quick reply that says "I appreciate the interest, but I'm not looking for new position right now.". It takes me about 10 secon
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by brucehart 13y ago
Very nicely done. I've thought about doing something similar with college basketball players. My idea was to plot the locations of the players with a circle and make the radius of the circle tied to some sort of stat such as points sco
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by brucehart 13y ago
I received my e-mail on Dec. 3rd at 3:58 PM (US Eastern time).
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by brucehart 13y ago
It's a Service as a Service. :)
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by brucehart 13y ago
For anyone looking to an alternative method, there is a great open source Python script called Bagoma that incrementally backs up your Gmail account: http://bagoma.sourceforge.net/ . Each email is stored as an individual te
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by brucehart 13y ago
Does anyone know if this is actually the case? I have noticed something similar and I am curious about it. My new employer uses ADP for payroll, but does not use the online system. However I can still log in to the ADP online system using m
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by brucehart 13y ago
I wish Google would open up an API for Google Now to developers. There are many custom notifications that I would love to add to my Now screen, but right now I am limited to the few that Google provides.
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by brucehart 13y ago
I would think it would be taxed as capital gains just like any other commodity that rises in value.
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by brucehart 13y ago
I'm still kicking myself because when I first heard about Bitcoin (in 2010) I was working on a research project that required three GPU clusters (each costing between $15k and $20k). The contract for the project was delayed and I serio
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by brucehart 13y ago
Does this whole concept creep anyone else out? Forget downgrading to a three-star hotel, I would rather sleep in my car than share a private room with a stranger and I'm a younger guy who is generally not too concerned with my own safe

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