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by coopdog 14y ago
He said it was a resourcing issue, they didn't have the resources to patch every phone and considered every option. Except, it seems... paying for more resources? I'm just glad to be on a Galaxy Nexus with OTA updates direct from Google. Ev
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by coopdog 14y ago
I kind of like that it has no external surface. I'd even consider removing the keyhole if it worked well and just having a perfectly smooth door. (would have to auto close the door and have a deadbolt snib thing)
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by coopdog 14y ago
I thought about doing it in scala too but I thought there might be issues with grading, do you know if there's an auto-grader for this course?
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by coopdog 14y ago
Funny, one of the biggest reasons I moved to android was precisely to escape itunes
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by coopdog 14y ago
Space tourism, cheap comms, sell the platforms to the military, space solar, be the first to get your DNA all over a new planet. Although if it's true that it's cheaper to get the resources on earth than to bring them down from space then i
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by coopdog 14y ago
I feel like he makes some serious assumptions in this article. One that you need to put each service on a different server, and two that you need to connect each service to a different database. For a small/medium/large/whatever app you can
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by coopdog 14y ago
Also to prove you do have those basic technical skills, and to prove that the team is productive
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by coopdog 14y ago
I feel like NReduce is the right answer, coincidental that it starts in a few days..
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by coopdog 14y ago
on the internet.. using a mobile device!
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by coopdog 14y ago
In Australia (and presumably the rest of the world?), it's never the fault of the driver who was rear ended. Everyone else is expected to maintain a safe distance in case the driver needs to perform an emergency stop. Actually I remember he
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by coopdog 14y ago
Just out of interest, were the old guard who refused to learn the (non-IT) systems engineers? I've had similar experiences with senior engineers and am trying to work out how (or whether) the field should be saved
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's interesting that the threat signal can be subconscious, ie you notice a threat but the signal isn't strong enough to cross over your conscious threshold. But if the computer notices the same thing it will act. Pretty kurzweilian in tha
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's easy to run a small team of talented people, it's an entirely different ball game to run a company with 20,000 people Same with systems. A small team of hackers can work wonders on certain problems with no methodology and some TDD, but
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by coopdog 14y ago
Andrew Ng's course ideally excellent, he's a very good lecturer. I'm liking this course too, it's really about functional programming more than Scala. He says in the first lecture that the curriculum is mostly from a well known book on sche
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by coopdog 14y ago
Java is horrible for prototyping, it's designed for large environments where management of complexity (through interfaces and some level of top down design) is desirable. It's not a hacker language. PG makes a very good point though - that
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's hard to believe but Google merchant accounts still aren't available outside of the UK and USA. Even Stripe is still USA only.
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BigDog gets a speedy sibling (Wild Cat)(motherboard.vice.com)
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's been around for a while. I think the idea is that it's only for appengine apps, and even then only when a relational database is really useful. I think the key use case is admin/reporting on the back end, with noSQL on the front for sc
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by coopdog 14y ago
I'm only buying nexus devices from now on unless a manufacturer gives a guarantee on update delay and life of phone (or at least establishes a good track record) As much as I love my Samsung devices, really got burned by those updates
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by coopdog 14y ago
Short term people shine in a field with low accountability, use and recommend only the honest recruiters.
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by coopdog 14y ago
Are links dead? I actually find myself using links... as they were intended, to link to whatever content I'm blogging about as a service to the reader. I wonder if the rise of the knowledge graph will save links, where every single noun can
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think it's more being against validating ridiculous patents than being pro samsung
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by coopdog 14y ago
Great problem except there goes your leverage for the negotiation Also shows the effect of patents on the market, the little guys either get bought for cheap or destroyed as soon as they have any sort of success
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by coopdog 14y ago
One issue I can see is that you only need to have one friend who uses a third party tentd with questionable privacy policies and now everyone they're connected to has their data exposed. Would it be possible to implement it such that you ca
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by coopdog 14y ago
Same idea, better execution? For investors you also get startups that have already been vetted enough by the ycombinator team for them to invest time into, so you know that the startup already has connections in the right places
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by coopdog 14y ago
He does make a good point about the mental structuring you should do for your projects. I remember reading somewhere the VP of Google had a 'line' of criticality. If it was above the line, work on it until it's below the line. Then even if
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by coopdog 14y ago
Should be more like "triple" or some other multiple, given the risk the early adopters took. Joyent used that capital and expanded it many, many times.
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by coopdog 14y ago
I may be operating under a misconception, but can't you only be charged with treason if you are a citizen of that country? Otherwise surely he should be a prisoner of war, or if not covered by that convention an unarmed combatant.
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by coopdog 14y ago
Because whether he is charged or not, found innocent our guilty if charged or let go, it's certain that he will then be extradited to the USA where he has already been found guilty of crimes that actually aren't crimes due to his nationalit
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by coopdog 14y ago
Luckily it's harder to automate motorcycle driving : D Plus there's less incentive because they usually only injure themself unless something goes terribly wrong. <darkhumour>

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