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by dljsjr 14y ago
I originally came here to make a "Kickstarter is not a store" comment. I totally side with the backers and their ire, and if the devs really did squander the money "recklessly" as indicated then they have what's coming to them but the chor
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by dljsjr 14y ago
[this comment was posted in the wrong thread. carry on]
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Yeah. A lot of people are up in arms about the fact that this might only mask taste, since it's nothing more than carbon-based filtration. Personally, I live in Escambia County, Florida... home of the worst water in the country, ranked. I
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Simple is the operative word. I work for a robotics lab specializing in bipedal locomotion and we're developing a robot that exploits the periodic, superpositioned waveform nature of passive dynamics to produce a stable gait at varying spe
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Stripe announced OAuth a few weeks ago. https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-connect
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And I would level the same criticisms at the people who named these libraries.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
It has nothing to do with the job title and everything to do with the person. And yes, I am saying that the label of creative can be applied to any job in the world. Watch the video.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I'd argue, though, that the word "creative" being used in this sense is directly related to how they go about solving their problem (producing effective advertising given the constraints) and not related to the fact that they are generating
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I agree with all of the sentiments in the article, but the one small thing that I do disagree with is the conflation of the word "creative" with what the author seems to indicate are artistic or graphical/visual disciplines. I believe that
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Leaky abstractions have nothing to do with leaking memory. A leaky abstraction is a layer that attempts to reduce complexity and fails at its job by not hiding enough of the ugly parts. It's a Spolsky-ism: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ar
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Haha, don't apologize. I was being a little goofy for the sake of it.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I know, I was being a little pedantic and tongue-in-cheek at the same time, hah. Still true though.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
To be totally fair, a sphincter (I'm assuming this is what you're referring to) refers to a circular muscle structure in the general case. Not just the butthole. There are sphincters in your eyes. There is a sphincter in your esophagus. You
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Not a startup, but we're hiring for something cool: The Darpa Robotics Challenge(canadian-fury.com)
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. I work in robotics, and all of the software folk at our lab try to adhere to a very TDD/BDD based workflow; working here is the first time I've been exposed to it, and it's changed the way that I code not so much by
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Agree whole-heartedly. I'm a big fan of the AirPlay protocol, and I am by no means trying to downplay AirPlay or hype up Miracast. I was just pointing out that the technical points you were making seemed a little muddled since the impleme
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by dljsjr 14y ago
Except AirPlay requires an existing WiFi network and uses the existing infrastructure. Miracast still uses WiFi radios but works end-to-end, forming some sort of ad-hoc network.
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by dljsjr 14y ago
I'm not sure how it's any difference from a guy with a bucket, clipboard, and nice suit "collecting money" in the form of cash. Unless you're talking about someone using a mocked up Square reader to do something malicious like harvest credi
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by dljsjr 14y ago
The thing is that the $15 minimum would have applied to all of the services that Uber offers, not just their town cars. This would have an impact on the rollout of UberX to the area, which has a minimum fare of $10. http://blog.uber.com/2
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by dljsjr 14y ago
There was an error with the FairPlay DRM signing process that lead to a lot of app binaries becoming corrupt; people would go to download updates from the app store, and after doing so would be completely unable to launch the app. Not even
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by dljsjr 14y ago
While that does, technically, "matter", it doesn't really matter to users. I've been using it for a few minutes and I too can confirm that it feels very, very fast. Which is all that matters. In fact, a few years ago, Mozilla confirmed
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by dljsjr 15y ago
Related to all of the people who've already sunk a bunch of work in to this; the official lore/backstory says that the whole premise was instigated by a Big/Little Endian mixup, and that the DCPU is supposed to be Little Endian... But from
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by dljsjr 15y ago
A lot of people use "GNU/Linux" and "Linux" interchangeably to refer to the origins of the OS and not just the software that is being used. Pretty sure if you ask RMS he thinks that all distributions of Linux should be called "GNU/Linux".
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by dljsjr 15y ago
Only using naive algorithms. You can get it down to 2^n time complexity by increasing the space complexity and applying dynamic programming techniques. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem#Ex...