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by dpiers 13y ago
Human interaction is hardly worthless, regardless of the 'quality' of said interaction. We are social creatures, and the vast majority of people have an innate desire to share their lives and thoughts with other people. Instagramming the tr
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The most interesting thing I noticed is the change from the RGB + IR depth camera setup found in Kinect 1 to a single 1080p 30fps RGB camera using time-of-flight for depth imaging. Microsoft made some really cool advancements in body tracki
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by dpiers 13y ago
There will be some sort of fee for the interviewing tools (question templates, interview invite emails, etc). I'm hoping the tech screen income covers the costs of the site so I can make the applications for online tutoring and possibly cla
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by dpiers 13y ago
Nice site. :) I won AngelHack SF with a similar project last weekend ( http://coderang.com ), so there's definitely interest in this space. JSRepl is super cool, I can't believe people are just now starting to use it in their own projects.
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Thanks! I am still working on Coderang (the version I showed yesterday is up at http://coderang.com ), and I think I could definitely turn it into a business. I was told that the only reason I didn't win the grand prize was some of the jud
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On Friday I had a remote interview where I was asked to search for the value closest to X in a sorted 2D array (columns and rows are both sorted in increasing order). I came up with a trivial solution to find a specific value, but got tripp
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by dpiers 13y ago
My favorite is http://xn--ls8h.github.com
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Wasn't that just a repeat of the TCBY craze of the late 80s?
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I am an internet-famous cupcake chef (see: http://imgur.com/fFlC5 ) and former Czar of Cupcakes at ZeroCater, and I believe the bubble has popped. You can only charge $4 for a cupcake for so long before the novelty wears off. Maybe now peo
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by dpiers 14y ago
I am the lead developer at ZeroCater, was a vegetarian for 3 of the last 4 years, and I can honestly say I that never had access to vegetarian lunch options remotely close to the variety and quality we provide to our clients. We currently o
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by dpiers 14y ago
I have Starcraft on my resumé. If I were a master in chess, I would list that, too. I spend my free time voluntarily putting myself in fast-paced, high-stress situations where I am forced to make critical strategic decisions as quickly as p
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by dpiers 14y ago
Done!
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If you would prefer to grab the code from GitHub, I have uploaded it to a public repo: https://github.com/dpiers/Jedi-Outcast https://github.com/dpiers/Jedi-Academy
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Because I'm an Optimist(da.nielpie.rs)
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by dpiers 14y ago
I've heard people say "Make friends, not contacts.", but I don't think it's entirely true. Yes, the most meaningful connections will not be the hundreds/thousands of people you meet at networking events, but there is still some value in hav
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by dpiers 14y ago
Check out jsrepl. It's what I used for http://replpad.com (collaborative python editing/execution)
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by dpiers 14y ago
Former game-dev here: Simulation programming is one of the most viable exits for developers looking to get away from the game space.
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by dpiers 14y ago
| Realize your non-technical boss isn't some cartoonish, mustache-twirling villian with a fetish for poor technical solutions. He or she is picking them for a reason, possibly a misguided reason. I believe Hanlon's Razor applies here: | Nev
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by dpiers 14y ago
The road to success is a process of failing in increasingly smaller amounts. Success is not achieved by avoiding failure, but by how it is handled. Those who continue on the road in the face of failure may eventually find success, but those
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by dpiers 14y ago
America was founded by revolutionaries; people who understood that tyranny and threats to liberty do not necessarily come from foreign powers. The right to bear arms and form a militia was established to protect citizens from their own gove
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Balanced adds support for ACH debits(github.com)
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by dpiers 14y ago
Logically speaking, you are correct, but human beings are rarely logical; even less so when there's a group of them. Taking the test may provide self-validation, but it will do so at the expense of all of your classmates failing the course.
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by dpiers 14y ago
As other people have stated, insurance fraud is a very real risk and dashcams help protect drivers from scammers. Here is an example of what they're dealing with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjj-1L6qeOc
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by dpiers 14y ago
You're right. Experience is only a treatment, not a cure, for folly. People will always be imperfect, regardless of how much they improve, and will always make mistakes. We just get better at avoiding the easy ones.
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by dpiers 14y ago
I'm 23. I don't like people my age, including myself. We are inexperienced and foolish, and think much too highly of ourselves. The only cure for our folly is experience, which I believe does not temper ambition, but instead directs it towa
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by dpiers 14y ago
One of my favorite moments of GDC 2011 came during the Q&A session of a talk by Rovio about Angry Birds: Q: “Hi Peter, could you tell me which physics engine Angy Birds uses?” Peter (Rovio): “Box2D” Q: “Great. Would you consider giving
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by dpiers 14y ago
One of my friends from school wrote a paper on a procedural terrain generation method that allowed simple user inputs to control the generation process. Here's the link: http://larc.unt.edu/ian/research/terrain/
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by dpiers 14y ago
I used to work in the game industry. Recently one of my former co-workers was laid off, and he is using this time to finish a game he has been developing on the side over the last few years. Kickstarter is the easiest and most socially acce
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I have been teaching my 13-year old sister how to code over Skype, and built this tool to help: http://replpad.com It's a collaborative code editor that will run the code in-browser, so we can write together and run the code all on the sa
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by dpiers 14y ago
My dad's business began to decline when I was in middle school, and he had to shut it down by the time I was in my junior year of high school. I'm the second of seven children, and by the time I graduated my parents' savings were wiped out

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