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by drakaal 13y ago
Deflation is actually bad for people with positive net worth, it helps most the people who live pay check to paycheck because their money goes farther. People with lots of networth are usually hurt by deflation which is the reason it is see
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by drakaal 13y ago
If the value of the dollar buys less stuff, that is only good for the economy if the economy benefits from this. While that may be a "well-duh" statement it is counter intuitive in cases where it also means that it means that &quo
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by drakaal 13y ago
More likely caused the sensor to send invalid values for pixels. Still More likely the jostle caused data loss for a while. The green squares don't look to be 16 pixels tall. Hard to tell with the footage, but DC's are typically 1
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by drakaal 13y ago
A screen in a window only messes up auto focus when the size of the screen is greater than the size of a single pixel.
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by drakaal 13y ago
The mesh is about 3 feet out. B Frames to be of any use require 6 frames at 33ms each, that is 200ms, a quarter of a second, but on play back you need all of the frames in the set from i frame to i frame to get make the reference frames wor
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by drakaal 13y ago
There are two impacts. In front of the glass is a light mesh that is used to keep water from kicked up is from showing as droplets on the screen. That mesh is coated in a hydrophobic material and works well keeping a camera from needing to
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by drakaal 13y ago
I taught Kindergartners to code using "Project Europa" it was truly Object oriented, didn't require them to learn syntax, and they loved making Robots do things. TC Lego Logo is a good choice as well. The problem with most de
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by drakaal 13y ago
This could be titled. Google launches Microsoft MapPoint Competitor. MapPoint never had any marketing but is an amazing tool for doing neat things with maps and data.
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by drakaal 13y ago
I didn't see anything that meant it was doomed from the requirements stage. This was more of an Obama love fest and defense of ObamaCare than a technical article describing who the backend was doomed. For what this cost to build it cou
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by drakaal 13y ago
Greatest Living American. Google it. Read how I was the greatest living american, Colbert was, and then an seo firm was. All in the matter of a few weeks, because google changed scores to "hand job" the results.
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by drakaal 13y ago
We do more. The we just don't have enough user base to get good caching. probably you are the first person to do most of your searches and that slows us down, where as DDG and Google likely have seen a query like yours before. I like
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by drakaal 13y ago
Do the search again. We have two indexes, a shallow one for things we have never seen and a deep one for things people have searched for. The results have changed likely since your first search. This would not be an issue if we had only 15%
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by drakaal 13y ago
Our latent search isn't fully rolled out. In some of our other products this works very well. Samuru we had to balance Speed against all of the latent search we could do. And we do a few tricks to make the latent search not impact the
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by drakaal 13y ago
No, what gives you that impression? It is python, running on Google AppEngine
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by drakaal 13y ago
Will look in to it.
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by drakaal 13y ago
I work at http://samuru.com we have about 70% unique searches. With out the hordes of default install users who type in the product slogan of every commercial, or try to get the Jeopardy questions before the clock runs out, we d
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Amazon’s Interview Questions And Why I Don’t Work At Amazon(xyhd.tv)
52 points by drakaal 13y ago|50 comments
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What's Creepy, Crawly And A Champion Of Neuroscience? RoboRoach(npr.org)
3 points by drakaal 13y ago|0 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
Become a manager. A good manager is often a mediocre developer. When your job is simply to make sure people are doing what needs done, and how long something should take, and sort out which of two people have the "more right" solu
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by drakaal 13y ago
Someone took my favorite language theoretically, (meaning I love everything about it but I don't get to use it much) and combined it with my least favorite language theoretically (meaning a language I am forced to use a lot, so I'
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by drakaal 13y ago
I don't think Turing-Complete is much of a barrier anymore. I could write a Turing Machine in QBasic, or Java, or MineCraft. Ok, I couldn't do it in minecraft cause I don't play, but I know that it is possible to do in minecr
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by drakaal 13y ago
I used to eat the gummy vitamins like candy, I got Hypervitaminosis, and my hair started to fall out. I thought I had a horrible disease. Then we figured it out. It wasn't much fun.
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by drakaal 13y ago
We ( http://samuru.com ) limit our crawling, and we honor robots.txt We also use Google Infrastructure, so we come from the same IP's as Google Bot. We probably crawl 50 pages for every visitor we deliver. There are a lot m
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by drakaal 13y ago
10 people for a year is $1m. And they used digital Assets from Valve, and a lot of voice work and music work that they had to buy.
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by drakaal 13y ago
You do need millions of dollars. Building a Game today is not what it was when Wolf 3d was made. The number of textures the depth of the story, the voice acting, the quality of physics that players expect to day is very different. You can&
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by drakaal 13y ago
They may be the first to announce it, but several Catholic Silicon Valley Churches are set up to take donations that way. Non-Catholic churches are doing so more, but Churches are pretty quick to figure out that taking online payments in mu
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by drakaal 13y ago
A lean startup typically exits through acquisition. Some exit through IPO because they create new markets but that is rarer.
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Patton Oswalt's Fake TED Talk Is Pure Nonsensical Inspiration(mashable.com)
2 points by drakaal 13y ago|0 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
The "Lean Startup" is about risk mitigation, and proof of market. If you are trying to get something going, so that it can be acquired this is a good model. "Hey Amazon would be way better if it were more social, and the prod
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by drakaal 13y ago
At our shop we don't use frame works, well at least none that came from anyone else. The problem with frame works is that if you need to modify them, then you no longer can just update them when everyone else does. You are stuck always

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