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by ephermata 16y ago
The film "Daybreakers" did a promotion which used this technique in late 2009. The film's premise is that a vampire virus has swept through humanity, converting most people to vampires and leaving only a few surviving humans. These remainin
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by ephermata 16y ago
I have multiple phones on me at any given time. If you want to do side by side comparisons of how the phones "feel," or if you want to try applications that only exist on one phone platform, then you need to do this. eBay is a good resource
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by ephermata 16y ago
The new XBox S (the matte black one) is much quieter than the old XBoxes. This YouTube video gives some idea of the difference, throwing in a listen with a PS3 as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5QpoKwVcSk The Kinect experience so f
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Ben Newhouse's slides on Yelp's Monocle and Beyond (Aria Glassworks)(bennewhouse.com)
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by ephermata 16y ago
Not quite what you are getting at, but a lot of university-led CS research uses Android. Android hits a sweet spot where it's easy to hack, but at the same time changes you make are relevant to millions of shipping devices. Security researc
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by ephermata 16y ago
This is wacky beautiful. I look forward to the packaged precompiled plugin so I can try it out myself. One thing that comes to mind -- it may not be that hard to overwhelm the Mechanical Turk tasks associated with Soylent to reach a situati
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by ephermata 16y ago
My friend and I ran a chess club in high school. We really just wanted to play chess, but made everyone who joined a "Director." Why not? Plus, It was a bit of a joke reaction to the high pressure competition we saw in other extra curricula
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by ephermata 16y ago
Stanford CS PhD has few or no course requirements, or at least they did back in 2002.
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by ephermata 16y ago
Maps are an interesting example because map data is actually hard to replicate. Google went ahead and built their own database anyway, after several years of licensing from NavTeq and then Tele Atlas. http://blog.daveburrows.com/2009/10/0
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by ephermata 16y ago
My first interview for a technical job, I showed up in a suit and tie. The rest of the interview had each person start by asking some variant of "wait, are you sure you're interviewing for engineering and not marketing?" The feeling this co
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by ephermata 16y ago
Thanks for the great day in the life post. Would be interested to see a similar post focusing on the technical aspects of the project. Maybe that's the tech talk, but a post would be helpful to for people who can't make it in person. : )
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by ephermata 16y ago
Some of these problems would be aided by instrumenting the web application itself. Of course instrumenting a legacy web app is its own set of hairy problems, especially if you want to handle production servers, but even a little bit of inst
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by ephermata 16y ago
Whatever you want to use for the project. For a recent project, one of my coworkers created a domain specific language and the rest of us coded in that language. For another project, I use C++, because I'm leveraging an existing code base.
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by ephermata 16y ago
Fortunately, that assumption is false: junior researchers can start their own projects. I joined Microsoft Research a year ago. In that time, I've been encouraged to come up with new projects where I can lead, as well as make contributions
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by ephermata 16y ago
Congrats to the PiCloud team - looking forward to more.
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by ephermata 16y ago
That image reminds me of the Zune HD interface, actually. Same "wall of text" approach. I've noticed it's a love-it-or-hate-it approach. I happen to like it.
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by ephermata 16y ago
Is it possible to buy 7-11 coffee with points from zynga games?
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by ephermata 16y ago
In addition to Prefast, there is also the Static Driver Verifier(SDV). Comes with the Windows Driver Kit, analyzes your code to detect common problems people have when writing drivers. The Windows Driver Kit is free -- you can learn more ab
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by ephermata 16y ago
Speaking for the U.S. context only: once you have a security clearance, which will become necessary at some point for defence work, it becomes difficult to move out to non-classified work. On one hand, the pool of people with clearances is
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by ephermata 16y ago
My mother regularly tells me how much she loves the Bing photos and how she's looking forward to "what will they put up next." She was asking yesterday how long it would be before Google did the same. Now we know...
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by ephermata 16y ago
Somehow I missed this - thanks much for putting it together! Noisebridge is one of the things I miss about the Bay Area.
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by ephermata 16y ago
Yes, that's right, the writing up is key. In addition to spotting holes in arguments, it's good for showing you that you can finish a large sustained project.
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by ephermata 16y ago
What settings have you found where you could call yourself "doctor" without someone mistakenly believing you are an MD? The only ones I've found so far are in academia and at work, but in both cases it's not really that much of a boost. (At
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by ephermata 16y ago
A PhD programme is ideally an opportunity to work on whatever you want, for years, in the company of smart people who are also interested in the same subject. You can use this time to try out different ideas and see if any of them take off.
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by ephermata 16y ago
What are the problems with bad entrepreneurs that keep you from seeing the pitch itself? Thanks for your time answering these questions.
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by ephermata 16y ago
"A 2005 Times article by John Markoff about a new startup that aims to commercialize podcasting. Didn't happen." The article is on Odeo. The people involved seem to have turned out all right. This is a joke?
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by ephermata 16y ago
I upvoted it because I worked on a similar idea with abossy and randomwalker. I agree with abossy's comment above: this is a great idea, I wish them all the best and I hope they kick ass, but the business side is difficult. So long as you r
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by ephermata 16y ago
While the article focuses on speech recognition for arbitrary speech, it misses the fact that speech interfaces for specific situations are now actually useful. Today, I told my car "play track 'severed head'," and it actually played the co
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by ephermata 16y ago
My apologies for not being clear: Facebook ads is far from the only method in use for enlisting potential donors. Furthermore, families in need typically do not need to do anything because of the resources available. In my case I choose to
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by ephermata 16y ago
Yes, I have had people click on FB ads. It's not clear to me if they are more effective than alternative ads, but people are clicking on them. The ads are not traditional, though. I have an ad campaign running now on Facebook encouraging pe

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