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by frossie 14y ago
Correct. See 1:15 into the video in the OP that explains the visual odometry system.
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by frossie 14y ago
They are a natural segregator of novice and advanced users. If you have a limited level of interaction with the unix shell (remember than in the old days everyone in a science academic department used a Unix machine, even the dusty profess
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by frossie 14y ago
Page 2 of the OP, highlighted comment, quote: "Hi all, We are actively investigating your reports. If you have any additional information, please email security@dropbox.com, and we’ll be sure to follow up Joe"
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by frossie 14y ago
I can't shake the thought that if I could only forward an email to my trello boards, (a la Evernote) my problems would be solved.
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by frossie 14y ago
Just a plea - remember that there is a tier between "freeloaders" and "companies willing to pay $$" - it's what you would call the "supporter" level. This is the level that dropbox, for example, lacks - some ability to give, say, $3 a month
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by frossie 14y ago
I just find it insane that SCOTUSblog does not have press privileges for the Supreme Court. We have to find a middle way between any dude with a posterous account claiming that they are a journalist, and having what is essentially a premier
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by frossie 14y ago
I disagree. I think they have a wealth of talented engineers. What they need(ed) are people with vision Vision doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens within the wider cultural context of the organisation. A technical lead, a project lead,
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by frossie 14y ago
On the flip side, you will now have documentary evidence to support the assertion "that bug gave me grey hair!"
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by frossie 14y ago
I am amazed the OP is never asked for their slides, even though they are not useful by themselves. I once gave an hour-long talk using no slides at all (I basically talked over a demo of live screens) and I still got asked for my slides a
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by frossie 14y ago
Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk. That's not necessarily true. People don't die when twitter is down, and whatever twitter's business model actually is, I am not even sure there is a m
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by frossie 14y ago
Yeah, I was hoping more for a "Steve Jobs" approach. [I am female] And frankly it is a bit confusing. Would you really wear a band t-shirt and a hoodie to a funeral? [edit following comment below: I see, so it's "I wear the same thing ever
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Ruby and the myth of developer productivity(computerworld.com)
4 points by frossie 14y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 14y ago
While you are right that the arguments are pre-existing, I think emotionally there is a discrete change with the IPO. It is one thing to feel like you are surrendering your privacy in order to stay in touch with your friends; it is not enti
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by frossie 15y ago
Indeed, and let's not forget the other half of her point, which was to have introductory level courses focus on solving examples from across science, rather than CS esoterics. From personal experience I agree that if you are trying to get s
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by frossie 15y ago
Yeah - instead of putting their brainpower in finessing recommendation, I wish they would put it into improving the user experience. The web UI has hardly changed since they launched. It does not support notes (Joe recommended this movie),
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by frossie 15y ago
I suspect it is a combination of two factors. First, Apple customers are considered (rightly or wrongly) to be affluent, and therefore the kind of people who can choose to boycott something for ethical reasons (as opposed to the people queu
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Amazon.com Is the Secular Short Of 2012(businessinsider.com)
4 points by frossie 15y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 15y ago
Ah yes, the good old days where you bought a program and owned it. I remember those days. They were the same days in which the computing awesomeness available to us for $117/mo was only accessible to large corporations. Sure, review your su
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by frossie 15y ago
Good piece. It is not far off from the things people like danah boyd have been saying. The exchange of personal information is a unit of social currency. If you treat it like it has no value, then it becomes of no value. Editorial effort, o
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by frossie 15y ago
C'mon Uncle Patio, tell us what was in the box....
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by frossie 15y ago
I have purchased and read to children e-books on both an e-ink device and an iPad, so perhaps I can make a few comments from experience. The main problem is that the quality of children's ebooks is very poor. Even chapter books for < 10
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by frossie 15y ago
If someone else can offer one of my guys a better deal than what I can (and by deal I don't just mean money), then I send them off with my good wishes. I realise this comes across as naive, and I certainly don't want to minimize the huge di
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by frossie 15y ago
I would have paid! For those who have yet to do it, I should point out that there is a PayPal donate button to support this effort that you are shown after submission of your entry. Send cards to all your representatives, then send those
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by frossie 15y ago
In fact the majority of states in the US are at-will employment states. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment Pretty much the only significant reason you can't get terminated in the US is as a direct result of being in a prote
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by frossie 15y ago
Can I beg we avoid the term "good parenting" as it is semantically very poor in this context. For example a kid from a loving and conscientious poor and illiterate parent may receive better parenting than a more perfunctory well-off parent
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by frossie 15y ago
If you had offers from other companies, go back and contact them. Absolutely. If you (the OP) are from Europe you may be used to well-defined hiring windows where a job ad closes on date X and after that it doesn't matter if you are a tri
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Why Google Reader is the best social network created so far(kirbybits.wordpress.com)
4 points by frossie 15y ago|2 comments
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by frossie 15y ago
In that flight of fancy s/he is at epsilon eridani, so that won't be a problem (it's not the size you need, it's the baseline) :-) Anyway who cares about earth-like planets in other galaxies, this one will do fine. The flaw in the argumen
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by frossie 15y ago
I am not sure in your example people picked the "with computer" option because it was tangible. I am guessing that anyone who can afford 5,000 for a service can afford a couple of grand to avoid the hassle of purchasing and setting up a com
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by frossie 15y ago
you have to memorize the mapping from username to actual name for your entire social graph Well, what can I say - in the cases where I know both wallet name and online identity for somebody, not only can I remember both, but if anything t

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