hevi_jos

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by hevi_jos 8y ago
>Can Apple afford to spend more per product? Yeah, Apple has sucked almost all the profit of the Smartphone sector for a long time. It is just one thing: volume. Their volume is so great and prices so high that they get almost all the pr
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
German is not that hard, specially coming from English, which is a germanic language itself. The Michel Thomas learning audio programs are fantastic for getting a grasp of the language. If you read and read and watch and watch TV,without an
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
I found it perfect on my OLED mobile screen. OLED works better with darkness than with bright backgrounds.
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
One of the great advantages of the West happens when biased sources do not overlap. That is for example the CNN or NYT looking with microscope whatever Republicans do badly and ignoring what Hillary or Obama does wrong could be extremely va
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
You should escalate in difficulty levels. GPU Programming is infinite and will always take more of your time than you plan. With escalation you could get positive feedback fast. 2D image filtering is extremely complex for a beginner. Start
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
We should talk about complexity and complication here. Complex is the opposite of simple. If there is 50 equal elements communicating between them there we have a complex system. This is important because a thousand ants behave totally diff
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
>Why do we think that way when we're young, that we're immune to damage? Probably overprotection by parents. When I was a kid I was left alone with my friends with no parents supervision a lot. We did very risky things and risk
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
"The follow your passion" advice is flawed because you are focusing on your needs instead of the needs of others. Society, or the world or the Universe, call it whatever you want, will reward you in direct proportion to the value
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
That is a personal question. Nobody can choose for you. Nobody. Not your parents, or your partner,or people on hacker news, it is you. As an adult you start making decisions that will affect the rest of your life. Children have their decisi
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Procrastination is fear and most of it makes absolute sense, your body is telling you something is not right. When I started working long hours in front of a computer,alone, I had to stop doing it. It was impossible to continue after some t
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
From my point of view the biggest gift if your life if you want to make a business is not money, it is not connections, it is just mindset, and the emotional training of your parents. The most successful people I know in business have no fo
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
This is great. Mr Musk is a perfectionist, like Japanese are. He is not selling bad finished cars(like other companies will do). They are also using lots of automation. This means there are lots of problems at first. With automation, once y
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Agreed. The US is supposedly a democracy, in which people will respect the election made by others. They were proud of its System. Now it looks they have forgotten the principles of democracy as they take it for granted. The US has become b
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
4 electric motors on wheels is extremely simpler than 2 motors, mechanical differentials and couplings. I actually helped a mechanical engineer to create a simulator for car dynamics in software. Today's cars are over engineered mechan
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
This is what NASA could get to power their satellites, at NASA's pricepoint. Commercial means what you can buy at reasonable prices. It takes some time from knowing something is possible, experimental technology, like multitouch contro
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
In Spain people used to the Mediterranean sea often get down a beach in the North, tides come and they can not get out as they did not planned for it. What happens is that in the Mediterranean Sea tides are very small. As a diver I have exp
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
As others have noted, the Japanese have their fair share of criminality and violence against other groups of people on more recent times than slavery in the US. About the damage to the environment, here the Japanese also have their own shar
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
If you analyze your own writing you will realize there are implicit beliefs in your thinking that are not trivial to have: -You believe ideas are properties. IP means Intellectual property. -Ideas could be stolen, like any property, that is
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
You are confusing two different things: Reality and perception of reality. All countries in the world strive to "steal" tech from those that have it. USA itself "stole" the designs of industrial mills and presses and mac
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
You mean like Intel ME?
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
You train your family, like you train your dog. If you are working on a hard problem and you dog comes with the leash on her mouth, you can do what the dog wants or do what you need to do. Your dog will have to wait. Non negotiable. if you
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Speed reading also means "speed understanding". Glancing over words is not speed reading. Speed reading means you could factually proof you could read extremely fast and retain most of the facts of the text. From my experience, th
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
What would you prefer: to live in a foreign country with lots of competition, all day working, or live in your native country, few skilled competition and huge quality of living? Most people want to live in their own country , with their fa
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Reading about this always makes me remember how much we stand at the shoulders of giants. Thinking about things like on each of those voyages half the crew will die of Scurvy and other illnesses, for hundreds of years. Now it is going to th
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
The guys that wrote this piece have drunk the kool aid of Lisp. To say that library support for bioinformatics is on the early stages is quite a misunderstanding. Lisp was one if not the first language to be used in everything, including bi
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
French is an extremely easy language to pick for someone who already speaks English. In fact, English took from French over 30% of its vocabulary. French was the official language in England of the highly educated until mere centuries ago.
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Watering my plants outside. Some of them are connected to the water line, so I use a german commercial solution that irrigates 1-2-3 times a day for x seconds. I just hacked the electric signal of the valve with a cable, sugru and 3d printe
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
I am good explaining things to people. I just realize what people take for granted and make it easy to understand. Everybody in Swizzerland-Austria knows how to sky. Kids learn so soon they do not remember when they learned like most people
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It was only a matter of time. Today computers like imacs, ipads, mobile phones or tvs(not even talking about Alexa), clocks could spy on you in your house at every single time and give the data back to home at the other side of the globe. Y
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by hevi_jos 8y ago
Probably you are referring to "Kodakchrome", which was actually amazing quality. Ektachrome was the cheaper, simpler to develop positive film.

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