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by iqster 15y ago
One of my history professors in college said something I found quite remarkable. Let me share it ... he said in the history of humanity, there have been very few revolutions. When humans figured out how to talk was one. You can suddenly com
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by iqster 15y ago
I never understood the exception for game engines (ala Lua). Why are those okay but other VMs not okay (from Apple's perspective, of course)?
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by iqster 15y ago
I'm part of the academic research community that focuses on mobile. My personal opinion is that both the iPhone and the iPad pushed the barrier of what was thought to be possible. In the case of the iPhone, it redefined browsing on small fo
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by iqster 15y ago
I just saw the image of Italy on the backside of an Arduino on desk, and was thinking about how innovative the Italians are. Then I saw this on HN :)
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by iqster 15y ago
A very practical problem with making data available publicly is privacy. This is likely not going to be an issue for data coming out of the LHSC, but comes into play in CS research. I know a bunch of researchers who work with large datasets
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by iqster 15y ago
Huh? The article content doesn't match the article title. As I understood it, for a restful nap, you should ingest caffeine and then nap. The caffeine kicks in after 20 minutes, and the short nap clears the sleepiness.
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by iqster 15y ago
I think the two of you are using different definitions. Soros indeed has assets of X billion dollars. That kid from Yale has assets of 50 million that he has leveraged 100 times to be able to control positions valuing at 5 billion.
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by iqster 15y ago
Probably BumpTop by Anand Agarawala @ UofT. It was great research (got a CHI paper), got lots of public attention (over a million people saw the YouTube video), and was the basis for a successful company. That said, please don't try to aim
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by iqster 15y ago
Agreed ... more info is necessary. Everything else being equal, I would recommend you go for the front-end job. This will be more challenging (debugging with Eclipse != debugging across browser variations), more fun (Javascript and JQuery),
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by iqster 15y ago
Heh ... reminds me of the story of Van Halen's rider - no brown M&Ms or they have the right to not play the event (without penalty)! This actually served a purpose. The had exacting specs for some of their pyrotechnics. They reasoned th
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by iqster 15y ago
Sure ... I don't think this will be useful for everyone. I've wanted a product like this ever since I went for a 2 week vacation in the middle of winter with the heaters on. I actually had a thermostat at that time but it was too stupid-com
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by iqster 15y ago
Preorder price is 250. About 100 bucks more for professional installation. 25 extra for each additional terminal. It doesn't seem too bad ... I was expecting 500 after watching the video. My biggest concern is installation. I live in a rent
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by iqster 15y ago
I came across your site a few months ago and thought it was extremely cool. Great Job! Can you please tell us about your tech stack? Ultimately, the site didn't solve my problem though, which was to get some reuse out of my lego collections
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Synthetic Biology: Build your own bio-circuits(biobuilder.org)
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by iqster 15y ago
It wasn't common in areas like systems until recently. However, it has gotten common in the past 3 years. In "Theory", I thought most people did post-docs after their PhDs.
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by iqster 15y ago
One solution could be to give patent amnesty to small independent organizations - less than X million in revenue. That would at least have prevented LodSyS from going after small developers. The basis for this is recognition that a small en
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by iqster 15y ago
That's an insightful post. There is great risk in actually getting an idea to market. However, there is risk at the conceptualization phase too. I'd guess 1 in 100 patents are actually worth anything. There is a sort of yield management tha
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by iqster 15y ago
CS PhDs might get paid this much in academia/research labs. This agrees with the lower proportion of folks who get stock options with their jobs (i.e. academic jobs don't come with options but research lab jobs sometimes do).
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by iqster 15y ago
Dense cities work iff city services work.
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by iqster 15y ago
Given the earthquake prone nature of that area, I am not to crazy about high density housing. For instance, the apartment buildings near the SF Caltain stop scare the heck out of me. Also, I've lived in apartments my whole life. I don't wan
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by iqster 15y ago
It is interesting to note that if the Bay area had a high speed rail system, it would alleviate both of Matt's issues (quality affordable housing and reasonable commute times).
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by iqster 15y ago
Probably because it takes too long to load the images.
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by iqster 15y ago
Better accuracy is a big deal. For instance, it improves the quality of Augmented Reality applications on mobile phones. It could also enable new applications that people haven't thought about yet.
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by iqster 15y ago
In the steady-state, almost everyone will be working at Facebook ;-)
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by iqster 15y ago
Bump. In the past, I've been through Stanford's IOS dev course and ML course (via iTunes). Currently, I'm doing the AI course. It is truly amazing that Stanford is giving away this content for free. As an academic, it makes me wondering how
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by iqster 15y ago
Don't stop being awesome.
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by iqster 15y ago
They have desalination plants in the middle east. The problem with those is that they are very energy intensive.
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by iqster 15y ago
I have to recommend a cool book on this ... Why Geese Don't Get Obese. It delves into the biological systems of different animals and explains how they do some amazing things. For instance, there was a chapter on how fresh water fish and sa
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by iqster 15y ago
If you are a complete newbie, I'd recommend "Cartoon Guide To Genetics". Sadly, it is over a decade old at this point. If anyone has a more contemporary reading list, I would also be interested.
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by iqster 15y ago
Bump! I ran into them at the local Maker Faire and got some DNA extracted. Will be taking the synthetic bio class starting tomorrow!

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