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by iqster 15y ago
Wow ... this is messed up. I'm counting my iPods and iPads and Macs, and I think I'm going to go over their limit. When I paid money for my apps and content, I assumed I wasn't going to have to deal with this crap. This is the real differen
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by iqster 15y ago
I think mariusmg is making a point. The text above is written as if the person solely did the work. In my opinion it would have been better to write it as "part of numerous teams, including ones that developed X, Y and Z."
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by iqster 15y ago
Good karma! Back in the days of pay phones, I had a friend who'd put quarters in the return slot. While it is a very small gesture, it moved me. Felt like sharing this.
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by iqster 15y ago
DTNs (delay tolerant networks) have been studied to death in academia sigh . I'm a bit jaded by this line of work. People keep talking about how useful this would be in the case of disasters. How the heck will we recharge all our batteries
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by iqster 15y ago
May I ask how you know your join-order at your school?
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by iqster 15y ago
You make a good point. The way I see it, markets for commodity goods have become more efficient. Due to patents, copyright and such, a lot of modern goods simply can't be traded legally. The producers/distributors of these goods are the new
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by iqster 15y ago
I'm sure some folks are getting lots of yucks from the name. Can you imagine being in a corporate IT job and trying to justify to management that the next project should be built on their platform?
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FYI ... these folks were at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC. There are a number of complications with the model including insurance, traffic tickets, etc. These guys impressed me quite a bit as they seemed to have these issues covered
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by iqster 15y ago
Some people seem to be very excited by this. You don't have to wait until October. Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning@Stanford is available for free on iTunes University (it also seems to be on YouTube). Do note that ML is a subset of
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I'm curious if you have run into out-of-memory errors? It has happened to me 2-3 times and I don't think I stressed it that much.
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by iqster 15y ago
I've been using a Chromebook (Samsung) for the past few days. I keep it next to the iPads in the living room and have been experimenting to see which one I go to the most for basic browsing tasks. I don't have a strong opinion either way as
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Google rips Patents(techcrunch.com)
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I don't know about any living spaces. I am aware of a hacker space (Brooklyn Resistor), community art space (3rd Ward), and some shared office spaces full of tech entrepreneurs (BetaWorks and General Assembly). Hope this helps.
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by iqster 15y ago
Pretty motivational stuff! Props!! 1) As an aside, he says his job was Private Equity Investor. Does that mean we worked for a hedge fund? 2) How does one get hired as a PEI right out of college? I'm just curious what skill set is required.
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by iqster 15y ago
This is a very positive development. Not the same as stapling a Green Card to your PhD diploma, but certainly a step in the right direction. CS people keep getting the shaft when it comes to govt definitions of occupation. For instance, the
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by iqster 15y ago
Interesting read. However, the article doesn't fully consider the costs of the alternative decision. One of the things I really hated about COM programming was BSTRs (prefix the length of the string in memory BEFORE the actual pointer). Gra
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NYC is different than the Bay area with respect to moonlighting/IP-ownership issues when you have a full-time job and you do projects. Did you clear this with your employer, were you in a contract that didn't have restrictions, did you hope
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I've had different experiences. My Apple store retail experience has usually impressed me. That said, I have felt that some stores provide consistently better experiences than others. (e.g. IMHO the Apple Store in Palo Alto is usually dec
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by iqster 15y ago
Completely agreed! I moved from the Bay area to NYC last year and was pretty shocked at how cheap the Bay area was (in relative terms).
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by iqster 15y ago
I don't see how this will work in 3 years time. Cheap robots today (<100K) suck at manual dexterity tasks. It took quite a lot of work to get a PR2 to fold laundry (and some of the best robotics people in the world worked on this). The
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by iqster 15y ago
I had multiple years or coding experience in other languages. Learning RoR hasn't been pretty. But I'm pretty impressed by the language and framework so far . 1) I'd highly recommend taking the Rails for Zombies course. it is free from cod
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by iqster 15y ago
I don't understand why electricity must be generated at charging stations. "Electric charing stations must have charging equipment, generate their own electricity and have the capacity to distribute a lot of electricity." IMHO, the lack of
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by iqster 15y ago
You're not taking patent trolls into account.
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Such an approach might work well when writing code for a well-understood feature set. While a lot of software has this characteristic, the problems I personally like to work on have a large number of unknowns. It is only the process of buil
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There is a fun Michael Crichton book (and a subsequent movie) that captures the "fretting" quite well IMHO. It's called Rising Sun.
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Wait ... I want to verify if I read this correctly ... Europe does not have software patents?
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As an aside, this holds for more users than just those using AOL. For example, corporations, mobile phone users and universities.
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I think there is some real intrigue going on related to this. I don't really see the cost of developing a FB iPad app being the problem. I call BS that there is no demand for such an app. Didn't "unofficial" FB apps for the iPad start appea
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by iqster 15y ago
http://www.millennium3.info/2010/04/26/stephen-hawking-says-... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/25/stephen-hawking-ali... Edit: Okay ... I give up. I wasted a lot of time googling for an original source or a video where Hawking a
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by iqster 15y ago
It also seems like you had a working demo at that point. How far along was the prototype? Was it a mostly working v1? Or a few iterations worth of work. Thanks for the article! Quite informative.

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