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The Camera as Smartphone Feature(wombatsoftware.com)
1 points by jbarham 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbarham 12y ago
Looking at the Backblaze blog posts where they break down the cost of building their "storage pods", the $/GB cost of storage has hardly dropped since 2011: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storag
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by jbarham 12y ago
This looks like a perfect 4K video editing rig: the 5K display is big enough to play 4K at 100% with lots of extra space for editor controls. Pair it with the Panasonic GH4 and you can shoot and edit cinema quality 4K footage for under $5k,
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by jbarham 12y ago
I recently saw a billboard here in Melbourne for an Asus tablet with an Intel CPU: https://twitter.com/john_e_barham/status/492146297416077312 . What struck me as bizarre was although the billboard had the "In
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by jbarham 12y ago
Just move to Australia and watch ABC for Kids. Entertaining, educational shows for kids and no ads: http://www.abc.net.au/children/shows/guide/
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by jbarham 12y ago
Well there is the old joke about the COBOL programmer who was cryogenically frozen: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/cobol.html
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I'm not blaming the driver for making an immoral decision but I am saying that many more experienced drivers would not have swerved. For example, when driving in Africa where stray dogs are common, my father had a pre-determined policy
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by jbarham 12y ago
> It's not a moral choice, it's a decision based on size and shape. A baby crawling on the road is the same size and shape (roughly) as, say, a dog. In that situation the choice is a moral one, whether the robot knows it or n
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by jbarham 12y ago
There was recently a car crash here in Victoria, Australia, that resulted in the deaths of two teenagers and injuries to five others. It was apparently caused by the relatively inexperienced driver swerving to avoid a rabbit. In hindsight i
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by jbarham 12y ago
I work in Melbourne's Docklands area and the situation here is similar with many of the local RE offices obviously catering to the overseas Chinese market. From my office window I can see a nearby condo where 2 bedroom units sell for $
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by jbarham 12y ago
Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/about-maccas/maccas-story If you do ever end up down here, it may also be helpful to know that Burger King is known as Hungry Jack's .
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by jbarham 12y ago
> Maybe you think that Sergey Brin and Paul Graham stole their jobs from some hard working, native born Americans. Straw man. Sergey Brin didn't immigrate to the US, his parents did and he came along for the ride as a child. Nobod
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by jbarham 12y ago
The main reason that companies like Sony Imageworks are in Vancouver is that the BC government pays hundreds of millions of dollars a year in subsidies to VFX studios if they relocate to BC. The subsidy trade war has been covered for years
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by jbarham 12y ago
Certainly Vancouver's winters are milder than anywhere east of the Rockies, but the flipside is that you have to put up with rain, rain and more rain. After living in Vancouver for five years I moved to southern California where the we
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by jbarham 12y ago
I'm acutely aware of the fact that the main reason I own a car is because I'm married w/ children. When I was single I quite happily got around by bicycle and motorcycle... But transporting young children is a specific use ca
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by jbarham 12y ago
Every time I read about Uber I wonder who the target market is. Then I remember that as a father of three young boys our car has three car-seats in the back row, a CD in the CD player and more in the glovebox to keep the boys quiet, snacks
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by jbarham 12y ago
Go's time package is nice ( http://golang.org/pkg/time/ ), although some people complain about parsing date/time strings using a reference string ("Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006") vs. PHP or
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by jbarham 12y ago
> We're a team of a dozen or so ex-Google and YC software engineers Coincidence or nepotism?
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by jbarham 12y ago
> I can't imagine government employment and software engineering culture ever meeting. In which case I suggest you read up on DARPA, CERN and Fraunhofer. And speaking of innovation, the Manhattan Project certainly produced some powe
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by jbarham 12y ago
This post really resonated with me. As someone born in the 70's, all of the photos taken of my childhood were shot on film and displayed and preserved as prints. Over the years, my parents selected ("curated") the best of tho
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Prints(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
66 points by jbarham 12y ago|29 comments
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by jbarham 12y ago
Given that Australians have the highest per capita gambling losses in the world ( http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/daily-c... ), I'm surprised that the regulations around funding
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by jbarham 12y ago
> On the other hand most companies don't offer health insurance, etc as perks IMHO as someone who's worked in the US and now lives in Australia, that's a good thing! I'd argue that one of the major causes of the curre
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by jbarham 12y ago
> Even moving to the suburbs isn't an option anymore. Sure it is. Just rent instead of buying. I pay less to rent a 3 bedroom house in Melbourne's inner suburbs than I did for a 3 bedroom unit in Irvine, CA. Granted buying a
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by jbarham 12y ago
As a software engineer who moved to Australia from Southern California 3.5 years ago, my experience is that development jobs in Australia pay well, but there are very few of them around. http://www.seek.com.au/ will give yo
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by jbarham 12y ago
More than that, the US mortgage market has essentially been nationalized: Over 95% of mortgages are backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (which in turn are backed by the federal gov). Nowhere else in the world can homebuyers get a fixed 30
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by jbarham 12y ago
I'm in a similar situation having moved to Australia (Melbourne) from Southern California. In Irvine I was paying $2165/month in rent for a 3 bedroom unit in a big rental complex, here in Melbourne I'm paying $1700/month
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by jbarham 12y ago
> I've never seen Amazon weaken its hold on a particular share of any market. I can see AWS being squeezed by outfits like Digital Ocean and Linode on the low end and Google Compute/App Engine on the high end. Anecdotally, I us
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by jbarham 12y ago
> I've been programming for 30 years and have written code that is in every Linux distro A very strange argument from authority considering Ken Thompson is one of Go's designers... Considering the fact that 700 people attended
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My point is that for young people who grew up in cities like London or Vancouver, the choice is not buy or rent, the choice is rent or move away from the city they grew up in if they want to be able to buy a house on a middle class salary

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