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by johansch 9y ago
I've never actually come across an actually brilliant engineering person who was also a jerk. Maybe they sometimes superficially seemed like a jerk at first (particularly if you had a very thin skin), but not after you actually made an
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by johansch 9y ago
Maybe the complacency came from having too much money from the first rounds of Google search deals in like 2004-2008? They had already fulfilled their primary goals (openness, transparency etc.)... I worked at Opera Software between 2004-20
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by johansch 9y ago
At a high level my main question is: Why has Mozilla generally been so slow to react to market trends and taken so insanely long to deliver products that are competitive in other ways than fuzzy aspects like openness, freedom etc? This goes
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by johansch 9y ago
I always wondered if those passport scanners/photo booths/turnstiles at e.g. Helsinki airport has a human somewhere that decides if your face matches your passport or not. Does anyone know?
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by johansch 9y ago
It's a very clear issue affecting loads of millenials.
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by johansch 9y ago
Okay, now I'm less impressed :).
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by johansch 9y ago
I'm mostly just impressed that HN allows brackets in the title...
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by johansch 9y ago
A manual review would cost what, a dollar at most? That's about 1/2000th of FB's yearly revenue. They should be able to handle that.
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by johansch 9y ago
> is the project funded by the EU? Yes. The EIB "loaned" them 25 million Euro: http://www.eib.org/infocentre/press/releases/all/2015/2015-2...
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by johansch 9y ago
The RF signal is the same, the additional accuracy comes from the use of cryptography.
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by johansch 9y ago
(I was using an iPhone 5s.)
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by johansch 9y ago
Yeah, it's also possible that it was the Swedish armed forces/NATO doing the jamming as part of the exercise. In this case they would probably jam both GPS and GLONASS. Seems politically quite risky though, what if some ambulance
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by johansch 9y ago
Care to link to any of that information?
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by johansch 9y ago
I experienced a very odd GPS failures about a week later (September 24) in south-eastern Sweden. At one point I was driving for about an hour (in quite isolated areas - around https://www.google.com/maps/@58.0381615,16.
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by johansch 9y ago
Awesome journalistic idea + execution, but so much scrolling back and forth. Would have been neat with some mouseover popups or something similar.
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by johansch 9y ago
Number 4 got me curious about the latency for the competitors catching up with the various hardware advances. Capacitive touch screen: iPhone: June 29, 2007 HTC Dream/G1: October 20, 2008 (479 days later) Fingerprint sensor:
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by johansch 9y ago
(Edit) This appears to be for non-public stuff only, though. So an internal stackoverflow. Still no solution for a company wanting to host a public stackoverflow instance for some product.
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by johansch 9y ago
I remember reaching out to them a bunch of years ago (2012 or so) in order to ask them to host a stack overflow sub-site for our product (from a sizeable company). We were willing to pay quite a lot (because they had the premier UX for this
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by johansch 9y ago
So he wasn't paying them enough? (But yeah, this is something that is good for employees and bad for employers.)
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by johansch 9y ago
Or both.
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by johansch 9y ago
Not to downplay these people's problems, but I found this post from 2013 (in a thread discussing these issues in iOS 7) interesting: https://discussions.apple.com/message/23184178#message231841... "Motion sic
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by johansch 9y ago
https://github.com/LumingYin/TouchBarDisabler
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by johansch 9y ago
Well, my apoligies for being presumptuous then.
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by johansch 9y ago
That doesn't really make much sense to me, I'm afraid. Please bear with me, but my first guess is that you have invented a coping mechanism that allows you to deal with conflicting information in your mind. Are you by any chance r
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by johansch 9y ago
You're missing the point several times over. The entire point is very simple: if there is no magic involved it's down to physics. If it's possible to create brains without magic, it is possible to do so artificially.
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by johansch 9y ago
This is hilarious. (I mean, it was intended as a joke, right?)
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by johansch 9y ago
> Having done some work with the state-of-the-art of AI, I personally don't think AGI is near - might not even be possible. (Just venting here, not even primarily at you.) 360k babies are born each day. Clearly it is possible to rep
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by johansch 9y ago
I found a really odd video of him speaking in 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnJDQKcaS8g So yeah, he was good back then too.
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by johansch 9y ago
Yeah, he is really quite good at this. (I wonder if it came naturally to him, or if it's just a matter of practicing very regularly for like 20 years?) I wish he would give Elon Musk some mentoring on how to communicate with a technica
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by johansch 9y ago
I'm pretty sure at least some of the individual developers kept private backup copies that they then "forgot" to erase.

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