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by jpm_sd 10y ago
He was/is an SVP of Alphabet and a quasi-CEO of Access, which is (in the process of becoming?) a "separate" company under the Alphabet umbrella.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
This company appears to consist of software engineers playing dress-up. There is no reason to expect them to succeed, and no market need that they are serving. Edit: I have worked on several teams in the past where the leadership consisted
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Your requests are areas of active academic research in robotics: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/19/407736307/robot...
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
But this is extra stupid, because "industrial automation" (which is what we used to call it) has been a huge business for decades.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
I look forward to being able to converse with Microsoft's research team as easily as I can with humans. I hope that one day, journalists can learn to write headlines with similarly low rates of error.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
That's funny, at my old job we actually called whiskey "debugging fluid"
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
I'd like to see humans establish self-sustaining colonies in the Gobi Desert, the Laurentian Plateau, and the equatorial Pacific first. All much easier environments.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
This is unbelievably stupid. (1) Supersonic airplanes get incredibly hot, just by flying. Largest battery fire the world has ever seen? (2) It would be impossible to manufacture. (3) It would be too heavy to fly.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
This scenario was enjoyably re-imagined in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Perhaps in tribute to the original codename, the dead "volunteer" was re-written as a deceased butcher by the name of PFC Gerald Hott (see Chapter 15
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Next: Verily? http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/03/how-google-plans-to...
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Sadly, these repeated failed hardware efforts are all totally sincere. There is a sort of pump-and-dump hype cycle but people are really drinking the kool-aid internally. So far they are still a software company failing to create internal h
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
In my experience (2 years at a medical device manufacturer) those people will drag you down into their rut and make sure you don't climb back out!
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
"Graybeard generalist" makes you a good fit for a lot of startups, maybe in the 5-20 employee size range. Your brief list sounds like you'd be useful in a company developing a web-connected hardware product of some kind... or
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Altium also recently developed a free (!) entry-level version, CircuitMaker ( http://circuitmaker.com/ ).
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Yes, this exactly. It is way ahead of OpenOCD if you are working with hardware released in the last 12-18 months.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
And then there was the Summer Vision Project! [1] "After fifteen minutes of searching with Google, the majority of web pages give a citation that the person who said this was Marvin Minsky and the student was Gerald Sussman. According
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
My wife is incredibly fortunate to work for a federal agency that allows flexible part time schedules (20-30 hr/wk) on projects that she finds interesting. We have three children (3, 4 and 6 yr old) and while we are spending her entire
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Google's Project Loon is about the only one I know of...
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
In a controlled environment (shielded enclosures), sure. But no broadcasting!
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
“Futuristic man will live such a wonderful life! Everything will come to him so, so easily! If someone knocks at the door, you won’t have to go to see who it is: He will appear on the screen of your television. If the telephone rings, you’l
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Kind of, yes! You would not believe how much manual labor goes into maintaining and load balancing data centers and keeping deceptively simple-looking services up and running... There has been some recent press on the work done by legions o
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
I really enjoyed this one in particular: Founders at Work ( http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/d... ). Hey, look at that! It's by Jessica Livingston!
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
"since 2008 [...] battery energy density had a fivefold increase" Citation needed! In that time period, the highest energy density 18650 cells on the market have gone from ~200 Wh/kg to ~250 Wh/kg.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
"Developing markets are a kind of mirror of the future" - this is why companies like Zipline ( http://flyzipline.com/product/ ) are starting up in Rwanda, instead of trying to deliver tacos in the Mission.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Wrightspeed ( http://www.wrightspeed.com/ ) is way ahead of these guys.
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
Off-topic, but you would probably enjoy volunteering for Engineers Without Borders ( http://www.ewb-usa.org/ ).
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by jpm_sd 10y ago
This is a cool hack, but I think the article would benefit from a deeper explanation of why "USB to serial" worked and "USB to parallel" would not.
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by jpm_sd 11y ago
Steven Pinker agrees with you: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/pinker-takes-crack-at-exp... But while these theories help explain why the seemingly diverse convictions within the right-wing and left-wing mind-s
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by jpm_sd 11y ago
Needs a (2006), but this is super cool.
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by jpm_sd 11y ago
Xoogler here. There is zero chance that Google would get into this market. All the internal talk lately is about "only creating businesses at Google scale" which means $billions in potential revenue, or GTFO.

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