jreimers

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by jreimers 11y ago
To be globally competitive in the long run, ITAR restrictions around space vehicles need to be reassessed. Right now to work for a US aerospace company you need to be a US citizen. This excludes a huge part of the available talent pool [1].
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by jreimers 11y ago
Humorous, but relevant. PHP and Wordpress are derided by many, perhaps rightfully so. Despite many well founded claims against them they remain ubiquitous. Which metric do we use to define success here? Can shitty software be considered suc
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by jreimers 11y ago
For those interested in the history and mathematical development of Maxwell's Equations as we know them today, Paul J. Nahin's book on Heaviside[1] is a must read. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Heaviside-Electri
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by jreimers 11y ago
Replacing terrestrial broadband is great, but what happens when your internet stops working because it is raining outside? How exactly do they plan to deal with rain fade while operating in the Ka band?
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by jreimers 11y ago
"Altera’s devices can have their function updated, even after they’ve been installed in end-devices. While they’re sold in relatively small volumes, programmable logic usually requires the latest in production technology because it’s s
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by jreimers 11y ago
> FOAM is a full-stack Reactive MVC Meta-Programming framework. Inevitably reminds me of this: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/ I understand MVC, but what is reactive meta-programming exactly?
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by jreimers 12y ago
You can become an "e-Resident" and receive an ID card. I believe this requires you to travel to Estonia once to get the card, however they are working on rolling this out to their embassies in other countries.
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by jreimers 12y ago
Estonia is trying to make this possible with their e-Estonia initiative https://e-estonia.com/component/e-business-register/
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by jreimers 12y ago
So 11% of people who attended public universities are "thriving", and 4% of people who attended private universities are thriving. That means somewhere between 89 and 96 percent of people who attended university are not thriving.
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by jreimers 12y ago
Sure, email is in my profile
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by jreimers 12y ago
I am interested to know what the correlation is between uncertainty and returns. Are companies that succeed in highly uncertain spaces more profitable than those which succeed in well known markets? If you include companies that fail in unc
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by jreimers 12y ago
The deck looks nice but I am still very unsure of what the product actually is. Full disclosure: OP is the Design & Product advisor for this company
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by jreimers 12y ago
Interesting "art" can be generated by running the algorithm against a random initial map. Edit: adjusting the density of the initial map seems to result in different patterns appearing in the output http://jsfiddle.net&
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by jreimers 12y ago
I am curious as to how this will work. How does bot A simulate bot B that must simulate bot A to determine its answer? Seems like infinite trampoline recursion. EDIT: it seems you run the simulation against a different bot implementation th
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by jreimers 12y ago
Links to the release notes in the article are broken for me, these seem to work: https://download.gnome.org/core/3.13/3.13.3/NEWS https://download.gnome.org/apps/3.13/3.13.3/NEW
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by jreimers 12y ago
The earlier blocks being corrupted would affect later blocks because the later blocks are encoded as the difference from the previous block, hence the error of the previous block propagates even if the later blocks are correct.
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by jreimers 13y ago
What's the motivation behind doing this exactly? Why not actually write some code to practice...writing code.
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by jreimers 13y ago
Cool! I made half a sphere with 0.5+sqrt(0.2-((x-0.5)^2+(y-0.5)^2)). If there was a way to do a mirroring on the xy plane (as in a +/- z value) it could be a full one.
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by jreimers 13y ago
Agreed, many of those thoughts really resonated with me. I would love to see a video!