jstelly

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by jstelly 11y ago
While I think the printer problem is real I think it is less of a long term opportunity because paper is becoming less valuable. When everyone has a phone or tablet with them all the time they'd much rather have photos there than prin
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by jstelly 11y ago
Costco offers a similar negotiation service. The prices are good, but it is limited to fairly popular models and specific dealers. It seems like a good tradeoff if you find the usual negotiation painful.
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by jstelly 12y ago
Or maybe it's that comments: a) load fast b) are always text c) don't include ads or videos d) are somewhat uniformly formatted and relatively easy to parse e) often include enough of a summary to make a quick decision about a li
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by jstelly 12y ago
People make tools to game usage-based rewards in free to play games. They call it "idling". You could hack this by making an idling tool for spotify that would re-stream your tracks when you weren't using spotify.
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by jstelly 12y ago
I work on games. I use linear algebra daily and calculus frequently, but far less often. Both are extremely relevant to game development although you can get by without calculus and only light linear algebra if you limit your scope or spe
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by jstelly 12y ago
Removing most of the business complexity around licensing an engine is a big deal for small developers. This is good news.
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by jstelly 12y ago
I would definitely recommend his short stories. Most of them are excellent and it's a small investment of time so you can try several to get the feel of his work. If you're reading novels, "Martian Time-Slip" is a good
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by jstelly 12y ago
This is the similar project built on top of compressive sensing: http://dsp.rice.edu/cscamera
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by jstelly 12y ago
The P85D will probably be around $130K also. The current P85+ is around that already.
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by jstelly 12y ago
I agree about soda. To me it was one of the easiest things to eliminate from my diet because after a few months without one I didn't like them anymore. I have also mostly given up fries, but I still like them even after not having any
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by jstelly 12y ago
Gatekeeper was explicitly designed to make OSX more locked down with respect to third party applications. You could also argue that the numerous rejections of third party applications that conflict with various Apple goals are changes in th
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by jstelly 13y ago
I totally agree with this. I usually turn my monitor brightness down to the lowest setting (my work monitor has been set this way for years). I've done the A/B testing on myself and find that I will develop something like a mild
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by jstelly 13y ago
One of the biggest problems with OpenGL currently is the lack of a good binary intermediate representation of shaders. Direct3D has a byte code representation that is vendor neutral. OpenGL has APIs that let you cache off binary shader re
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by jstelly 13y ago
Using Windows 8 as a windows development platform is inferior to windows 7 if you target legacy users (windows XP) because Windows 8 does not support installing SDKs like DirectX9. You can still compile for those targets but you can't
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by jstelly 13y ago
I have a lot of experience hiring programmers, and to me the salary range for programmers appears to be much larger than this article states. Specifically this: "Here are some things you can point out to your employer to help make your
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by jstelly 13y ago
I'm glad to see all of the comments here. I briefly thought this article was written specifically to troll me personally.
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by jstelly 13y ago
No liability for how third parties using your network (e.g. for libel or violating copyrights). There may be other regulations that limit or eliminate this liability though.
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by jstelly 13y ago
Your definition of faith is incorrect. Faith in anything (religious or not) is merely choosing to believe in it without the necessary evidence or facts that would prove it to be true. "Pretending to know" implies something fairl
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by jstelly 13y ago
I just checked and steam lets me re-install it if I want to.
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by jstelly 13y ago
Seattle is actually set up fairly well for this. While it isn't painless to commute between Seattle and the east side, it is certainly simpler to do so than commute to/from San Francisco and its suburbs. We are located in Bellev
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by jstelly 13y ago
I would try to look at this in a different way: Is there some kind of flexibility that your employer could offer you in return that would allow it to ask for this kind of flexibility from you? If there is, why is this a problem? Looking at
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by jstelly 13y ago
Valve's review system bears little resemblance to the stack ranking being discussed here. It has no forced or expected distribution of results, for example.
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by jstelly 13y ago
To be more clear: a sinc reconstruction is correct in the sense that if the original signal was bandlimited before being sampled, the sinc reconstruction will perfectly reproduce the bandlimited input signal. All other reconstructions can
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by jstelly 13y ago
There are big problems with the optics and resolution of the current rift display that would keep you from wanting to use it as a monitor. Even the HD version won't fix that, but perhaps the future 4K version will be better in that re
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by jstelly 13y ago
I have been comparing the Model S and the S7 as well. For me the S7 wins the emotional "want-to-buy-it" comparison, but the model S wins the rational "reasons-to-buy-it" comparison. But at this price point the decision
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by jstelly 13y ago
This seems highly dependent on which kinds of software companies you are talking about. I hire lots of developers and I have never looked at anyone's github profile. Also, I don't recall any candidate asking me to look at their
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by jstelly 13y ago
I totally agree that this dramatically underestimates the cost of a bad hire. It's more accurate for a hire not hitting expected performance, but in my experience a bad hire has a much more extreme worst case. This is especially true
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by jstelly 13y ago
Agreed. This is a wonderful talk for anyone who writes code in any language.
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by jstelly 13y ago
I don't think this is true. I believe that steam accounts were temporarily locked while disputes were resolved (although now only the disputed game would get locked, not the account); I don't believe steam accounts were permanently locked
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by jstelly 13y ago
That is definitely true for Seattle as well (Seattle prices are more like LA than Texas). House prices in Texas are very low. I do miss that about Texas.

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