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by kriro 10y ago
Even if you trust the state or at least trust it to some degree, security breaches and blackmail are still a concern. Cue Black Mirror S03E03
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by kriro 10y ago
It's interesting that the Loebner prize (passing the Turing test in written form) has a cap of 25k and 100k but Amazon has a challenge called the Alexa prize where you essentially pass a voice Turing test for 20 Minutes that awards 2.5
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by kriro 10y ago
I disagree with this sentiment. To give an example that is a bit more emotional, I would strongly object to some stranger taking pictures of a young child playing in a public park.
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by kriro 10y ago
"""The Uber model has no barrier to entry""" I don't know how many potential competitors are willing to blatantly ignore existing laws (I guess this is the mythical ethics barrier). Ability to raise money
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by kriro 10y ago
Try i3 or fluxbox while you're still experimenting (or KDE for that matter if you've only gone with Gnome so far). Diversity is actually a good thing :) I've standardized on Xubuntu but there are some pretty sweet desktop man
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by kriro 10y ago
I have moved from genuinely wanting to buy the new MBP pre-announcement due to technical reasons (battery life, screen) to only needing to buy it due to iOS development lock in. Reminds me very much of the process I went through with Window
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by kriro 10y ago
The abstraction chosen by React makes a lot of sense to how my brain works. If one is bothered by the mixture of HTML/JS/CSS(where in the example?) there's always code generation.
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by kriro 10y ago
Sometimes I have this dream vision of a software company were the only management tool is a huge board of git commits with clear commit messages. The small team meets at the beginning to set the goal and timeline. All code gets reviewed by
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by kriro 10y ago
Yes it's usually a very interesting mixture of human factors and technical problems. Often in combination, e.g. some technical device not taking human factors into account and leading to usability issues. Quite often a disconnect betwe
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by kriro 10y ago
On the flip side of this I noticed (from attending school in both countries) that in math radian was used more often than in Germany (which is a good thing imo).
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by kriro 10y ago
From that article: """The CS teacher was excited and promised to teach Blockly the next day. But there was another issue compromising the class. Due to a lack of funds, the school could not afford two CS teachers, so half the
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by kriro 10y ago
Eagerly awaiting a response from the GH team. Assuming all the DMCA stuff was handled correctly they need to restore ASAP. How they handle this is (or should imo) be a very good yardstick for deciding if you want to host your FLOSS project
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by kriro 10y ago
I got a really strange vibe from this article. Sounded like the author is in the business of selling VPs/CxO. At least it felt a bit odd that this was explicitly mentioned a couple of times (the bit about not taking a VP intor was real
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by kriro 10y ago
As a complete outsider who has never raised money or set foot in the valley my feeling is that without data this sounds like some sort of buddy-buddy system. Where's the data to back this up? Basically the way I read this is if I have
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by kriro 10y ago
I was wondering how they crowdfunded this and expected some sort of ticket prepurchase kickstarter. It seems that you can actually loan them money instead (over five years): 1500 Euro: 3,45% (6,9% if you take tickets not cash) 2500 Euro: 3,
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by kriro 10y ago
I think there's a market for a one route alternative "experience" train where the train isn't only the means to get from A to B but the journey itself provides value. I still vividly remember travelling to a Chaos Commun
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by kriro 10y ago
Will be very interesting to see how this affects SAP installations. AFAIK the only database options were SQL Server and Oracle. Granted it's been >5 years since I had to deal with this mess but this could be amazing news for some pe
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by kriro 10y ago
There's this classic by Peter Norvig (of AI a Modern Approach fame) about wrting a Lisp in Python...which also happens to have an amazing title :D http://norvig.com/lispy.html Edit: He also links to his Scheme interpre
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by kriro 10y ago
While not the perfect solution it seems like a lot of the mentioned issues (standardized communication channels, no conflict of interest) could be solved by installing work councils (I take it they are not wide spread in the US? They are st
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by kriro 10y ago
Indeed. As someone with no real language background it allowed me to get to a state where I can create my own DSLs. An alternative would be to use something like Xtext (which also allows you to create langauge tools, not just the language i
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by kriro 10y ago
I'm curious...are there restaurants (or I guess kitchens) that are delivery only? If the infrastructure works well you could have strongly automated kitchen in a warehouse type of setups and deliver via Amazon. Guess the branding/
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by kriro 10y ago
Interesting. This probably makes a couple of food delivery companies rather nervous. Are they delivering 24/7 or at least in the evening? A killer feature for normal amazon would be delivery at a time where people are home from work in
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by kriro 10y ago
Depends on the game/monetization method. I'm fairly confident (without having any data/just guessing) that Pokemon Go generated more money on Android than iOS because there's more devices and I don't think iOS users
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by kriro 10y ago
I like "Google and Grandma" and will use that in the future, thanks :)
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by kriro 10y ago
We got a university wide mail yesterday that nothing will change for us due to §52a because of the "settlement" with VG-Wort. I entered mild rage mode because it was written as "great news, everything is awesome" while m
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by kriro 10y ago
The base AI that came with the card gaming engine that we developed agents for during university was called "thumb"...it always played the cards closest to an imaginary thumb of the hand holding the cards. Some people played 10+ g
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by kriro 10y ago
R.I.P. Reminds me of the Coursera course on model thinking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking The segregation model was one of the models (which I though eas pretty neat), the course is basically an introdu
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by kriro 10y ago
I wonder if a fully automated car might actually be a different product category than a "regular" car. I could actually see a decent market for (relatively ugly) self driving cars that are mostly seen as a means to get from A to B
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by kriro 10y ago
It's a simple long tail problem. People tend to be grumpy if they don't get a response (at least some people will be, statistically speaking). Those people will likely act as negative multipliers when it comes to your organization
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by kriro 10y ago
Having read most of the "quality gurus" (including Deming) and a bit of Drucker...your comment catapulted the book up my reading list. Thx.

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