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by kriro 10y ago
My totally unscientific approach would be to build some sort of "curiosity index" and the higher that is for a child up to a certain age the more likely they are to be successful. For extra credit calculate a delta to see if the c
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by kriro 10y ago
Just to add another perspective. There is a (pretty sad but real) business case for unit tests (don't need be good just need to exist :( ). In some b2b/enterprise fields it is an excellent sales pitch to be able to say we have X%
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by kriro 10y ago
It would be great for prototyping though. And of course you can spend hours fine-tuning the doodles to get a carefully crafted pin. It's never going to be the same because it's all virtual and there are no mechanical components bu
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by kriro 10y ago
It's a matter of perspective. I'd argue most European research falls under this. If you work at a public university and are paid for it and do research during that time and publish it that should be covered. It would be pretty lam
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by kriro 10y ago
Seems excellent but I'm afraid the EU will just pay a sweet bundle of money to the publishers for the privilege instead of making it a law. Either way I hope it also extends to the member states level eventually. The circus of avoiding
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by kriro 10y ago
Left/right is not the best distinction. I live in Germany and I'd characterize the trend as a move towards more authoritarian ideals. Right now it is mostly fueled by a right wing agenda (omg you should fear these evil immigrants)
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by kriro 10y ago
Two sided sword. If the person that took the laptop is actually a thief he/she conveniently knows you're currently not at home upon boot. Since this theft requires at least some criminal energy (I guess there's an outside sho
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by kriro 10y ago
I have admittedly not investigated it very deeply but the Beagle Bone Black seems good enough with compromises. AFAIK it will boot without a blob but contains one for the GPU (PowerVR). The device will run non-OpenGL stuff fine and I believ
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by kriro 10y ago
Very interesting talk. I'd love for him to write a history of capitalism type book. "The History of Innovation and Globalization". Start it off with the x-axis=globalization and y-axis=innovation model and go from say 18th ce
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by kriro 10y ago
There's always the non x86 path. I have recently purchased a pi-top which is basically a 3d-printed laptop case + laptop battery + keyboard + display + raspberry pi 3. The keyboard could be better and I'll swap out the pi for a be
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by kriro 10y ago
This is the correct follow up question. Nothing like sending out some ants via mail. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
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by kriro 10y ago
I think the C-Version should be "int main(void)" and use puts instead of printf or printf with %s. You can also remove the return 0 in modern C but I don't mind the explicitness. Edit: Link to C11, draft only as the released
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by kriro 10y ago
"""The experiments are so sensitive that the National Institutes of Health has imposed a moratorium on funding them while officials explore the ethical issues they raise.""" How does this work in the US? Sounds
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by kriro 10y ago
I could be wrong but I'm sure that once the relevant level (actual calls) is reached research proposals about the security impact of quantum computing will be very welcome. I wouldn't be shocked if a couple of research projects on
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by kriro 10y ago
Replacement of the Oyster card would be pretty cool, especially for tourists. Assuming they can still calculate the smartest price at the end of the day. How secure is NFC in general? How are these payment systems protecting against someone
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by kriro 10y ago
How good are cell phone microphones? Could I hack up a similar device with my regular headset plugged into my phone and the phone picking up the speech and translating it and reading it back to me (Google Translate)? So basically phone&#x2F
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by kriro 10y ago
CAGR of the S&P500 from 1/1/2008 until the end of 2015 was 6.5%. No idea what fund of funds they used but it's probably not going to be trivial to beat that (+whatever 2016 holds) over the time span after fees.
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by kriro 10y ago
tl;dr: code is closed and I can't change it anyway so it shouldn't matter to me. I hope the response from consumers will be: we understand your position. Unfortunately that is unacceptable and we'll look for another vendor. I
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by kriro 10y ago
"GMO-haters" are often blatantly ignoring science. However I fully agree that labeling is a pretty good idea. Transparency is good, a quick-facts box, a GMO stamp of sorts and a QR-code that links to a dedicated website with super
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by kriro 10y ago
That is also a very decent approach in my opinion. I'm not aware of any studies on ideal age for programming or other skills that correlate to learning it better but I suspect it can't hurt to wait a bit and not rush it (it's
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by kriro 10y ago
While this is not truly for kids since I was teaching university students I always wanted to investigate if domain specific languages should be used more. We did some unpublished experiments for an AI class on agent development where groups
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by kriro 10y ago
For those you could write a normal blogpost and tweet the url and a 140 character -len(url) abstract.
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by kriro 10y ago
That has been my observation as well. It's quite useful as an segregator for local information. Probably because of the character limitation. I think there's a psychological positive to it as in "well I only have to type abou
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by kriro 10y ago
Borland stuff. Some websites (author died, they faded away/are not the bleeding edge any more etc.). A good example would be the old Searchlores website ( http://search.lores.eu/indexo.htm )...apparently the original dom
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by kriro 10y ago
This is my base strategy as well but thinking it through it mostly means that negative smear reviews of competitors should be more "valuable" than fake positive reviews of the companies own products.
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by kriro 10y ago
Logic is an interesting example. I've always wondered if someone who had more natural access to Eastern philosophy (Zen?) has a more natural feeling for some of the non-classical logics (paraconsistent, many-valued) and maybe quantum s
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by kriro 10y ago
Two things. Firstly I am pretty impressed that they thanked him and see the work as positive (sadly, that is not the typical reaction) and secondly I'm pretty sure refunds will happen because that was their response. The typical respon
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by kriro 10y ago
I had this somewhat naive view as well. But there's actually some very good research and work done by traditional car manufacturers. Mercedes-Benz has done some very good work in the trucking department for example (from talking to som
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by kriro 10y ago
I have mixed feelings. Gitlab always reacts to Github stuff. It's a bit "too much" for my taste actually. The Gitlab team seems awesome but these posts always read a bit forced-friendly. Yay we are all friends in this space a
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by kriro 10y ago
The point about finance is interesting and probably the one I thought about the least. I think I'll think about it like NFL contracts in the future (front or back loading contracts might be good for their "salary cap" aka bud

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