lazerwalker

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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Wake word detection (listening for a specific phrase, such as "Hey Siri") typically happens using a completely different subsystem from active voice recognition, since it's a much more bounded problem that also needs to run w
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
I'm admittedly not used to thinking at the management scale of these sort of big-box retailers, but I'd think "we can't systemically trust our store managers to not commit fraud" is on its own a large problem that m
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
I'm not sure if shitting on Italians adds anything to this discussion. That same "greatest generation" of Americans wrongly imprisoned American citizens of Japanese descent during the war, and turned a blind eye to Jewish ref
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
I can enthusiastically recommend Recurse Center. A wonderful community of amazing people, and a really well-run program.
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
What's troublesome about systems like that is they invariably end up pulling FB's tracking code onto your blog.
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
FWIW, I've used https://www.npmjs.com/package/tracery-grammar before. It's maintained by the creator of Cheap Bots Done Quick, which the creator of Tracery pretty explicitly endorses (she calls CBDQ out as an
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Roguelike Celebration is a festival of roguelike games in SF(roguelike.club)
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Thanks for those links! If I'm interpreting these correctly, you pay once for a license, and get access to all future versions of the library? Most models for building companies on OSS tend to rely at least somewhat on a service model,
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
This is an interesting idea. I'm curious how the author imagines licensing working, practically: am I paying once for a specific version/build of a library, am I paying a recurring subscription fee for regular updates/bugfixe
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Huh, fascinating. Licensing software by typing in a CC# via a CLI feels like a really foreign way to pay for something. I'm curious to see if that's behavior people take to easily.
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Presumably that's where having a single place to handle payments comes in handy. It's (hopefully?) less "well, you have to go to this other person and license their software too" as much as "here's the total co
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
I think both sides here have a point. One argument: For many kinds of knowledge work, unnecessary unplanned distractions are a huge drain on productivity. Tapping someone on the shoulder is far more damaging than sending them a message they
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Olia Lialina has a great piece about the aesthetics of "Prof. Dr. Style": http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
The most effective folks I've talked to about doing this tend to be doing server-side work and pretty heavily TDD'd. So most of your time can be spent with an editor in one pane and docs in the other, and have a keyboard shortcut
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
On a technical level, it's easy to see how someone might ship a Kotlin compiler that targets LLVM the same way you can e.g. C# via Xamarin. Practically, though, any solution like that is going to be a second-class citizen in a world wh
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
I went through a similar period of soul-searching as the OP (or so I would imagine) back in November, and this is the conclusion I ultimately came to. Even if you're willing to take e.g. a 50% paycut to write code at a nonprofit, you&#
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
I've been playing around with a similar idea for the design of a language/tool suite I've been working on (essentially a DSL for narrative structures in games/interactive multimedia), and it's been very nice so far.
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Is the size bit true if you're using an Apple Magic Keyboard instead of a mechanical keyboard? I'm certainly not one to fault you for using a nice keyboard, but that does make it a bit of an apples and oranges comparison.
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
If golden handcuffs are "stock that was previously granted but either has not yet vested or has vested but the employee can't keep if they walk away from the job", I'm curious at what point unvested stock becomes "
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
Yes, but presumably as part of the acquisition they're getting $X00,000 of stock/cash on a 4-year vest. That's far more than one would get for a standard new hire options package at a company of Square's size/maturi
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by lazerwalker 9y ago
By your reasoning, open source projects should never be able to onboard new contributors or maintainers. You seem to be suggesting that "collaboration" and "interactions" are things that necessarily can only happen synch
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
Are you familiar with Gary Bernhardt's talk "Wat"? ( https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat ) I don't think it's that productive to judge a language on the worst features and edge cases tha
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
I don't think there's direct concrete evidence, but that the Internet Archive themselves just ran a crowdfunding campaign to open a redundant data center in Canada suggests it is something they are worried about.
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
I'd be super curious to hear about your experience using aframe!
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
Does Snapchat actually have any AR? I wasn't under the impression the goggles actually had any UI, just the "active" LED and camera input.
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
I wonder if there have been any cases of consciously using the phrase "incredible journey" as a form of hidden message. When you want to consciously communicate to your users "realistically, everything's gonna be shut do
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
Can you explain? None of those people/groups are in favor of increased voter ID laws.
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
Is that supposed to control via the arrow keys? Seems to not respond to keyboard input on my machine (macOS 10.12.1, both Safari and Chrome)
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
This functionality change affects web apps running within Safari. If you care about accessibility on the web, you're likely to view this as a feature rather than a bug. If you're building a "native" app that happens to u
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by lazerwalker 10y ago
Does Game Closure provide / require you to use its own game engine, or just provide a canvas-compatible rendering context? I'm trying to improve performance of my ImpactJS-based game on Android, but none of the other canvas reimpl

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