motters

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by motters 16y ago
As a young man I was primarily influenced by Suprematism, but later lapsed into bog-standard rationalism.
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by motters 16y ago
I think that people rushing to issue denunciations of Wikileaks and defences of the behaviour of diplomats would be better advised to wait and see what information these particular documents actually contain.
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by motters 16y ago
Nice, although I'm not sure that this method of navigation will catch on. You can also do this with stereo vision, although at a higher computational cost. For example, here's an overhead view of a point cloud from a stereo camera (Minoru
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by motters 16y ago
Right, and tablets generally. If a lot of ordinary users buy these or receive them as Christmas presents they may just conclude that tablets and/or Android are worthless and should be avoided in any future purchases.
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by motters 16y ago
Monitoring the state of crops or cattle could be done by ground vehicles, but far less efficiently.
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by motters 16y ago
Does this mean that Miguel de Icaza becomes a Microsoft employee (via CPTN Holdings) ?
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by motters 16y ago
A commercial application which comes to mind is in farming - monitoring crops and cattle. Also for a small lightweight device it might be an idea to make the wings out of a solar material which can charge the battery and extend the maximum
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by motters 16y ago
Americans really should start a campaign against this kind of degrading treatment and make sure that it's stopped. It shows a profound lack of respect for human dignity. The video showing a child being molested by an airport security guar
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AEGIS Automated Targeting for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission(youtube.com)
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by motters 16y ago
It's only a dead end if you're assuming a situation where people would be doing this for long periods of time. If you're just switching viewports, changing the view of a CAD drawing or performing other infrequent tasks then this sort of us
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by motters 16y ago
Quantization is one possible way. Another would be transaction taxes. Whatever the mechanism chosen, the intention should be to maintain the financial system within a steady regime which optimises overall efficiency.
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by motters 16y ago
Unlikely. Very high speed trading of this kind is likely to lead to large uncontrolled fluctuations in the financial system, which is not efficient and results in boom and bust type behavior.
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by motters 16y ago
This article highlights something which I think will become a growing issue. Higher education is becoming prohibitively expensive for many young people, and often doesn't deliver (and isn't intended to deliver) the sort of training which e
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not a security expert, but surely there are security implications for a non-hierarchical file system.
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by motters 16y ago
It's very slow and clunky. Surely rendering voxels can be quicker than this.
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by motters 16y ago
Apparently at the end of the war the Russians captured Lorenz cypher machines and continued to use copies of these with minor modifications subsequently. Probably any Nazis with knowledge of those machines would have had not too much diffi
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by motters 16y ago
If anything, it's better to have an over-zealous backup policy.
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by motters 16y ago
It looks as if Shuttleworth is concentrating squarely on desktop bling, and this may be the right strategy if he wants Ubuntu to gain mass popularity and really eat into the Windows user base.
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by motters 16y ago
Paying per word would only encourage inconcise wordy waffling.
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by motters 16y ago
CT skills are also acquired by realising you've been suckered by some bogus idea, then backtracing to find out what bug in your thought process facilitated the dupe. With the plethora of news articles on the web, and the motivation of news
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not so much concerned with the Kinect hardware for gaming, but what it's potential might be for robotics sensing. This confirms my suspicions that this sort of active sensing technology doesn't work well with natural lighting, although
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by motters 16y ago
Identity and Control by Harrison C. White http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_White
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by motters 16y ago
I've had resumes in a variety of formats, but even in 2010 companies and recruitment agencies will often only accept them in Microsoft Word format. Using version control seems quite logical though, so if you want to produce a resume which e
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by motters 16y ago
I don't know much about the contents of CS degrees, but from observation over quite a length of time it does seem to be true that most software engineers in businesses are really clerks - and treated as such. It's a very lowly position in
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by motters 16y ago
The whole thing seems highly creepy. I suspect that the advanced pat downs will eventually be removed and there will be no option but to go through the machine, because the prospect of some member of airport staff doing advanced pat downs
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by motters 16y ago
I usually just put dates next to skills (2005-present, etc) which gives some indication. Unix file permissions are a good idiot filter, but unfortunately most recruitment agents are completely clueless and wouldn't understand it.
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by motters 16y ago
There no doubt is a gap in the market for PornForGeeks. Chicks with C64s. Overclocking. Salacious LAN parties, etc.
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by motters 16y ago
I should probably reserve a bottle champagne, or some other celebratory indulgence, for the day that I no longer need to run Flash.
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by motters 16y ago
This is turning HN into a spam forum rather than being something for the better. I could post an offer on HN, touting my wares and waxing phantasmagorical about my coding and consultancy skills. The first hit is free, but after that I only
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by motters 16y ago
I don't think there's any interesting phenomena going on here, and to me the "Offer HN" posts look quintessentially like spam. I don't read HN in order to see a lot of folks touting for business - no matter how talented or fast on the keyb

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