motters

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by motters 16y ago
Just rebranding or remarketing something isn't the same as actual innovation. The home computers of the 1980s, such as the C64, were fun in part because they represented something genuinely new and innovative in technology. Taking some PC
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by motters 16y ago
I can hear Zuckerberg chuckling like an evil genius.
723.
by motters 16y ago
I disagree. I think much of the weaknesses of Windows - especially its security woes - are due to trying to be too backward compatible with previous versions, which has meant that long standing problems have either not been addressed, or o
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by motters 16y ago
I expect alarm to be the natural reaction, but at this point I don't think it's an overstatement to say that Microsoft needs to do something fairly radical if it wishes to remain relevant in its traditional markets. In technology you can o
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by motters 16y ago
At this point probably the smartest thing which Microsoft could do would be to adopt some Linux distro (perhaps OpenSuSE, which they already have some relationship with) and base all of their future development on top of it. At a stroke th
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by motters 16y ago
Yes, which means that the raid and confiscation of computers, etc, isn't really about copyright enforcement but about grabbing data, making data unavailable for use, or otherwise as the article suggests causing general hindrance. Verifying
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by motters 16y ago
These days there's no reason why people should be pirating Microsoft software anyway, since free software is much better. This applies especially to non-profit organizations or charities, where spending money on software licenses is wastef
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by motters 16y ago
In 2007-9 I developed some software for reading datamatrix patterns. Often these patterns were difficult to read, being indented into scratched surfaces with all kinds of reflectance properties, fuzzy chemically etched markings and so on. I
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by motters 16y ago
They missed embedded systems programming - writing software to control physical or electrical devices or calculate measurements from sensory apparatus. This would include PLC programming, microcontrollers, motion controllers, kinematics, c
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by motters 16y ago
Interesting problem. The solution I would try is the following. 1. Apply a low pass filter, such as convolution with a 2D gaussian mask. This will give you a bunch of (probably, but not necessarily floating point) values. 2. Perform a 2
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Is Google Instant a Spivey experiment?(streebgreebling.blogspot.com)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
Nice, but totally Microsoft centric.
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by motters 16y ago
There may be some situations in which the only way to get honest opinions is to enable people to post anonymously, but in the majority of cases where I've seen people posting anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, the quality ten
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The End of Human Specialness(chronicle.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
In general I think it's wise to beware of gurus peddling software development methodologies. This doesn't mean that there aren't good practices which can improve the process, but all too often the gurus are not applying a proper quantitati
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by motters 16y ago
Looks like those soviets knew how to have fun.
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by motters 16y ago
The more draconian they try to get the more people of modest means will have little option but to adopt Creative Commons media and FOSS. Home taping is killing music!
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by motters 16y ago
My own 2p worth is that these notions of socialism or capitalism or liberalism are 19th/20th century inventions, and that the sorts of issues which are going to be arising in future are not going to fit well into any of these existing boxes
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by motters 16y ago
Debugging is the lion's share of programming. Any tools which can make the process easier, like gdb or valgrind, will increase productivity. In the olden days I was that printf debugger, but things have improved quite a bit since.
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by motters 16y ago
I am a fan of books, but I'll only get an ebook reader if: a) I can be confident that books purchased will still be readable in ten years. b) That I can still do all of the usual things I do with books, like lending and moving them from one
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by motters 16y ago
They missed the death of blogging and Facebook, and of course the death of Microsoft.
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by motters 16y ago
If your site requires Facebook Connect for login, I will not use it. There's no reason for it if your site is not directly affiliated with Facebook, and it may result in privacy issues. Personally I think as soon as a viable alternative t
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by motters 16y ago
This is just the typical youth Vs experience dilemma. Older programmers - assuming that they keep up with newfangled trends - probably have quite a cushy time compared to other types of engineer, such as electrical or mechanical.
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by motters 16y ago
This seems pretty much like a straw man argument. The notion that Facebook concentrates upon user experience, given all the privacy wrangling and complaints about the user interface being needlessly changed or being too convoluted, seems t
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by motters 16y ago
Could this be the commencement of the long feared software patent Mutually Assured Destruction?
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by motters 16y ago
Steve Jobs is right about branding in this video, and it's for exactly these reasons that I'm not a big fan of Apple. Their core values are about dictating what developers can do with their hardware. Selling software shouldn't be about on
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Is Facebook Turning Us Into Digital Sharecroppers?(smallbiztrends.com)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
Indeed microblogging is extremely ephemeral. I don't think it was ever intended to be anything otherwise though.
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by motters 16y ago
That's a timely article, because I looked at Buzz within my Gmail account just the other day and found pretty much a similar story to Leo. I havn't really made any significant use of Buzz, and it didn't seem to be adding any value, so I di
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by motters 16y ago
Once again a demonstration that if such voting machines are to be used with any confidence then their hardware and software design needs to be open source for independent inspection. With closed source electronic voting the industrializati

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