motters

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by motters 16y ago
Personally, I'm not at all motivated by money so long as I can pay the bills and have some modest standard of living. If I had been interested in accumulating money I would have taken a quite different career path.
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by motters 16y ago
An excellent idea, maximizing use of the available road space.
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by motters 16y ago
Hooting Yard http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/category/shows/hoot... Little Atoms http://www.littleatoms.com/ Skeptoid http://skeptoid.com/ Hacker Public Radio http://hackerpublicradio.org/ FLOSS Weekly http://www.twit.tv/f
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by motters 16y ago
This does make sense for use on robots which display some sort of "face" on a screen, or for some chatbots.
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by motters 16y ago
You also should recognize that whether you like it or not tribalism is part of everyone. There always exists the temptation, especially when under pressure or in a crisis, to revert to a tribalist mode of thinking. Tribalism no doubt had
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by motters 16y ago
If there's enough sunshine to grow grass and trees, there's enough to make energy.
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by motters 16y ago
I think this sort of telerobotics is going to be a growth area in the next 5-10 years. All of the necessary technologies have been coming into place within the last decade, and there are some compelling reasons for using such devices - avo
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by motters 16y ago
"Robots are really only feasible for high-volume, high-profit products" Untrue. Many low profit consumer products are made using robots. Currently human labour can still compete with automation, and companies seek the cheapest labour costs
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by motters 16y ago
I really wish we had the same policy here in the UK. Here it's extremely rare to see a solar panel anywhere, and it seems highly likely that new nuclear (fission) reactors will be built in the near future.
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by motters 16y ago
All of the above are not a recipe for success, and may set you on the slow road to ruin. There's a tradeoff between holding out and trying to get a job which is really appropriate, and just taking any dumb job which comes along. It might
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by motters 16y ago
Updated to beta 2, but the demos all looked so slow and clunky that I'm sure most users would consider the experience unacceptable. I have hardware acceleration enabled, with all the wobbly compiz effects, but the browser doesn't seem to b
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Imaging the Archimedes Palimpsest(archimedespalimpsest.org)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
It sounds as if the universe is a giant pulsating amoeba.
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by motters 16y ago
I think many of the jobs will return, but fewer than before. With each economic cycle the amount of work which can be automated increases. This is a long term trend which began a couple of centuries ago, and eventually I expect it to culm
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not surprised that this method of writing didn't catch on, since it could be quite confusing. It would tend to minimize saccade distances when reading, but the down side is that you need to memorize 2N characters (normal and mirrored v
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by motters 16y ago
I code, therefore I am. I never much liked the term "developer", since it sounds vague and wooly. I generally prefer "programmer" or "coder".
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by motters 16y ago
I'm not at all sympathetic to wall street. They relied on bad math and bogus assumptions, and ended up ruining a lot of people's lives in the most unprofessional manner imaginable, whilst absconding with a huge amount of tax payers money w
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by motters 16y ago
One of my previous jobs involved applications used by some banks, and I got to see how archaic some of the hardware still in use was. In one bank - to remain anonymous but is a well known name - they were still using a 25 year old computer
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by motters 16y ago
These rats clearly deserve $1000,000 bonuses. They are the indispensable financial innovators which drive our economy. These rats are too big to fail.
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by motters 16y ago
Ok, so how hackable/trackable is RFID?
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by motters 16y ago
Whenever I hear someone say "that's how it's always worked and always will", that's a red flag right there.
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by motters 16y ago
Indeed it's not just about the money, and the quality of the working environment is at least as important. The best companies I've worked at were were bureaucracy was deliberately kept to the absolute minimum level. It's hard to really in
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by motters 16y ago
I liked the term "beachheads of bad code". Will probably use that next time I come across badly written code in a commercial context.
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Flashbulb memories(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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Web of Stories(webofstories.com)
17 points by motters 16y ago|2 comments
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by motters 16y ago
For the past four or five years I've been using Linux and FOSS, and I've really had no motivation to download or use unauthorized copies of anything since the free software is in virtually all cases better than the proprietary options.
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by motters 16y ago
If they're in a public place the police should be just like anyone else when it comes to taking photos or videos. The Ian Tomlinson case is the best example I can think of which demonstrates why videoing police activities can serve an impo
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by motters 16y ago
Well, I'm not necessarily saying it's bad, but this kind of show isn't really my cup of tea. If anything, it seems to be perpetuating a crude stereotype of technologists, which doesn't really relate to my own experience.
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by motters 16y ago
Yes the hysteria in Europe is quite similar. I think that part of this has to do with the fact that whenever a case of child abuse arises, and it's shown that the social services did not do enough to protect the child from harm, there's a
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by motters 16y ago
The other problem would be that only a minority of insects are pests, and others are beneficial. You wouldn't necessarily want to deter all insects.

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