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   by neumann 12y ago

   Yeah, I love the idea, but your last point is true. Not only continuous exposure to the outdoors, but to the rainforest environment! High humidity and plenty of fungi along with the heat from these devices could make them last weeks without
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   by neumann 12y ago

   I am guessing somewhere below their duty to their shareholders? That was sort of snark at Facebook, but it is a difficult legal question. However, it also sounds like a bit of a beat-up, like the Strava lawsuit. You are not gauranteed by Fa
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   Encryption patent that defeated Newegg at trial(arstechnica.com)

   2 points by neumann 12y ago|0 comments
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   by neumann 12y ago

   I had a similar initial reaction. Discussion on drones often conflate issues relating to the use of drones per se, and the policy of the US to target humans for killing as part of a murky overlay between anti-terrorism and a defacto war,
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   by neumann 12y ago

   the range on those detectors is amazing.
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   by neumann 12y ago

   On the flip side, as a researcher I am so glad that LaTeX exists. Here is the thing. I treat LaTeX (mostly) like markdown. I use the environments to write my text, include my maths, add my figures, and compile with the target journal's
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   by neumann 12y ago

   and yet the Guardian (in Australia) which is owned by a trust spends the centre of its landing page real-estate on tacky opinion pieces to compete with local tacky opinion pieces. Article such as "Can you <insert phrase> and stil
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   by neumann 12y ago

   I don't understand your first argument. If you knowingly give your details over to a phishing attempt, then yes, you bear the loss. Otherwise, any loss of monies from your bank account through hacking or identity fraud will be borne by
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   by neumann 12y ago

   My perspective is as a researcher in academia. From here Python is far from needing to be revived, it is gaining ground. Also, Python 2 is still king and I suspect will remain popular - researchers rarely have the luxury/incentive to g
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    by neumann 12y ago

    I signed up, spent a day on it where it would keep trying to force me to select categories to subscribe to, and then I could not delete it. Sent them an email, never heard back.
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    by neumann 12y ago

    >For me, the biggest issue I see with the example hamburger buttons there is that they don't look like buttons --- they look more like an air vent/grille, a stylistic thing rather than "touch here to get more". Agreed
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    by neumann 12y ago

    I stated a new job after living in Europe for 6 months for a change and immediately realised it is the same job I had back home, with the same destination. The mind numbing drain of the IT work juxtaposed with the non office lifestyle I had
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    by neumann 12y ago

    let's not even speak of the 2014 budget.
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    by neumann 12y ago

    Of course. It is not that I wouldn't be aware before signing up (and hence don't), it is that this is such a good visualization to demonstrate that they have stored this information for|on you. Irrationally, I am more comforted by
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    by neumann 12y ago

    I am not sure why this creeped me out as much as it did. Maybe the visualisation rate makes it seem like your communication is not as 'private' as you think. Or the fact that it highlights all the data that is being collected for
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    by neumann 12y ago

    Similar experience. I've had two job interviews where I answered a lot of the questions with, "I have no experience with that, how does it work?" or "Not sure, but sounds interesting". In one case they asked me to c
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    by neumann 12y ago

    Thanks for sharing - the description of your situation echoes my self-questioning in similar situations. My own post analysis now makes me always consider if there a clash between my personality and work culture? Sometimes these differ and
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    by neumann 12y ago

    That's great. For Melbourne, Australia komoot is offering sensible bike paths that google maps never does. Thanks for sharing
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    by neumann 12y ago

    This is an important point. The right tool for the job has to take into account the existing tools inertia. Having said that, I had a similar situation at my research lab and have now almost replaced Matlab. This process was mostly organic,
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    by neumann 12y ago

    Another trick I learned from an older HN comment is to create a .marks directory in your home directory and then add the following to your .zshrc export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks function jump { cd -P $MARKPATH/$1 2>&#
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    by neumann 12y ago

    hear hear. I hated it too. It felt like he wanted to recreate a William Gibson short story. The description of the method maded it sound like voodoo, Mike was turned into a character trope, and the story ended in nothing. Give me a wired ar
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    by neumann 12y ago

    but at least employers will stop testing trivia and focus on problem solving skills. Everyone wins!
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    by neumann 12y ago

    I would be totally up for the ping-pong game, and enjoy it. Out of habit I would also escalate my skill as the 'tester', but that's because I only like competition when its my level. I would also start analysing whether this
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    by neumann 12y ago

    It also seems to affect the light spectrum available to the camera. Or the saturation curve on photoshop. Fascinating.
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    by neumann 12y ago

    I don't think the article is blaming these companies for the current employment situation. It highlights that these business models are deemed clever and entrepreneurial while in fact supporting a wage model whereby everybody is respon
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    by neumann 12y ago

    I will definitely be trying this out. I have been very happy with gmusicbrowser.
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    by neumann 12y ago

    My friends and I have a game where someone points to something, and everybody else has to quickly come up with an artists statement. The most preposterous yet sellable one wins. Often they sound like the one you quoted.
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    by neumann 13y ago

    That's brilliant. Reminds me of trials with different voices and tones for GPS voice navigation where. Personally the snoop dogg voice is most appealing
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    by neumann 13y ago

    right up until a ubuntu kernel update breaks the binary gpu driver, and you spend the next two days trying to figure out which binary or open source driver allows you to run everything the way you were at the beginning of the week. Repeat t
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    by neumann 13y ago

    Significant changes to one's life, such as deaths, sickness, and births tend to pull people's perspective on this direction (at least temporarily).