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by new299 10y ago
That's a pretty interesting datapoint though thanks. It's possible I've just not met a wide enough group of people. Think back though, my wife had a friend (engineer) who had been working solidly for 30 days without a break.
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by new299 10y ago
It's interesting because at some level, particularly with closed source products trusting the company developing the product is important. Apple have made some effort to stand up for the privacy of their users. Dropbox on the other han
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by new299 10y ago
It's slightly different, because Dropbox board members support warrantless surveillance: http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
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by new299 10y ago
Dropbox circumventing security restrictions (albeit for legit reasons) is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance. In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined
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by new299 10y ago
Or you could use standard bluetooth headphones?
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by new299 10y ago
I don't get it. What about weekends. Or the (frequent) national holidays? I've never heard of people in Japan being forced to work regularly on weekends or on national holidays that would be pretty strange in my experience (though
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by new299 10y ago
I came across a really ugly and badly engineered PCB the other day and it prompted me into coming to the same conclusion: http://41j.com/blog/2016/09/ugly-solutions/ If the engineering solution is good e
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by new299 10y ago
Most startups fail. Many startups are train wreaks. In many cases, talented individuals can only watch in horror as events unfold. As a junior, remote employee you're not in a position to significantly effect the outcome of the busines
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Ugly Solutions(41j.com)
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by new299 10y ago
My understanding is that they have to provide clear instructions on where to get the source. In general, bringing up Linux on a new platform does require extensive modifications. They often use u-boot too, things like switching on the syste
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by new299 10y ago
In particular, this was a sequencer that doesn't work particularly well even on Earth...
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by new299 10y ago
I don't understand where this notion that 90%+ of taxis in Japan have GPS comes from. I can only think it's from people how hang out in central Tokyo. Even at the main Shinkansen station in Osaka, there's a 50% probability th
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by new299 10y ago
Quality is fine?!? Cars are clean, polite, don't try and screw you. But they often don't have detailed knowledge of the town in which they operate (no test like the knowledge in London). And rather than falling back on GPS will re
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by new299 10y ago
How does the esp8266 SDK get round this. They're using an Xtensa core but make the SDK freely available (it's horrible, but it's free).
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Fiddling with a cheap 5 port dumb switch to add VLANs/port mirroring(41j.com)
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by new299 10y ago
That sounds undesirable, unworkable, and easily open to exploitation. Takes all sorts though... Would be interesting to read a worked out example of how such a system might operate.
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by new299 10y ago
Generally you pay for some kind of permit to be a taxi driver. A quick google suggests in excess of 150KUSD: https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/08/05/what-about-taxi... So they potentially have a lot
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by new299 10y ago
I found them pretty terrible. First talked to them 3 years ago? They dropped the ball part way through the interview process. Then more recently talked again. They used an online system for initial coding problems (timed, unsupervised). The
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by new299 10y ago
He's mostly talking about Kanji from what I can tell. Learning Hiragana is probably a big different. It takes about a weekend and helps with pronunciation. Everybody is different, but I found it useful to at least know about...
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by new299 10y ago
I'd probably disagree on most points here. The spoken grammar of Japanese isn't too bad. I'd say it's more logical than English overall. Written Japanese in Hiragana and Katakana is unambiguous in spelling/pronuncia
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by new299 10y ago
Not what you'd associate with the current trend of SV startups. But Companies like HP, Apple. Started small. Actually kind of started as life style businesses, and then grew.
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by new299 10y ago
I might just be tired and dense. But does watts per second make sense here? Shouldn't the accumulated power be in joules (or Watt hours?) and the per second value just be watts?
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by new299 10y ago
Yea. ARM was originally a desktop processor and then was spun out from Acorn and moved toward mobile/low power. Bits of Acorn eventually got bought by various people and it no longer exists.
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by new299 10y ago
In terms of this article, the RK3288 is a 32bit ARM7. I've also been looking at this. I think the Google Pixel C might be a good option, for a 64bit ARM laptop. I've seen some talk of running Ubuntu on it. But it uses the Nvidia T
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by new299 10y ago
Right, but this acquisition was post-IPO. The kind of ecosystem people might want to see is larger companies (like ARM) acquiring smaller UK startups. This is not a startup acquisition, and unlikely to fuel further startups.
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by new299 10y ago
That's really interesting thanks! I wonder if the army of lawyers protection also holds for ARM. Or perhaps there licenses are cheap enough that people don't care.
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by new299 10y ago
I'd love to see a detailed write-up on how an ISA is protected. I've never really understood what protects the x86 instruction set. I'd always assumed there were patents covering implementation details which would make an eff
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by new299 10y ago
One other point about twins. Twins while genetically similar, are not identical [1]. I'd guess that the differences are still significant enough to be able to assign identity through whole genome sequencing. [1] http://www.s
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by new299 10y ago
DNA fingerprinting is a poor approach based on a 1980s technology. When you're trying to determine identity I'm not sure that methylation has much value.
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by new299 10y ago
Yes, I've seen single cell preps too. So it basically just depends on your sample prep and what's practical (and what you can put into production). However you do it, as you say there's a bunch of amplification that happens p

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