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by nwatson 11y ago
Sure -- I might be constrained to work on Windows development or use Windows tools, and having access to good UNIX/Linux-like command-line utilities for scripting, etc., in that environment is a big win.
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GG&S == Guns, Germs, & Steel
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by nwatson 11y ago
Slap a depth-sensing thing (like Project Tango https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/ ) onto the AR stuff, you can probably get a Kinect-like algorithm to sense peoples' limbs, bodies, etc., and come up wi
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by nwatson 11y ago
What's the first supposed application of any technology? I'm not really in favor of this idea, but here's a shot at what someone will do with AR: "what do people shopping with me and eating the free samples here at Cos
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The Gruesome History of Eating [Mummy] Corpses as Medicine(smithsonianmag.com)
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by nwatson 11y ago
Side notes on European "uses" of mummies in 16th / 17th centuries . . . "mummy brown" is a paint originally made with substances + ground-up-mummy-corpses ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_br
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by nwatson 11y ago
Use "incognito" mode in your browser when you run across a meetup group you're not seriously interested in actually going to. If you're curious about "what kind of people join this kind of group? what do they talk
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by nwatson 11y ago
My head's been mostly in Java and Python the last three years, and my old work's C++ practices were woefully out-of-date. I really appreciate the work put into the CppCoreGuideline documents ... it's real complex, though. I
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by nwatson 11y ago
Resonance. I can see / understand this. I hope to not limit serendipity though, and the same for your case too. In the end, it's all a chasing of the wind.
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E.g. competition with people.
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One of my uncles was an engineer at Boeing and said he felt the Imperial system was a competitive advantage (30 years ago) when competing with BAE and other non-US companies. He claimed the standard thicknesses of rolled sheet metal in the
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by nwatson 11y ago
I like Evernote for a lot of personal stuff, though that's one of the "worser" systems OP lists. Atlassian's Confluence does very well at being a wiki and though you're hostage perhaps to your original layout &#x2F
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by nwatson 11y ago
I've wondered how that works too. I'd imagine you'd need a "firm offer" equivalent of cash-on-the-barrel from a third-party for your company shares, a non-further-negotiatable-contract-for-stock-purchase-with-lawye
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by nwatson 11y ago
A Muslim coworker once told me many believe the Christian apologist CS Lewis was showing an anti-Muslim bias in using Turkish Delight as the temptation ... supposedly it is a warning against the enticements of a non-Christian world view. Do
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by nwatson 11y ago
I think any alternative solution you come up with for whatever facet of localization, internationalization, and human language support you care about ... is going to be worse than: choosing decent Unicode-aware languages and libraries; choo
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by nwatson 11y ago
The Bicameral-Mind theorist apparently claimed that before 3,000 years ago all/most people behaved as the article's author, receiving direction and correction from externally perceived voices. Only at some point around that time
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by nwatson 11y ago
For those predisposed to some vegetables there's this thing in Uruguay called a "chivito al plato". Here's a good representation: http://www.brisasdeldayman.com/historia-y-receta-del-verdade... They do
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by nwatson 11y ago
My last 2 years as a remote worker (from east coast for a SV company) have been the most productive in terms of software output in my life. I've been able to focus on the task at hand very well, and have been given pretty free reign
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by nwatson 11y ago
I used the Rogue Wave pre-STL C++ libraries. I developed a poorly-performing NoSQL-like DB library using their BTree, serializer/deserializer, file-interface, and collection library components. Records had a primary index (for storage
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by nwatson 11y ago
I think the 1mm/hour refers to accretion depth-wise across the entire existing diamond surface area. So conceivably (but probably subject to other factors that would complicate matters) if you started with a .001 mm thick diamond slic
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by nwatson 11y ago
At my workplace (going on two years at a startup) we were saddled with bad I.T. (every service was accessed by its IP address, no DNS lookup), hosted TeamSite/Sharepoint for engineering document management (with absolutely no imposed o
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by nwatson 11y ago
I can't take HN very seriously when people take my comment at face value.
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When you corrupt society and industry with social sciences and arts you eventually come to egg girls ( https://www.google.com/search?q=egg+girls&prmd=visn&source=l... ), tamagotchi, and hikikomori ( https://
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by nwatson 11y ago
I've written a lot of software in cafes. The combination of background noise, interesting people to talk to once in a while, people-watching possibilities, the travel to/from, switching physical space, etc., have always been help
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Facebook. Words with Friends.
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I also got 24 of 26 ... two samples were cut short omitting one or more notes that naturally would come at the end. Not being sure whether "completeness" was part of the test (probably not since the focus was "pitch") I
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by nwatson 11y ago
A "real-world" library's goal of knowledge-sharing is balanced with the need of the content-provider to make some money to support distribution and authoring of books. The public pays taxes to fund libraries so that people w
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by nwatson 11y ago
Formality won't reduce betrayal but instead prescribe behavior that lets one fully mask intention of betrayal. When expected behavior norms aren't fully prescribed, or when they're impaired (as when one is drunk), it's
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by nwatson 11y ago
Who else thinks the "Mona Lisa" painting is crap? It's always been overrated, and seeing it live did nothing to change my impression. Not to disparage da Vinci's corpus ... but just sayin'.
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Actually, apparently those who order [medically purposed] drugs online through spam solicitations generally end up getting what they order. NPR has done a couple of stories on this, and I can't find the best link now, but here's

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