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by oppositelock 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by self resetting pixel designs. Do you perhaps means the self-shuttering (rolling shutters) on CMOS sensors? This is very different. If you oversaturate either a self shuttering sensor or a shuttered CCD, th
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by oppositelock 11y ago
I would love to feed a photo of an overexposed zebra to their reconstruction algorithm and see what happens. I think it will be spectacular!
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by oppositelock 11y ago
I can speculate, though :) You can periodically pulse the circuit at a low voltage and figure out the resistance, and if the voltage is low enough, you won't power anything up. When the ignition goes into the ON position, you've g
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by oppositelock 11y ago
Modern cars with keyless entry typically draw ~50mA@12V when "off", this power is used to power the receiver, keep ECU state for such things as learned fuel maps, blink the alarm-on indicator, etc. 45Ah capacity gets you a bit ove
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by oppositelock 11y ago
I was at Google in 2011 and I remember the internal flame wars you triggered about performance reviews. You mis-characterized the process internally then, and you mischaracterize it now. Perhaps you were on a dysfunctional team, or had a pa
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by oppositelock 11y ago
I worked on a product inside Google which used protos (v1) as the data format to a web front end, and in practice, that system was a failure, in part to the decision to use protos. The deserialization cost of protocol buffers is too high if
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by oppositelock 11y ago
Interoperability is a lot of work, and requires agreements on interchange formats, which is even more time consuming, and it won't sell more devices, and once you have this, you now have to worry about security. Technically, it's
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by oppositelock 12y ago
A huge +1 on this as well. I left Google a couple of years ago and we ended up building our own rpc around protos (Thrift just doesn't cut it), and our Make/maven based build has the standard problems with such things, so I'm
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by oppositelock 12y ago
However, to many women who grew up in the US, there are huge differences between the two stones. One is a diamond, the other isn't. There's a cultural expectation here about diamonds that's pervasive, and women who say that d
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by oppositelock 12y ago
This is politically impossible because politicians would lose too much power and influence.
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by oppositelock 12y ago
Your credentials are great, but it sounds like you need to work on your interview skills, and not necessarily the technical side of things. I've worked at three of the major league firms you list, and interviewed several hundred engine
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by oppositelock 12y ago
Shadow volumes have a number of disadvantages. You have to create geometry for every shadow casting object and for every light source for which it casts a shadow, this is a lot of geometry and a lot of CPU overhead, so you generally used th
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by oppositelock 12y ago
Precompiled headers were supposed to help this, but don't work well in practice, since they become hundreds of MB in size, which is just as slow as #includes, so on large projects that I've worked on we took the inverse approach;
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by oppositelock 12y ago
Hah, cool. I remember using Synergy a lot while I was working at SGI, to connect between a windows, linux, and irix box. I never imagined there'd be a company built around it.
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by oppositelock 12y ago
Hell no. Unions serve a big need when employers exploit employees in a detrimental way. They did great things to expectations about safety on the job, number of work hours, ageism. In tech, we get paid better than most of the population, pe
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by oppositelock 12y ago
Is this trolling? Maximum of 5 global variables? For loop syntax? "objective" measures of code quality? This kind of code shows up in any legacy code base, and style isn't what leads to bad code. Bash had a parser bug, a bug
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by oppositelock 12y ago
I'd recommend OpenTSDB. Using a 11 node hadoop cluster on m1.xlarge nodes in Amazon, (2 name, 9 data), I can ingest a sustained rate of ~75,000 time series datapoints per second in an HBase table. The upside is that OpenTSDB scales rea
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by oppositelock 12y ago
I've worked in this industry for a long time, and while I have worked with fantastic self-taught developers from non-tech degrees, it seems to me that they're the exception rather than the rule. I would not hesitate hiring someone
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by oppositelock 12y ago
The problem with getting women into tech is that so few women finish school with a tech degree, so no matter what you do, there's going to be a huge imbalance until this changes. It's very difficult to change career later in life,
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by oppositelock 12y ago
You are wrong. I made a comment to that effect higher up before noticing this. When you're dealing with real world data - timings, statistics, sizes, dates, and then if you add floating point numbers whose representations look like big
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by oppositelock 12y ago
This code won't work. It scans heap memory, and if a word looks like it points into allocated memory, it's assumed to point into allocated memory, and that memory is marked as used. When dealing with numbers, such as times, file s
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by oppositelock 13y ago
Hash them to 64 bits, deal with occasional collisions, which will be unlikely in any real world scenario.
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by oppositelock 13y ago
Agreed. I went to some school in Poland before the reforms mentioned in the article, but have much family who went afterward. I don't think it's the school that teaches critical thought, it's society. Poland has been through
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by oppositelock 13y ago
As one of those older, experienced coders with a family, I'll tell you right now that statements like "it should never be about the number of hours your [sic] working" immediately sets off my skepticism. Part of having a fami