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by pinaceae 10y ago
they have 100% success rate with my vehicles, one of them a motorcycle with very dirty plates.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
they photoscan your license plate regardless. i have one fastrak box and 4 vehicles. just registered all of them online, now i no longer need the box. this way they're also catching toll offenders. golden gate bridge is fully automated
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
you might be underestimating modern med devices which even have wireless access (beats a port or invasive surgery to read a log). example for the issues in this area: https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/49SS2-3_burleson.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
ha, no. ITIL, ISO 20000, etc etc etc.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
the Big 4 win contracts based on necessary certifications. once it is a 100mil+ project, all kinds of certs come into play, small shops simply can't produce the paperwork. of course, there is no correlation between certs and actually b
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by pinaceae 10y ago
HP did the same thing a couple years ago. Main reason is downsizing, easiest way to thin the herd. At that size, HR is just a spreadsheet exercise, quality of the individual employees does not factor in. Of course this will not affect their
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by pinaceae 10y ago
but, again, i get the mission - nowhere does it say how you make a few billion in profit off of it. did we have a bubble with no burst? just a fizzle?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
How exactly were they pitching their actual business model? Any clue? I get the annotation idea, but how the hell do you make significant money off of it?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
at the same time, it is immensely frustrating to practice a long time to become mediocre, then some kid walks up and just does it, effortlessly. i like riding motorcycle, been riding for 10+ years. but i don't have the talent, the moto
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Don't be afraid - lots of serious companies hire older coders. Those roles carry various titles - Principals, Architects, etc., but basically it is the non-management track. In my team it's architects, senior programmers in both a
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Still waiting for a leak from China or Russia. A bit weird that Wikileaks only targets the US.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
But not as a vendor. Right now we get the certificates from out customers, sign the individual binaries. Then distribute through our own infrastructure. We have our own update mechanism (basically hot code push), cannot have the customer&#x
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by pinaceae 10y ago
No, still goes through a check if it is a globally published app (vs. a custom app for just one company).
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Understandable, but there is a deeper problem of course - the app store model is broken for apps that need hotfix capabilities (aka enterprise). We've been meeting with Apple on this topic for years and continue to sideload our app as
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by pinaceae 10y ago
So what exactly is the goal of this leak beyond embarrassing and weakening the US?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Just a single autonomous car startup. Peak autonomy already over?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
not debating notebooks. but for desk PCs where Apple only has iMacs anymore? the big ultrawidescreens need powerful GPUs and a displayport (not usb-c yet). use an ultra for a day, high rez and high Hz, then try go back to a classic LCD. lik
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Not so long ago the best upgrade to your WinPC was to put an SSD in it. Huge difference. Win8 killed momentum, stagnation ensued. But, then GPU kicked it up a notch. The new 1080 is insane, but in itself that is not that cool. The new kille
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The unknown unicorn: Veeva, from a single round to 6bn market cap in 10 years(techcrunch.com)
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by pinaceae 10y ago
one problem: you're wearing a headset, masking your face from being filmed. the headset would need to capture your expressions somehow and translate into your avatar doing the same. if not, you'll get Second Life level crap. it wi
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by pinaceae 10y ago
simply not true. become a hiring manager and you'll see. you don't even get applications for those jobs by American CS grads or professionals - before any salary numbers are in play. we run analysis in our HR pipeline trackers -
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by pinaceae 10y ago
yes, and it's filling shit jobs that no American CS grad wants to do. who wants to do outsourced QA for Oracle? menial, mind numbing clicky work. who wants to maintain monster codebases built 20 years ago for some internal bullshit sys
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by pinaceae 10y ago
I use a copper mug for my Moscow Mules, nice. :)
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by pinaceae 10y ago
developers go where there is money to be made. only having xcode on osx/macos hasn't hurt apple a bit.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Obama did the Iran nuclear deal to start a peace process. You're mistaking him with GWB and McCain, who famously sang Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran on stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Riddle me this: We're hiring massively (SF East Bay), have a really hard time finding suitable, qualified candidates (from Java backend to native apps on iOS, Android, Windows). And even our junior devs make more than your new floor in
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by pinaceae 10y ago
more safe spaces for conservatives are needed.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
isn't it funny how you can safely conclude that it is a "he"?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Remember this great article about a German machinery company opening a factory in the US and not being able to find candidates that knew what a micron was. CNC needs to be precise. They started hiring veterans of the US forces, because thos

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