rustyconover

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by rustyconover 12y ago
Not a bad idea, sometimes all it takes a reminder to the customer to get paid. But 20% is a steep fee to pay for picking up the phone and making a call. Especially on 10k+ invoices which are common with consulting. If only there was a slid
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Not deeply understanding copy on write[1] semantics for virtual memory paging and designing application servers seems just foolish. I'll chalk this one up to the PR/marketing person probably not taking an OS course. Still it would
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by rustyconover 12y ago
The CIA must be the most organized part of our government to carry on decades long conspiracies and liaise with every nefarious group in the world! If only they could redirect some of this management "excellence" to the more deser
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by rustyconover 12y ago
If Uber can break the Vegas cab cartel[1] it would be very surprising to me. So far the cab companies have been able to survive everything, they've even prevented the monorail from going to the airport. Which if it did go to the airp
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Being a bit naive about Tor, what is there to prevent an exit node operator from doing some transparent traffic manipulation and injecting tracking pixels into non HTTPs webpages? Or playing silly games like flipping all jpegs upside down?
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Lets look at how envy drives some entire businesses: 1. Instagram - completely based around lifestyle envy and like count. 2. Pinterest - envy my "good" taste 3. Facebook - envy my life and my baby 4. Twitter - envy my wit and fol
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by rustyconover 12y ago
If you asked 10 average people what they think "airborne" means in this context, I doubt they'd say there is a difference between wet and dry transmission. I'd say for the purposes of argument, if a guy coughs violently
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by rustyconover 12y ago
To borrow an idea from math, "doing good" isn't a commutative, infections and diseases are. Have some respect for others and slow your roll before going out during the 21 day post exposure window. It's a bit like saying
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by rustyconover 12y ago
It is not really all that hard to create all of the combinations for various ads. You can cache the optical flow[1] analysis of the source video. The optical flow won't change since it is determined by the source video. Then you lay
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Whenever I read about new renderers I think I'm completely intellectually inept even with what I think is a reasonably well-rounded computer science education. It is like reading about string theory in a way. Sure, I can grasp the con
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by rustyconover 12y ago
"I for one welcome our new fair use overlords..." Really it's ridiculously frustrating to use Youtube for anything that could be copyrighted anywhere. If only swarm based video streaming services with WebRTC were a reality[1
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by rustyconover 12y ago
First and foremost, reconsider signing any of these assignment agreements ever. If you're talented and the company wants you, you have plenty of room to negotiate. And since this isn't a compensation or revenue impacting deal po
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by rustyconover 12y ago
I blame ignorance rather than religion. A particular religion is the flavor of the week or few centuries, but lack of actual understanding is the reason for this situation and most other religious strife. For if people understood what thi
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by rustyconover 12y ago
There is a common refrain about trading strategies or algorithms, if it worked people wouldn't be talking about it. They'd be too busy exploiting the opportunity to blog about how they're making money. And least of all would
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by rustyconover 12y ago
A meritocracy is a type of government not an economy. Or possibly I don't understand your question.
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by rustyconover 12y ago
"A reputation based economy is what we're moving towards", we should be resistant to that. I think it would be fair to say a "reputation based economy" is a synonym for crony capitalism -- I'll only do business
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by rustyconover 12y ago
I wonder if it is cash only. Credit card transactions would also be revealing to interested parties. If there ever was a time for the "Company" to pick up the tab, this would be one just to prevent the data leak to the outside w
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by rustyconover 12y ago
This is a good guide to some of the ways that evercookie uses to live on even after you've cleared cookies: https://github.com/samyk/evercookie
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Its really simple technology... 1. Brighter projectors. 2. The common technique called projector stacking. You'll see it in large outdoor events and more sophisticated projected mapped productions such as in theaters and fashion shows
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by rustyconover 12y ago
This is pretty neat from a technical standpoint. I've used MadMapper before and it was kind of a pain to setup to use to do projection mapping. First you had to hand map each section of the object you're mapping the texture onto.
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Actually, while you can't short SF medallions, I do know that can short a company that primarily finances NYC medallions. Look at the symbol TAXI. http://www.google.com/finance?q=taxi From their profile: Medallion Fina
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by rustyconover 12y ago
The only reliable way I've found for Android to be supported for streaming is using RTSP. Typically, you'd push a RTMP stream to a CDN that will transcode it to RTSP. Scale Engine is a good CDN that offers this service via Wowza.
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by rustyconover 12y ago
It's not quite time to go into full Dustin-Hoffman-killer-virus-movie paranoia yet, but the it seems the inability to safely process the biohazards, bodies and healthcare paraphernalia is a real problem. Even if you're quarantin
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by rustyconover 12y ago
I think we should all look at the example of Mohammad Ali's appeals to the Supreme Court regarding charges of dodging the draft. In a documentary about Ali, I recall the one of the supreme court justice's clerks going back through
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by rustyconover 12y ago
It's getting closer and closer to 2038, the 32-bit time_t overflow... I'd figure by now more bugs would be found with that event than Y2K bugs 14.5 years after the fact.
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Your mindset for all of those questions is mistaken. You're thinking that we all live in vast urban sprawl. A lot of us don't live there. Come see what life is like in a functioning city with good planning and density, like Manha
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by rustyconover 12y ago
I have the same thoughts about tomatoes. Tomatoes today have no flavor compared to what I remembered. It could be the flavor notes of childhood-backyard-summertime nostalgia, New Jersey terrior, and simply explained by the genetic modifica
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by rustyconover 12y ago
The same things could be argued as for why, why C didn't win, or C++ didn't win, or even really PASCAL/Smalltalk/Lisp didn't win. "Winning" is temporary and not the end goal of any language and is best le
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by rustyconover 12y ago
I'm shocked, shocked to find that wiretapping is going on in here! -- said no-one ever without irony after Snowden's leaks. My default assumption is now everything with tapped, everything is monitored and recorded and while crypt
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by rustyconover 12y ago
Determine the demand for your product and price your solution right below the point where people will think you're charging too much, such that they would continue to use the old way of doing things. The finding of that price is hard.

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