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by ryoshu 12y ago
It's called STEAM. There's a movement in education - http://www.risd.edu/About/STEM_to_STEAM/
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by ryoshu 12y ago
The reason why tech companies will go through legal contortions is because they don't want to raise the salary floor. If a company can only find a great developer for $100k/yr in the US, but they can find a great developer for $50
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by ryoshu 12y ago
It should be simple to develop a predictive model of programmer effectiveness. We can measure the number of lines of codes, number of defects committed, number of defects fixed, etc. against the average developer on the average software pro
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by ryoshu 12y ago
That's a project management triangle, related to people management, but something that good engineering managers shield their engineers from.
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by ryoshu 12y ago
You could always build a robot that allows him to explore the world from the safety of his tank: http://io9.com/watch-this-goldfish-steer-its-very-own-roboti...
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by ryoshu 12y ago
Another business introduced to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Bose accuses Beats of using patented noise-cancelling tech(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ryoshu 12y ago|0 comments
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by ryoshu 12y ago
> Of course, in a perfect world, an officer would know everything about Colorado law. But that is clearly unrealistic. Citizens of Colorado are supposed to know and obey the law and apparently citizens of Washington state are expected to
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by ryoshu 12y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
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by ryoshu 13y ago
The $200 Billion Rip-off: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026... The telcos have already promised to lay fiber, received concessions for it, and delivered little to nothing. Google ma
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by ryoshu 13y ago
It might make sense for insurance companies to pay people travel to and stay in Egypt for the course of the treatment.
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by ryoshu 13y ago
That would still dilute the mark. Fluke had a lot of options and it looks like they took the best one.
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by ryoshu 13y ago
This reminds me of The Scorpion and the Frog: A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpio
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by ryoshu 13y ago
Car dealerships make a profit based off of information disparities. What value do they add in today's world?
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by ryoshu 13y ago
It's a bit more Orwellian than that. The NSA claims it doesn't "collect" data until it looks at the data. Somehow the data magically appears in its databases, but it isn't collected.
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by ryoshu 13y ago
King should sue Square retroactively for the use of SaGa 25 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaGa_(series)
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by ryoshu 13y ago
I was recently in downtown LA for a convention and there was at least one pedestrian signal that had a white walk signal that showed for 1-2 seconds. If you had your head turned to the side while waiting for the walk signal, you would likel
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by ryoshu 13y ago
The torrent file it downloads is a binary, so it's most likely an auto-open exploit.
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by ryoshu 13y ago
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread."
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by ryoshu 13y ago
Why are we still building manned fighter planes?
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by ryoshu 13y ago
Most people wouldn't want to look like a geek, typing on a handheld computer while out with friends. Yet here we are.
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by ryoshu 13y ago
Inform 7 is a popular piece of software for interactive fiction: http://inform7.com/ . It might give you some good ideas.
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by ryoshu 13y ago
The FBI confirmed the officers who paid a visit were county police, not FBI agents: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police... Which makes me wonder, how do county police get access
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by ryoshu 15y ago
This looks like it would be a nightmare for working with other developers. Other developer: "I did 'git sprout foo' and made my changes then 'git publish foo'. But now I'm not sure why the foo branch isn't on the public repo." Me: "????"
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by ryoshu 15y ago
Say I've legally purchased an MP3 from Amazon and I decide to use my UberUpload to host the file so I can access it from any device. UberUpload decides to hash the file so it can depulicate the file and save disk space. Some other user do
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by ryoshu 15y ago
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_tou... When did Apple file for its pinch-zoom patent? Jeff Han figured out a good way to commoditize multi-touch hardware, but the pinch-zoom multi-touch interface existed well bef
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Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back - Response to Monster Cable(audioholics.com)
3 points by ryoshu 15y ago|0 comments
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by ryoshu 15y ago
This seems like a complaint looking for a problem. NoSQL is a very broad term -- are you talking about Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis, Memcached, Tokyo Cabinet, neo4j, etc.? Scalability is one piece of the puzzle; picking the best tool
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by ryoshu 15y ago
Polygraphs are pseudoscience. The judge /might/ rule a polygraph as admissible evidence -- most will not, because of its inaccuracies -- but a "lie detector" is a gimmick.
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by ryoshu 15y ago
How expensive is it to spin up a VPS and start poisoning data centers? Three racks to take down one site? It would be a nightmare of a whack-a-mole game on a global scale.

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