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by seren 10y ago
It depends what you are calling a robot, but if you are moving legs or arms close to human, you don't want to have soft real time capabilities but definitely hard real time for safety reasons. This is why C is still king. So likely we
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by seren 10y ago
Currently I would say that for the low level parts, this is C and/or a subset of C++ for hard real time constraints (motion control, safety,...) As someone struggling with legacy C++ spaghetti code, I feel that the situation would slig
543.
by seren 10y ago
In a way it is already here, with questions if US presidents have smoked/inhaled pot, if they were drafted or not in Vietnam. I don't believe that it has a huge impact on voters.
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by seren 10y ago
This page contains a list of countries using Jury in various way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury
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by seren 10y ago
Read a SF novel recently [0] where the rejuvenation treatment that you take periodically to extend your life indefinitely also makes you sterile temporarily. If you chose to have children (which is socially frowned upon), you must stop taki
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by seren 10y ago
It is very paradoxical because access to Internet on one hand can expose you to new ideas and cultures, but, on the other hand, if you are inclined to, virtual communities can reinforce pre existing closed worldview (or at least pretty weir
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by seren 10y ago
If this is a honest mistake, at the very least, it shows some lack of professionalism or proof reading. And it should not be the code that have been used, because it should not work. Kinda weird when you are supposed to give step by step in
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by seren 10y ago
This is hard to believe but Craig Wright might actually have posted the hack in his blog announcement... From one of the reply to Gavinandressen: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you
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by seren 10y ago
I read it as a successful social engineering by Wright. If you have been convinced by Wright before the "proof" took place(by whatever seemingly convincing arguments or trick), it is easier to be taken off guard.
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by seren 10y ago
Maybe I am missing something but why the signed message could not have been sent by mail ? The use of the "brand new laptop" and the fact it was quickly removed really sounds like a con man trick. It sounds like an Orbo demonstrat
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by seren 11y ago
From my point of view, the issue in buying and thus selling organs is that it creates an incentive to hack someone and sell the body parts piece by piece (like it is rumored to happen in China). So as long as we can't grow organs, I th
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by seren 11y ago
To entice IOS developers to port their app on Android more easily ?
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by seren 11y ago
I am motivated by other factors. Namely I am working on medical devices, so in the end, my work can save people life (or kill them if something goes wrong!), so that is enough for me to want to do a good job and put the products in the hand
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by seren 11y ago
Anecdotally, I have a bonus linked to my company profit that are usually between half and full month of salary. This does not motivate me at all. I actually always forget about it until I receive the amount each year. This is seems counter
555.
by seren 11y ago
If you write a command line utility, just putting in ubuntu repo makes it available to all windows user, without even recompiling.
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by seren 11y ago
I am fine with people disagreeing, and I can understand that it hits close to home, but this is a matter of principle, I don't think it is desirable that HN turns into a news source, particularly for unfolding events. HN is often prais
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by seren 11y ago
Personally I have flagged it. Not that I am not concerned or worried, but they are plenty of "live threads" of event in many news site all over the world. HN is not a good format for unfolding events, nor that there is something e
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by seren 11y ago
I agree with your point. When I said "development skills" it was not a judgement about talent, rather about "body count".
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by seren 11y ago
I have no doubt that the web will eat desktop application (maybe native app as well at some point). However, they are plenty fields from machine learning, to robotics that are also likely on the rise that would require some SW development s
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by seren 11y ago
Ruby is part of the "Losers" in the Trending Tech. But so is Rust that is also the most Loved. The trend is only the number of upvotes in a topic year to year. But this is always hard to interpret : does it mean that all basic que
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by seren 11y ago
As a non web developer I am fairly surprised that about 50% of developers are "web developers". Is this the distribution in the global developer population as well ? Or is this a bias due to Stackoverflow which by its very nature
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by seren 11y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but at the end of the last Ice Age we did not had 7 billions people. I find the terms "Nature", "Earth", etc really ambiguous in these kind of discussions. Sure "Earth" will be fine, wi
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by seren 11y ago
Yes, but I don't believe that impoverished populations who can't feed themselves anymore will be relocated graciously in say for example, Siberia and won't necessarily have the relevant skills. Change is not that an issue, th
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by seren 11y ago
I am working in a team where code review are mandatory, but this was not so hard to implement because they are part of regulatory requirements. Your culture change is a problem of change management[0] There are different model, but some exa
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by seren 11y ago
Regarding 2, the point is that a valid move in Go is to put a stone everywhere on an empty position each turn on 19x19 grid. So the number of valid move is not comparable at all with Chess. You can check for more information : https:/
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by seren 11y ago
What what your experience with conrod ? Piston seems to go in lots of different direction, I wonder if it is a mature library.
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by seren 11y ago
For France, Areva[0] is in big trouble, losing a few billions (yes billions) every year. At the same time, the nuclear regulation authority have found some defects on EPR construction site and in La Hague plant. The government is pushing ED
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by seren 11y ago
> If you look at a lot of the health concerns in our society, that's how it works. Often companies change what they are offering long before the gov't passes any laws forcing them to. Yes, like the well known example of Tobacco
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by seren 11y ago
You need at least an atomic change, i.e compiling/testing/deploying at that point makes sense. If you just updated a typo in some comments, it could make sense to commit it and it could take 30 seconds. Now if you are always commi
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by seren 11y ago
> Every nation gets the government it deserves. This is a somewhat radical stance. When an armed group seizes the control of a city, the citizens don't always have the ability to fight back. There are plenty of people who are riskin

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