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by sown 11y ago
> To be fair, you can say this about pretty much anything. But unlike microbeads, which are intended to be flushed, nobody is suggesting that it would be a good idea to release them into the environment. Very true. I'm surrounded by
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by sown 11y ago
I found actually using a whiteboard, or pen & paper, is the best. No computers. Pen only. For me, rehearsing an answer works out. Then, I try to see how to deconstruct it and apply it to a similar problem I don't know. I can delive
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by sown 11y ago
I wonder how much of it is legacy. Google said early on they want to hire the best and brightest and that was the most important. We got the mantra that passing over a good person is better than hiring a bad one. And they were right. But th
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by sown 11y ago
> At two different interviews I was given logic puzzles just so they could watch how I went about trying to solve them. That's usually what they say, but I've found that if you don't solve the puzzles, you don't get h
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by sown 11y ago
I think both you and the post have a good point. From his perspective, I bet he's frustrated for the reasons he point out. If he never talks about it out loud, how would any one know? Keeping people silent about this issue is in the co
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by sown 11y ago
I have to disagree. Just having nanotubes flying around your blood stream could probably lead to cirrhosis as the nanotubes of a certain length or more would get trapped inside the liver, causing scaring and damage ( http://www.n
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by sown 11y ago
> you can also just use a couple hours every day, and some at the weekends, to create something from scratch on your own That's what I've been doing. :) I've pitched a couple of patches but they usually get turned down. I&
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by sown 11y ago
So how do you start a consulting business, if you're technically a programmer with a degree n' all but not much experience spread over 7-8 years. All I do is fix bugs; that's all they trust me with. For example, I didn&#x27
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by sown 11y ago
So what companies are at risk of changed user expectations right now? I wonder what tech we have now that is sort of experimental, unproven but seriously at risk of being accepted: 3d printing, AR. I'm not sure about these because whil
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by sown 11y ago
> Maybe hire people with at least some demonstrated aptitude and invest in them instead. This is all a loser like me has. I can't whiteboard too well, I cant talk so great some times (other times I'm great at it). I can work h
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by sown 11y ago
I wonder if it's a negotiation tactic.
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by sown 11y ago
On ubuntu, you can do something similar with upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 | grep capacity | awk '{print $2}' You can see all of your power options with upower -e
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Ask HN: Semantic Hash for dummies?
1 points by sown 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Have a hard time working at home. Co-working an alternative?
8 points by sown 12y ago|7 comments
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by sown 12y ago
So let's say I'm a developer and I just don't know what to do with this, though. What could I build with these tools?
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by sown 12y ago
> or a whole new breed of tourists that set the car to drive through the night to the next destination so they wake up somewhere different, outside some cafe for brekkie. Or, maybe there'll be a 'random' button; the car s
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by sown 12y ago
It seems like they would eventually have a four-seater version but the bench seats could face each other. What a simple thing but so different. Maybe like suicide-doors used to be common in the US but they're such a novelty now.
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by sown 12y ago
I like this. I keep saying there's a hardware renaissance near by and I think the wider-spread use of HDL and the like will help along with this.
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by sown 12y ago
Heh, thanks :)
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by sown 12y ago
> What I'm dumbfounded by is why they didn't simply give them away? ET for Atari was that horrible . You cannot give it away.
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by sown 12y ago
I wonder if maybe there's a mis-match in the customer's problem being solved, and the expectations amongst different fragments or groups of customers. I used disparate set pedometers, activity monitors, food and calorie loggers,
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by sown 12y ago
It's kind of interesting that so many people have included Youtube into their media consumption diet, perhaps in the place of Radio & TV?
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by sown 12y ago
I remember a weekend project someone showed here on HN quite some time ago that was something similar. Does anyone else remember?
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by sown 13y ago
Does anyone know about total ,erm, volume? I guess numbers of impressions is what I'm thinking of? If ads are online (please correct me if I'm wrong) are cheaper than broadcast ads for an impression, then while the revenues go up
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by sown 13y ago
> Why is it not good enough for someone to enjoy programming and have an intellectual curiosity about programming? For me, it's not so much programming, but the power it gives me. The capabilities that programming gives me. I can su
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by sown 13y ago
I personally think something like 'Code Atleier' has a nicer ring to it. :)
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by sown 13y ago
Thanks for offering to take contact info; I'm sure your inbox is exploding now!
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by sown 13y ago
> This would be a dream - a railroad-esque type journey that is not at the wim of the location of pre-laid tracks Not only that, but I could fulfill a life-long dream of solving a crime on a train. :D
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by sown 13y ago
> A few LOC/day rate is generally accepted to be the overall rate of development from Requirements through Final Verification/Validation. That is, you may write a product of 10kloc in just a few months of coding, but the entire
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by sown 13y ago
Are they looking to hire specialists in the robotics field or would they take generalist? That is, if I get my roomba create to use slam, particle filters, etc, as an engaged spectator, would that be OK? Even if it's not, I'm doin

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