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by spartango 13y ago
Much of the information coming from the Malaysian officials tasked with communication is confused or inaccurate. Naturally it's unclear whether this is a case of "right hand not talking to the left" or broader incompetence, b
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by spartango 13y ago
The NYT is saying that some Malaysian government officials are confused about how ACARS works, leading to the confused reporting. The above comment is accurate: the last ACARS message was received at 107, and the next one was expected at 13
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by spartango 13y ago
It's being reported[1 - NYT] that the 107 "turn off time" is inaccurately quoted. It wasn't that the system was turned off at 107, as much as the next expected report at 137 was not received. This leaves a 30 minute wind
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by spartango 13y ago
Please, please do not suggest treatments for your friend, especially those suggested by people on the internet. People on the internet may mean well and show you interesting things, but your friend's medical care is best managed by his
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by spartango 13y ago
Vertex 3 with the latest firmware seems relatively stable.
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by spartango 13y ago
It's hard to judge your situation from across the internet, but I'll point out two things I've learned over the years: 1. Personal responsibility varies from person to person, related to such as personality and maturity. I en
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by spartango 13y ago
This blanket characterization of an entire continent's people and leadership strikes me as borderline racist. Yes, there are corrupt governments in some African countries, and yes, there is a history of corruption in many of these coun
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by spartango 13y ago
Petty politics aside, it seems to me that the comparisons between Systemd and Upstart are analogous to those between launchd and Solaris' SMF. The crux of the comparison is whether init should explicitly follow a dependency tree or res
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by spartango 13y ago
There's a performance comparison in the wiki: https://github.com/zeromq/jeromq/wiki/Perfomance
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by spartango 13y ago
Not all the cards will be nice and fluffy, but the subset that are might still make her happy. For religious/political/belief oriented cards, you can imagine filtering them, too. With that said, sometimes it's the thought tha
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by spartango 13y ago
If you are interested in getting your hands dirty around the world, you might checkout Engineers without Borders[1] or the Peace Corps[2], or one of many similar non-profit organizations that employ skilled people to help others around the
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by spartango 13y ago
While this would be interesting as a matter of engineering curiosity, Everpix's AWS bill was not close to the #1 hurdle between them and profitability. It seems like low hanging fruit, but you'd be optimizing away something small
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by spartango 13y ago
While this is a fun--and potentially useful--idea, can I recommend you spend some time hanging around/working for small businesses? You'll find the experience pretty useful. On one hand, you may discover (as I fear) that mom-and-p
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by spartango 13y ago
The medical community is working on systems that are far superior to this one, and they are brilliant. Some are already on the market: * Pacemakers / Artificial hearts (Heart diseases) * Cochlear implants / Bone anchored hearing a
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by spartango 13y ago
To be specific about it, iOS has APIs that notify the application (rather than the user) about the device's network state, whether its cellular/wifi/absent. Application developers are expected to control app behavior given th
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by spartango 13y ago
I'll agree with this, but in that case I would tend to judge competency by other, finer criteria. I'd rather judge someone by their own efforts and decisions rather than factors beyond their control. You can also judge an idea aro
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by spartango 13y ago
This is extremely harsh. Nearly all startups fail, technology or otherwise. I'm sure you're aware of how difficult starting and running a company is, and how many factors are well outside of your control. His startups could have f
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by spartango 13y ago
While as a Bostonian I would love gigabit, I do think that fighting crime remains a substantial priority in this city. It's not totally backwards, but there's room to improve. Indeed, I generally think that there are many prioriti
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by spartango 13y ago
Coming from the world of biophysics and structural bio, I wholeheartedly agree. Multidisciplinary approaches answer many more questions, but can be quite challenging to wrap your head around. Thinking like this is awesome when it happens: a
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by spartango 13y ago
While I definitely agree that the software around synthetic biology is weak, I think this is not actually the problem bottlenecking the field. Ultimately, most efforts in synthetic biology are gated foremost by a lack of underlying biologic
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by spartango 13y ago
NEC has 21.5" 5MP (2048 x 2560) displays[1], and Barco[2] and EIZO have 30" 10MP (4096 x 2560) displays. These come out to 154 and 161 PPI respectively; you're right that it's not the 180-200ppi target listed, but it&#x
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by spartango 13y ago
Graduation rates for pathologists are stagnant or falling, and case loads are rising as people get old and cancerous. Hopefully CAD tools will speed you up, rather than put you of a job. Having worked with pathologists, I think digital has
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by spartango 13y ago
Heh, you caught me. Barco is trying to market these fancy monitors for pathology as the slide scanner wave rises. Really these are rebranded versions of the displays they sell for mammography/radiology applications. There are a few dep
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by spartango 13y ago
Amusingly, this feature has utility for people in the US who work in defense areas (or anything covered under ITAR). Planning to travel but got ITAR data on your disk? Better swap that disk unless you like fines and jail time.
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by spartango 13y ago
In the medical monitor world there are higher pixel density displays at a a much higher price: the 5-10MP (21-30") displays from Barco and NEC cost between $12,000 and $20,000, and slightly more for 510(k) approved models. Some of th
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by spartango 13y ago
This reminds me of the PayPal mobile application, both in terms of organization and information priority. Both this concept and the mobile app headline account balance, simplify actions to four items, and allow the transaction log to make u
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by spartango 13y ago
That's good to hear. This policy seems to come from a well-intentioned place; it would be a shame if it had some unintended consequences.
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by spartango 13y ago
While I wouldn't so hastily accuse Weebly of age discrimination, I think this raises an interesting discussion around hiring practice: The logistics of certain hiring practices may be themselves biased in terms of age (or other factors
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by spartango 13y ago
This is a cute application that ties many services together and even looks nice. Standing alone, it's almost like having a timeline for the tangible things in your work; I'd actually love to have this summarized, but for no partic
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by spartango 13y ago
Somewhere between my main interests in molecular+systems biology and my work in microscopy and software(building and using), I gained an appreciation for biomedical imaging techniques. From there, much hard work learning from oncologists, r

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