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by tdicola 11y ago
I recently saw a good summary of PyCon 2015 talks that included this and a lot of other top notch ones: https://www.fusionbox.com/blog/detail/pycon-2015-talks-you-s...
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Companies have been looking for other ways to keep wages from growing, see for example the poaching lawsuit Apple, Google, etc. lost: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/apple-google-i...
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by tdicola 11y ago
If you disable all those features (Cortana, not logging in with MS account disables the Windows Store, etc.) then why even run Windows 10?
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Is it really that surprising in an office environment? They're probably all using the same model of computer that was purchased around the same time and from a reputable vendor like Dell, etc. If you read the article though you would
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They're spending money to get new drivers as they expand all over the world.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Yelp is not doing so well. They were valued at $5B, but since going public it's not been good: http://www.cnet.com/news/yelp-is-in-a-death-spiral-industry-... Their stock dropped 28% this week on poor earnings.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Even if it's patented you can still play around with the technology yourself. Just don't sell it or make a product out of it.
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Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by tdicola 11y ago
Don't we already have a exabyte-scale supercomputer in Utah run by the NSA?
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Just like the start menu was holding them back and had to be removed in Windows 8...
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Because for years Microsoft built up a reputation for supporting old software and old APIs. Read Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog for some anecdotes about the amazing lengths they would go internally to keep old software working. Li
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Looking at the deprecated features that won't make it to Windows 10 I see: > Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has r
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> If you make a new product it should be better than the previous version, it it's not, you did something very wrong. They broke that rule with Windows 8/8.1 and are trying to fix it with Windows 10.
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That's the point. Those apps will never make sense on a desktop and just drives home the point that touting universal apps & easy porting of mobile apps to desktop is pointless.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Numberphile, an awesome youtube channel on its own, has done some great interviews with John Conway that are definitely worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Plq-D1gEk , https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by tdicola 11y ago
Yeah that threw me for a loop too, I think it's because Hangouts isn't configured to handle SMS for you. Check the Messaging app and its settings. It has a similar disable auto retrieve MMS setting.
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Are those the steps for Android 5/Lollipop? I don't see any of those menus in settings. edit: Ah it's in the actual hangouts app that you have to go to settings. Also if those settings are greyed out then you might not have
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by tdicola 11y ago
Ignoring the issues of non-competes, ethics, and trade secrets, how do you expect one person to be an effective full time employee for 3, 4+ companies at the same time?
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by tdicola 11y ago
This is really nice, will it also be available for Android and if so what Android versions? Right now you have to install Google's physical web app thingy on Android to get beacons so it's kinda clunky and annoying. I know Eddys
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Beacons use the newer Bluetooth 4.0/'low energy' specification so they're not like old Bluetooth devices that are constantly connected. It's up to each beacon to decide how often it broadcasts, how powerfully, etc.
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IBM is a financial engineering firm, not a technology company anymore: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/the-truth-hidden-by-i...
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TMI's radioactive gas release was nothing compared to the years of above-ground nuclear tests in the 50's and 60's. There are plenty of non-nuclear superfund sites that have done more harm too.
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This is actually a very well known best practice in C++, so common that it has an acronynm RAII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initia...
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Wow that's awesome that they want everything in the mainline Linux kernel. Here's hoping they pull it off!
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Welcome to the world of business, I see you're new here.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Very cool, have you thought about using a RGB color sensor (like a TCS34725) to detect the color of the ribbon instead of finding an IR homing strip? That might help with slip since you know the order of all the colors and could move exact
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Something is wrong with your browser or screen resolution. The page renders fine in Chrome with no artifacts like that, etc.
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Hah, I found it really funny as I scrolled down there's a big ad for a Fiat in the article: http://i.imgur.com/rSyYPO4.png Fiat owns Chrysler who owns Jeep... maybe not the best marketing idea to advertise your cars i
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by tdicola 11y ago
Feedly has improved a lot but it still doesn't display feeds as densely as Reader did and I feel a lot slower getting through a lot of feeds. Searching for articles was fantastic on Google Reader, but with Feedly it never works. Mayb
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Can they bring Google Reader back now? I'm still bitter about it being killed to focus on Google+. Now that Google+ is dead in the water it makes the decision to kill Reader even worse.

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