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by tfinniga 10y ago
If you're interested in this kind of thing you might want to take a look at Autodesk Dreamcatcher. I'm not sure which software APWorks used. They're worked with Autodesk in the past, but I wasn't able to find any inform
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I really enjoyed this presentation about platforms and power over their lifetime: http://www.lostgarden.com/2011/03/gdc-2011-game-of-platform-... In the framework of this presentation, slack is currently in the &#
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I imagine that a core skill is the ability to communicate clearly and prolifically about technical topics to a mix of technical and nontechnical audiences.
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by tfinniga 11y ago
That's a good point that I was assuming it would be difficult. I've since done a little bit of reading up on what we know about how difficult it would be. This is the best writeup I found: http://blog.trailofbits.com&#
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Right. If you look at it from a security point of view, once the compromised OS is created you've created a much more valuable and vulnerable target for hacking. Let's say that some attacker wants to create a compromised OS and i
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Reminds me of this article about the link between excessive policing of traffic offenses, police as a profit center, and getting a huge chunk of your budget from your poorest citizens: http://www.motherjones.com/politics&#x2
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by tfinniga 11y ago
This is actually a pretty good application for home 3d printing. I'd say that you'd be looking at 8-10 hours per print with a consumer FDM (extruded plastic) printer on the default settings. If the printer is correctly configured
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I agree.. I was talking with a CFO about one of his employees, who he called his secret weapon - an accountant with coding skills. The ability to do a regular job plus the ability to code is extremely valuable. In architecture there is a t
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I'm sure they've considered it, but my first thought would be to buy a magsafe to magsafe 2 converter for each batterybox and use that as the connector. Seems like that would be better looking, but maybe it's still impractica
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I agree with most of your points. - I make CAD software for a living, so I've got a leg up when it comes to modeling. And I still absolutely find it a pain. - Interesting feedback on being food-safe, thanks for the clarification. - Ye
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Weird, I haven't seen this bug before. I do check the print preview before each print. I have had bugs before where if I rotated or scaled the geometry slightly everything suddenly started working.
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I bought a replicator 2 when they were new, thinking that it was a consumer device. Difficulties I was aware of: - Modeling is kind of a pain. Thingiverse and other 3d model repositories are helpful, but anything custom modeled can be a pa
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by tfinniga 11y ago
The publishing criteria for a siggraph paper is that the description has to be detailed enough that it could be implemented by a grad student experienced in the area. It doesn't have to be directly usable. I've heard that working
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by tfinniga 11y ago
This is an exciting development. I think the concerns about the licensing are a bit premature - honestly, this is currently a research project, not a practical replacement for existing image formats. The licensing is only one of several im
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by tfinniga 11y ago
It just moves the problem. Instead of arguing about the borders, you have arguments about which clustering algorithm to use, and what the weights to the inputs should be. A simplistic algorithm like shortest splitline will give impractical
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by tfinniga 11y ago
That's a good point. There's also another issue - profits made outside of the US can't be used in the US without paying a separate US repatriation tax, which can be as high as 35%.
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I think there are lots of people who do use their smartphone cameras extensively. For example, check out the Flickr most common cameras: https://www.flickr.com/cameras The best camera is the one that is always with you.
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by tfinniga 11y ago
There's a schizoid perspective in this article that arises a lot with these kinds of things. Bagels used to be better, and there were tons of people making them! But there weren't enough bagels, because not enough people were mak
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Does that mean that this ruling outlaws completely-automated takedown notices, because it requires a belief to be formed about each instance?
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Convention center rates are kind of ridiculous, but they're sort of like airports in that they both charge ridiculous rates for common goods in their controlled areas. Also similar to airports, I doubt that the local monopoly is illega
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by tfinniga 11y ago
From the linked pdf: "We have limited our studies to nuclear power because its capital costs are lower than wind and solar-electric power, and it has significant environmental advantages over fossil energy sources, which are not carbon
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Once my boss asked me if it would be possible to put code in our product that detects if it has been pirated, and if so, formats the hard drive. I told him that it was a very bad idea for a number of reasons. Primarily I didn't want t
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by tfinniga 11y ago
The way I took this statement was roughly "I will enjoy watching this drama unfold, but I won't do anything other than watch". Is that inaccurate?
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I think the general principle is that societal decision makers should be roughly representative of the people whose lives are impacted by the decisions. Of course it's possible to take this too far. As for why race and gender are consi
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by tfinniga 11y ago
Well, there is a reason why I chose those examples. I'm not arguing for diversity at all costs, which seems like what you're arguing against. I'd say in general having researchers and university teachers that are intelligent
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by tfinniga 11y ago
It's interesting to realize that if two groups have the same mean but different variability, the higher-variability group will have more outliers, on both the high end and the low end. The danger is a kind of genetic fatalism, assuming
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by tfinniga 11y ago
The n-gram viewer goes back further, but only comes up to 2008. It looks like the usage started in the mid 80s, peaked around 95, and was almost dead in 2008. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shareware&amp
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by tfinniga 11y ago
I think it's entirely reasonable behavior. It doesn't favor you as much as you might like. Why should you get to take advantage of their work for free? You don't get to ship other closed-ecosystem software for free, like co
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by tfinniga 11y ago
As I said earlier, apple made a new market, and is charging for access to it. There is value in the marketplace they've created. They've collected a lot of users and given them an easy way to pay. Their market is expensive to mai
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by tfinniga 11y ago
One nice advantage of the iOS ecosystem is that installing a new app is risk free. I have a relative that uses an iPad as their primary computing device. They install new apps all the time, as opposed to their laptop, which they are afrai

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