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by thearn4 10y ago
I agree with the parent comment, but also agree that "soul" could come from writing, voice talent, assets, etc. Deus Ex and Mass Effect are two games I can think of that offer an amazing experience, despite the actual programmed g
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FFT and the convolution theorem are some of my favorite tricks in math. A toy I made a few years back: https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life
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I'm in N.E. Ohio, just outside the Cleveland metro area. The croplands here aren't at large as what you'd see in central OH, but plot sizes of around a hundred acres aren't too hard to spot. That's a good point that
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There is a fair amount of competition in this space. Around me, I see a lot of Kubota, New Holland, etc. Not too many John Deeres actually.
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they could probably have just depressurized their suits and would have lost consciousness extremely quickly.
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Teaching something is a great way of reinforcing the material for yourself, since to end up having to conceptualize the material in a few different ways to meet your students at their own level of understanding. I think it's cool that
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I'm curious, are you saying that America should not have responded militarily to the attack at Pearl Harbor, or to the declaration of war on it by Germany?
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Alternative outcomes of WW1 represent some of the most interesting "What if?"s of the history of the 20th century. It's a fascinating conflict to read about, since it seemingly could have gone either way up to nearly the end
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by thearn4 10y ago
> I was brought in for an iOS app development job interview > A couple of the interviewers said they weren't too familiar with Objective-C either, so I clearly wasn't getting interviewed by their iOS teams. Google's o
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I use supervisord a lot as well, though I actually had issues getting it up and running on the latest Ubuntu. It seems that it isn't enabled immediately after installation via apt-get, but has to be manually enabled. Minor hiccup, but
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I've had similar experiences at some hackathon events. The local Startup Weekend event a few years ago was similar, but in some ways that is more predictably skewed to who can give the best pitch, so that one didn't rub me quite s
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How is the trackpad on the surface pro line compared to Macs? Its something that I care about now that I never used to until I started using Macs more.
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Same, still running a 2012 13" MBA. I recently replaced the battery, but it's still doing the job as my primary personal machine. I'm considering getting a new machine in the coming year, but also don't feel like its cri
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by thearn4 10y ago
Sadly, that describes more than a few EEs and MEs that I've worked with in the past. Where the act of turning a key in a commercial software package starts to displace practical design considerations that they learned in the classroom.
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Quite a few potentially: http://imgur.com/a/ebvfk
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What were the technical buzzwords that companies used to signal hotness in the industry before the ML hype train (startup or not)? I know on the process & management side for large organizations, there's been a revolving door of Le
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> So you can imagine having your app in Java, but still call Python for something else if you really wanted too. That's a pretty interesting possibility, I might tinker with this. I don't mind Java, but vastly prefer Python+num
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by thearn4 10y ago
Like others have said, when Google Reader disappeared I stopped following RSS feeds directly, and moved to aggregators like HN and Reddit.
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by thearn4 10y ago
Great information, thank you for sharing! I can't help but also mentioning that I'm not a big fan of the scroll-jacking script on the site, but I guess some designers have an affinity for it.
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I think some of the physical engineering disciplines are at least partially gate-kept and signal applicant value through membership to professional organizations and certifications (FE & PE exams, etc.)
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Top Secret clearance invesigations cost about $60k back around 2005ish when I was in the military. They might be a bit more expensive now. Finances are, in fact, one of the things that are scrutinized very carefully. Susceptibility to bribe
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by thearn4 10y ago
Sadly, we have some annual mandatory web-based training modules that use web applets in my workplace.
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> CS > engineers I think it's important to realize that these are two different things. One is a formal research science, the other deals with practical problem-solving and implementations. Your typical software engineer likely h
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But isn't CS one of the formal sciences (together with mathematics, statistics, etc.)? Familiarity with mathematical notation should be pretty foundational for active researchers in the field I would think.
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Trefethen & Bau's "Numerical Linear Algebra" is a pretty good primer, though the last few chapters I remember being a bit lacking (it's been about 6 years though).
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I ran a debian-based distro on a Lenovo thinkpad in graduate school from 2008 to about 2011. I had basically the same experience. Everything worked 95% of the time, but that other 5% felt entirely random and pretty dehabilitating. Now I use
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These two lists made a lot more sense to me than the "most popular technologies" category. Which I think should be worded "Most common languages for questions" or something along those lines. But like others have said, I
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Same, I'll be 55. My son will be 23. Either our generation fixes it, or his generation will have to fix it in their first jobs out of college (sorry kids!)
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> they need driverless cars. That's ten years away Honestly even that seems way overly optimistic in my opinion, if we're talking about R&D + regulatory acceptance & general adoption.
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Great article. The FFT and it's many applications (especially convolution-based ones such as matched filtering) is one of my favorite algorithms, and possibly one of the more important ones developed in the 20th century. I'd put t

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