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by troymc 14y ago
A resume that said the applicant had programmed with C, C+ and C++ used to be a tell. Not any more, I guess.
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by troymc 14y ago
In Burnaby, British Columbia (where I live), there's a waste-to-energy facility (WTEF) that has been operating since 1988. From their fact sheet [1]: "Each year the WTEF turns 285,000 tonnes of garbage into steam and electricity. The steam
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by troymc 14y ago
Interesting: when I visit this doc (on Google Docs), there's a line at the top of the page that says: "Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears. [Try again] [Dismiss]" This strikes me as a s
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by troymc 14y ago
Maybe there won't be one big Facebook killer, but a thousand "niche" social networks, each with an average of a million active users, each hyper-serving its community. Hacker News, Second Life, Metafilter, deviantART, Ravelry (for knitters)
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by troymc 14y ago
"A group of kids with no experience or evidence of being able to execute who happen to catch a great marketing wind" describes many organizations that did become successful (including Facebook).
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by troymc 14y ago
Another way to spin it: "At most one in seven humans uses Facebook regularly"
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by troymc 14y ago
You don't have to use a rover. What about a quadcopter or balloon filled with heated gas?
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by troymc 14y ago
<joke>Well then, I guess TechCrunch Disrupt is SOL.</joke>
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by troymc 14y ago
I also love interesting teas and find that Red Rose orange pekoe tea is delightful without any sweeteners. It used to advertise as being "only available in Canada" but surely that's no longer true. (What fool would limit their business to s
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by troymc 14y ago
That's cute. Is there a way to tell Google that you mean a different "Folsom"? Google's Knowledge Graph does have a concept of name ambiguity (as does Wikipedia; it has disambiguation pages). For example, if I do a Google search for "Taj Ma
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by troymc 14y ago
I work from home but visit my brother's place (in the next city) fairly often. I wonder if Google Now would think I work there. If so, I wonder if there's a way to tell it what's really going on.
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by troymc 14y ago
I think TM is what you put prior to the mark being approved as a registered trademark by the USPTO. (It's analogous to "US Patent Pending" but for trademarks.) So eventually there will be two (R) on that logo. Maybe Microsoft could make the
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by troymc 14y ago
Wikipedia has an article that links to a lot of the research on open plan offices (and other configurations): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_plan
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by troymc 14y ago
They (Facebook) should really look at what research has found before they jump feet-first into having an open floor plan. It's not like they've just invented it! Open floor plans were invented as a way to cram more people into less space, t
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by troymc 14y ago
The question of what happens to humans in the vacuum of space is a popular one. Below are some articles with answers. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.h... http://www.damninteresting.com/outer-space-exposure/
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by troymc 14y ago
For the same reason, this one is awful: What is your favourite colour? (There are lots of colour names, but most people will stick to the most common ten or so.)
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by troymc 14y ago
Amazon could abuse their position (as a big store) by telling makers of competing games, "We're sorry, but we rejected your application to sell your game in our store." Fortunately, the US has laws against this sort of thing, but they can t
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by troymc 14y ago
I grew up on a grain farm in Saskatchewan. As far as I know, my farmer brother and my dad still use paper and whiteboards to record this sort of information, if they record it at all --- which is amazing because the machinery alone is worth
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by troymc 14y ago
The quote is, "On July 31 Mr Milner, by no means a dullard, announced..." That is, they're saying he's not a dullard. I can understand how the phrase "by no means a" could be confusing for someone new to English.
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by troymc 14y ago
I did some research into the currently-available toolkits that let you write one code base to create mobile apps for iOS, Android, and (maybe) other mobile operating systems. I was astounded by how many options are currently available: more
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by troymc 14y ago
The browser adds a bunch of constraints. Forget the browser and those constraints go away. Problems solved. If you really must offer something in the browser, use something like OnLive to give people a taste, but then offer a download for t
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by troymc 14y ago
Maybe try wrapping your phone in tinfoil? If that doesn't work, maybe try two layers. And if that doesn't work, perhaps you could also try a tinfoil hat.
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by troymc 14y ago
The city name is obscured by all the red markers; the highest concentration is in and around Tel Aviv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv
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by troymc 14y ago
I agree that's a nice use case (to get details about a grill in a store), but it's not an example of advertising. Even for that use case, QR codes seem like an interim solution, while we wait for better recognition apps (photo [of object or
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by troymc 14y ago
It's interesting to see that Cory Ondreijka is taking over mobile at Facebook. He was one of the early employees at Linden Lab (makers of Second Life) and was best known (to SL residents) as the coder who created the Linden Scripting Langua
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by troymc 14y ago
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Musopen was around before Kickstarter existed, but yes, they did do a round with Kickstarter.
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by troymc 14y ago
Same here. I signed up for Adobe Creative Cloud yesterday. Easy peasy. The first step after getting a Creative Cloud subscription is to install the "Adobe Application Manager." With that installed, it's one click to install whatever Adobe a
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by troymc 14y ago
There are plenty of low-tech solutions that accomplish the same thing. For example: a ketchup syringe (but the "needle" end is wide, like those ends for decorating cakes with icing). Or a jar like a jam jar, which you can scrape out with a
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by troymc 14y ago
I thought it was bizarre that they'd have all those voice-over artists come on and say they'd be involved. When I think Space Quest, I don't think great voice-overs, I think quirky graphics and offbeat plot, all conveyed by text . Do moder

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