umichguy

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by umichguy 8y ago
Simple answer: You want to do business in any country, you abide by their laws within their jurisdiction. Don't like it? Pull out. Simples. Don't you think the U.S. would not have done the same (probably would've done much so
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by umichguy 8y ago
Well, they can't/ shouldn't deduce that he had a burnout. That's something I know as a friend. He went traveling around the world, ticking off places from his list. It's a simple career break. People aren't&#x2
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by umichguy 8y ago
That just sounds shady and wrong. Plus, I don't think anyone is really going to believe that a person who is actively looking for jobs has left his CV that sloppy. If it's a couple of months sure, but 1.5yrs? Hmmm..
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by umichguy 8y ago
Yeah, but they don't really seem to work well at all. A friend of mine who works in IT bought a bunch of these to test for work laptops, according to him they are all basically crap, with maybe one or two half decent. And they don&#x27
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by umichguy 8y ago
I dunno. Most of the windows laptops I've used all had mediocre touchpads, so if I was going to do some serious amount of work on them, always used the mouse. But for my MBPs, the thought never even occurs to me, the touchpad does the
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by umichguy 8y ago
The UK? Not gonna happen.
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by umichguy 8y ago
What's the take on people who have had a career break of 1 to 2yrs? Through travel or medical situations or whatever. A friend of mine took a year and half off after having worked non-stop for ~15yrs (burnt out), went exploring and is
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by umichguy 8y ago
Not many non-UK (and even UK) people realize that the City of London is actually a separate entity from London. It has it's own administration, police force etc.
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by umichguy 8y ago
I think if Amazon pitches in with some funds and help them out with logistics software planning for increased efficiency, they will go a long way in buying some goodwill from the NY public. It's great publicity while helping out the ci
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by umichguy 8y ago
Unlike the tube it's not zone based pricing. One price no matter the distance or time.
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by umichguy 8y ago
What's wrong with distance based pricing?
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by umichguy 8y ago
NYC and Chicago were the only two big cities I liked living in from a public transport perspective... Maybe that's why I ended up here in London!
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by umichguy 8y ago
Melbourne trams are awesome! Sure, they're not everywhere or go everywhere but for near the city center and some main routes they make so much sense.
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by umichguy 8y ago
Fair enough. Unless you're talking about lags for automated trading systems/ algos where even that single "I really can't measure this" sec difference counts.
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by umichguy 8y ago
I have to steal that idea next time someone talks about time delays and says "it's not a big deal!" Awesome!
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What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart – MIT Tech Review(technologyreview.com)
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by umichguy 8y ago
But Brits haven't completely abandoned them, have they? Maybe for educational, scientific and in manufacturing industries it's all metric but they still seem to use a blend of imperial and metric for day to day stuff. The distanc
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by umichguy 8y ago
Theranos should be a case study of how not to, for a long time to come in tech firms - especially, those dealing with real-life humans in the healthcare arena.
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by umichguy 8y ago
Different approaches. Toyota has been taking the non-turbo + electric assist (hybrid) route, while others which aren't that heavily invested in hybrids have been taking the "let's put turbos across all our engines" route
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by umichguy 8y ago
They are. And will be inevitable, across the board, apart from low-end engines or very large displacement naturally aspirated engines.
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by umichguy 8y ago
When I said "et al," I meant NASA and the contemporaries in other countries including the Soviets.
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by umichguy 8y ago
Yep. Pretty much most of the current designs trace back to the Soviet days.
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by umichguy 8y ago
Oh yes, there was! I am not talking about simple things like NVH or other minor issues. I am talking about safety recalls like the wheel bearing failures which can cause your damn tires to fall off kind of variety! I was a summer intern at
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by umichguy 8y ago
Yep. That's a fair point to say.
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by umichguy 8y ago
"The US car industry is notorious for poor engineering standards and quality," Engineering standards are * very broadly* similar, worldwide, as auto companies do have to design and sell a vehicle for multiple markets. What was lac
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by umichguy 8y ago
I am a non-CS engineer - have a masters in Auto Systems - programming has always been part of all/most courses I took. Granted, I am probably pretty poor at things like JS and others as I never really used them, but we used a lot of th
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by umichguy 8y ago
I was talking about advanced tech like no. of gears, dual clutch (DCTs are essentially manual type trans - quick shifting - Europeans are leaders) etc. There is a difference between durability (the Japanese are good at this) and innovativen
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by umichguy 8y ago
The Russian RD-180 engine is a masterpiece.
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by umichguy 8y ago
NASA et al were true pioneers in uncharted territories with no prior guiding principles. Without them, a lot of current gen tech wouldn't even exist. Plus, remember they operated in times where you mostly used slide rules and hand calc
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by umichguy 8y ago
"They do this with motor assemblies too. Its not uncommon to see working sets of motors in japanese cars that are 30 years old where window motors and such would easily have failed in american sedans. potted, brushed high quality motor

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