usedtolurk

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by usedtolurk 4mo ago
Lonely Mountain Downhill, also Soduko & Wordle
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by usedtolurk 8y ago
High turnover may indicate problems with culture/management/remuneration or a change in market conditions. It could just be coincidence. Or maybe they have learned great skills and are now in high demand. My advice: 1) Keep an eye
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Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos(graphics.stanford.edu)
1 points by usedtolurk 11y ago|0 comments
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World’s Largest Indoor Farm Is 100 Times More Productive(offgridquest.com)
2 points by usedtolurk 12y ago|0 comments
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by usedtolurk 13y ago
This list summarises some of the most important lessons I've learned in life.
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TED Video:Who Controls the world? Mathematical analysis(on.ted.com)
3 points by usedtolurk 14y ago|0 comments
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
There must be a host of legitimate uses for the same data. The obvious ones: 1) Verifiy or correct the date/timestamps on recordings. 2) Geo-locate based on hum signature. Could apply to recordings or "live" conversations (e.g. skype).
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The rise of high frequency trading - graphic animation(nanex.net)
42 points by usedtolurk 14y ago|22 comments
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
I'm often disappointed to find comments veer off track and never return. In rare cases the digressions are more valuable than the original article, but it sure would be great to be able to collapse ego wars, etc.
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
Thank you - the light just went on for me! Is this what is meant by Domain Specific Languages (DSL's) ?
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
A good architect doesn't pretend to have a monopoly on ideas or trending technologies. Their job is to make sure that the really good ideas aren't ignored and get adopted more broadly.
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
In the beginning "likes" had value because there was no incentive to lie. Now they are so gamed they've become meaningless. Couple that with the sheer number of "friends" who are little more than strangers and it's no wonder social reputat
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
That's a great analogy. It will be interesting to see if agile storytelling becomes as popular as agile development, and how both those approaches will have evolved in 10 (or 20) years time.
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by usedtolurk 14y ago
It's hard to answer that question because so much depends on your specific circumstances but I'll try. I'm assuming you're able to do your own programming because $1000 won't get you very far if you need to hire developers. Find an area whe
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A new way of storytelling on the web(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by usedtolurk 14y ago|2 comments
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
In my experience it's the programmers who can ONLY program that get little respect. The ones that can also understand other problem domains (business/people/processes) tend to get respect no matter what their job title, even in technology c
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Over the years I have gradually come to prefer VB too. I find it slightly easier to read and also easier to explain to noobs. I particularly prefer ... End If Next i End Sub to ... } } } That said it's easy e
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
This kind of project seldom grabs the headlines and is unlikely to raise more than a stifled yawn in most circles - so they just reformatted some data, right? But imagine all the different bank accounts governed by different legal contracts
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Acta: EU court to rule on anti-piracy agreement(bbc.co.uk)
19 points by usedtolurk 15y ago|6 comments
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
The only surprising thing about this story is that it made the papers. US immigration officials have always taken a hard line on visitors. I had a very similar experience several years before 9/11 when I was denied entry because they suspec
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
I'm surprised just how ruthlessly this was enforced. When Jobs complained to Schmidt, the person who contacted an Apple employee was "terminated within the hour." A Senior Google VP replied: "Appropriate response, thank you. Please make a p
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
The website itself is just be the tip of the iceberg - it would need to talk to multiple back-end systems. $18m wouldn't be unreasonable if the project required complex legacy integration and/or re-design of underlying infrastructure.
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Protest full-body airport scans with 4th Amendment underclothes (geek.com)
2 points by usedtolurk 15y ago|1 comments
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
I worked for a company with a similar policy - no employee could provide a reference, and all requests had to be passed on to HR. However, some of my co-workers were contractors and they were happy to provide personal references.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
or Apple?
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
True, but his investment capital came from his IT salary (at least initially). I thought this article counter-balances some of the many startup success stories we read about here. All great success seems to involve exceptional circumstances
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How I retired in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary(mrmoneymustache.com)
294 points by usedtolurk 15y ago|156 comments
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
What a great tutorial - explained just enough to leave me desperately wanting to try it myself. 5 years on, but I'd guess it's still relevant to mobile devices. Anyone know if there are better accepted approaches now?
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Shopping centre photo prompts Terror Act confiscation threat(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by usedtolurk 15y ago|1 comments
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
The intro goes on a bit, but the penny drops 2 minutes in.

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