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by uuilly 11y ago
I really enjoyed the analog world analogies like the work order.
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by uuilly 12y ago
Brilliant post. Most of these points hit home for me. One of the things I've been honing in on recently - which you do as well - is effectiveness. Brilliant developers who don't ship aren't effective. People who don't di
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by uuilly 12y ago
That's really funny! BR is nothing like that. Definitely the best balance I've ever had. Hope you are doing well in your endeavors.
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by uuilly 12y ago
Blue River Technology - Sunnyvale, CA - Agricultural Robotics - Systems SW Engineer http://www.bluerivert.com Linux, C++, Python, ROS (and other tools you like to use) Small teams, lots of autonomy, CV / ML, tractor driving
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by uuilly 12y ago
I worked at 510 for 2 years. We were a little over 10 people when I started and around 60 people when we sold to Google. The whole thing was bootstrapped, no VC's. Bryon Majusiak, the guy interviewed in the article, is a great guy, a h
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by uuilly 12y ago
This sort of thing is great for messages in real time systems or robotic systems where firing up a JSON parser / serializer just isn't an option. We use something similar in our system but I've had my eye on Cap'n Proto
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HN and Imperative Titles
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Ag Robotics Startup Blue River Technology Raises $10 Million(techcrunch.com)
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by uuilly 13y ago
How long have you been at it? Any reasonably intelligent person can become a great developer if they work hard.
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by uuilly 13y ago
Defense contracts are not subsidies. They are won by competition with the likes of Lockheed. Most of the money won is spent providing the product or service. The profit margins on defense contracts are not nearly large enough to "subsi
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by uuilly 13y ago
That depends a lot on your industry. At most places I've worked, nobody knew what node.js or bootstrap was. At all those places being a journeyman kernel dev would look REALLY good.
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by uuilly 13y ago
Being a little more friendly could help their cause.
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HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot
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by uuilly 13y ago
I just got back from Kenya 2 days ago. I was blown away at the M-Pesa penetration. They are skipping credit cards just as they skipped land lines.
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by uuilly 13y ago
These are the most presumptive headlines. Programmer encapsulates many disciplines just as a writer encapsulates those who write comics, novels, plays, ads, articles, law and speeches. Stop assuming everyone is a web developer. And don&#x27
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by uuilly 13y ago
What's mind blowing is the assumption that there should be an even distribution of race and sex in different fields. The same logic could be used to expose "awful race or gender problems" in professional basketball, ice hockey or women's cl
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by uuilly 13y ago
Blue River Technology: http://bluerivert.com/ http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/10/agricultural-... Agricultural robotics startup. Khosla backed. Just hired our 10th person. Buzzwords: Computer vision / machine learning / real
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by uuilly 13y ago
What is with these preachy headlines? "Why you should..." "Please use ..." "Please stay away from..." It's very presumptuous to assume that you know the intricacies of thousands of developers' workflows well enough to tell them how to do th
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by uuilly 13y ago
I tried to use Dwolla and it it was absurd. I set my account up fine. My friend sent me $1200 for a ski lease. I withdrew it and it appeared to work. Days later when the money did not appear in my bank account, I checked back and it said, "
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by uuilly 14y ago
Qt Creator is a wonderful IDE. I've used many and never seen one better. And the Qt libs are underrated for non-gui systems development.
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by uuilly 14y ago
"Nothing to Envy" is a phenomenal read. Highly recommend it.
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by uuilly 14y ago
What time are the applications due? It just says Nov 2. Should I assume just after 11:59 Nov 1st?
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by uuilly 14y ago
Science can only describe the physical world, it can't tell you what to do about it. The Nazis had plenty of highly placed scientists. Woodrow Wilson did too and they were in favor of eugenics. The deification of science is a life raft post
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by uuilly 14y ago
This is true. They will contact you if they need "brick" sized art for the horizontal auto-scroll headline apps. They also may contact you if your app is in "hold for developer release" while they're making their decision. If you are in con
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by uuilly 14y ago
So on one hand, the world is rife with thieves and scoundrels and the state is the only thing standing between what we have now and Mad Max. On the other hand you're willing to entrust people working for the state with with powers undreamed
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by uuilly 14y ago
Uber, AirBNB and Food Trucks are interesting for two reasons: 1) They are on a collision course with the regulatory state. 2) Their employees are, by and large, young liberals. Cab medallions are not much different in concept than wind and
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by uuilly 14y ago
I worked at Boeing for 4 years and they paid for pretty much any education you wanted and as much of it as you wanted. It's not that abnormal for big companies to do this.
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by uuilly 14y ago
I worked for a company that made the first two street view systems. They also contributed a lot to the robocar project and eventually got bought by google to work on Chauffeur. The sensors and math that provide the perception component of c
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by uuilly 14y ago
Willy dot Pell at gmail dot com
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by uuilly 14y ago
I wrote an implementation of this for this project: http://vimeo.com/uuorld It's MUCH harder if you want adjacent borders to line up w/o gaps. You have to find all shared verts, run the smoothing algo on them, do the same for the coastlin

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