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by uuilly 14y ago
A non-trivial percentage of "rock star" software engineers are not capable of behaving themselves. The causes are varied. Some have been so busy getting A's and working upwards that they never formed lateral bonds with their peers. Some hav
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by uuilly 15y ago
Yikes. We have a version awaiting review that migrates us off udids. We need the udid for one last login before they get an oauth token. Perhaps we will get lucky and apple won't test a migration bc fresh installs don't use it. This really
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by uuilly 15y ago
The government octopus is on the loose. Its tentacles pluck a software company for questioning once every few months. Last time Google had to defend its search algorithms before Congress. Apple's address book is a subject of interest on the
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by uuilly 15y ago
Fantastic book. He also talks a lot about how being good at one thing doesn't make you good at another. Sowell's notion of effective intelligence is rooted more in experience than in aptitude. So a scientist with no political experience is
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by uuilly 15y ago
Agreed. I think asking questions is more a trait of successful people. Most of the very high IQ people I've worked with have been much more likely to make bad decisions by not asking questions than lower IQ people. When I interview people I
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by uuilly 15y ago
For the last two years I worked on autonomous cars. The one thing everyone in our company agreed on, regardless of political persuasion, was that robo-cars were going to thunder fuck the high speed rail. A 2033 deadline makes this all but c
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Steve, Gizmodo and the untold story of the lost iPhone.(thewirecutter.com)
78 points by uuilly 15y ago|1 comments
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Peter Thiel: The End of the Future(nationalreview.com)
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by uuilly 15y ago
Yeah, I moved to SF from DC about a month after that one. Still here. At a third startup :)
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by uuilly 15y ago
I agree. But the energy was undeniable.
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by uuilly 15y ago
I would. A friend who works at Zynga showed me around a week ago. It looked like Wall St. meets Silicon Valley. Real-time metrics scrolled across flat screens. And huge teams of engineers packed into single rooms plotted different ways to b
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by uuilly 15y ago
Rich people do awesome things all the time. Most investment vehicles are essentially loans to businesses to help them grow. As long as the money is not in the mattress, it's probably doing something awesome for whatever business or person i
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by uuilly 15y ago
Or you rent your car out to the grid rather than park it. Like air-bnb for cars.
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by uuilly 15y ago
Regulation and fear are to be expected. The question is, what to do about them? I predict the largest PR campaign in the history of technology. Public opinion generally drives regulation. So less public fear will lead to less regulation.
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by uuilly 15y ago
Then the question becomes: Would the drug problem exist without the CIA? a) Yes. b) Yes but slightly less bad. c) No. 'c' is unreasonable 'a' and 'b' are reasonable answers. Now: Would the concentration camps exist with or without the North
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by uuilly 15y ago
Making a concentration camp is intentional. Allowing a drug war to proliferate is neglect. Intent matters in criminal sentencing and it matters here.
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by uuilly 15y ago
They certainly didn't help you with a picture of the hardware. [edit] Being serious. They're selling a computer without showing a picture of it. I was surprised.
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by uuilly 15y ago
The factory calibration on the 64 diodes of the velodyne is bad. It needs to be fixed. There is a paper out of Stanford that tells you how to fix it. I can't think of the name off the top of my head but if you email me I can dig it up. Also
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by uuilly 15y ago
The riegl for sure. Others have made the velodyne work.
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by uuilly 15y ago
There are other ways to get even greater accuracy than an applanix. But they require pre-indexing the surroundings and using a lidar to position yourself within the "virtual" world.
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by uuilly 15y ago
While too advanced for the phone at this stage, there is something called "direct inertial aiding" that solves this problem. Basically it uses the gyro to estimate the position during a gps outage and then it can tell the GPS where to look
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by uuilly 15y ago
It should be possible to get a best fit curve between all the towers to get a more accurate position.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Was not meant to be at all. Hang around the valley long enough and you'll see this happen a million times. I've been that technical founder and I've worked for the same type of guy. Self realization is difficult as is forced growth. Justin
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by uuilly 16y ago
Justin, what a great story about self-realization and growth. This is a very common problem among young, successful, technical entrepreneurs. But it seldom turns out as well as it did with you. Good luck and Godspeed.
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by uuilly 16y ago
Bureaucrats and politicians who make ad-hoc decisions like this do a lot of indirect damage to companies. What they have effectively done is raised uncertainty for businesses in SF. Will we get a break? Will our competition? Etc, etc. Uncer
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by uuilly 16y ago
Languages are tools. Da Vinci with a mop and a bucket of mud would be a better painter than me. In fact I recently saw a video where Kelly Slater surfed a door and a coffee table as impressively as most weekend warriors surf on $700 custom
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by uuilly 16y ago
Lawyers make more money because teachers are willing to work for less than lawyers.
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by uuilly 16y ago
That's exactly what I was trying to say. It's true, some people come out of the womb requiring very little discipline. My sister, for example, would yell from her car seat, "Quiz me!" And we had her doing multiplication tables before she c
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by uuilly 16y ago
The most depressing people I know were the results of either laissez fair parenting or overbearing parenting. If you let a kid do what he wants, he'll eat coco-puffs, watch TV and eventually turn to drugs and booze. If you're constantly o
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by uuilly 16y ago
I don't think founders should concern themselves with fixing the inequities of the world. And I think it's in society's interest to place as little burden as possible on people who make goods or provide services that improve productivity. I

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