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Tell HN: Recruiters and Bizarre Skillsets
2 points by watmough 15y ago|8 comments
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by watmough 15y ago
I originally built this app around one of the Apple streaming samples, just so I could listen to Dandelion Radio, a station in the UK. I ended up adding in panel animation, and stream-scraping / detection from Google. Eventually, I decided
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Show HN: My Simple Clock Radio iPhone App(itunes.apple.com)
1 points by watmough 15y ago|1 comments
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by watmough 15y ago
That's awesome. And if Google wanted to do it in the US, they could just rent a freight car, or perhaps even build a set of cameras into a standard freight container.
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by watmough 15y ago
Darn, this article got posted about the same time I submitted a link. I did post that, since I did get bogged down for an hour or so reading the other posts on the site. The author appears to be a female sysadmin, in Ireland, with some time
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by watmough 15y ago
This is some awesome writing. Bookmarked.
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Mid-1970s UK Research into Electric Cars(noconsensus.wordpress.com)
1 points by watmough 15y ago|0 comments
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by watmough 15y ago
This is the part where they are going to need a bunch of money to ramp up. Let's hope these boards work ok, and that RaspPI manage to get their hands on some bridging.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, I wouldn't argue that the iPod shows a vision, but the push on OS X, and other things, from 2004 or so onwards feels in a different league, at least to me, compared to around 2000. Also, look at how slowly OS X improved in the first fe
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by watmough 15y ago
It's moderately ugly. General anaesthesia and a needle into a big bone. Lots of detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematopoietic_stem_cell_transpl...
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by watmough 15y ago
Interesting, as a former, non-gay, UK resident, I'm not allowed to give blood in the US, even though I was allowed to obtain a green-card, and screened for HIV by a US doctor in London. I believed at the time this was due to the UK CJD scar
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by watmough 15y ago
Look for a white cubic box, with vents, on a F350-type / Dodge Sprinter chassis. I'll be keeping my eyes open for these. It seems surprising that this can be permitted, bearing in mind the radiation being broadcast from these machines, in o
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by watmough 15y ago
The only thing I run with any regularity, that feels like it could use more raw horsepower is the Clang/LLVM static-analyzer. Adding an SSD seemed to make no difference, but with luck, the software will get some love and speed up.
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by watmough 15y ago
Great Pythonesque pun there! indented==intended, I'm sure.
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by watmough 15y ago
My interpretation is, that in Apple's case, Steve getting cancer in the mid 2000's appears to have galvanized him, and by extension the entire company. I just read through all John Siracusa's OS X reviews, and things really moved fairly slo
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by watmough 15y ago
From personal experience, texting can work up to about 7,000 feet, but voice didn't. This was about 10 years ago, so things have likely changed.
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by watmough 15y ago
There's obviously nothing wrong with taking pictures of a lemon, but to criticize Norvig for writing a great tutorial on available light photography, illustrated with great portraits of a superb subject, then to have almost nothing of compa
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, I agree, Peter Norvig gave a fantastic, all-points overview of why most people struggle to get pictures to come out in poor situations, then gave buying recipes for tools that actually work in low lighting. Of course, back in the days
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by watmough 15y ago
This is hilarious. The author disparages Norvig, from the shaky ground of apparently having barely one decent photograph to his name. I restrained myself earlier from posting a comment to the effect that Norvig had demonstrated, but not str
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by watmough 15y ago
I believe the Go model is based on CSP. A cursory look at Go reminded me of some time I spent writing OCCAM code.
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by watmough 15y ago
Never thought of that. Of course, it explains why even super integrated, cost-engineered laptops like the MBP and even the iMac have a little PCIe card running the WiFi. One benefit of this, is that there is a thriving marker for these thin
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by watmough 15y ago
"convert them to pdf or something" Yeah, that's what TeX does.
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by watmough 15y ago
Not the whole thing, but you could start with this: http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Typesetting-Volumes-Boxed-Se... [looks sadly at own unread copy sigh ]
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by watmough 15y ago
If only I had the social skills! Yeah, hopefully something will turn up. I'm actually not that bad. I worked in an consulting shop for 4 years and commuted across the US every week.
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by watmough 15y ago
I believe it's a commonly available theme. Seen it in a few places. I also think its terrible.
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by watmough 15y ago
I've just spent two years bringing up my daughter (and iPhone apps on the side at night), whilst my wife works. Highly recommended, if you can swing it, at least once. Now, how to get back in the work-force...
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by watmough 15y ago
In at least one case, they drove a company to adopt GNU/Linux. http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh Interview with Sterling Ball of the Ernie Ball company.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yeah, the main secret to being happy, at least for me, is a highly developed ability to simply not care about things that I can't influence, or that just really don't matter in the broad scheme of things. Of course, I care that those around
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by watmough 15y ago
This really shouldn't be news to anyone that's married to a fairly emotional spouse.
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by watmough 15y ago
I did ok getting 8 back in 1983, one of the smartish kids. Then 5 highers then university at 16. I find the thought of 20 absolutely bone-chilling.

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