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by wicker 12y ago
Not only not a lot of regret, but it really is a chilling comment for its implications. A single brigade-sized unit is something like 4,000 soldiers. So coming up with a multi-brigade-size unit could be twenty thousand veteran American cont
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Swimming Through Garbage(nytimes.com)
1 points by wicker 12y ago|0 comments
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by wicker 12y ago
This is really cool. The other fruit fly project I was impressed by recently was Mihir Garimella's FlyBot: Mimicking Fruit Fly Response Patterns for Threat Evasion [1] which was a quadcopter that demonstrated evasive behavior. I really
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by wicker 12y ago
How do you manage that? I basically said, if I realize I'm bored then I take it as an indicator that there's a deeper problem with me and I should get some sunshine or take a walk. For me, the root of boredom is avoidant behavior.
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by wicker 12y ago
What differentiates those people from the success stories? Misdirected effort? Too much on the lone wolf side of things so they never get feedback (and thus misdirect their effort)? One of my great fears is putting in the study/time an
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by wicker 12y ago
I'm not convinced. I'm in an engineering area but if it's open plan then I'd still be able to see people, hear their (arguably more interesting than sales) conversations, and constantly have to split attention between mo
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by wicker 12y ago
Any chance we could add a single character flag/prefix to titles on the front and search pages to indicate post titles which have been changed?
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by wicker 12y ago
Location: Portland, Oregon Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Embedded systems from circuit schematics, component selection, board layout, assembly, soldering, testing to writing code for microcontrollers (embedded OS or bare
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by wicker 12y ago
Not to feed the trolls, but I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with my smartphone and the societal expectations of availability lately. Phones are effectively tracking devices. Are you saying you don't carry a cellphon
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by wicker 12y ago
I was having trouble with the headphones not being a clear enough signal so I took a 3'x4' black foam posterboard and made a cubicle door. It caused a stir but mostly just in the people who liked to come by and ask me if I'd
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by wicker 13y ago
What language?
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by wicker 13y ago
"When some young idiot fucks up, check to make sure that they are sufficiently freaked out. If they are, no need to yell at them. Instead support them in solving the problem." My first job was as a Marine avionics technician and I
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by wicker 13y ago
Is it common to build a project without using any third party tools or libraries?
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by wicker 13y ago
You can also pick up a domain name and point it at your github repo. I've got wickerbox.net for $10 a year from Namecheap being served out of wicker/wicker.github.com. One of the neat features is that any time you do put in a gh
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by wicker 13y ago
Github and source control are the very first things out of my mouth when someone expresses interest in programming. They were the first things that were recommended to me. I basically say to go get set up on github and walk through the tuto
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Five die, 40 missing after Canadian freight train disaster(reuters.com)
2 points by wicker 13y ago|0 comments
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by wicker 13y ago
All of those appear to be in Icelandic. Is there any significance of the Snowden bill in particular being in English? EDIT: Oh right, just saw that the link's through Google Translate. My bad.
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Chicago Sun-Times lays off photo staff(chicagotribune.com)
3 points by wicker 13y ago|0 comments
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by wicker 14y ago
The joke's on them. The ticket will go to the R&D department of the driverless cab company.
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by wicker 14y ago
Any chance you know where I could find that list or something like it?
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by wicker 14y ago
Are your downvotes coming because of you specifically suggesting github or are they because of the underlying idea? I think the idea's good. I had a group projects in a coding-intensive course (not distance) this summer and one of our membe
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A Trans-Atlantic Trip Turns Kafkaesque(nytimes.com)
13 points by wicker 14y ago|10 comments
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by wicker 14y ago
Was it this one by Raganwald? http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people
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by wicker 14y ago
Do you have a source for this number that accounts for women who have labelled themselves 'M' in order to avoid harassment? It's common among my friends to do so, which goes back to Anita's original point on misogyny having effects in games
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by wicker 15y ago
Those sponsorships exist already -- they're called internships. What would be great would be a FOSS-only list of internships and push for a change where a remote internship was more common, which I think is more what you're getting at with
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by wicker 15y ago
I completely agree with you on the merits of the program. Why don't more companies do it on the scale of GSOC? Organizing it must take multiple full-time people. It'd be great to see more programs where students get paid for their work but