aduric

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by aduric 5y ago
Why is the article blaming SoftBank? They bought Arm fair and square. They can do with their acquisitions as they please. Arm is a profit seeking company like every other profit seeking company. They sold themselves to make their founders r
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by aduric 7y ago
So why call it 'autopilot'? Seems like bullshit marketing to me. The first association we make when we hear that term is hands-off, not 'advanced cruise control'. They're specifically using that terminology to sell
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by aduric 9y ago
There is a well-known association between the Godfather movies and oranges. For example, Don Vito has an orange slice in his mouth when he dies in the garden. And yes, the fruit stand scene. There are many more examples. I'm not too fa
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by aduric 9y ago
This is great! I've been working on something like this as well (an automatic tracker for various body movements). Would love to have a chat about how you've accomplished this.
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by aduric 10y ago
It would have been amazing if Jodorowsky's Dune actually got made and released. He really was too far ahead of his time for the studio. I feel that in order to make a roughly 2-hour long film on as complex a subject as what the novel p
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by aduric 11y ago
Even if they are not technically selling at a loss (I actually suspect that they are, but in any case), their opportunity for a particularly high profit margin is something that is priced in to their outlook when they are looking to invest
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by aduric 11y ago
There are a large number of web applications running in IIS under the .NET platform: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/02/april-2014-web-... Also, Microsoft has made some announcements recently t
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by aduric 14y ago
The difference is explained in the book.
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by aduric 14y ago
While I generally tend to stand with McIntyre on the Bayesian vs frequentist debate (whether it is much of a debate anymore given recent advances in AI due to Bayesian techniques for ML is another discussion) I feel that he doesn't adequate
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by aduric 15y ago
Not only does testing help with managing large codebases by being able to make actual assertions about certain parts of the code (to be able to prove correctness) but it also improves the quality of your code. If you're writing code tha
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by aduric 15y ago
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Desire2Learn (www.desire2learn.com) Revolutionize education! We're a fast growing company on the lookout for great talent. We're looking for many roles (more information: http://www.desire2learn.com/careers/ or
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by aduric 15y ago
Agreed. I'm currently writing a package that contains a few sophisticated algorithmic parts and a ton of wiring. I find it much easier to utilize TDD in the wiring sections than in the algorithmic parts. I still use TDD for everything, it
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by aduric 15y ago
"Are hollywood movies really motivating career decisions?" You bet. When Top Gun came out, enrolment in the Navy and Air Force increased substantially. Wall Street in part fuelled the popularity in a career in finance and I'm willing to bet
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by aduric 15y ago
If said company was truly innovative and satisfies the interests of consumers, I'm sure it won't have much trouble raising the cash necessary to continue being a law-abiding citizen.
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by aduric 16y ago
Great post Alex. I've recently started to experiment with Clojure on SemWeb apps, RDF, SPARQL, etc. In your post you talk about how Clojure enables you to abstract better than Java. I was just hoping you would discuss a specific example (ma
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by aduric 16y ago
That's because Turkey keeps their currency artificially bound to the EURO. 2 lira ~ 1 EURO.
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by aduric 16y ago
Not everything is about how much extra x% wage you can pull by going to grad school. I'll admit that that was my thinking when I initially decided to do a masters but in my second year now, I realise the incredible amount of knowledge and e
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by aduric 16y ago
I read your quote, but it was framed in such as way that I got the feeling that you were being self-righteous and shallow. First of all you started off with "Surviving..." Now I don't know anyone with a family who would consider their raiso
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by aduric 16y ago
The actual quote: "It's too bad this had to happen under a proprietary platform with privacy problems."
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by aduric 16y ago
I Like the headline, but the author presents a bunch of regurgitated fluff in the actual article. In the guise of motivation, all I took away from it is that the author is a pompous jackass. I mean, what's wrong with "settling" and taking c
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by aduric 16y ago
I run an emacs --daemon on a powerful server and connect to it from my netbook. Best of both worlds. Just need constant WiFi which I can almost always find.
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by aduric 16y ago
Microsoft was able to make sure that they were the only OS mainly because of hardware makers' tendency to accept the solution that everyone else was going with. If your main competitor offers a Windows stack, why risk going with something
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by aduric 16y ago
I don't think the big reason for Microsoft's ascendancy was their deal-making. They provided a solution to hardware makers who wanted to sell their hardware. Microsoft came in with a cheap software stack that did everything Apple products d
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by aduric 16y ago
Ok, I'll bite. It seems to me that Apple is following a trend they set in the early nineties. Since around 1986 to 1994, Apple introduced some of its most successful consumer products: Macintosh, PowerBook, System 7 (later to become OS X),
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by aduric 16y ago
Substitute Microsoft for Google.
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by aduric 16y ago
In the late 80's Apple faltered because they had a closed system, while Microsoft's products worked on every important platform and thus quickly became ubiquitous. I am simplifying things a little but it seems to me that history will indeed
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by aduric 17y ago
Personally, I like the 9-5 daily regiment. I guess it doesn't have to be a specific time frame, as long as I can block off 8-10 hours per day and do my work only during that time. Another important thing for me is to separate my work enviro
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by aduric 17y ago
I agree. This fits in very nicely with their release early and iterate model. If it works for software, why not hardware as well. I'm surprised they didn't call it Nexus Beta.
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by aduric 17y ago
I agree to an extent. The author should not have been critical of one show and praiseworthy of another. TV is great for winding down and not having to think much. Both shows fill that capacity in a lot of respects. The one glaring omission
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by aduric 17y ago
Precisely. Adobe has two very important footholds on the web: Flash and Acrobat. The web authoring tool landscape is only aimed at developers, a relatively minuscule market. Why would they eat their own tail?

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