chadgeidel

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by chadgeidel 9y ago
.plan wars. Oh the memories!
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Happy subscriber to Newsblur here too, I actually prefer it to Google Reader, primarily due to the high-quality iOS app.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I really miss the "Q&A sites" like The Conversatron from the late 90's/early 00's https://www.everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron Hours of enjoyment from a very simple concept. EDIT: Oh,
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
You had to upgrade to a X when a 8 or a 7 was available - or even a new battery for $80?
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
As long as there have been cellular phones, they have been "fashion accessories". We all joke about the business guy with the giant phone, but that was the "iPhone X" of the 80's.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
When I was at <fairly large financial research website company> they had a prototype VR research project that was shown to a few people. Never seemed to gain any traction, and I didn't hear why.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Probably because a large percentage of their customers don't actually care about expansion. I don't know - I don't have access to Apple's sales demographics, but I would be hard-pressed to think the reason was "mali
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Bob Lutz is almost the Steve Jobs of the auto world. At least in his own mind. :-)
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Yeah, I wasn't super clear about my scenario. I have a "all skills" resume and I pare that down for each job.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
That's essentially what I do. First page is all I expect the interviewer to read. My resume is 2 pages for >10 years of experience. I agressively delete unrelated skills and promote related skills based on the job description.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Some ideas I've had luck with: Have one actionable item per email. State a question in the subject. Expect a clear answer (not quite "yes/no" but something definite). Spend a short time (one or two paragraphs describing
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'd settle for not remembering a word I type incorrectly on a tiny screen all the time (without a prompt). No "yiu" isn't a word, stop suggesting it.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'm not dismissing it. On the contrary, I can't wait for brain-machine interfaces. I can't wait for really good self-driving cars. I'm just not as optimistic as many of my colleagues.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I believe the merging Sam is referring to here is augmenting human intelligence with non-intelligent (but better) machines. Kurzweil talks about this as well, and was one of the original options in Vinge's "Singularity" ( htt
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'd be happy if my phone's autocorrect feature would actually produce sentences with proper spelling and reasonable grammar. Apparently that's still too hard for our mighty machine learning systems. I'm not going to merg
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
That line was a lot lower than I imagined! Surprised that Denver is “too far north”.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I don't know your background but "taking an Excel workbook and using that as requirements to drive an implementation" is not speedy. I've done this several times in my career and it's very, very difficult. Not becau
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Every single push-button start car I've driven has the ability of "engine off, radio on". On the downside my current car (2012 Mini Cooper S - push-button start) will only play the radio for about 10 minutes (??) after the en
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Take a look at this video from Kyle.Engineers (a practicing aerodynamic engineer) YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzlp6TxqM5o
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'd take this one step further. I love cooking, but not for every meal. Some way of automating the entire calorie delivery process with the correct amount of macro/micronutrients. Similar to Soylent - except tailored for me person
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
At the very least the regulations in place granting local monopolies should be immediately rolled back. If a municipal entity wants to provide broadband, any lawsuit against that should be dismissed.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
This is so true and something that is confused all the time by “free speech advocates”. It’s quite frustrating actually. I’m not happy about the amplification of speech that social networks offer, but l’m even more unhappy about the attitud
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I don't see why it's not an endorsement. Money changed hands. The content of reddit's many forums is well known. No one is blind to this. "I didn't give the killer money for a knife, I bought him lunch!"
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
It's fairly easy to do this in Entity Framework. Obviously if you have a giant query it's going to make some "optimizations" that you don't like but if you have a good understanding of your object model and how your
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Even if I use a million sock-puppets to amplify my voice? I generally agree with the idea that one (physical) person's stated opinion shouldn't be squashed, but we are dealing with scale here.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
It's about 45-55 minutes door-to-door in my experience. Doesn't really matter if I drive or ride.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'm 15 miles (24 Km) home to work. I would guess that's a little further than average, but probably not much. That's farther than I would care to ride my bicycle, but the train makes it a quick commute.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
No offense, but have you considered a bicycle? Two miles wouldn't get you sweaty and temperatures are generally mild throughout the winter and summer. Obviously July/August aren't good times to ride in the afternoons. You can
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Streetsblog has extensively covered the Denver parking issue. https://denver.streetsblog.org/category/parking/
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Even reducing the number of free parking spots would help. IMHO free parking isn't actually free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U . The company I work for is building a large new parking structure in my offi

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