colinshark

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by colinshark 10y ago
The car of the future fixes many of the problems, and it fits right into existing infrastructure. Think autonomous electric single/dual occupant taxis (2+ per lane). We are still a ways off, but this is where things are headed. We migh
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by colinshark 11y ago
It's not settled. These links are annoying.
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by colinshark 11y ago
"You know, stuff we needed but didn’t necessarily have a budget for. So, when this money comes in, it’s considered extra" Except municipalities explicitly write expected seizures into their annual budgets. They literally must seiz
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by colinshark 11y ago
I can't get past the fact that the software, in order to interact with the 3D world, will be expensive and cumbersome to make. Also, people (your income) born before AR tech generally don't want hardware on their face. This, and H
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by colinshark 11y ago
The message has an equally probably of decoding to ANY message. You essentially have no information to work with.
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by colinshark 11y ago
I enjoy driving each morning, and it makes me happy. Sports car, windows down, cold air, a warmed up engine. Few things are better.
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by colinshark 12y ago
Can I get a less intense summary?
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by colinshark 12y ago
Will this era be known for a glut of optimistic but worthless technologies?
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by colinshark 12y ago
Sounds like Riddley Walker.
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by colinshark 13y ago
The post is negative because the productivity posts are bad and make HN worse. The alternative is to post ANYTHING other than "These 5 weird things are making you procrastinate" and similar.
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by colinshark 13y ago
Multithreaded code is more difficult to write and more complex to debug by any objective measure. "There are difficult multithreading scenarios, just as there are difficult scenarios in the single-threaded world. But those are relative
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by colinshark 13y ago
I think the difference here is that the goal is more ambitious (100% diet replacement). Ensure is explicitly a dietary supplement. The marketing, cost, flavor, and nutrient profile reflect that. It's like wanting to enter a high end au
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by colinshark 13y ago
The problem of radioactive waste... Let's put it this way: In exchange for clean, constant, domestically sourced, almost unlimited energy for an entire year, each person must dispose of or store their waste, which is the size of... A pill o
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by colinshark 13y ago
It's easier and cheaper to make a shotgun with 2 pipes, an end cap, and a screw. I'm not exaggerating the simplicity. http://www.issafrica.org/armsnetafrica/sites/default/files/2... Guns are simple. Guns are 17th century technology.
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by colinshark 13y ago
The car may be expensive, but covered rear wheels are not expensive.
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by colinshark 13y ago
Another analogy: Mechanical watches. There are no good reasons to own them besides just liking them.
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by colinshark 13y ago
We shouldn't be able to patent any idea just by running it on a "processor and memory". I'm convinced that trademark and copyright gives us all the IP tools we need. Patents can get f'ed.
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by colinshark 13y ago
If the US is going to field these weapons, we need to be cool with Russia and China tossing around non-nuclear ICBMs- because that is what this is.
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by colinshark 14y ago
Seems like LiveJournal did the "followers" thing first.
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by colinshark 14y ago
The option to enable/disable the nav bar seems ridiculous until a website disables it for you. The option is there to re-enable it.
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by colinshark 14y ago
No. It's just a matter of having advanced options or not. Each level of customization should be progressively more hidden but more powerful.
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by colinshark 14y ago
I guess I'm tooting my own horn now, but one of the original design choices for my game was to allow player-hosted servers. I don't want my game to die when I stop supporting it. Matchmaking is centralized, but the game can be configured fo
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by colinshark 14y ago
Ideally, you have 60fps AND motion blur, for a picture most approximating reality. The fancy games have motion blur. Any game without motion blur is going to show momentary disjointed images, which is alleviated by motion blur. However, you
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by colinshark 14y ago
No, because there is no single ideal price for anything. The ideal price varies between customers. Real world: Customer A thinks the $14 pizza is overpriced. No sale. Customer B thinks the $14 pizza is delicious and worth it. Would pay up t
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by colinshark 14y ago
You're right, because no successful tech companies have ever been started by programmers, with programmer-designed UIs.
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by colinshark 14y ago
When I started developing and selling my own product, my obsession on code quality definitely relaxed. First and foremost, it's now about the end product and not the code. It's painful for an engineer to be told to do MORE with less time an
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by colinshark 14y ago
This bike essentially requires the same skilled labor to build as a carbon fiber bike. Its only claim to fame is that it doesn't use the $8 (guess) of steel you need to build a standard bike frame. The rest of the components cost about $90.
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by colinshark 14y ago
"1. The iPad eats the consumer PC market. This is happening right now. In the third quarter of 2012, PC sales were down 8 percent on a year-over-year basis worldwide. In the U.S., sales were down 14 percent. A big chunk of the decline can b
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by colinshark 14y ago
"The company has deliberately avoided filing patents on its heat exchanger technology to avoid details of how it works - particularly the method for preventing the build-up of frost - becoming public." Evidence that the main use case for pa
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by colinshark 14y ago
...And brands like BonLook and Warby Parker are disrupting the old industry right now. My wife and friends (24-27 years old) have been getting their glasses at $100 a pop, no strings attached, from these companies for a few years.

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