iridium

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by iridium 9y ago
Wouldn't a lossy JPEG (or HEIC) compression reduce the entropy?
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by iridium 9y ago
Something I read a while ago that stuck with me - ‘When you are looking for a new opportunity, you are really just looking for a person.’ This reframing totally changed how I look for new jobs, and what suprised me more was how willing peop
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by iridium 9y ago
I think Tufte is great, and his ideas of reductionism should never go away. But, this is giving me MLA flashbacks all over again.
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by iridium 9y ago
Resetting settings made a huge difference. Does not delete any data, only the settings across the phone
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by iridium 9y ago
I have to disagree. However well intended, It sets up an unnecessary expectation, similar to your birthday. If you’ve ever gone through a birthday where nobody wished you, I don’t think you would want a maintainer to ever feel that.
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by iridium 9y ago
Have you read the book Traction yet? It provides a very usable growth framework. More importantly, It also allows you to start thinking of marketing as a testable iterative process, and this simple change in mindset can do wonders for the e
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by iridium 9y ago
Slightly OT: The biggest collective fiction today is probably this idea that as tech person, we can change the world, and as a result we should try to change the world. Anything less impactful feels like a waste of potential. The general s
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by iridium 9y ago
Selection bias is something worth avoiding in understanding health studies. It’s quite likely that you know about these folks because they had the right genetics to be healthy outliers, and by extension, famous. It’s no different than sayi
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by iridium 9y ago
This comment made me realize why I never remember summaries of self help books. Using examples makes it easier to relate and remember, whereas summaries require an additional step of mapping an ongoing situation to a stored summary in your
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by iridium 11y ago
I'll agree on the debt side. The grade issue is infinitely worse in a lot of competitive cultures. Even if you take the money factor away, Have non-US universities really figured out higher education? Most of them tend to either be a l
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by iridium 11y ago
Even though this incident sounds more personal than idealistic, it keeps bringing back up the question of the purpose of universities. I am okay with universities being a medium of education, where one can take any courses they want, and pa
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by iridium 14y ago
It doesn't hurt that Microsoft is able to hire the best engineering grads, pay them 100k, and convince them that writing documentation for .NET is a better deal than building some pseduo cool product somewhere else at half the pay. The very
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by iridium 14y ago
Why all the hate for "Big Data"? Other than that it is a shiny MBA term that cannot, god forbid be part of hacker terminology. Lets focus on the Enterprise tools sector, since this is a large, rich market that is yet to be tapped properly
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by iridium 14y ago
Three finger scrolling works on a mac (Lion). I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect. EDIT: The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its probably not that much more efficient.
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by iridium 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand this correctly. After buying the app and then asking someone for a favor - now they need to plunk down for the app to view the favor? I'm not sure they are going to want to do the favor at that point.
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by iridium 14y ago
I agree with MVP and your anecdotes - less bloat, all the better, but from a UI/UX perspective, let me give you a few examples of what usually gets thrown out in a mobile first design: Dropdown menus - Mobile first almost always means multi
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by iridium 14y ago
Good points, but I dont agree with this: >> 14. Design for mobile first (even if a mobile app is not in your roadmap). The constraints of a mobile context will force you to focus on what’s essential, and help you cut what’s not need
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by iridium 14y ago
Estimation becomes a lot easier a few weeks into any project. Once you have the framework and an overall story down, and you start getting your hands dirty with a few classes, the estimation numbers start to have more confidence and weight.
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by iridium 14y ago
You would surprised to see how mind numbingly similar the middle class is across all the states in India. Or for that matter similar to middle classes across the world. Also - I dont think breaking it up will solve anything - If anything p
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by iridium 14y ago
Yup. The 3 satellites will be used for primary communication along with an X-band transmitter on the rover itself to talk to earth. Edit: Link (communications): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Specifications
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by iridium 14y ago
Is it the angle of the photo - or did he just melt the pcb in Photo#4 in order to wipe out the A and figure out what chip it was?
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by iridium 14y ago
The book is from 1996, but you are right, I did jump the gun there. It seems the 747 example itself has been around much longer than that - http://www.bpfh.net/sysadmin/never-underestimate-bandwidth.h... Apologies if I offended.