lukedoolittle

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   by lukedoolittle 5y ago

   I feel like for a lot of us, at its most basic level, software development is truly creative. It's not the activity that people traditionally associate with the term "creative outlet" but for me at least it's akin to com
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   by lukedoolittle 6y ago

   I don't know if this changes anything but I think the actual bet is described by the line >I bet you US$1,000 that in the year 2020, we're not even close to the kind of disaster you describe—a convergence of three disasters: gl
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   by lukedoolittle 9y ago

   Yes, thanks for the clarification. Continuous/background syncing is the difficult task.
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   by lukedoolittle 9y ago

   I tried to make a demo app to perform very simple HTTP p2p and found this difficult on iOS. When an app is backgrounded you have ~17 seconds to stop execution or the OS will kill any active threads UNLESS the activity is among the Apple per
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   by lukedoolittle 10y ago

   I don't think the mainstream of pragmatic Machine Learning/AI (deep neural networks, reenforcement learning, etc) is really working toward that goal. However there are some who are trying to create a "software simulation of t
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   by lukedoolittle 10y ago

   Tis already happening. http://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-already-dec...