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I'm attempting this (360 video street-view) for Buenos Aires.

It is certainly feasible but there are many factors involved, starting from the right lens to dealing with the bureaucracy when trying to acquire permits.

Storage is an issue. A couple of city blocks means a few GB without compression. Since I'm shooting for high quality, I need a better solution than a measly notebook.

Of course, I'm just a mere mortal without an appropriate income for this stuff. Google could do this in their sleep.
It feels wrong, I agree, but the individual sensors are dirt cheap. From poking around on farnell.com, it seems likely that the total bulk value of the sensors is probably south of a few dollars per unit, which is much, much cheaper than introducing the complexity and brittleness of modularity.
There's a google tech talk video on it by
the student on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWbEsDbfayc
Right, and it's going to be much better than solar panels given that they'll be able to do science before landing and also at night! Here's why it's totally secure: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20111121/NEWS02/31121001...
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The only way the NFL could hope to come anywhere near fixing a game is the either a) change the rules to benefit certain team makesup (as they have done to make passing/scoring easier) or b) get the refs to call fouls more against a certain team.

b) is watched frequently and doesn't seem to be happening statistically a) has occurred but it's not secret and all teams know the rules. It's not really 'fixing' as much as it was the NFL wanting more scoring overall.

There is no way for the NFL to do mass game fixing because that's just too many people that have to agree to doing it. Keep in mind this means they would need current players, ex-players and the ex disgruntled players too all agree to not talk. I've talked to players from all 3 groups at the gym and fixing a game is simply something that doesn't happen. Some of these guys are very negative on the NFL and would have loved to say it's fake if it was true.
I see a big difference between what they show on their site (space helmets?! NASA will be pleased to know that somebody solved the design problems of their $12M/piece space suit) and what's actually for sale (candle holders, wallets and vases). It's their small world, giving each other design awards for things that we will never see because they are physically impossible.
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"The non-designer's design book" is really great, I learned a lot from it. It helps to know these things, even though I am a software developer and normally do little to no design work for my clients.

Currently I read "Visual Language for Designers" (-) which is also very interesting. It describes how our brain processes visual information and how you can use this to create better (easier to understand) designs.

(-) http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Language-Designers-Principles-U...
Play-action works on two levels:

1. The linebackers and safeties forget to watch the linemen, and watch the backfield. This isn't exactly dumb, because it's easy to take a bad angle on a runningback if you're paying too much attention to the linemen.

2. The linemen take one hard step forward, but not enough to get downfield, and then pass set.

One thing to remember about the NFL is that every single step matters. A linebacker doesn't have to run into the line and tackle the runningback for play-action to be effective. All he has to do is take one or two steps towards the line of scrimmage when he should be moving backwards and you can complete a pass over him.
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And it's even worse than that - 20/30 years ago most of those none law/medicine degrees would have got somebody a VP type job. Now a non-professional degree gets you an entry level secretary job.

If you compare the lifetime earnings of a rare graduate 30years ago with those of a new 'social studies' type grad today it will be a lot worse
Maybe it is a weight sensor in his food bowl? Or a camera pointing to the stack of dog food cans?
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This seems like a useful addition. I hope it will gain traction (if the impl is sober, I haven't tried it out yet).

My main issue with backbone are the Collection shortcomings (like this one) which require just the kind of boilerplate-workarounds that are so easy to get subtly wrong.

Another example would be the lack of infrastructure for nested Collections (e.g. cf. https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/483#issueco...).

I understand that backbone doesn't want to grow fat in the core. However it would be nice to see a standard library emerge to cover these very common requirements (perhaps call it "ribcage"?).
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They've been in use for decades in everything from Soviet lighthouses to space probes including Cassini, New Horizons, both Voyagers, both (famous) Pioneers, both Viking landers, the Apollo Moon landing missions, etc, etc.

There are probably a lot of clever, new and interesting things about Curiosity, this isn't one of them.
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I'll stick to the US. I don't think I'd enjoy reducing my consumption/income to Swedish levels.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-economy-in-o...
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Without going into the specifics of the GRPN stock, I like the meta-ness of the concept. (i.e. 'strange loop')

Kind of like git being developed on git [1].

[1] - http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=e83c5163316f...
1. Why would management care about the price? The founders and early investors have already taken a lot of cash out. (one of warning signs in this IPO, btw)

2. I expect it's (mostly) illegal for a company to manipulate their stock. One option is to buy back shares, but I doubt that's a good use for their cash at this stage.

3. Even if illegal methods were an option, how would they keep the price up?
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Follow up thoughts from Miles Sabin, expert group member for JSR-51 (Java Nio):

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> if the impl is sober, I haven't tried it out yet

The way Backbone is structured (or this could be my limited understanding of it), you have to hack it at a very low level to get something like this going. Some people may have concerns with respect to Backbone.js upgrades breaking this. However, if you have test coverage in your app, upgrading backbone.js should not be an issue. It has worked well for us from 0.3.3 through 0.5.3 for example.
OK Brilliant. Im going to try this right now - Thanks! ;-)
That assumes that every sale is identical and that the lessons one need learn to make a $150,000.00 sale are identical to those one need learn to sell something for $150.00.
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Spot on. It's about deception and freezing a defender for a split second. Players at this level are very well matched physically and very few players can simply out run or overpower someone. You need to deceive defenders to get yourself that 1/2 step of space to gain an extra yard or two.
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kind of like... https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:yTNyEk0hQd8J:...
Without RTG, missions beyond Jupiter are not possible. There is the Juno probe launched recently, which runs on solar panels, but those things are pretty hefty (60m^2 surface area) and a much greater weight than an equivalent RTG.

This means limited missions up to Jupiter (or perhaps Saturn) and no further exploration of the Kuiper belt.
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The difference between something in a lab and a commercial product -- or even something that is moderately usable in uncontrolled conditions -- is often vastly underestimated. The effort to make something real is probably several orders of magnitude harder than what's required for "I can hack something up in a couple of weeks."
> And where does the risk of "losing all the money you've invested" come from?

There's usually a window between shipping the item and receiving payment. Also, there's the risk the client will file a claim against you and get PayPal to side with him.
Some people think that these power sources are actually devices which NASA will use to 'ignite' Saturn or Jupiter into a second Sun: The Lucifer Project [1]

There exist a Skeptoid episode about this, explaining that this is impossible. [2]

"But the main reason that an RTG could not explode like a weapon is its structure. Each of Cassini's three RTGs contains 72 marshmallow-sized pellets of plutonium, each weighing about 150 grams, and each separately enclosed in iridium inside a shock-proof graphite impact shell. Four of each of these are enclosed within one of 18 separate General Purpose Heat Shell modules, each with its own separate heat shield and impact shell. Should any kind of crash or problem happen, including breaking up during a re-entry, these impact shells separate from each other and scatter.

Conversely, in order to detonate Pu-238, you need a single critical mass of solid plutonium weighing at least 10 kg. This critical mass has to be imploded with a simultaneous explosion from all sides, applying sudden pressure precisely from all angles at the same exact instant. Obviously this couldn't happen with an RTG design. Although each RTG does theoretically have enough plutonium to make up a critical mass, there isn't any way that it could all be brought together into the right shape. "

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_Project
[2] http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4143
Without void * there would be no malloc(), calloc(), free(), qsort(), etc.

More importantly, there is no void * in the article.

Even more importantly, it's a "silly puzzle" as already mentioned in the article. How do you conclude from that C programmers who love such puzzles don't understand OO? That's a very unscientific thing to say.
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This happens so often with early start-ups, including my own.

I wish someone had told me; Build something that provides an basic minimum quantum of utility. Release it immediately. Iterate.

Or maybe they did tell me, but I wasn't listening.
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Does the Doom3 source code includes RoE? There's no Mac port of RoE so now it could be possible to port it.
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I just created an account and found that most of profiles are obvious fake. Almost of all profiles share the same characteristic: a simple one-liner comment and an irrelevant picture of this area, which is uploaded within twelves hours. Kudos to the founder of Badoo, who focused on giving the "user experience" from fake and false profiles, which are "manually curated" to hook up the guys who lost his mind from the urgent urge uprising from his gun.

I bet this kind of service wouldn't take off in my country where lots of 18-34 are already sharing comments and photos real-time and real-location at a mind-splitting rate using their smart phones. Lots of photoshopped pictures, but at least, they're real and they talk back, definitely better "user experience."

As a side note, in my country, a television program features a college girl who boasts that she didn't have to spend a penny for expensive meals and gifts, as she has more than two hundred "SNS friends" who agreed to buy her dinners. It's indeed not an exceptional case. Definitely possible.
So are these apps that are free on the market, but have ads in the app? It wasn't completely clear in the quote.
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The net can route around censorship. People will just have to get used to encrypting their stuff, using proxies, hiding their DNS requests, and support ISPs that resist. Maybe it will spark the demand for more off-shore data centers.

A "dark net" is highly unlikely given the geographic dispersion of our populations and the high-cost of infrastructure for moving signals over those kinds of distances.
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I agree that most sports are better live. The problem is that NFL games have so many TV timeouts now that watching NFL games live gets boring. There is so much downtime, that it's not worth the $100+ for a ticket anymore.
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The description of the solution sounds like a Factory to me. Is the Identity Map any different to a Factory approach?
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The basic principles do apply for the most part. I think that's why most people suck at sales. They think that there's some voodoo once you get above $1,000 or $100,000 and learning anything about sales at a level below that just isn't worth it. False.

It's all basically the same ideas just applied differently at varying scales.
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It was Brian Westbrook for the Eagles on Dec 1, 2007. He actually just dropped at the 1 because the Cowboys had no timeouts left and the game was effectively over with a 1st down. I believe in the post game interview he acknowledged that he did it because that's how he wastes the opponents time in Madden games.

Maurice Jones-Drew did the same thing in 2009 against the Jets.
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I believe it has more to do with how much data you can get your hands on. With the kinect - widely available depth data, and cloud computing, I believe a lot of things that seemed difficult are now possible. Open source movement needs to start shifting to crowd sourced data and volunteered compute time movement.
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I don't get it, where's the class on multi-tier server architecture? Load-balancing techniques? Server scaling? Database / backend performance best practices? I appreciate the focus on the front-end, and YSlow best practices, but I'm surprised that this kind of class is completely neglecting the backend - which is just as, if not more important, for scaling a major production website.
I thought Pu-238 was not even fissile.
Why not just get these changes upstream?

Also, instead of forking it on GitHub, he just reuploaded the whole thing again (https://github.com/fabiensanglard/Doom3-for-MacOSX-) so that others cannot easily merge these changes. And neither in his repo nor in his post, there is a reference to the original repo (https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl).

Also, on the original repo, there were already a few fixes for Xcode4 and there is also a pull request with further fixes (https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/pull/13). I haven't checked it myself but it might actually work already.

Btw., further development is probably going on here: http://www.iodoom3.org/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277150) (https://github.com/TimeDoctor/iodoom3)
They are a little sparse on the details in their marketing. Apparently the tags have embedded custom 915MHz radios and MEMS accelerometers in them.

Articles with a little more about them:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/green-goose-sensors-monit...

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Yes, they are different. The Factory Pattern is a pretty basic creational pattern. An Identify Map is more specialized. It specifically exists to avoid having multiple instances of the same entity.

An identity map doesn't create objects, but it does cache and short-circuit the creation.

If you did:

id = 1
userA = Factory.create(:user, id)
userB = Factory.create(:user, id)

You should reasonably expect userA and userB to be different instances. If you asked an Identity Map for the same thing, they'd be the same instance.
I suspect everyone that is surprised about Groupon's IPO have actually never followed one before. The IPO price is completely arbitrary, it's chosen before the stock is on the open market. It's a guess, and falling below that price doesn't have that much meaning. I thought GRPN's initial price was too high anyway
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i agree with byoung2. you should always negotiate. If you don't ask, then they will never offer. BUT as others said do your research to see what the average salary is and when negotiating don't throw in an unreasonable amount.

For example if they offer $60,000 don't counter with $100,000! Most corporations have a budget for each FTE they hire and they almost ALWAYS bring that down by a lot and start the negotiating with that. If the person takes it then good for the corporation and if not, they have some room to get the best price for both parties.

when it's at the point of negotiating a salary, it's almost guaranteed you have the job so just be reasonable and they'll meet you half way. When i was a new grad (5 years ago) they offered me $50K. I countered with $60K. they came back with $55 and based on my performance the first year they would push it to $60 the following year.
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> One way to avoid the problem is to remember to pass the ticket object from the collection to the model and not instantiate a new one.

My initial thought exactly.

> However, as your app grows complex, you will not be able to keep a track of all the places where an object with a particular id is being initialized.

That's a bit vague. Why not?

This seems not much more than trying to standardize a global registry lookup for your models. Why not just make your collection globally accessible, and reference the fetched model with

$app.tickets.get(id)

?
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(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910)

I have no idea about the link you posted; did it look like it was banned by the software, or did it look like it was flagged? It sounds like the kind of thing that I would flag.
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As for me, I switched from the French competitor Deezer to Spotify in a heartbeat, when Spotify's client totally blew my expectations with zero latency.

So I guess it does help you win the game. But of course it's not the only factor.
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Interesting.

Somebody also suggested "The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist", by Frederick P. Brooks (Mythical Man Month) ... http://amzn.to/ueRrkv
> This seems not much more than trying to standardize a global registry lookup for your models. Why not just make your collection globally accessible, and reference the fetched model with

Because the collection could be inside another object. Also there would be other places in the app where ticket models are being initialized. By defining/having to refer to global variables, you are just writing code that is harder to maintain.

The identity map approach is more like Rails where in a single request, the same SQL does not hit the db again and just returns the pre-fetched results. You don't have to think about where else you are fetching the same records ever.
Desktop software specific to one platform? Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that.
They can easily merge those changes. You just have to use the git command line. It's possible to merge in a separate repo. Like so:

git remote add d3mac https://github.com/fabiensanglard/Doom3-for-MacOSX-.git
git fetch d3mac
git merge d3mac/master
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Just to make it clear, I am not associated with the book in any way, but impulsively bought it on Amazon after seeing this video.

As I pore through subsequent chapters, it strikes a chord with me and is based on well researched psychological experiments conducted at various universities. It's worth a buy imho.
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What works for one may not work for others. There have been just as many (if not more) 'ah-ha' moments while interacting with others as in isolation. I've also noticed that creativity can create it's own isolation. World tends to go away while on a real creativity bender. Again different strokes etc.
3. Short squeeze, like the parent said - although not done by Groupon, it'll be done perfectly legally by some institution that owns a lot of Groupon.

They make a hunk of their shares available for borrowing by people who want to short the stock. Since a lot of people want to short Groupon these days, they take advantage of the stock's availability to do so - which serves as a negative indicator and drives the price down.

Once the price has been driven artificially lower by the pent-up short demand, then good or even neutral news about Groupon will panic some of the shorts, forcing them to buy to limit their losses - but since the Groupon float is so tiny (there's not that many shares out there), the panic buying will cause the price of the stock to jump sharply. That in turn panics more of the shorts, which inspires more buying, which raises the price more, which inspires more buying...

Remember, when only 5% of a company is publicly traded, the price of the stock has a lot more to do with its traders than the company. No one's trading on fundamentals here - right now people are just playing supply and demand games with the dumb money.

I could be wrong, but I predict some crazy whipsawing of the stock price in the months ahead, with the institutions who brought Groupon to market making money on the way up and on the way down.
Also a ticket could be present in two different collections fetched from different urls. For example, the same ticket could be in /tickets/all_tickets and /tickets/my_tickets.

The book keeping just keeps getting harder as your app grows