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So the game that my friend and I are funding and working on the side on (dunno if this fits your definition of side project, but a proper saas app is as complex) is entering it's third year and is about to hit mvp.

It is (unsurprising if you know us) a unreal front end with the back end hosting on Google cloud, we're using gke, datastore and cloudsql , with gae web front ends. We're coding in js, c++, Python and Java.

plug: http://fracturedveil.com/?m=hn

And yes, sometimes it feels glacial and I wish I could clone myself and move things forward much faster. But I actually like my day job, so...yeah.

You mean k-tv wasn't culture enough for you?

edit: I enjoyed k-tv on my visits to Shenzhen.

I'm actually kind of proud of this one (I wrote, had our lawyer review, he added a stanza or two and said good to go.)

https://www.fracturedveil.com/terms-and-conditions

Our privacy policy is amazing, too.

Edit: It's a little swear filled...

I think the problem wasn't that Castar wasn't cool or neat, it was just...dim. Literally dim. They relied on pico projectors which just don't have the lumens to really throw out the brightness you need.

It had some fun demos and the eyewear wasn't awful, but it was, in my opinion, just not enough. Not enough brightness, not enough library/game support and it required you throw the retroreflective material around wherever you wanted your game surfaces to be.

If you could have a completely enclosed room, in the dark, with surfaces like you mention, that would be an ideal usecase. but ..sadly..this is not common and isn't the kind of customer base that makes a company successful.

I wanted castar to succeed too, but without a huge war chest to incentivize content/studio support and distribution to lots and lots of users, they were doomed.

Do you mean the actual chip back and fourth? The inherent problem is that the 7816-d standard is a mess. It requires extremely small data exchanges on the order of seconds to get a cert out of the card.

This has been a mess since the mid 90s, when I first worked on these things.

Here a cruddy not at all usefule link to the standard:

http://www.cardwerk.com/smartcards/smartcard_standard_ISO781...

We have a bunch of drones in the title cartoon thing...

Just don't open the box, and we will all be fine.

Do you mean the old deja thing? We (google) got a copy to the archive years ago.

Yes to both. Googlers start as not-googlers, after all..

There's a lot of reasons to do this that go beyond recruiting not the least of which was our old site was getting super crufty..

No, we're deeply committed to continuing to release projects on Github.

It is worth pointing out that it is the exploratory, fracturing and 'setting up' of a well that demands the most work and labor. Once they're pumping, you don't need nearly the same amount of help.

After the pricing downturn, the number of exploratory/new wells and re-fracturing of old wells declined remarkably, so it's not like they actually 'need' as many people on the oil field. If oil goes back above, say 60$/barrel you'll start seeing more hiring/exploration in ND. Right now they can profitably pump extant wells, but new wells will wait for demand...

Tool pushing is an extraordinarily dangerous job. If it can be replaced by robotic handling equipment then good for humanity, I say.I'm honestly shocked there isn't more death on rigs...

I have a family member who was a tool pusher for a number of years. These jobs pay a lot because there's a lot of risk, a lot of pain and a real need to retire/transition early because of the damage to your body.

This isn't the case, we use and release plenty of gplv2/3 code and LK was permissively licensed before it was adopted by the Fuschia people.

GCC wasn't given a death sentence, we are just moving on to llvm. GCC devs have been moving to llvm for years and not because of the license. I'm sure DannyBee will say something about this down thread..

I don want to sound like a jerk, but Trevor Blackwell has always filled the ycombinatoe hardware 'slot' from my perspective.

Nice trick. I heard Argentinian circus people hate the tin foil rub method to clean a grate, but my question is this: why? Is it the thickness of the foil? The foilness? The lack of onion?

Please help.

I know you're kidding, but science journal is targeting younger and emerging scientists to improve on the collection of data during experiments. We are in no way a competitor to publication like science , plos one, etc...

But we hope you like our release :-)

If you look on the mozilla site they've gone to great lengths to remove the dino branding already, which is a shame, as who didn't like the dino guy?

That said, who cares about mozilla's logo? If this was the firefox logo, that'd matter a bit more, but in the end, this is just a bunch of costly big company bs that matters very little.

I don't get why this isn't part of MusicBrainz bootlegs, or is this just a view on it?

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases...

Ain't never gonna happen. People still mail the fsf at the old address and they moved like two decades ago.

So having used the recon line of products (which this is a spiritual cousin of) I can only say that these kinds of displays are kinda dodgy.

When skiing anything resembling challenging terrain, the stuff is bouncing around and my ability to focus universally across on the then 2nd gen recon displays was simply not possible. I'm a decent skier, but not that crazy and I ended up returning the smith io/x using the recon screen.

On a motorbike it'd be pretty intolerable, way more bumps and stuff, I'd think. Then you layer on the safety concerns... the very real question of what happens when someone crashes wearing one of these helmets (Will the display impact your eye? Will it stay far enough away to not do so? Will the battery cause any problems when wet or exposed to impact/air etc..) probably made insuring the company difficult, too.

I bet the other helmet makers are cutting/have cut deals with recon to repackage their stuff anyhow, so those that want this kind of crap in their FOV can get it.

The article says that there were 3000 units pre-ordered. That's a fair amount of cash, but spinning up a hardware line where there are real safety and fit questions at hand is not trivial. Maybe they would have been better off making something that would replace the visor on a popular model of helmet like a shoei.

Sure, but Doug started that at Yahoo some 12 years ago now... I don't relish Yahoo's demise, but Hadoop isn't a great example of recent yahoo innovation....

Who accepts an offer and schedules their first day of work without knowing what they will be paid? No one, that's who...

Crowbar. It's super high tech. Seriously though, I'd like to know too. everything I can think of is either expensive/time consuming (syncing generic new wireless keys, copying physical keys), potentially damaging to the car, or require the provisioning of something that you leave plugged into the obd-2 port. That latter one you could do with 15$ in parts and a cavalier disregard for the cars security, so that could be it?

Please note if you are wondering where your project is, we only archived to bigquery open source projects. So add an open source license for reals?

To be clear: I didn't release the nasa code, I went to a couple of meetings there, but they did all the work.

I just eval licenses all the time as part of my job, like some kind of weirdo.

This is true(ish) but what happens in much of the USG is that they have contractors write the code and there is a big hole cut in the law to allow contractors to retain copyright and monetize code written for the government. The idea was that by allowing contractors to retain copyright, the costs would go down for government procurers and it allowed them to consider 'commercial off the shelf' (COTS) software.

In practice, the government can and has been locked into contractors for ongoing, unending and expensive maintenance.

While I don't doubt that MoFo can handle this, it can be extremely difficult to productively give money to open source projects.

I've been doing this since the late 90s and I can tell you that the desire to give money almost always has to have a goal attached (More code? More coders? Infrastructure Support?) etc, or you're just going to mess everything up.

I have the honeywell 9000 with remote sensors. While getting the internet connectivity was a little odd (you need this weird redlink device to bridge the devices for web management) They work and are remotely managed extremely easily.

They're not 'machine learning' thermostats, but they work predictably, reliably well. Cheaper than a nest, too..

As said in other comments, this is because speedtest.net largely tests within your isps' network, not the path off their network to other ISPs or to netflix/netflix like services.

To put this another way, speedtest is kind of lying to you in favor of your isp, which is the source of their funding.