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Can someone take lots of photos, catalogue them, do whatever tests are needed and then move them somewhere else so we can get our avocados?

+1 - noticed the same thing twice last week. But naturally I thought I was just paranoid.

Xfinity?

Big +1 to this. I was a big n900 fan who ended up getting a job a Nokia through some of the OSS stuff I made for it and your diagnosis of the “Qt for Symbian” problem is 100% spot on. The amount of time/effort that they put on Symbian past 2009 is ridiculous... classic case of the fallacy of sunken cost.

I used to work at a Robotics startup in Brazil. Talent was top notch - I’d say as good as any big Bay Area tech company (SWE, Mech & Financial). Founder was the main investor - he didn’t understand SW, treated SWEs & Mech Engs as if he was making them a favor for giving them a job and paid below market. At one point the guy fired the CFO for authorizing buying a cheap Split AC for our little 10ppl office in the middle of the summer while everyone was sweating their life’s away (he was off somewhere on vacation on his boat).

But the main takeaway for me was: corruption. The startup was doing something legitimately exciting and innovative but still the founder thought it was wise to sneak in a contract with his buddy at the state government’s office (super shady bidding process) to have them as a first client. Eventually the law caught up with it and the whole thing became a legal mess. + Equipment import taxes were ridiculous!

Oh yeah, and we had to buy our own coffee!!!!! Sacrilegious!

Here’s a C++/Eigen example implementation of something very similar: https://github.com/google/detectorgraph/blob/master/examples...

With autogenerated block diagram and description here: https://google.github.io/detectorgraph/docs/html/robotlocali...

Really cool, well written article. And also, very timely!

The video deposition of Gates echoes so much of the latest Zuckaberggate... And as much as people made fun of Zuckaberg.. he did much better than Gates!

Dude, this looks really nice! I use nested stuff like that all the time - nested layers of flat data ;) - and glom (+T) do seem super appropriate and nice!

Really nice blog post. Regarding the free page-check without login vs requiring login; I’m not so sure it’s as clear cut as put there. Signing up for a service with significant community backing is a lot less scary/annoying than signing up for something that no one ever heard of.

Does anyone know if Musk’s language & tone is always like this internally? One has to appreciate the bluntness and the lack of Corp speak. OTOH it sounds pretty stalinistic. I wonder how sustainable that is..

Restaurant accused of feeding criminals?