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What about a tele-presence robot? A technician can just operate the robot and fix whatever needs to be fixed remotely.

Some of the problems you are mentioning are already solved by airline industry. How can an airplane fly on autopilot mode in a heavy fog conditions ? Radars and satellite navigation.

And the disasters you've mentioned seems like most happened due to errors in human judgement. A machine can take lot of information at a very high rate and make decisions that are similar if not better than humans.

So in automated vehicles industry it looks like shipping jobs are the first ones to go. Ships definitely has less navigation complexity than terrain vehicles and longer response times than cars, so deployment and operations of the captain-less ships could be less riskier. If I were working as a crew member its time to jump the shipping!

EDIT: I take my words back. The jobs are not going anywhere because of this : "The International Transport Workers’ Federation, the union representing about 600,000 of the world’s more than 1 million seafarers, is opposed."

>>All you need is for others to have the patience to get to know you, and a more level playing field should follow.

And a different career than engineering, so you can find more time and possibility of meeting possible mates at work.

Okay so this patent is for background color of RGB:1,1,1 Do they have patent for RGB:1,0.99,1 ?

I would eat swan just to prove a point that its not fair for chickens just because of the looks.

This one is a real time saver.

True AI will dethrone IP of entire humanity. It will be interesting times when (human intelligence) << (machine intelligence) and you get machine intelligence for free.

We built an app called UrbanFruitly as part of the National Civic Hackathon to share home grown fruits and vegetables. We won two prizes at the hackathon and White House loved the idea so much we got invitation to visit.

The app is actively looking local group of participants for beta testing. Here is the link:

http://www.solankiapps.com/?app=urbanfruitly

That will be interesting since Singapore hates car use. That shows in their incredibly high tax on cars. A typical car costs more than $100k. Since automated cars can reduce city cruising for parking space and increase car utilization they may actually welcome the automated cars and perhaps ban manual cars altogether.

Then why the entry level Mac Book Air still has paltry 250 GB! I hope they catchup with the rest of the world soon.

>>what was surprising to me is that this is the first time I realized that the water in these reservoirs has already been processed

I don't believe this. If that was true the entire city would face massive health issues. What is your source of the info?

Correct!

Software eats software development is nothing new. Everyone who writes libraries is doing just that for past 30+ years. In fact good software developers take pride in writing software that require less code. Its in the inherent nature of software development itself. Come to think of it, software field could be the most egalitarian of all. You won't see lawyers lobbying for less complicated laws!

There is this one: http://php.brickhost.com

Does it allow you to create Calendar as a data object whenever you want to create one or is it just one calendar associated with one google account ? Because what if I don't want to create google account for my users , just get the calendar functionality.

The effect looks cool, however if the capture is loss-less it might be possible to create a shader to flatten it and make it natural looking 360-degree video.

>>Cubist Pharmaceuticals, a company with about 750 employees, recently put sensors on 30 of their employees to track the tone and frequency of their lunch conversations.

Whats next? A/B Testing the food ?

Yes I have, Thank you. I love Louis Kahn and his work.

Love Salk institute! very spiritual architecture too. I am not 12 year old but do you think i can get the tour ? :)

There is a difference between a fan base and a user base.

There are few reasons, Microsoft is not bad in gaming. They have Xbox/Kinect and they understand gaming. They are also not making money from user's data by tracking them by whatever means necessary. I also respect Microsoft Research that does some cool tech research that does not necessary get into their products. Social network companies are simply creepy because they make money off of your behaviors and Facebook is doing it as their primary business.

>>I believe Palmer Luckey will regret this decision.

Absolutely. He has lost all credibility he had gained with such a cult following. I don't think he would be able to repeat it with the gamers and supporters again.

I wouldn't have hated this deal much if it was Microsoft.

Damn I just bought DK2 2 days ago, what do I do now?

>>Use of this word suggests that we (technology workers) are the property of our employer, and that other employers are "stealing" that property away

Free will averages out at a bigger scale. Employees are resources and with more capital you can secure more resources. period.

My point was that enterprise companies need more sales people than consumer facing companies like DropBox.

One word: Sales.

I should point out that your Expected career earnings has nothing to do with your profession and everything to do with what you actually do.

Software engineer's salary is nothing compared to doctors, lawyers and financial traders who enjoy protections from their organizations and a reputation of "being just expensive".