I'll second this. Dell sent a contractor to my home on Thanksgiving day to replace a laptop screen on my kitchen table.
It took under an hour to replace.
I've never seen that level of service from any other company, period.
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That's different from the federal government having power to eavesdrop on all street corners at all times. The fears over these powers aren't based in a desire to keep the government in the dark, they're a reaction to the massive scope, and the notion that everyone is suspicious all the time.
An (20 something) individual privately supported a major presidential candidate with internet memes?
Also, asserting that the years-old pepe memes have now become white supremacist propaganda also leaves me pretty confused.
System design, user interface design, HCI, software engineering (methodologies, management, architecture), infrastructure, etc that don't lean as heavily on the algorithmic side of CS as they do other aspects.
I know that while interviewing where I work, a candidate's attitude and enthusiasm for programming are much more important to me than their ability to solve some riddle in half an hour. It's not the solution I'm looking for, it's how they get there.
I'm an artist who wants to use bitcoins for nearly an identical reason. However, there have been two big limiting factors, which have prevented my supporters and artist peers from using bitcoin.
1) It isn't clear how they get money into and out of the system. - The artists don't want a bunch of 'bitcoins' that they don't know what to do with - The supporters don't own any bitcoins, and don't know where to get them. 2) They are afraid that bitcoin will crash and they will lose all their money.
It's easy enough to dissuade the fears about the second point by 'cashing out' right away. But what are the best options out there to allow the average user to put their money into bitcoin, and to allow not-so-technical users to get money out of bitcoin and into their bank? Coinbase is the only service I've found to 'easily' do this, so far. Even at the cost of my anonymity. :(
It's interesting. It's something that many developers wouldn't think about, but it has a real world consequence for this user in this instance.
Yes, we aren't going to throw away SSL because they had a bad experience, but it IS interesting to note, and it may even lead a few developers to think about how their tools could impact the users in non-optimal conditions.
It doesn't have to be an argument to be interesting...
My script builds a map of the level as the robot drives around, using information from the lidar scans with each step. It can then use this map to seek out unknown areas, plan movements, detect enemy movement on all 4 sides, lots of things
The framework is relatively robust. Feel free to erase my `exports.update` function and write your own. As long as you use the custom tank.forward(), tank.shoot(), tank.turn_right() (etc) functions instead of calling their api, it will build a reliable map that you can reference for better decision making.
If you want to see an ASCII version of the robot's internal view of the map, change the `var verbose = false;` to true at the top of the script. But this tends to make my browser lag after the ~60th step. So much output! But it also gives you a step-by-step breakdown of the logic for why it's making each decision. Which is interesting to watch, and useful for debugging.
The whole thing is pretty messy. And I'd like to clean it up, but after 3 days and not getting anything else accomplished in my life (like work) I need stop for a while. It was a fun proof of concept for mapping.
My company didn't compile detailed background information about my "sexual misconduct", or spend money trying to detail the ways in which I might be blackmailed.
So yeah, it's a little different.
Guess I'll know for next time.
It didn't have all of my playlists, but I was able to at least recover a small portion of my songs. Some is better than none...
This seems like an interesting project. I've never heard about it before, though I do wish it was an open-source one...
<sigh>
Is it time to build a personal, private, self-hosted, open-source grooveshark clone?