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drmarkrbaker

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
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drmarkrbaker··on Need a Nap in San Francisco?
I though it was going to be a real service - and one I'd dearly pay for (since I often run 18+ days with meetings stacked end to end and cross timezones). However trying to sleep in public on something like a coach class airline seat is not an option - it's like trying to sleep in McDonalds. What these guys need to do is create a day room exchange - a sort of AirBnB by the half hour or maybe day rooms.
drmarkrbaker··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
The real question is - will Chris O’Neill listen to what core paying users have been asking for with regard to keeping the basic application functional.
drmarkrbaker··on Tongan Shell Game: How Apple and Google File Trademarks in Secret
More interestingly - is this a useful strategy for start-ups to use and does it spread over other IP protection?
drmarkrbaker··on Ask HN: Is there a pan-English accent?
It's worth noting that the concept of "all accents being equally valid" is not true in informational terms. Google "vowel degeneration" if you want to know why some people speak in what appears to be an over formal, over enunciated accent. Rather than showing off education or age, often they are simply distinguishing key sounds in the language.
drmarkrbaker··on Ask HN: What are you working on this week?
Just getting out the first HVSImage 2016 behavioral tracking system for Mercer University. The original machine was slightly slow in tracking and real time analysing due to the i5 chip being a little below par - now I'm slightly slow in testing due to being coshed in Geary prior to flying back on Saturday. . .
drmarkrbaker··on The Return of SETI
What would be useful would be an open interface that allowed labs to submit their astronomical data (e.g. GRBs) and anyone to create their own SETI searches (e.g. for specific Technosignatures) which users can then chosse to donate their processing resources to.