mariusz79

Hm. loads faster and looks better.. can it, please, stay this way?

Actually they are already on the road.

When there is a talk about Apple going into self-driving car, there are hundreds of comments. When Musk mentions that Tesla will have self-driving car almost everyone here has an orgasm, but when a company that's well established in automotive industry drives their car from SF to NYC, we can't get even 30 comments in 12 hours?

It's not going to be easy to build few of them in less than a year.

What about putting it in a plastic bag, with big sticker - "DO NOT PLUG THIS INTO ANY DEVICE. " :)

According to the comment by Marc Rayman "We have obtained visible and infrared spectra every time we have acquired images. The results are not ready for release."

Yeah, I just said they will be better:) That assumes they will be older :). Recruiters may not believe that but an actual life experience does make you better:)

Because apparently some people can't get pass that filter.. FizzBuzz is also easy, yet it's being used as a filter.

IRC is full of the "technically entitled"? While this may be true, I don't believe it is. To use IRC all you need is a 386dx, and a little time. No need for a new computer so you can run app that requires 1gb of ram, or a newest cellphone. You don't need broadband connection, 14k modem will suffice. You don't need to pay a dime to use it. You can create/join any chat room you want, you don't need to share who you are, what are your sexual preferences, what color is your skin.. It's how the Internet was meant to be.

What problems are you referring to?

If you go to a dark alley, you can expect to get mugged, but that does not mean that the whole city is out to get you.

"I downvoted you"

No hard feelings. I lived through a fair share of flamewars, and stuff like karma holds little meaning to my overall well being.

"while certainly there are women and minorities on IRC, I've seen few environments that could turn incredibly ugly and sexist and bigoted so quickly, or that could wear women in particular down so quickly and drive them away."

Here is the whole problem - claiming that IRC is bad for minorities is like claiming that all establishments serving food and drinks are.. and while this may be true for pubs, it certainly is not for restaurants.

It all depends where you hang out, and on technical channels, I have never seen anything that would suggest that minorities are not welcomed.. in fact nobody cares who or what you are, and you have no reason to share that information if you believe that this somehow may affect how people treat you.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ Start by writing gopher plugin for chrome. :)

@SCHIM the permise here is that if you are technical person you should be able to find all that information out. If you can't then .. oh well...

Apparently all these downvotes come from people who never used IRC.. and never took a part in a flame war on usenet, or overtook a channel on IRC.. Keep them coming, I still have enough karma left :)

So that means that people disapproving don't know how to use IRC? Well, poor souls..

Kids these days can't use IRC, don't know that gopher still exists, never used usenet...

Being a software developer, or admin, or even technical writter, and never even trying to learn how the Internet looked like before everything was turned to Javascript...How sad..

It's like never riding the bike...

Irc is easy. It does not require huge knowledge. If you can't login to irc channel, even by simply typing "web irc client" in google and clicking on the first link, you are not a technical person.

First of all there are just few command that you need to learn. and they are so easy and obvious that it's crazy. Second, it is an oxymoron, because if you claim that you are technical person, you should have no problem doing /help and reading the documentation. if you can't do that - you're not technical . Oxymoron.

Most people on IRC are in an "away mode". It works exactly like any other IM system. You don't have to be logged in 24/7.

@munificent as the title of the post states IRC is a filter.. filter used after candidate is selected from a pool of people that have necessary skills, other than using IRC.. The author simply talks about selecting from this pool people that can use simple tools like IRC.

Filter does not mean barrier.

I have not seen anything in the RFC 1459,2810, 2811, 2812, 2813 preventing females from using irc protocol. And obviously you never used IRC if you think that it's somehow not a welcoming space to minorities.

" very technical person has never seen it before and has trouble with the irc commands "

technical person having trouble with the irc commands - isn't that oxymoron?

If your filter is based on the irc, and the number of people there is declining, basically it means that only the most hard-core users are remaining. And usually that means that they know how to use it.

But the candidates will be much better :)

Maybe The Mafia, or some other criminal organization could sponsor this training. This way they could create a nice, steady pool of applicants for the White Collar Crime Division :)

Yes, there is a valid reason - market share wars

A lot of hate towards this tech here is only based on one fact - it's not built with Javascript (yet)

@lultimouomo having a real-time computer to control four rotors in not something unachievable with current technology :) I would say that it's becoming almost a DIY tech.

@thu yes, and I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that it's obvious that helicopters won't work in such cases. let me rephrase :

Every bigger winter storm slows down emergency response - this potentially could get to the person faster than a snow plow followed by an ambulance and be able to land in your driveway or on the street, between the buildings. Same thing with flooding, landslides, avalanches..

On highways, bigger accidents block large parts of the road making it very hard to get to the injured, and is small enough to land on a side of a highway, or between crashed cars.

It potentially could arrive faster to any place in its range than a regular ambulance could, since it does not need to have a trained pilot, less maintenance, no control tower etc.

If it was fully autonomous you could deliver few EMTs to the place of an accident, and have them ship the worst cases to the hospital while staying at the site and working on stabilizing the rest. Helicopters are not autonomous.

It would be cheaper to make and operate.

Better?

It would have many advantages. Every bigger winter storm slows down emergency response - this potentially could get to the person faster than a snow plow followed by an ambulance. Same thing with flooding, landslides, avalanches..

On highways, bigger accidents block large parts of the road making it very hard to get to the injured.

It potentially could arrive faster to any place in its range than a regular ambulance could.

If it was fully autonomous you could deliver few EMTs to the place of an accident, and have them ship the worst cases to the hospital while staying at the site and working on stabilizing the rest.