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Comment · 1 year ago
They can try making more of what people want and charging for it with ads. People liked The Office, Mr Bean, Doctor Who. The BBC can produce perfectly good telly if they want to be competitive. Don't be Canada and subsidize mediocrity and bad art with public money. Soft power should be earned, not bought and paid by public coffers.
Comment · 1 year ago
They need to get rid of the concept of weed out courses. It's bad for learning. If you are paying 30-50K a year for an education, course availability should be a given. Don't use the bell curve as an excuse to deny students an education, or if you are going to use a threshold, use a fixed one, not one that limits by percentage of students. The fat cat admins and professors need to be fired. Too many schools take the students' money and plow it into research and other areas, with zero regard for undergraduate education. "You are in university now, it's sink or swim. Can't make it? Too bad." This attitude is especially prevalent in the state/public unis, especially places like Berkeley where demands exceeds supply. Your traditional private colleges like Dartmouth and Harvard don't have this problem.
Comment · 6 years ago
More like they learnt nothing from the brain drain due to Avro cancellation.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's rich considering Python is routinely criticized here for lack of proper dependency management until recently. Just because Racket is a cute Lisp/academic language does not mean it should be held to lower standards especially considering their recent efforts in relicensing and marketing to be regarded as a "serious" production language.
Comment · 6 years ago
And still no proper dependency versioning, it seems that the progress made by Npm, RubyGems, Cargo is entirely lost on them.
Comment · 6 years ago
Rent the runway is a billion dollar company. A bigger issue is the danger of deplatforming and corporate terms of services when it comes to fundamental transport infrastructure.
Comment · 6 years ago
Your Honor, the department misplaced the devices during the chaos of debriefing. By the time we retrieved it the data has self-destructed.
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Comment · 6 years ago
Where is the link to the source code?
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I thought when they said they use existing wireless communication technology, they meant something like Microsoft's distributed signal processing arrays:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/meeting...

Perhaps using 4G and GSM signal quality as an ad-hoc doppler or metric for precipitation. Is their landing page inaccurate? Are they no different from other companies (besides the good at sales and marketing bit)? They seem to have a lot of big names on their customer list.

Comment · 6 years ago
So are you saying that they are only good at sales? Out of curiosity where do you normally obtain the raw sensor data?
Comment · 6 years ago

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