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Yes "self-inflicted" is a medical/legal term which includes suicide. In some jurisdiction there is a difference if "the balance of mind was disturbed" or if the coroner believed it…

It is a particle, just because it has a wavelength doesn't mean it's not a particle. An elephant has a wavelength it's just that it's rather small compared to the elephant

It gets even funnier in government. In the 80s I worked in a special government lab (where 'critical' event wasn't a euphemism!) To get the young mathematicians and programmers we …

It's generally hard enough persuading someone that you can measure something from a picture - also telling them that they can't use 'normal' computer software is even harder. Of co…

At least they teach you the maths of separable convolutions - they don't teach you that the defualt opencv built with vs will clash with Qt libs built with mingw but the ing system…

To install all you need is opencv, scipy and python in my experiecne the hardest part of machine vision (on a pC) is getting all the bits installed and playing nicely with each oth…

Pink Floyd and shuffle play don't really go together somehow

Stock options vest in the future if you are still working there. The idea is that it keeps you committed - otherwise everybody cashes in on the day after an IPO and walks, and it r…

Although legally they might be safer firing everyone and re-hiring them post IPO. Although I would hate to work with anyone that they got to agree with this!

In a startup stock options are a future promise to make up for lower salary. You are gambling on the company doing well. What they are doing is like hiring a salesman on low salary…

But it's pretty difficult to prove unless you are a protected minority and the boss shows up in a white robe and says "we are firing all the N.....s" or you fire a secretary after …

Doesn't matter if it's unvested stock. They simply fire you without cause the day before your stock vests. All they are saying is - give back the stock and we won't fire you the da…

There is a similar clause in patent applications but I have never heard of a defeated patent involving a prosecution for perjury! I suspect the burden of proving that it was a deli…

Wonder what the long term effect is on something like polyester caps and delaminating multilayer boards Fire suppression is going to be fun.

A Mr Kirchof would disagree with you if he wasn't dead. A perfect emitter facing an infinite cold sink is in perfect equibirium at the temperature of the cold sink.

And those penalties are based on the cost to the other guy. So if warner falsely demands your youtube video is taken down - you lost no money so even if they lied the penalty is ze…

I assumed that XAML was the silverlight team (why duplicate effort) and if silverligth is gone how much core knowledge stays in XAML? Personally I stuck to C++ and moved MFC->wx->Q…

The jury is still out on exactly how bad nano-tubes are but the good news is that they are generally too small to block your lungs in the same was a soot particles and too soft to …

If you are facing something really cold and black - like space then the blacker your radiator is the more power you can emit at a given temperature. In theory a perfectly reflectiv…

If all the Silverlight team have been taken out and shot does XAML have a future?

Will keep all the useless staff What do you do to keep the good ones that could get a job that pays $11K/year more and so in 5 years they would have $55K ?

One code stream for obsolete windows a different one for new windows, another for iPhone/OSX, another for Android......

I would love to know what Microsoft's strategic direction is. While announcing lots of C++ love for Visual Studio and promises of C++11 compliance they don't have an API for writin…

The year before the Silverlight team were saying that WPF is dead and Silverlight is the future. Good job we all switched to Qt and C++

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