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Amazon Remembers, kinda scary
Amazon has an iphone app. Their app lets you take pictures of things, and then they match it to products they sell.
Holy S$^@!
Undoubtedly they’re using Mechanical Turk to have bored humans do the matching. That system has been in place for years, and I even gave it a try to get a bunch of candidate names for a new band a while back. So how’d it do ( Read more... ) -
Wow.
I watched this three times. Brilliant.
Originally published at Groveronline. Please leave any comments there.
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Blog changes
Hi all, I'm moving off LJ. For new stuff in the future please check out:
Personal blog: http://blog.groveronline.com
Work blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/linuxnstuff
(of course this is absolutely silly, since it's not like I blog regularly at all. Now there are two seldom-updated blogs!)
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Joe The Plumber
Maybe Joe the Plumber would be interested in speaking at next year's Linux Plumbers Conf? -
LPC day 1
Keynote by gregkh: too hard on Canonical. I think Ubuntu has been great for Linux. The first step to hacking the kernel is to be a Linux user, and Ubuntu has helped make Debian & Linux accessible to a much wider audience.
The second step is for those new users to go beyond apt-get and start playing with upstream code from the git/hg repos. I don't ( Read more... ) -
Cats and headphones
We have a new kitten named Abby whom we love very much but who has turned out to be quite precocious. And she likes to chew things.
I thought this was fine (cute, really) but I noticed today that my headphones were only coming in on one side. Hmm, weird. Hey, what's this gash in the cord with teeth marks all around it??
Abby!!!!! These headphones ( Read more... ) -
LPC last day for early rate!
Today is the last day to register for the Linux Plumbers Conf and get the lower rate. I highly recommend you do! I'm very excited about the program we're going to have. I'd like to thank all the microconf runners and the rest of the program committee for their efforts in soliciting and reviewing talk submissions, and putting the program together. ( Read more... ) -
MinGW cross-compilation adventure.
I just finished porting a Windows driver (actually 3) to use the MinGW build environment ( Read more... )
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