@leswile Done that, too. Over multiple browsers and numerous machines. (HINT: i read a lot.) ;)

@CptFox That's a great question...and a devRant unto itself. My book was on Google Glass...no kidding. I spent 2.5 years researching and writing it - keep in mind this is during the Explorer phase when it was in limited release. When my book was published, Glass got cancelled 5 weeks later. by all accounting, it sold a couple hundred copies before the project was scuttled.

That said, O'Reilly is a phenomenal company to work for. They're very professional and give you creative freedom. Best of all: you even get to pick the cover animal! :)

Now, my experience was very unique because the product wasn't proven, so it wasn't even like an open source project or something in beta. The entire time it was up in the air whether it would see the mainstream light of day at all. But they took a chance on me...just minus the normal monetary advance authors normally get.

I had a few contacts in the publishing game prior to writing, so I shopped it around a bit with some of the big-name companies.

@NoToJavaScript WOW. You win. 😳

@molaram Ha! But it tends to give me job security. And make my case for more machines.

@asgs Let's put it this way: I may or may not have created a filter rule against receiving messages from myself.

@asgs I've done that myself already.

@asgs That's the most embarrassing part...I had to cover it by using the perpetually nondescript "Various bug fixes and performance enhancements". 🤣🤣🤣

@SortOfTested We can only hope...

@PyVic The microcontroller itself, which runs TensorFlow Lite, is a neat little and inexpensive platform. The TinyML book is pure gold. Absolutely worth the read.

There are some prefab models that ship with it, too, for doing image recognition - detecting the presence of a person in a picture, and also gesture recognition. It's a fun toy to less with over a weekend. The build process is a tad involved, but I got it running: https://medium.com/@jasonsalas671/...

@vintprox Doesn't matter (to me anyway). I'd been complaining about having to spend time and bandwidth updating apps only to see a logo change...and now I'm a hypocrite. Ha!

@pythondev nicely done. 😎

@pythondev Thanks! (But don't expect me to fully type "etcetera"... ;)

I was there.....just gotta make time for it and break everything into pieces. I'm working on an animatronic robot, which so far has taken a couple of months, but it's a nice hobbyist project. Think about people that restore cars...I lived down the street from a guy who fixed up a classic car for 4 years before he had it on the road.

And as soon as he was done...he started another one. Good luck!

Errata: I typed "slightly inaccurately" to mean you can speak "yes" and "no" to the board and it'll respond with a positive case usually 1 out of every 2 or 3 times. It's still a wickedly cool thing to demo to friends.

@FrodoSwaggins Good thoughts...the Netflix pragmatism, even if harsh, works for me: https://vox.com/recode/2020/...

@SortOfTested And to be fair, I only became aware of the "Yes, and..." approach as they were promoting Google Glass, which I wrote a book about. That's certainly not a sprint methodology that they use company-wide.

I've heard that tactic works for some teams...just not for me. I'm a pessimist by nature, so that's my mindset.

@SortOfTested Agreed. (Well, except for the fact that I post as my IRL identity, since I'ma public figure and I work in front of the camera.) Do you remember that mobile app circa 2013 that let users anonymously leave messages about the tech industry? There was LOTS of Google snark there back in the day.

@SortOfTested Ouch. Sorry you had to go through that. Hopefully you're in a better situation. Crossing fingers!

@SortOfTested Gonna disagree with you there...one of my best friends is SUPER high-up at the company, and she runs a tight ship. But not offensive.

@RememberMe I'm not doubting their effectiveness, terseness or simplicity...they're just overused to the point where they lose the "oomph" they used to have in tech demos and books. Just like Northwind - we all memorized the schema and table structure so much that examples got routine and boring.

@ScribeOfGoD Hahahaha!

@mr-user You're right...data augmentation would help provide more samples, but I was testing a recent concept in which GANs can learn from a handful of samples. It's tricky for multimedia, but it provides decent, if not rock solid, results.

My dataset was just a bunch of pictures of myself I curated mainly from Flickr, Facebook and Twitter over the years.

@mr-user more or less. Basically a proof on concept idea I had over a weekend to see if a neural network could learn from a small dataset of pics of me, and produce a semi-coherent image, suitable for an avatar.

https://medium.com/@jasonsalas_8988...

But in the grand scheme of things (and hilariously): FAIL. :)

@010001111 Dude, it would survive a pneumatic drill. I've tried.

@SortOfTested GREAT insight!

@Root I wrote a book about developing for Google Glass, so I'm curious about Apple's feature set, cloud integration and aesthetic design. But we all know people will flock to it as long as it's got the logo.

@ReverendLovejoy And the brand loyalty doesn't hurt, either. ;)

@AleCx04 Agree about FoxPro...good for the time. And when I got in bed with ASP.NET during the beta days around '02, I moved from VBScript to VB.NET, but then over to C# fully.

TBH, the syntax for using delegates in VB.NET always confused me.

@JhonDoe I like the way you think. :)

I may get flamed for this, but I was always happy with C# 1.x. I was an early adopter of .NET, so I built some stuff on the early releases and it was fantastic. This is pre-generics, and some of the more modern enhancements. Fantastic language.

I wonder how Go will evolve its simplistic structure, given that people have made certain feature requests.