"Simply be kind and/or friendly to people you work with or interact with."

This is such an important message. People do not realize that when they are bitchy to their coworkers, when they treat them unfairly, in some cases they are causing very real suffering and unhappiness. Please believe me when I say that, I have seen it first hand. The way you treat your coworkers, especially those who report to you, matters a lot.

For most of us it's easy to just "shrug it off" to some extent when we are treated poorly at work. We get mad, but we don't get miserable. But please hear me now: there are some coworkers who take these things much harder than you realize, and if we treat them poorly we are causing some very real suffering. To the point that it can make some people feel suicidal.

If you look at the abstract, this was published in 2012.

Why do we always have to find new jobs? If technology can do everything humans used to do, can't we just stop working?

There's this constant assumption that "finding new work to do" is the right answer.

If you think it should be easy to recognize a stoplight, you haven't worked on computer vision.

It's hard to recognize the most basic objects, like cats. How our brain does it so easily remains a mystery.

You haven't even experienced Twitch chat yet.

Did you have to use the word "mancave" there? It sounds as if you are defining "gamer" to include only men.

You went a little overboard in that last sentence there.

Wow, Kojima is a creative dude. He created another portable game called Boktai that came with a solar sensor on the game cartridge. Parts of the game required actual sunlight.

Do you think there's life down there?

But vision is one of the hardest parts of robotics, and you don't want to have to write super sophisticated vision algorithms from scratch, so this is a good example of how ROS is useful. "Agricultural implement towed behind a tractor" + sophisticated computer vision = robot.

One solution to the Fermi paradox is that everyone is hiding.

And we should seriously consider hiding too.

Can you get into contracting if your specialty is scientific computing?

Is it possible, as a contractor, to work only part of the year?

If you read Noam Chomsky, you get the impression that our embargo on Cuba has been extraordinarily cruel.

So Google does something to promote science education, and you turn around and say, "Hey, focus on your profits."

Doesn't kinect have all the magnitude of a launch? And the Move also.