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by Danieru 14y ago
Andrew Huang was one of the engineers behind the open source Chubby. He has considerable experience with outsourced manufacturing in china and I thought this post would be helpful for anyone doing outsourced hardware. His "Made in China" ca
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The Factory Floor, Part 1 of 4: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM)(bunniestudios.com)
114 points by Danieru 14y ago|26 comments
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by Danieru 14y ago
Ah, you're right! How was the heat? If I bike to work am I liable to get sweaty?
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My Microsoft internship interviews in Redmond(danieru.com)
2 points by Danieru 14y ago|2 comments
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by Danieru 14y ago
The marginal cost of sending bulk spam is the opportunity cost of the botnet. $1 a message is a one followed by the zeros you get from your cat playing with the zero key times more expensive than bulk spam.
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by Danieru 14y ago
Yup, interviewed on the 30th. It was a lot of fun, which you knew. Now I'm trying to convince all my friends to apply.
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by Danieru 14y ago
So far that makes 3 confirmed interns, it would appear microsoft has recruited half the comp sci department. I used to live a few hundred kilometers away from Seattle in the same temperature area, I can say for sure I'm looking forward to t
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by Danieru 14y ago
100,000 views isn't much. I think my silly videos of Sid Meier's Railroads[1][2] have more than that. These are things I put together in a day and edited in windows movie maker. When youtube offered adding ads I ignored them thinking it wou
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by Danieru 14y ago
You cannot have your cake and eat it too. All pricing introduces inefficiency without perfect price discrimination. If you charge a fixed rate for a product or service you exclude the users where the wealth created is less than the rate cha
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by Danieru 14y ago
In C you have no exception handling. The closest you can get is seqfualts. With a segfault the debugger can give you a backtrace at almost the exact issue point. The easiest way to get segfaults is by dereferencing NULL. In C dereferencin
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by Danieru 14y ago
That's a 'C'? I though it was a loading spinner!
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by Danieru 14y ago
Or voting cabals; it goes either way.
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by Danieru 14y ago
Now Government will have yet another source of revenue to optimize. Since Government hates giving up revenue we could expect entities close to giving up due to cost to receive exceptions. Anything to keep the money flowing.
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Newspaper paywalls are working(economist.com)
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by Danieru 14y ago
Sounds like my university (University of Calgary). The library is nice but packed. For a period they even had to reopen the old library for extra study space. Next victim appears to be Machall which is our student centre/cafeteria. The univ
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by Danieru 14y ago
> I bet plenty of people would do so if they could. They still do. Every year its a big issue and the organization committee makes a press release. The night before the most recent Comiket there were reports of several thousand overnigh
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by Danieru 14y ago
Be careful of what you wish for. This was the strategy of Intellectual Ventures setup by microsoft in ~2000. This was during microsoft's "we must use patents to protects ourselves from other patent holders" phase. Now they are one of the wo
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by Danieru 14y ago
I think w1ntermute is trying to say that Google has commoditized their compliments ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html ). Google is benefiting not from control but by weakening lock-in. The barrier of entry to the
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by Danieru 14y ago
Of the four times I know this occurred three were related to makegameswithus and the other was prompted by the other three. It is a trend but not a wholly organic one.
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by Danieru 14y ago
I disagree, bitcoin does have a hardcoded monetary policy of nominal money supply targeting. The policy is primitive and will not provide any of the benefits of contemporary monetary policy, but it should provide an interesting case study.
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by Danieru 14y ago
Sold out in Canada. Turns out it went on sale ~20 minutes ahead of time. Guess I'll be waiting a few more weeks to replace my N900.
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by Danieru 14y ago
It's not the airline's fault if the pilot's union is optimizing for senior pilots' salarys. In total Airlines pay pilots plenty, too much even. The issue is that unions have distorted the allocation. A fresh pilot will graduate with conside
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by Danieru 14y ago
I once got banned for hit F5 too much during a noprocrast lock out. The ban lasted until I waited a full day without visiting HN. The exact message I got was that the server sent an invalid message to the reverse proxy.
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An overview of Fedora's Secure Boot implementation(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
1 points by Danieru 14y ago|0 comments
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by Danieru 14y ago
Producing electricity from heat is a high loss operation. Storing heat is only logical when the source energy is heat. This is what wikipedia means by 1% loss per year. Meanwhile kinetic storage has no loss over time. As a bonus converting
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by Danieru 14y ago
I think the issue is how damienkatz's comment implied that Turing only had the Turing Test to his credit. If anything the Turing Test is a game, or thought experiment, and only the tip of Turing's accomplishments.
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by Danieru 14y ago
What your talking about is addressed by the famous law for programmers essay, "What Colour are your Bits?": http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 Its a good entertaining read and elaborates on the absurdity of evaluating law as an algorithm.
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by Danieru 14y ago
SimFarm was a classic but rather I'd hesitate to call FarmHappy a SimFarm clone. SimFarm is perhaps the most complex Sim game, I had an easier time with even SimIsle. Gameplay wise there is almost no intersection. What disappoints me about
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by Danieru 14y ago
HN has perhaps had the least impact on my productivity of any site I've been addicted to. HN's procrast setting makes the addiction quite manageable in fact. If you set the timeout to integer hours between 5 minute blocks lost productivity
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My Microsoft internship university campus interview experince(danieru.com)
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