DigitalJack

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by DigitalJack 9y ago
There is a point where the cost of rentention would ensure a failure to survive. At that point you have to just cut the line.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Wow. Children as a retirement plan. And you are calling people who don't do that selfish?
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Living together takes care of a major expense. There are 125 Million homes in america. There are 0.5 Million homeless. Maybe we should start a foster-care system for homeless like we do orphans. I'd bet that < 10% of homeless woul
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
It looks to me like more than half of that is a thin wrapper around strings. I'm not trying to be mean or mislead. I've used vim for decades, and emacs too for that matter. My favorite editors by far.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Not the same. At least pre vim 8. I don't know if this has changed. https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-... Example for python from the post import vim # Show current direc
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Technically true, but practically worthless. Python example: import vim # Show current directory in Vim cwd = vim.eval('getcwd()') cmd.command(':Explore %s | redraw' % cwd) Ref: https://geoff.gre
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
The main features of neovim from my point of view are the messagepack based remote API letting you write plugins in any language. Many have bindings already to go such as haskell and golang: https://github.com/neovim/n
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
"afford to create offshore companies" You can setup an offshore "shell" company in the virgin islands for $1500. It's not something you have to be a big super rich company to afford.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Hey said this about proof of work.. is it wrong? It sounded good to me, but I never got into blockchain stuff. > What is proof-of-work? Proof-of-work is a system for establishing “decentralized consensus.” Agreeing about the order of ev
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Why should anyone value your opinion on this? The person you responded to cited personal experience in working with the homeless. I have a reason to give weight to their opinion.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Seem awfully weird to me to have marketing teams and people working on cad designs when the basic concept hasn't even been proven in 6 prototypes. at least the VR application of the concept of motorized shoes hasn't been proven. I
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Honestly I’m jealous of what is taught these days. But until the stuff I was being taught became practical (because it paid for dinner), I wasn’t really able to retain much once I had finished a class. So I don’t think it would have matter
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
This is true, but those tools doesn’t change that often at a given company. VCS and questa probably cover 99% of the fpga market.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Tooling is most definitely not beside the point. And if your focus is backend, that is what you spend most of your time on.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Nope. Well, I’m sure we learned simple adders, again...Boolean algebra. Everything else I learned on the job. If I had gone into board design, I’m sure a lot more would have been relevant. Many places the chip designer is also the board des
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Fair point, I had one class called logic design. It was my favorite, although I hated breadboarding 7400 logic. The class was mainly Boolean algebra with some flip flops thrown in at some point. If I recall correctly that was my sophomore y
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
I’m an EE doing asic design. Everything I do for a living I learned outside of school. Aside from the basics like reading/maths etc.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
The entire and only purpose of laws and regulations is to dictate behaviors and punishments in a theoretically fair manner. If a law is not broken, then any punishment would very likely be unfair as it would not be evenhanded in application
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
In this case it's not a loophole in American laws. It's a problem with European and Carribean laws. This money was earned abroad. Blame the Irish, and now whatever this Jersey Island place is. The EU made a move to close the lo
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
"Is that really a common belief?" It was in the pre-iphone era.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
25% increase in revenue. 10% increase in units.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
I just checked on my win7 box. it's about 80ms. Typing in this reply is about 54ms. Notepad was 67ms. All that is like +/- 8ms. lucky for me it's all unnoticeable.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
This is fantastic. Reminds me of the apple //e days with a shell that was also a BASIC interpreter.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
just fyi, Alan Kay coined the phrase Object Oriented Programming. So your statement, while true, should probably say what we call object oreinted programming should have a different name.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
that's because UIs are about the most uninteresting, unfun thing to program. If you have to do it, you sure don't want to do it for more than one platform.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Building medical devices is extremely difficult due to regulation. I don't know if they are price gouging or not, but it is expensive to do.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
Commas are whitespace in Clojure. You can use them if you want to, it's just not idiomatic.
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
The bids aren't in bad faith. They are just over-rationalized and under-justified until the number is small enough to be in the winnable range. Middle Management talks out of both sides of their mouth, demanding lower estimates, whil
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
My future self is chuckling about the crypto attack that decimated the value of bitcoin in 2019. Upon reading about the attack, cryptologists around the world sat back from their computer and uttered approximations of the phrase, "Wel
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by DigitalJack 9y ago
I thought the unique aspect here was comparing techniques against each other. Not that the techniques hadn't been studied. It didn't seem like a great distinction to me, but maybe it eliminates control issues when comparing two s

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