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by ReadEvalPost 13y ago
For role models, Limor Fried (owner of http://www.adafruit.com/ ) and Vi Hart ( http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart ) are both super awesome!
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by ReadEvalPost 13y ago
I am completely in love with the fact that this thing provides a GPIO breakout (and Arduino compatible, no less!). That immediately takes this product from a "neat, but I don't think I have a use for it" to a "holy crap,
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by ReadEvalPost 13y ago
ZenoArrow is talking about embedded SoCs though. While Kabini is a SoC, it isn't really suited for embedded applications. These chips usually have a ton of GPIO, built-in support for different communication protocols, analog to digital conv
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
Red meat is definitely correlated with shorter lifespans, see e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803089/ . Causes appear to include increased risk of certain types of cancer and cardiovascular disease. The causal links are o
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
https://www.hackerrank.com/environment lists all of the languages.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
"women" is a substitute for "pussy" which means people you want to have sex with. Right. Pussy as shorthand for sex is problematic because it reduces a woman to her sexual organs, it objectifies them. Would you enjoy being reduced to your
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
People, profits, and women would indicate the set "People" and set "Women" are disjoint.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
There is no way to make that assumption irrelevant. In absolutely no way is programming a perfect meritocracy, and social factors come into play just as much as any field. If the pervading attitude is "men are inherently better at this task
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
What are the barriers exactly? The pervading attitude of The heavy use of logic is a masculine trait is a rather good example of at least one barrier. Do you not see how that statement is extremely problematic?
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
Ah, I haven't used any of the dsPICs. Thanks for the info.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
More powerful in what way? I don't think there are any PICs with integrated PLD blocks, or GPIOs that are routable to any peripheral. "Best" may be a silly term for it, but that's definitely really useful to have in a development board.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I'm guessing has to do with the laser. From their FAQ: "Unfortunately, it is not safe to run the laser without the enclosure." Presumably it's powerful enough to fall under differing regulation in each country.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I know there's a lot of hype around the Raspberry Pi, but it's interesting that you would mention it as a key component of open systems when it's a perfect example of half-closed: * The BCM2835, the microprocessor used on the board, is not
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
> Where are the muslim moderates at times like these? Here you go: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/12/arab-world-outrage-... There is a rather large gulf between "absent" and "absent in the Western media."
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
The scale problem still remains. Going from 10 users of your webapp to 1000 does not take much in terms of technology and capital investment. Going from 10 hand-assembled bits of hardware to 1000 units manufactured in China is a difficult a
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I don't think delirium was suggesting someone would keel over and die after N weeks without a job. Rather, not having a job makes paying for healthcare, eating well, owning or renting a home difficult or impossible (these are difficult for
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
That doesn't really follow. I can easily answer: Why would someone agree to [program] without any compensation? It's fun, and adding/fixing a feature for everyone means they might add or fix a feature for me. What I can't answer is: Why
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I'm with you on transparency, but I don't know how you expect charities to survive without paid employees.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I wish I were surprised that this sort of hostility is only shown when attracting women is one of the main goals of an event. But I'm not. I'm not.
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
> This device doesn't have any of those The controller has a touch panel and battery (pretty sure they're wireless). > reported to cost ~$64 to build Is that just the BoM or does that factor in manufacturing, QA, having to hold inve
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I don't think VC has too much to worry about. $99 for an Ouya is definitely selling at a loss; they're going to need VC to actually manufacture and sell the thing. Kickstarter is an excellent way to demonstrate people are interested in an
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
I've a feeling Joel Spolsky's comment on the 80/20 rule applies to weather sites: "80% of the people use 20% of the features. [...] Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%."
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
Once you add a power supply for your micro, connectors, and an enclosure, you'll probably be hitting the $50 mark, if not more. You also need to be very, very careful when working with the mains. I wouldn't route a board that works with it
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by ReadEvalPost 14y ago
What the hell has Felix Salmon ever done? Felix Salmon is a journalist. He provides value to the world by reporting or critiquing -- in this case, critiquing the notion that Andreessen and his business practices are worth venerati
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by ReadEvalPost 15y ago
It's addressed on the second paragraph of page 5. While the rest of the country, over the same twenty-year period, saw the growth in incarceration that led to our current astonishing numbers, New York, despite the Rockefeller drug laws, sa
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by ReadEvalPost 15y ago
Stdin/out is used to transfer information from/to the simulator, so any language is possible. The list of languages they support is here: http://aichallenge.org/starter_packages.php You can also ask the contest organizers to add a compile
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by ReadEvalPost 15y ago
The last one started September 10th and ended November 27th.
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by ReadEvalPost 15y ago
That you're not mourning Jobs is fine. To tell others "Remember him the way _I_ do" is offensive at best.
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by ReadEvalPost 15y ago
Only allowing signed drivers to run in ring 0 by default makes a lot of sense though. The average user is way less likely to need ext2fsd and much more likely to install randommalwared.
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by ReadEvalPost 15y ago
Maybe so for their higher end boards, but TI supplies the cheapest eval kit I know of at $4.30[1] for the MSP430 Launchpad. [1] https://estore.ti.com/MSP-EXP430G2-MSP430-LaunchPad-Value-Li...

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