Vendan

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by Vendan 12y ago
To be honest, hijacking scrolling takes me to about the 90% "I'm ready to leave this site" frustration level. I've learned to live with it for a few sites, but if you don't get my attention is about 10 seconds, I&#
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by Vendan 12y ago
so you talk about supply and demand, yet think cost is set purely by suppliers? What do you think would happen to the cost of potatoes if only 10% of last years harvest was harvested this year. It would go up, but only to the point where
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by Vendan 12y ago
everyone stopping trading gold would only happen if everyone stopped using gold, so how is it still useful. Imagine, if you would, a machine that can make as much of something as you want, replicating it from nothing. Put gold through it.
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by Vendan 12y ago
Congrats, you just decided that gold miners are the most altruistic people in the world, charging people only what it costs to mine the gold, not what the market would bear. I wish other companies could be so generous! Also, I would recomm
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by Vendan 12y ago
In other words, their subjective value? Gold has no value to me at all, as I don't have any use for it. If you tried to sell me gold, the only reason I'd buy it is if I could immediately resell it for a profit. My subjective va
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by Vendan 12y ago
My wife's dentist didn't use gold for her teeth, Copper and silver are better conductors. Gold's only useful quality is that it doesn't tarnish. Ask yourself this, on a desert island, what's more valuable, 5 pound
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by Vendan 12y ago
Terse: adjective, terser, tersest. 1. neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language. 2. abruptly concise; curt; brusque. e.g. blunt, rough. Unfortunately for you, both connotation and denotation were working against you.
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by Vendan 12y ago
Hrm, what you are suggesting sounds like some kind of conversation back and forth between 2 people. Like a chat system or something. Issue is, you are talking in an environment where everyone can interject, and everyone has a strongly fel
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by Vendan 12y ago
ugh, I like the concept, but I hate those tablet things at Chili's. Completely useless, tried to order desert using it, and it said we couldn't cause the waiter had closed the table or something already. Waiter took about 10~15
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by Vendan 12y ago
Then doesn't that mean that we should try to change how they are behaving? They are abusing public infrastructure and their psuedomonopoly status to get those short term profits.
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by Vendan 12y ago
correction, an advantage that existing companies actively try to prevent new competitors from having
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by Vendan 12y ago
You try to beat other congestion algorithms, but those are all pretty poor compared to RemyCC. http://web.mit.edu/remy/ How does SuperTCP stand up against it?
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by Vendan 12y ago
Proprietary? Please note, you won't get a lot of interest from HN for proprietary closed source code.
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by Vendan 12y ago
Yes, but what you are trying to say is that oscillators and voltage reg are really complex and hard, but they aren't, parts that are half the cost have them and much much more complex functionality. The best argument I've seen so
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by Vendan 12y ago
Because windows drivers need non-trivial amounts of support in the form of driver development kit and driver signing. Then you run into issues with which driver to pull for the chip, cause now you are conflicting with FTDI's driver.
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by Vendan 12y ago
Cause Linux has drivers that support it already, that are a part of the kernel. Not likely that FTDI'd manage to get the kernel devs to add bricking code like this. Kernel devs already added code to handle devices that had been messe
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by Vendan 12y ago
It's malicious and intentional. https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/525202516816842752
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by Vendan 12y ago
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/525202516816842752 They figured out how to program the clones without programming their own chips. Looks freaking intentional to me, I don't know any reason to send comman
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by Vendan 12y ago
so, yay, go with something other then FTDI, cause other companies don't seem to have the same fascination with killing clone chips. Alas, other companies actually try to make stuff cheaper and have more features.
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by Vendan 12y ago
No, it's more "I could use FTDI parts(and I bet someplace like seeed would use the real thing), but if they are going to release drivers that have a kill command baked in(and we've seen that it's on purpose), I'm no
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by Vendan 12y ago
Look at the datasheet, it's got a usb DFU bootloader loaded by default. :) Biggest issue would just be making sure it can switch over to serial mode, but that's already done in arduino's, so should be pretty easy.
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by Vendan 12y ago
People are allowed to choose the parts they want to use. I call it voting with your wallet. Maybe FTDI will realize that people don't want to use their products when they pull stunts like this.
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by Vendan 12y ago
Destruction after due process and by the proper authorities, yes. After all, it's a reverse engineered product. How does the software know that it's got FTDI stamped on it? Everything else is just implementation details.
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by Vendan 12y ago
The half the cost parts already have internal oscillators, and I have yet to see a use of an FTDI type chip where there's no other microcontroller, so you have voltage regulation already, not to mention the 5V from usb. All your point
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by Vendan 12y ago
Just looked at your product idea, see you already had planned a good microcontroller. Maybe replace the FTDI with the ATMEGA and make a firmware that'll allow in circuit programming so you really can't brick the main microcontrol
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by Vendan 12y ago
not sure, but shouldn't you be able to use the ATMEGA32U4-AU as the microcontroller and get usb for free? Here's a good place to start for a bootloader that'll do your usb setup for you... http://forum.arduino.cc&
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by Vendan 12y ago
Even if it is, there is a difference between the police doing it and the company doing it.
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by Vendan 12y ago
you can if they release a patch that makes hitting the butt of the gun a firing mechanism without telling you... Also, can we agree that a gun metaphor is rather ridiculous?
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by Vendan 12y ago
I can't find it anywhere, but I remember reading about a software company that wrote an office suite for early computers (like DOS or possibly even pre-DOS), that would detect if it was a legal copy, and if it wasn't a legal copy,
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by Vendan 12y ago
yeah, it's kinda hilarious. Notch has been bashed before cause he didn't write the code to the "Java Community Standards". It gets rewritten more towards the standards? Boom, performance sucks. So much for those &quo

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