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A blind Google engineer explains how he writes code(businessinsider.com)
10 points by aylons 11y ago|0 comments
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by aylons 11y ago
Lots of folks talking about people retrying searches, or doing unneeded searches instead of typing the URL, etc. However, this already happens a lot on desktop computers (especially the later). It may be true that these things happens more
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by aylons 11y ago
My Lenovo came with a recovery partition from which I could reinstall Windows. However, I suppose it would also automatically reinstall crapware, which is beside the point. The solution was to download an official Windows 8 copy from Micros
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by aylons 11y ago
What this guy is doing is amazing, and shows the very sad state of the FPGA scene today. To give a picture on how important is this, imagine if Intel CPUs were delivered with only the most sparce documentation: it told you how many register
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by aylons 11y ago
I found this a very nice introduction, not only for embedded-system people who are used with MCUs, but also for higher-level programmers (as I think the HN crowd mostly is). Also, the software part of the review is very interesting: http:&
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The MCU guy's introduction to FPGAs(embedded.com)
15 points by aylons 11y ago|1 comments
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by aylons 11y ago
Well, the end of the radio age hasn't finished the radio. I guess this can be said of about any technology - it is not finished, just not anymore the center of the attention.
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by aylons 11y ago
The same name as a Python Library for single-board computers (though in Python, not Go): https://github.com/garoa/pingo
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by aylons 11y ago
I know this is a tale of low-tech ingenuity and the knowledge from the field, but I like to take a slightly different moral from it: There was a problem the field technician was able to solve, but he didn't because he didn't know
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by aylons 12y ago
I understood that college level athlete is his objective by the end of next year. For now, he may be trying to loose weight first.
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by aylons 12y ago
What I believe you're missing is that the government is not an isolated entity in a vacuum. Its made of people and groups that make their case and express their interests. In this case the interests of the private company prevailed. No
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by aylons 12y ago
Indeed, it is demanding, but fascinating and very well taught. Too bad they haven't offered it since 2013. I didn't finished it by them for personal reasons :c/
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by aylons 12y ago
I don't know how he learned, but I studied it through the very demanding, and worth every second, course from Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm
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by aylons 12y ago
The point is, both the urge and the power to lobby against the interest of the people come from the private and profitable nature of their interests. It was not a punctual failing of the moralities of the companies, it is a consequence of a
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by aylons 12y ago
Well, this is more distant. If we're at it, it is also the name of a particle accelerator in Brazil: http://www.lightsources.org/news/2015/02/21/sirius-%E2%80%93...
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by aylons 12y ago
Here in Brazil they are common, and I protest by not running red lights. Works every time!
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by aylons 12y ago
"all while toughing out the same traffic as cars." The point is, bus shouldn't need to share traffic with cars. A bus system should always flow in a dedicated lane, except for the most capillary streets in low-traffic areas.
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by aylons 12y ago
I agree you're being a bit cynical. They are used to the chamber and with experiments in the chamber, but this simple experiment with a feather and a iron ball is very different from what they usually see. They probably usually see onl
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by aylons 12y ago
> If it wants proper validation of the safety of autonomous driving, it requires at least several billion miles of driving No, it doesn't, the same way we don't need decades of testing to build an edifice or centuries of flying
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by aylons 12y ago
At Amazon scale, most of the time they could use an FPGA, they would be better served by an ASIC. The only exception I can think of would be if they dynamically implemented different algorithms in a FPGA in a just-in-time model. Or, at leas
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by aylons 12y ago
I expected an article on electronics when I clicked and took me a while to understanding what was going on.
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Report: Tesla Gigafactory a Well-Played Overreach(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by aylons 12y ago|0 comments
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by aylons 12y ago
He was the third in the polls. Campos supporter were few, but my guess is that they will move to whoever substitutes him in the run, as the party now may add a new candidate at his position, and his aspiring vice-president is very popular.
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by aylons 12y ago
Eduardo Campos was just the third in the polls, but was seen as an alternative - the first two positions in polls are occupied by the party in power and the former party in power, in that order. The commotion caused by this accident may hel
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by aylons 12y ago
Emacs is the obvious answer: it allows keyboard-only operation, has a very flexible frame splitting tool and you may leverage your VI experience by using evil-mode.
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ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by aylons 12y ago|0 comments
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by aylons 12y ago
Zeppelins could solve transport scenarios just like this one, where you must transport a huge cargo from/to specific locations far from the shore: http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18... Ho
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Introducing Kindle Unlimited(phx.corporate-ir.net)
2 points by aylons 12y ago|0 comments
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by aylons 12y ago
I didn't understand what you meant by you commentary. The above excerpt shows they assuming upfront that they got the idea from BSD. As a system call is not an application that may be ported, they need to recode it. If the point was th
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Step Away From the Kool Aid(benhowell.net)
11 points by aylons 12y ago|0 comments

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