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by bcbrown 13y ago
It's not that simple. There's a minimum beam size, and passive optics won't let you alter that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_beam#Beam_width_or_sp...
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I've done a much more moderate version of this with oysters. Last winter I decided to try to eat oysters at least twice a month, because I really liked them. At one point, they became a lot less appealing, and so I stopped. I can only
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I was a test developer on the UI for Win8 for the first half of development, and tried a couple times to get the PMs to think about mouse/keyboard navigation in Metro, but never got anywhere. The bar was accessibility for blind people, not
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by bcbrown 13y ago
If I recall correctly, he was developing a new feature, and the only way to test his work was by creating and dropping test tables, on the production db. One day he dropped the wrong thing. I don't think he had any technical or academic bac
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Has anyone done the UW Professional Master's Program? It's a coursework-only MSCS, two years, designed for working engineers. I've been looking at it for a little while, and would love to get some feedback from someone who's done it. I'd on
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I like the way my company does it. We have periodical "hack weeks", where for the entire work week, you can work on whatever you want that's at least loosely related to company technology or objectives.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
That's exactly the same thing you're teaching your child when you tell them not to point and say "Why is that man so fat?". I usually wear tees and jeans, but I recognize that formal wear has a place. I'm surprised you made such a snarky re
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by bcbrown 13y ago
The article reminded me of a quote by Heinlein I recently came across: 'Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the v
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Man, that would have been useful in college.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
So the previous estimate was 5000 C, and now it's 6000C +/- 500C, and that's "far hotter"? That doesn't seem like a huge adjustment to me.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
A transistor is a device where the ability for electrons/electron 'holes' to flow across a material boundary depends upon how many electrons are in a nearby area. A transistor is a device which allows an abstraction layer of three variables
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Internal instead of external motivation to learn, I think. I took a year off before college, lived on my own, and worked in a warehouse. For me, it was a great idea, and I think I got more out of college because of it.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
That's good to hear, thanks. I have always had very good flexibility, so it was never an issue for me. I do stretch my hamstrings and IT band sometimes, and static stretching certainly has it's uses. Glad to hear dynamic stretches worked fo
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I'd phrase it slightly different. Working through the full range of motion is important for avoiding loss of range of motion. That doesn't have to mean static stretching.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I'm a competitive powerlifter. Your statement isn't quite true. The best way to acquire the flexibility for weightlifting movements is to perform those movements. If you aren't flexible enough to squat to the correct depth, the solution is
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by bcbrown 14y ago
The bar chart is sortable, but the table isn't, as far as I can tell. Also the default sorting for compensation isn't that good. It should be in numerical order, but it's in some sort of alphabetical order.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I think it's the order. The primary action I want is the one that connects two columns, but it's second in the order. I click on the first button without thinking what word is on it. I'm not saying you should switch the order, though. In so
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Really fascinating website. I agree with arassmussen's feedback. I'd also add that while spending the past five minutes playing around with the website, I'm consistently hitting Describe when I mean Relate. I wonder whether, if you looked a
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by bcbrown 14y ago
One approach would be to take a complementary major, since you'll already have the job experience. Electrical Engineering or Mathematics come to mind. Another approach would be to indulge whatever else you're passionate about, be it Philoso
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by bcbrown 14y ago
When the browser window is relatively narrow, the scrollbars only scroll the text area, not the humongous left-hand pane with nothing of interest except your "about me". Verified on Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Every single interview I've had has had about 10-20% of the time for questions baked into the schedule. I've known people who didn't get a job because they didn't ask any questions in the interview.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I find that surprising. The advice I've gotten from everyone when interviewing at the big tech companies in Seattle is always "make sure you clarify ambiguity before writing any code". I always assume that part of the evaluation is on my ab
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Some links on negotiation that I use when negotiating over job offers: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/03/16/bargaining-with-your-ri... http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ http://jnorthrop.tumblr.com/post/16631034370
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I worked in a warehouse once with a guy who didn't have a bank account and had to go to check cashing places to cash his paycheck. He used to have a bank account, but at some point he ran into overdraft fees, so he'd have to pay a couple hu
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I'm guessing he had an intuition that X was the right thing to do, but there was no data to support doing X.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
That's where raises and bonuses come from.
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by bcbrown 14y ago
Both wireless and fiber optics act by transmitting information through electromagnetic waves. The speed of light isn't the interesting constraint here, because they're both bound by it. Fiber-optics will have slightly higher latency for the
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by bcbrown 14y ago
No kidding. "Public Editor agreed that John Broder had “problems with precision and judgment," “took casual and imprecise notes” and made “few conclusions that are unassailable.”" What was actually written: "In the matter of the Tesla Model
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by bcbrown 14y ago
The company I work for might be applicable to write a letter in support. What email address should I use for getting help in drafting such a letter, and convincing management to get on board? The website mentions psf-trademarks@python.org i
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by bcbrown 14y ago
I'm also reading statistics texts. I've had colleagues use R for visualizations, and another tool in the toolbox is always good. But some of the design decisions made me recoil, and I think I'll skip it until I have a need for it at work.

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