bjcy

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by bjcy 14y ago
Born and raised in Austin, still live and work here. I suppose I should learn a bit more about my own state as I didn't know much of this or the above comments... HN: where all y'all learn you somethin'.
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by bjcy 14y ago
Texas isn't too shabby either. Plus, fewer natural disasters means less downtime.
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by bjcy 14y ago
That's awesome about your daughter's interest in robotics! I'm a mentor for a robotics program that competes in FIRST competition. You should check it out and see if her schools have anything like this or if you can maybe start something yo
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by bjcy 14y ago
Us Americans do use "Month DD, YYYY" quite frequently, so I don't think that his usage of it is done purposefully.
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by bjcy 14y ago
I love the text right below it. > This is not a quick read, so it’s a good opportunity to try a read-later method such as Safari’s Reading List, which Apple invented completely on their own. Oh so sweet.
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by bjcy 14y ago
The recently released Tumblr app for iPhone is not too shabby at all and is hopefully a step in the right direction for Tumblr on mobile. On the flip side, the Facebook mobile experience is pretty terrible as well, but Facebook already has
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by bjcy 14y ago
Wicked. A guy at my company made a large space shuttle[1] to demo the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, and although not as impressive as the Trent 1000, it's still cool to see "toys" being used to get kids interested in STEM. 1: https://decibel.ni.com
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by bjcy 14y ago
I'm wondering the same thing, but one consolation is that I can see these being used as indicators vs. as a control.
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by bjcy 14y ago
If you wouldn't mind me (your friendly, neighborhood National Instruments programmer browsing HN) asking, could you expound a little more on other things you've found horrible with LabVIEW? I completely understand your sentiment on debuggin
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by bjcy 14y ago
I understand the frustration. I've run into from a few of my students on the FTC teams that I mentor in my neighborhood. I think that this can be attributed to a lack of really great educational material (there is good stuff out there, but
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by bjcy 14y ago
That's the sentiment that's been conveyed to me when visiting a few university classes that make use of LabVIEW. I think that a great number of programmers that come from textual programming languages (I'm one of them) find the environment
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by bjcy 14y ago
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on LabVIEW, if you've ever used it: http://www.ni.com/labview/ . It's a graphical programming language with an emphasis on system design (for scientists and engineers) that uses a dataflow paradigm (
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by bjcy 14y ago
I agree with you in some regards and I think this is a great point (not because I agree with you, of course ;) .) However, I think jgrahamc and you are speaking to different things. There is documentation, much like our parents did when we
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by bjcy 15y ago
I don't think that Gruber would argue that this piece falls into what we would call stereotypical journalism. It's not a piece that purports to be a View From Nowhere. I think that this piece is akin to pieces you might read in the New York
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by bjcy 15y ago
In fact, it's illegal to not have a front brake in cities like Austin. Not to mention that it's downright insane. Ever try skid stopping in the rain?
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by bjcy 15y ago
Yes. But damn you, it's now stuck in my head, with half a day left at work. I blame you if my function signatures all start to rhyme.
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by bjcy 15y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with free market Austrian-school economics, could you expound on what you mean?