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by bobdvb 13y ago
I agree the article is unfair to say that serial connections are old technology and outmoded. The serial connection is a useful tool for electronics designers and engineers because it is very simple to implement & adds almost no increme
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by bobdvb 13y ago
> The Pentagon was declared a national historic landmark in 1992, and because the courtyard is one of the five historically protected features of the building, the hot dog stand must be replaced by a building of roughly the same size, an
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Different countries different cost of living, even with the same currency.
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Isn't wearing Google Glasses reason enough to get shot?
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Another copy here: http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/09/q-with-nine-great-programm...
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by bobdvb 13y ago
It's summer how can he be (wait for it... drum roll....) Snow'd-in! rim-shot
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Quick chart showing wavelength for typical bands: http://www.hottconsultants.com/techtips/freq-wavelength.html
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by bobdvb 13y ago
No censoring? So what about child abuse images?
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Self-hosted? I have just migrated back to third-party hosting for much of my stuff because I was bored of maintaining my dedicated host. It was fine 99.5% of the time, but having someone else worry about availability just makes my life bett
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Former colleagues told me that Samsung is also known to put two teams on a task, tell neither that another team is working on said same problem, then whoever succeeds is a rockstar and whoever fails is 'restructured'. Korean companies aren'
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by bobdvb 13y ago
I worked in UTC for almost 3 years because it was company policy to have just one timezone for operations. Granted I was in Europe so the impact was minimal on my life, but not having DST and always working in UTC saved a great deal of prob
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by bobdvb 13y ago
Agreed, we need to get advertising booked months in advance, we need to source materials 16 weeks in advance, book production two months, etc. If you aren't dealing in serious marketing and tangible products then you can release whenever yo
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by bobdvb 14y ago
My wife once had an argument with check-in staff who wanted to charge her for having excess baggage, as I gather she successfully argued that as she weighed just 53kg the extra baggage was less than the difference between her and some other
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by bobdvb 14y ago
One thing that people like in a commodity is stability, the value of a Bitcoin may be rising but the old rule says: what goes up must come down. Gold has been valuable for more than 4000 years. For me a better comparison would be made again
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by bobdvb 14y ago
I would suggest reading the blogs and information about NewsBlur, the demands on his system are huge. If one is just talking about having a single user RSS Reader these have been around for years, but in terms of a web app for thousands the
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by bobdvb 14y ago
flikr -> openphoto
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by bobdvb 14y ago
One thing I found as an educator of technology in higher education was that many girls/women didn't know they would like it. During the first week of the academic year I had the unusual opportunity to teach an introduction class to a mixed
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by bobdvb 14y ago
Agreed, I have worked for technical and non-technical bosses. On one disastrous occasion we the department director was a promoted IT teacher whose main qualification was a certificate of competence from the British Computer Society. She st
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by bobdvb 14y ago
There is a false assumption that manufacturers don't use Linux because of GPL. Most products don't use Linux because they don't need it, and they use something like FreeRTOS or another commerical RTOS. Plenty of companies use Linux in all s
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by bobdvb 14y ago
I prefer Greg's cable map: http://www.cablemap.info/
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by bobdvb 14y ago
Agreed, a single video is not very representative and the results are still subjective. I would have liked these claims to be backed up by measurements like PSNR or VQM over multiple sources.
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by bobdvb 14y ago
I think the O/P is just doing it wrong. I have a 100% complete profile on my LinkedIn and I have 770 connections, but I don't get spam, I do get the occasional recruiter or app development company wanting to sell me their services, but not
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by bobdvb 14y ago
Agreed.
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by bobdvb 14y ago
Previously I saw a project which used a scanning pan-tilt head to collect data, but they used a narrow beam temperature sensor: MLX90614ESF-DCI which includes a black metal barrel. http://www.cheap-thermocam.tk/
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by bobdvb 14y ago
For those saying "why not try Debian, mint, etc", I've been running my mother on Debian for the past 18 months and it hasn't been at all easy and I am starting to wonder if I shouldn't move her back to Windows. I gave her fairly simple hard
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by bobdvb 14y ago
I work at the European offices of a major Asian electronics company. Little web or start-up about my work. The skew on web start-ups on HN is just buzz, I don't click on half the links.
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by bobdvb 14y ago
First I recommend looking at the groups on LinkedIn, please don't dive in there and ask stupid questions, but read and perhaps ask a well placed question. Give context and you'll find the experts there mostly willing to help. There are diff
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by bobdvb 14y ago
I wouldn't say Asus was 'cheap', they are lower cost. I like Asus laptops now, although at home I have a Thinkpad R61, but for work I have Asus.
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Don't know the man, a little sad that we have to support the screwed up US medical system, but I've given money because I have it and he doesn't.
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by bobdvb 14y ago
By trade I am a broadcast engineer, but I like the simple things in life, in my past I always said I wanted a small rural restaurant/pub/hotel. More recently my fiancée and I have discussed a small holding farming and opening a local produc

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