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by bradfa 14y ago
If you're just out of school, I think that kind of average is possible in certain parts of the country. For note, I graduated in 2005, and have averaged about 8% increase per year since then. First 6 years with a Fortune 500 then changed e
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by bradfa 14y ago
It's called differentiation. If you don't have it, you're in a commodity market (Android anythings). If you do have it, you're not in a commodity market and generally hardware gross margins hover around 50% (or more!). If you won't innova
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by bradfa 14y ago
Sigrok [1] plans to support your LogicPort but doesn't yet. Help them out instead of buying a Saleae. [1]: http://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware#Logic_analyzers
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by bradfa 14y ago
As long as that data is decode-able and more importantly, find-able (out of all the GBs frozen for 100 years, why would you want to look at any particular one of them?) I'd store my pictures there. Finding old pictures of grandparents wh
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by bradfa 14y ago
Cool! But, if I try to connect via GitHub, it wants: This app would like to be able to do the following: Read your public information. Update your user profile. Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues,
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by bradfa 14y ago
Capturing the flag isn't everyone who participates' goal. In the first Stripe CTF, I played for the first 3 levels, learned some things, then stopped. But I considered it a success for myself. I'm sure others did similar things. Capturing
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by bradfa 14y ago
When that's your title and your first paragraph has at least 2 errors in it, how likely am I to believe what you say in the rest of the piece? $25 does not get you Ethernet on a Pi.[1] >700mA on USB is not within the USB spec, and proba
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by bradfa 14y ago
"Sorry, we don't have time for training." "Sorry, we can't afford to send you to a week of training for $3000, you have to get this stuff done right now ." "Sorry, we're on a spending freeze."
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by bradfa 14y ago
How do you like the anti-glare on the ZR2740w? I've found it to be rather intrusive and annoying, especially compared to the ZR2440w's coating.
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by bradfa 14y ago
I converted all the html from the zip file to markdown, if anyone cares. It's on github. https://github.com/bradfa/MIL-STD-498
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by bradfa 14y ago
how does a hotel not go bankrupt replacing thousands of batteries all the time? A microcontroller in sleep state (or similar) draws extremely low power, micro or nano Amps. It only wakes up when it sees data on the card reader, reads the
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by bradfa 14y ago
this is big for junior developers who may not have set up a sophisticated environment before. It also cuts down on set up time for new machines and new hires This. I'm just getting started playing with Heroku as a hobby. I've not used P
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by bradfa 14y ago
I said I doubt you'll get schematics and data sheets on all the parts Was in reference to OUYA, not Rasp Pi. Regarding Rasp Pi, you don't get a data sheet on the SoC though, as you do for Beagles or Arduino. So, calling it "open" is a bi
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by bradfa 14y ago
The problem with PC gaming is that it's hard to get 4 people all gaming on the same computer in the same room for under $300 investment (versus console + 4 controllers). It's easy to do this in the living room with a Wii (and will be with t
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by bradfa 14y ago
At $100 each for just the systems, I doubt they're making any money from the Kickstarter. They will make a few $100k from the higher levels, though. What they're doing is funding the initial build (fixtures, test rigs, plastics molds, etc
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by bradfa 14y ago
It's a $100 gaming console _WITH_ and SDK! I'm a huge fan of open hardware, but honestly, it doesn't matter if this thing has open hardware or not, if the SDK is available and they encourage independents to build games, that's what matters.
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by bradfa 14y ago
No, it's not. If you're planning on flying somewhere not near by (ie: going to another continent, far away islands, etc), plane tickets alone could cost $1k to $2k. 1 or 2 weeks in nice hotel / condo will be another $1k to $2k. Eating, ac
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by bradfa 14y ago
Go to your employer and ask for $LARGE_AMOUNT per year pay. Make $LARGE_AMOUNT be something in the range of 2x what you think someone doing your current job is worth. But, when you ask for $LARGE_AMOUNT, you do it by asking, "What can I do
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by bradfa 14y ago
Regarding the recommendation to "Just quit." You should. But not the side projects, quit your day job. Put a deadline on it, for your family's sake, if you don't have sustainable income from your new business after the deadline, go back
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by bradfa 14y ago
Not only sleep, but exercise, too. If you're not working up a sweat a few times per week, you won't sleep as well and you'll be less healthy. Try sleeping 6 or more hours per night. Spend half an hour 3 times per week exercising (it doesn
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by bradfa 14y ago
You're stuck at one location for 8 hours. At the same time, you just want to go home. I think this is a big deal. You feel stuck . You want to go home . When you're already home, there's not usually an urge to go to the office, you'r
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by bradfa 14y ago
Either they put everything back, or some accounts haven't gotten hit yet. My "primary" email is still listed as my personal email address. I can change it to be the @facebook.com one, but that's just listed as my "Facebook email".
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by bradfa 14y ago
Sony's been running Linux on TVs for a decade, at least. They provide GPLed code here: https://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/
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by bradfa 14y ago
Anecdote: I was searching for domain names yesterday on my iPad 1, with my daughter asleep on my shoulder, and found 2 unregistered domains that I am considering buying in about 10 minutes. To say the least, I was not being very efficient
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by bradfa 14y ago
Consumers don't buy SaaS products that cost more than $10 / month. Businesses regularly pay $30+ / month for things, it's way cheaper for them. But in the consumer land, cost is king 99% of the time. Consumers buy Netflix for $9 / month,
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by bradfa 14y ago
Our Rochester, NY USA paper just raised rates 50% for subscribers and are backing that with an online version of the paper that looks exactly like the print version. I canceled my subscription. I want local news. I want to pay a reasonabl
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by bradfa 14y ago
If you simply go to that login, but s/http/https/, voila! ssl! I was initially confused by your question, apparently HN is always using https for me.
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by bradfa 14y ago
Bitbucket, as of the end of 2011, didn't have any concept of a "company account" like GitHub's organizations. From their pricing pages, it looks like they still don't. That's why my company pays for hosted JIRA and uses GitHub, we would m
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by bradfa 14y ago
Why not just buy any number of Atom or Fusion motherboards out there? Cost is in the same realm as what you're asking for and they already have those slots. Power consumption isn't much more than the ARMs, but there's actual product you ca
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by bradfa 14y ago
Yeah, but SD cards also have horrible IO by today's standards and they're commonly used for little boards like this. Up to 4x I/O channels running at 3MB/second for the mainframe would be considered pretty good for small (4 kiB to 16 kiB)

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