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by bradfa 14y ago
You talk of startups like they're only run by 20-something brogrammers. Find a small company that isn't, then work there. Find a company with a CEO / founder who's in their 30s, 40s, or 50s and has a family. There's tons out there. You'
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by bradfa 15y ago
"at $5 million for a single Cortex-A9 core license, it’s unlikely that ARM will be China’s choice. The Power ISA is cheaper, but lacks the software ecosystems that ARM and MIPS enjoy" I'm confused by these two sentences. $5 million is pock
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by bradfa 15y ago
What kind of UI would it have? For interactive use (ie: not just reading), an e-ink UI seems hard. Newer e-ink type screens are better than the older ones about reducing the "flashing" between screen draws (to avoid ghosting) but they stil
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by bradfa 15y ago
Intel owns outright most of their fabs that produce their processors. Intel is the fab, hopefully they trust themselves. AMD on the other hand, is going fab-less for at least some of their products. TSMC was mentioned in the past as being
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by bradfa 15y ago
My former employer (>150k employees) had MasterCard limits that were $3k per purchase and $15k per month per card. Those were hard limits. Anything over that had to go through POs. Amex was only to be used for travel, couldn't use th
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by bradfa 15y ago
Over the air HD in 1080i format is generally about 20Mbps. It looks pretty darn good to most people. Yes, higher bitrate makes better pictures, but for TV, over the air is currently the best way to get network programming in the least comp
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by bradfa 15y ago
If you only need a small handful of email addresses, often the hosted service can provide those for a lower (or similar) monthly cost to that of a VPS (assuming you're dedicating the VPS to just email). The blacklist issues others have poin
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by bradfa 15y ago
Filter based on if they're touting the work ethics you want. If they're not touting it from the tops of the hills, they probably don't do it. Places like GitHub and 37signals yell about how awesome their work environment is, if you want t
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by bradfa 15y ago
320x256 is 10% of 1024x768 in terms of raw pixels, not considering bit depth. But bit depth and raw pixels shouldn't matter here, the GPU takes care of mucking about with those and the GPU in the iPad is amazingly fast for its power consum
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by bradfa 15y ago
There's some excellent examples of horrible ergonomics in about half of those offices. Laptops on desk and craned necks lead to back problems. As do dinky plastic chairs. I'd like some of the smaller meeting / quiet rooms shown in a few p
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by bradfa 15y ago
Why don't you think they do? Are you asking about any particular company, market, or region of the world? I'd guess most startups already have flextime. You can come in real early or stay real late, but either way, you're going to work mo
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by bradfa 15y ago
Look for a full time job half the day and code up your own projects the rest of the work day. Then, if you find a good paying job you think you'll enjoy, you win. Or, if you make money doing something interesting yourself, you win. :) If
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by bradfa 15y ago
If you (or someone you know) has a write up detailing these statements and tests showing them to be true, I'd be very interested in reading more about this. Please do share. It sounds like what you're saying makes sense, from a drive busin
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by bradfa 15y ago
But you don't have to standardize the internal battery tech, just the form fit and interaction. For example, the shape and electrical connectors the battery will use. Then everyone is free to make their battery hold 2x as much as the refe
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by bradfa 15y ago
As mentioned by xavi, betterplace is working on quick change battery tech. You drive up a ramp and the robot is inside the ramp. Regarding slightly degraded batteries, I think that's less of a concern. You'd pay less for a less charged or
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by bradfa 15y ago
What good are standards bodies (think SAE, ISO, DIN) in the automotive world if they won't solve this? Also, what ever happened to driving down cost by partnering with other automakers on expensive assemblies? Having a proprietary battery
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by bradfa 15y ago
Cool, except I keep feeling like fast charging is solving the wrong problem because it usually has such a dramatically bad impact on the life of a battery. Gasoline and diesel are currently "standard" fuels we put into a container inside ou
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by bradfa 15y ago
I'd expect IBM, of all "big companies," to be one of the least concerned about an acquisition using GPL software. They do so much work with GPL software, I'm sure they have very well defined internal policies on making sure they're in comp
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by bradfa 15y ago
In my life, yes. At home, yes. With my family, yes. With my hobbies, yes. At work, maybe, but wish I was more so. Which one of these are you asking about?
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by bradfa 15y ago
A few options include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_port
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by bradfa 15y ago
I've always liked IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad keyboards, I believe on the W and T series they're still high quality. I vote for Lenovo ThinkPad W series, then T series. Should meet all your requirements.
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by bradfa 15y ago
The patent was filed in 1963 and granted in 1965. I don't think there's much concern over it being still in force. And yes, the patent is for spinning a pregnant woman around rather quickly, with her head on the axis, causing the baby to p
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by bradfa 15y ago
The "make some money" part is only $1, unless I'm missing something, and currently there's only 1 contest paying. So that's not really going to be incentive to participate. It sounds like Project Euler except code size, code speed, and cod
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by bradfa 15y ago
There's some other avenues that EDA tools also aren't taking that could be great market opportunities for some of the small to mid-range players to capitalize on. Besides just modern version control systems, most big companies have internal
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by bradfa 15y ago
Why not just have the EDA tools understand (or have plugins that do) how version control systems work and provide diff'ing abilities? The EDA tool would have to provide the diff'ing ability but have API hooks for interfacing with version c
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by bradfa 15y ago
Another neat side of this is that as he gets better, the people he will be competing with will be able to dedicate more of their lives to practice. For example, I'd imagine PGA pros practice at the same level (time and dedication) as Dan i
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by bradfa 15y ago
I took the tour on their site and it looks neat but the first thing I thought was, "Where's my layout tool?" Open source hardware is no good if I can't manufacture it on a circuit board. Yes, breadboarding is handy for small stuff, but 256
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by bradfa 15y ago
Well, if you can't afford private doctors or lawyers, you get what the government provides when you are in dire need of doctor or lawyer services. You're stuck with what the state or other overseeing entity is willing to provide. If you w
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by bradfa 15y ago
I'm not that familiar with the M3, but some of the PIC chips have much more expansive hardware interfaces and internals than comparable AVR parts. A lot of times, PIC chips are cheaper, too. Microchip can't develop the libraries internally
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by bradfa 15y ago
You could look at it another way, HP is expanding into more software services / enterprise tech. They're probably going to spend a lot more money in this sector than they used to, thus expanding the product catalog. Granted, killing WebOS

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