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by bronson 12y ago
Are you talking about this thread? https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg14842.html Have you tried it? Gotta say, there are lots of Kicad dmgs out there, but I have yet to see one actually work well. I&#x2
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by bronson 12y ago
Well, it's not really on Mac. (not unless you count running the Windows version in VirtualBox of course) This is the most promising installer at this point but it's still not very usable: http://discuss.wayneandlayne.c
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by bronson 12y ago
Oof, you're right. Two paragraphs of content, then five paragraphs of advocacy. The FSF needs to concentrate on the task at hand. Leave the marketing somewhere else.
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by bronson 12y ago
Debian and its many derivatives (including Ubunutu) use Dash, and the BSDs tend to use some form of Ash. I don't have the statistics but, if it's true that a majority of distros still use Bash for noninteractive use, it's a
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by bronson 12y ago
You're not making any sense.
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by bronson 12y ago
maybe(joke).will be_success
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by bronson 12y ago
If I understand correctly, readers never need to wait for the grace period. Careful ordering of operations ensures they can charge at full steam and yet always have a consistent view of the hash table. The grace period is only necessary to
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by bronson 12y ago
Because then a single firmware bug could wipe you out. Once the drives all hit 4500 hours or 700 bad blocks or some other trigger, they die. It's happened before. Could also be caused by bad grease, or shoddy bearings, or pretty much
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by bronson 12y ago
No, to fit perfectly, the type C plug would have been invented to cover the use cases of all of the the previous plugs. That was not the motivation.
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by bronson 12y ago
Everybody agrees that the mini plug was a mistake. For better or for worse, the USB IF would like to pretend like it never happened.
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by bronson 12y ago
Downvoted because enough is enough! The "14 competing standards" comic was really funny the first few hundred times it was snarked into HN comments.
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by bronson 12y ago
Kinko's also seems like an ideal place. They're 2-D printing your uploaded designs already.
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by bronson 12y ago
Also, Osmos is a good game to develop an orbital intuition. Oversimplified but easy to approach. There is a deviously difficult level toward the end where they give you just enough fuel to compute the level... Unless you keep your delta-
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by bronson 12y ago
I was hoping that it was just a form of `git merge -s ours` but, you're right, the manpage makes it look a lot scarier. I read the linked blog post and I still don't see a good use case for git replace. I can think up a lot of
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by bronson 12y ago
Nice. I wrote a similar tool for Rails / ActiveRecord models: https://github.com/bronson/table_differ It takes snapshots and computes diffs between snapshots or the live database. It lets me drop and re-import s
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by bronson 12y ago
Also the Matrix. A sequel to either of these movies would be phenomenal.
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by bronson 12y ago
Yes, here's the announcement: http://blog.angularjs.org/2014/04/angular-and-durandal-conve... If it reaches anywhere near its potential it's going to be awesome.
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by bronson 12y ago
I had the same experience. Gulp is simple and beautiful once you get it. And it's so much faster than Grunt. Alas, at this point, my build needs are also being handled by Webpack. And, if I'm faced with something weird, I'
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by bronson 12y ago
Gotta wonder about Dropbox and HN both being YC projects... Think that helps Rice be a non-issue?
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by bronson 12y ago
Nah, I just couldn't picture anyone doing woodwork in hundreds or thousands of units (now, where did I get that idea...?), or dividing base 10 units. Since it sounds like wood is sold and worked in base 12, I'd use metric no prob
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by bronson 12y ago
Oops, I'm sorry for the edit. You & I had the same thought: singling out 2.4 was just muddying things. Calling the unit the "2.4" sounds great. But that doesn't sound very metric to me...
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by bronson 12y ago
Would be nice if one of the many downvoters would explain how working in the hundreds of centimeters is easier...?
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by bronson 12y ago
Now THAT makes sense to me. I can picture being on a team using those units to build a house.
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by bronson 12y ago
Of course, but it would be a little harder, a little more to keep track of. More precision than necessary. People prefer to use dollars and not cents, don't they?
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by bronson 12y ago
You think that working in hundreds of centimeters is easier?? I guess the system one first learns is the system that feels easiest.
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by bronson 12y ago
Think VM as in JVM.
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by bronson 12y ago
The lithium batteries were typically rated for 10 years, and modern flash devices are also typically rated for 10 years. Or were you thinking of something else? It's a heck of a lot easier to replace a lithium battery (even under powe
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by bronson 12y ago
Seems to me the lack of finesse is a pretty clear indication he was working unplanned and alone.
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by bronson 12y ago
Naw, my G+ complaints got downvoted too. I'm guessing HN is rather conflicted on this topic. It's fun watching posts bounce up an down as pro-G+ and anti-G+ readers roll through.
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by bronson 12y ago
Unfortunately, Google disagrees with you. They've worked very hard trying to push it to the center of the universe.

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