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by ccoggins 13y ago
Yeah, they can be tricky to read sometime. The only reason I've ever heard for writing code like that is to prevent accidental assigning in an if block. For instance if(ptr = 0) compiles fine in C and is almost certainly not what you w
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by ccoggins 13y ago
I'll second the QuickFire with the blue switches. I actually bought one to bring in to work. Luckily the people in the cubes around me didn't mind the noise.
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by ccoggins 13y ago
I'd recommend "Cracking the Coding Interview" by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. It's cheap at around 25 bucks on Amazon and has a pretty good cross section of questions. It isn't comprehensive by any means but I feel it's a good place to start. I
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by ccoggins 14y ago
A professor I had in college created something very similar back in the 90's. He would have them in the lab occasionally and they were pretty interesting to play. http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/
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by ccoggins 14y ago
Is the reasoning behind avoidance of the 'moving mouse' simply because you move your wrist a lot when mousing? I find that with the dpi cranked way up on my mouse it takes considerably less motion to click on things than with a trackpad. Mo
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by ccoggins 14y ago
They seem to work fine with RHEL 5 and Sun Type 6 keyboards. We do this at work on our systems. We just remap the keycodes to F keys. Something like xmodmap -e 'keycode 232 = F13' for the Stop key.
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by ccoggins 14y ago
I don't really get his point #2 "A giant touchpad makes the keyboard area too large" Isn't the distance the screen is away pretty much dependent on the height of the screen? I know I don't see many laptops that the base is larger than the s
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by ccoggins 14y ago
Some of the tools we used in my computer engineering curriculum were HDL Designer from Mentor Graphics and some tools from Xylinx that were similar. If I remember correctly the reps from Caterpillar said they invested in HDL Designer pretty
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by ccoggins 14y ago
Am I missing something about all this price talk? The first 17 results for ultrabooks on newegg are under 800(with a couple < 600$) and the first 40 or so are under the 1200 that the 13" Air starts at...
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Vanderbilt creates promising spinach based solar cells(news.vanderbilt.edu)
2 points by ccoggins 14y ago|0 comments
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by ccoggins 14y ago
As an aside, Calibre does a pretty good job of converting epub and the like into the kindle format. It can also create the "Collections" on your kindle, which makes finding your books much easier on the kindle.
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by ccoggins 14y ago
I would have to disagree. I don't think they ever make claims about the amount of space the burger takes up. They claim it's a 1/4 lb burger. How thick it is seems irrelevant as long as they started out with a 1/4 lb of meat.
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by ccoggins 14y ago
Having previous military experience definitely helps get your foot in the door at all the military contractors as well. Often times when developing new features we don't have the benefit of really having a good idea of what the soldier want
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by ccoggins 14y ago
Agreed - I've been waiting for a built in light since the first time I saw a Kindle. Although making it this easy to read in bed probably means I'll get even less sleep :)
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Ah, I had no idea. I'm not a musician by any means. That makes sense though. I guess a venue probably isn't willing to actively recruit unproven acts.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Going along with the idea of helping musicians find gigs, make the venues pay a membership fee to get connected with musicians. I would think venues more likely to be able to pay for a service over an aspiring musician. Also, I enjoy seeing
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by ccoggins 15y ago
I've been waiting for a reasonably priced e-reader with a built in light ever since I first saw a kindle. I remember thinking "Do I really want to pay a few hundred dollars for a gadget to have to clip a crappy light on the thing." Sony had
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New Nook has built in light and e-ink(wired.com)
1 points by ccoggins 15y ago|1 comments
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Yep - I've got one as well. I like the way it works but I really notice the compromise on the extra size.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
No worries - I notice that I did not actually specify "e-ink kindle" in my statement above.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
I haven't tried reading on an iPad, but I have on my 10" Thrive. I agree that such a large screen makes it more difficult to read due to the amount of eye movement needed.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Kindle Fire isn't e-ink. With my regular Kindle and the Amazon case with LED that uses the Kindle battery I still get a good 2 weeks between charges. The case is a mediocre compromise - it shuts the light off if the Kindle goes off which is
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by ccoggins 15y ago
I've never found the lcd vs e-ink to be much of an issue as far as eyestrain goes. I read several hundred books no problem on my old Palm IIIc which had, wait for it, 160px by 160px resolution. The e-ink is nice too though, but the need for
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Sounds like a great idea. I'm in.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
I really like this idea. I've downloaded plenty of apps that pop up a dialog asking you to review them. I've always found the pop up to be fairly pesky, but I think I would change my mind if it offered the better version for doing so.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
I believe this. I bought one from 1saleaday for 15 shipped. Since then I've seen it on 1saleaday twice more. Another 15 and also one day for 9.99 with free shipping.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Agree. A quick search on Best Buy's site shows only 7 out of 47 android tablets are 499 or above. Granted, the Ipad2 just dropped to 399, but up until a week ago most of the android tablets were cheaper than the ipad.
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by ccoggins 15y ago
This is not true at all. I work in the defense industry and their is certainly not any law requiring my company to pay me for overtime. I think what you are referring to is the fact that any hours worked on contracts must be billed to the
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by ccoggins 15y ago
Interesting article. Reminds me a lot of Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom".