danellis

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by danellis 8y ago
"You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break the law." Why? Doing everything correctly and within the law costs money.
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by danellis 8y ago
What are HN's rules regarding advertising? Where's the line between a helpful comment from someone recommending their own product and an ad?
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by danellis 8y ago
Must be a solved problem, since USB is ubiquitous.
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by danellis 8y ago
It already was happening without it. Before MIDI, there was CV.
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by danellis 8y ago
They are standardized, though: EIA RS-453/IEC 60603-11
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by danellis 8y ago
Why is it a problem that it's not optoisolated? Audio hardware (including synths, laptops, keyboards, DAWs etc) are connected via USB all the time.
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by danellis 8y ago
Does it do anything the IntelliJ database plugin doesn't do?
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by danellis 8y ago
I don't get it... This is for devices that already have a reflective screen.
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by danellis 8y ago
Too long by what metric? Personally, I dislike short trials. If I get distracted by something more important before I have time to fully investigate the product, I'm likely to just forget about it when the trial prematurely ends.
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by danellis 8y ago
I've often wondered, is there a way to get a reputable CS degree that leverages a couple of decades of work experience to make the process shorter? The article says so in the general case, but what about specifically for CS?
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by danellis 8y ago
> I never encountered a interview candidate so bad that they couldn't program fizzbuzz Me neither, in the real world, but I have seen a couple of excruciating mock interview videos where the "candidate" was unable to compl
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by danellis 8y ago
> You should try interviewing as a software engineer with 10 years experience. They never ask you to double the value of each integer in an array. You shouldn't extrapolate your own experience into "never" or "always&
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by danellis 8y ago
> There is always some fixed cost to deploy. You should always, in principle, be driving down the fixed cost of deployment toward zero. Increasing deployment frequency without driving down that fixed cost is detrimental to the business a
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by danellis 8y ago
At least part of the reason is probably the lack of a good layout engine that's more flexible than rich text and less complex than a web page. An embedded browser gives them everything they need for their highly stylized layout, but at
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by danellis 8y ago
Almost certainly a lot cheaper to just use keyed connectors.
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by danellis 8y ago
What makes you say that?
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by danellis 8y ago
Unless you're one of its developers, probably exactly the same.
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by danellis 8y ago
They're not the same, but 2.80 is the first release in the 2.8 series, so this is the release of both the specific 2.80 version and the 2.8 series. Next will be 2.81, etc. (Except it's not, because it hasn't been released yet
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by danellis 8y ago
> As a team, you can establish some easy rules too (e.g. is it books/1 or books/book/1 to query a single book?). That's the thing about REST; you don't need any rules about what paths look like, because you shoul
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by danellis 8y ago
> there's been an opening for a 'cool' millennial-oriented financial institution for a while now I think Simple was supposed to be that. I wonder how they'll respond to this, given that they only recently moved to 2%
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by danellis 8y ago
How about you go duck yourself?
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by danellis 8y ago
There's an online IDE (which is similar in many ways to Arduino) with a whole ton of libraries, accessible from a, well, library, rather than having to hunt them down.
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by danellis 8y ago
And a generation of British childhood programmers was born.
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by danellis 8y ago
Marking up text using a markup language? It'll never catch on! (Actually, it probably won't, because XML is "uncool" now.)
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by danellis 8y ago
I meant to avoid being pickpocketed! It's easy for someone to yank it out of there. They can even replace it with folded paper to make you think it's still there when you check.
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by danellis 8y ago
I can't think of anywhere it's common to put the dollar sign after. They put the Euro sign after in some European countries. Nowhere puts the percentage sign first. The author is in the US, though.
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by danellis 8y ago
It doesn't seem terribly good value for money. You can get a Nucleo-32 or Nucleo-64 for $10-15. For $23 you can get a Nucleo-144.
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by danellis 8y ago
You should probably stop keeping your wallet in your back pocket, though. I downgraded to a smaller one so I could keep it in my front pocket with my phone.
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by danellis 8y ago
ADHD here too. I used to have a huge problem with switching to new tasks. It was like mental inertia. I found that listening to podcasts made that go away and I was able to get a lot more done. Now I put one on whenever I'm faced with
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by danellis 8y ago
Depends how they're written. Some are written to be read cover-to-cover, whereas others are references that you dip into as you need. If you're getting bored because you're reading something that's not relevant to what y

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