danielvf

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by danielvf 11y ago
Your resume does not focus on the technical things you have actually done. There the keyword section at the front, and a few more things later on, but they get lost. Also, listing a project that you have not completed isn't that useful
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by danielvf 11y ago
There are actually several vastly higher res weather broadcasts that are in the clear - they are just more work to receive. Search for LRPT and HRPT.
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by danielvf 11y ago
DARPA is providing Boston Robotics hardware platforms to some university teams.
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by danielvf 11y ago
"Go not to the elves for counsel, for the will tell you both yea and nay." - Tokien It's impossible to say if it's a good thing or a bad thing, since so much of it depends on the programmers, the business, and the librar
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by danielvf 12y ago
When I looked at the interface in the video, I was thinking that it looked like the Kai tools from back in the day. Not just the visual look, but the philosophy of "exploring", rather than "creating".
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by danielvf 12y ago
I've used desks with motorized faders! (and spent a couple days a week in high school running, maintaining, and programming a small half million dollar lighting setup for a big theater. ) Recently I've done some firmware programmi
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by danielvf 12y ago
A fatal aircraft accident is one with a death. But most "fatal" airline crashes have only a few deaths. Take the recent AsianAir crash in San Franciso. It was a "fatal" crash, but only four of the three hundred some peo
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by danielvf 12y ago
It's hard to imagine how safe US passenger airlines have become. From the start of 2002 to now, there have been only 115 airliner fatalities in the US. That's 8.7 deaths per year. That's one death per 68,965,517,241 airline p
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by danielvf 13y ago
Thanks! I actually learned C from that guide!
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Ask HN: C – The Good Parts?
3 points by danielvf 13y ago|2 comments
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by danielvf 13y ago
Yes, I've built a couple of large PHP applications handing gnarly business logic that did not turn into spaghetti code. The been easy enough to maintain and extend over the years as well. OOP is used for the persistence code only. The
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by danielvf 13y ago
I was helped tremendously in my early coding days by the section in Code Complete on naming things. The book is about the tiny details of coding. Getting the small things right, as in any sport or profession, gives you the tools to get the
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by danielvf 13y ago
From what my friends on the edge of the space industry tell me, the Blue Origin and ULA bids and protests on this pad are nothing more than a series of attempts to throw up roadblocks for SpaceX. For background, the pad in question is one o