danjayh

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   by danjayh 11y ago

   I don't think it was even that. From the pics, it looks like he liberated a commercial clock from its housing and put it in a different case. Unless it had battery backup, he may have soldered in a 9V battery connector, but since it st
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   Anyone have any actual technical details on what Mohamed built? Judging from the pics I've seen, it's clearly a commercial PCB. I'm wondering if maybe he worked out a power supply or display driver himself or if he simply re-
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   Thanks! I was curious about this, because having volunteered for FIRST robotics, I can tell you that the number of HS students in the US with the skills to design and build a digital clock is pretty much 0. Looking at the picture, I think t
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   > > we are still in the range of natural variability > And does that make this a more comfortable living situation for you? Not more comfortable, but perhaps also not something for which we should immediately point the finger at CO
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   Can you give any examples of experiences that felt strange when you returned? Just curious what types of things you noticed...
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   When people really need something that's reliable, there's really no limit to how much effort can be put into producing a system with unfailing integrity and availability. Take, for example, the lockstep facility on certain IBM pr
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   I have the pleasure of working with PowerPC in my day job. Also a relatively clean architecture. I really do wish that Apple had been more successful with it, that Microsoft would have continued supporting it in NT, that Motorola / IBM
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   There is some truth to this. For my Master's degree, I got a fellowship where I did some work that the university had a grant for (maybe 10-20 hrs/wk) and they fully covered my tuition and housing, with a bit left for food (but I
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   by danjayh 11y ago

   And why is this useful? Well, for high-level folks, pointers are used for roughly the same thing as reference variables in other languages. For low-level folks, sometimes you need to be able to read from / write to a specific address i
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    by danjayh 11y ago

    Arm and powerpc are bi-endian...
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    by danjayh 11y ago

    Used a big endian machine ... um ... thursday. I've been on vacation/holiday since then.
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    by danjayh 11y ago

    "...those systems are already spectacularly vulnerable..." Absolutely untrue, unless you have physical access to them (at which point any system is vulnerable). In truth, the maintenance port on a 787, for example, (which is the o
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    by danjayh 11y ago

    I think that's one of the important roles of a team leader - to know who is getting how much done (among many others). I wonder how Zappos will accomplish this now that they have no team leaders.
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    These projects are amazing. Seeing the work that goes into just a single subway line makes it absolutely mind blowing to me that China has managed to build entire metropolises, complete with subway systems, in well under a decade. These pho
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    The game is called 'aqua balls' and is on google play. I haven't updated it in almost 3 years, though ... right after I finished it I started having trouble with my wrists and finger joints, which meant no more coding for fun
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    I would like to proffer a different strategy: Pick something that you are passionate about, good at, and comfortable with. Then push your personal boundaries and learn something new while making some app/widget/whatever, even if i
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    Last time I went out interviewing, I whipped up a fun little Android game, put it on my phone, and made a point of finding a way to slip it into the conversation. It was great because: 1) It let me set the tone and path for much of the inte
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    I like the concept for graphics-heavy pages, but for any text-oriented page ... well, any website that didn't support highlighting (which I use to keep track of where I am on a page) and that didn't re-render when zooming (absolut
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    To put things into perspective, you should mention that there are ~500 almonds/lb (just looked at a random amazon product page to determine this - probably depends on variety and quality). This is needed to compare the numbers in your
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    This would be true if they were actually getting rain, and they were using surface water, but that is not the case. They are in the middle of a drought, and they are using ground water, which replenishes very slowly.
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    Microsoft accomplished this with dynamically linked applications, which is a more difficult feat. It also led to 'DLL hell', but they have resolved this fairly effectively in modern versions of windows (at the cost of using gobs
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    Fun fact: Microsoft has maintained backwards compatibility so effectively that the utilities that shipped with windows 1.0 (notepad, calc, etc) will work on recent versions (search for 'man upgrades windows 1.0 to windows 7) ... say wh
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    My thought when I read that line was "sounds like hell". Also, I bet Zuck has an office to call his own.
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    Pshh, so yesterday. It's "Move fast with stable infra" now. Even Zuckerberg had to grow up eventually.
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    This is exactly what has been done in my area. It has unquestionably benefited those living in the 'burbs moreso than those that live closer to the urban center. The major motivation for it was schools, though. That's actually why
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    I suspect that most families living in a half million dollar McMansions actually do pay far more in tax than the typical apartment dweller. In my area, the flow of capital is definitely the opposite of what you describe: without question,
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    The other thing that this article ignores is that not everybody wants to live in an urban setting. Indeed, I suspect that to the people who live in the suburban sprawl, the money doesn't appear "lost" at all - in fact, they
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    I don't understand why tablets haven't grown. Here we are 5 years after the release of the original ipad, and they're still mostly 10" or smaller. With phones now encroaching on tablet screen sizes, I think it's tim
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    If you've dealt with vxWorks and Wind River's toolchain, you've been using TCL for over a decade.
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    by danjayh 12y ago

    ETFs, like mutual funds, have an 'expense ratio'. Basically they skim a certain amount of the fund's assets off the top to cover expenses & profit.