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by davidb_ 12y ago
Wow, that's like the entire microelectronics class I took in undergrad compressed into an hour, just without any of the math and (obviously) light on theory. Impressive.
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by davidb_ 12y ago
Or for the employee that gets a promotion to manager, and then finds out how much their former coworkers earned.
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by davidb_ 12y ago
Bluespec is a language that's getting attention from academia and industry: http://www.bluespec.com/
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by davidb_ 12y ago
The page you linked seems to do a reasonable job of answering that: "Using on your phone’s built-in GPS, Wi-Fi, and gyroscope to determine distances and the orientation of walls, RoomScan can reliably estimate measurements to within ab
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by davidb_ 12y ago
latexmk + your document viewer of choice (evince for me) will rebuild your document every time you save. Evince will automatically reload the new document. I use it with vim.
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by davidb_ 12y ago
I never got them myself either, but would play with it at my cousin's house. However, I did get a set of Robotix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotix_(toys) Looking at it now, I knew nothing of the comic book&#x
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by davidb_ 13y ago
I remember discovering a similar (maybe the same) bug in my typing classes. I was a fairly good typist, so I would finish the assignment as quickly as I could and then play games on the computer. The teacher wasn't very happy with this
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by davidb_ 13y ago
I think your audience matters as well. Personally, I've noticed if I'm at a party with people I don't know too well (and for some reason discussing personal goals), that interaction has little bearing on my motivation. But, i
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by davidb_ 14y ago
> The cost to add the transistors to put an ARM CPU in silicon is < the cost of the metals in the USB and HDMI connector you use to talk to it. This statement amazes me. It may be true, but it is very counterintuitive to my experien
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by davidb_ 14y ago
Stuffing the iphone power supply into the lightbulb is interesting. I'm sure if you took the time you could make/find a smaller switching power supply to stuff in there, but using a well-designed, readily available power supply in this kind
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by davidb_ 14y ago
Looking around my smallish hometown area, I'm wondering if social workers and/or police make use of tools like this. I'm not advocating either way, but there's lots of young people essentially publicly confessing to crimes (pictures of them
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by davidb_ 14y ago
So, you got a lot of attention, but the part of the story that is missing is whether or not any of it actually materialized into a job that you wanted (or VC funding or whatever else you were looking for). Even if it didn't, you definitely
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by davidb_ 14y ago
I feel like the majority of his "areas of impact" that living overseas has had on him could have just as easily happened if he had stayed in America, but moved to a city with some more diversity. It's more about growing up and making friend
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by davidb_ 14y ago
> We already hit a wall with frequency This is true, but the way you wrote it ignores the fundamental problem - it's not we can't make transistors switch any quicker, it's that doing so causes such an increase in temperature that we ris