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by dejv 8y ago
During my 15 years as a freelancer I've tried many things: coworking, working from coffee shops, libraries, private office, sharing office with one another freelancer and working from home (both corner in bedroom and dedicated home off
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True. It is called priming: your mind is preparing itself for something special and it makes you enjoying the thing more.
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Each kid is different, you might just get lucky. Our first born was heavy cryer till her sixth month, then she was sleeping nicely. Second did sleep very well till 6th month, then teething started and he is just crazy.
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by dejv 8y ago
I was born in wine making region and basically everybody there have/had small vineyard and winery. I was living abroad at that time and was visiting familly over Christmas. As it goes we went to cellar of my uncle and then second and t
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I have 9 month old boy and I wake up at 2am, also 3, 4, 5, 5:30, 5:45... Joking aside, it is just hard to keep any schedule with kids that young. Brace yourself, in few months your sleep situation is going to get better.
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I was product manager for fast growing product, but I was waking up at 5am every morning, just so I can do some coding before work and then do another coding session after I get back from work. That managerial job was ok and it paid well, b
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by dejv 8y ago
Lazarus is great, I just hope they create full support for MacOS. Curent state is more or less broken and not really usable.
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by dejv 8y ago
I can speak about turbidimeters as this is instrument I've designed few of (as in 2 commercial products). Getting into 30 USD would be hard if you want any performance out of it. Just source of light is going to be some kind of NIR las
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I wonder what kind of experiments/projects you will do with given instrument. My company tried to sell "cheap" (as in ~1000/1500 USD) VIS/NIR spectrometers, but it was very hard to actually find some viable market.
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by dejv 8y ago
I finally take a time to study more of a deep learning (Tensorflow, Keras) and openCV. Up until now I was working mostly with text and tabular data so I was safe with random forests.
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It was hard to utilise all those cores. I am sure game architectures evolved during the years, but back then we didn't know how to split the code to optimally utilise all available resources.
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For games you usually want smaller number of high performant cores than many lesser performant. Haven't done much game programming in recent years, but I still remmember the terror of programming PS3 Cell CPU.
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Also the GPU is usually lacking in typical industrial PC. I am using TX2 for this exact reasons: small form factor and good performance for gpu enabled code (running openCV and ML models). Plus you can easily add your own hardware and it ac
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by dejv 8y ago
Havent tried Xavier yet, but I am using TX2 in my work (which is previous generation of this type of device) and CPU is very weak to allow any serious gaming.
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No, he left before I was hired as a consultant. I had never get chance to talk to him in any form. I am the single person who ever touched the source code for past 10 years. I don't know why he left or where he went.
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Well, maybe. Biggest problem is using database from 80s, which is used in a way that sometimes it acts like database, sometimes it is used by copying files (one file per table) around random directories with custom locking mechanism. App co
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Probably fall from roof few times or was not really handy with hammer or something. The company is quite fascinating, they started around 1945 and during the years they've became small conglomerate. There are three or even four generat
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It is impressive indeed. The coding started just in time when Windows 95 were released. There was no Stackoverflow and they don't even really have internet back then. The programmer (as far as I know) didn't even speak English so
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Oh yeah it might be commedy where two people argue about spaces vs tabs and there come our function of 20k lines in single block of code that never heard about using any of those... nor about moving repeated code to own function.
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Sure if this was my job, then I would do it but I am just contractor with set amount of hours devoted to the project. First few years was spend fighting fires as the company needed this very specific software to function, currently it is ju
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by dejv 8y ago
I don't know. The company is based in rural Austria and so it took company quite some time to find another engineer that will took on this project (me). I have never met him or have any other contact with him.
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by dejv 8y ago
I am maintaining one application in construction industry space. That application was created 25 years ago by construction worker that never wrote single line of code before, but because he caused a lot of problems on construction site they
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by dejv 8y ago
Thats actually good question. People do get trained to enjoy more complicated wines (they don't need to be more expensive, but they usually are). I would use analogy with pop music and classical music or modern jazz. For a lots and lot
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I see it more to be case of palate: people without wine training prefer cheaper wines, because they are build around primary aromas and might include some sugar or sweet tanins. It is like giving people tea with sugar or not. Most will pref
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I am hearing about lab-made wine for decade or two. There was famous experiment by some university in Japan that took Domain de Romanee Conti, which is one of the most expensive wine, analyze it on HPLC machine and then took precisely same
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by dejv 8y ago
Guitar amps are very different beasts. If you want to build something simple there is "1 watt guitar amp" project[1] with many different variations. [1] https://www.electrosmash.com/1wamp
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O2 is great and it is quite simple to build. There is even simpler amp called CMoy[1] which is simple enough to be first project for somebody just starting out. I would start by taking look on some oss version[2] and order PCB from OSH Park
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We will see, pirate party here is growing up and this is their first important role. It might end up great or they might get eaten by old school mafia type business people.
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Peaks of each chemical is unique so you can scan database of known chemicals and compare. You can even measure the amounts of various chemicals in solution, but that would require complex calibration. In this case you are basically writing
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It might work for qualitative measurement (what is the solution you are measuring), but this kind of instrument will not be performant enough to do qualitative analysis. Once you want to measure amounts the FTIR is probably the only way to

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