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by diydsp 13y ago
warning: anecdote of 1 here. but one time my native Japanese roommate and I were playing with a real-time audio spectrum analyzer and I was demonstrating the difference b/t "l" and "r" and she simply could not hear
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by diydsp 13y ago
Epic quote: >The C++ programmer is a deer sniffing the air for the scent of boots and gunpowder: everything’s an opportunity for gain; everything’s an opportunity for calamity.
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by diydsp 13y ago
I'm not a security expert, but from a management standpoint, obfuscation certainly /slows/ (not inhibits) the spread of homebrew Dropbox clients. Homebrew clients have the potential to create lots of customer support issues.
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by diydsp 13y ago
While we're at it, why did Ahmed Bougacha register an entire domain for this topic?!?! (srsly, I'm wondering if he's just super-passionate about this topic and had the resources to spare? Is this the beginning of a much lar
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by diydsp 13y ago
The stm32f4 RULES. If you haven't got enough info on it, i'd just like to plug the subreddit I created specifically for the stm32f4: http://reddit.com/r/stm32f4
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by diydsp 13y ago
You've got good points, but I think you're sometimes over-equalizing "performing tasks" with "following a leader." You're right about managers not doing the same work, i.e. tasks and activities. However,
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by diydsp 13y ago
fwiw, i started dating a lawyer and she and I went deep into the 100-mile free zone topic. Me, on the paranoid side and she, siding with the SCOTUS. We spent a few hours researching Supreme Court cases and eventually found lots of details
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by diydsp 13y ago
lol, irony: http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/fewer-vs-l... (BTW, since you were one of us who was reading carefully, how did you like this phrase: "it was almost like a stoner’s aha:&quo
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by diydsp 13y ago
Why not start your own similar message board? I'm not just being glib. You know HN is based reddit's free software, right? I would love to see more competition and more variants of moderation policies. I've watched reddit
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by diydsp 13y ago
They're not going to be manipulating low-level devices directly. They're going to be communicating via device drivers from JS. I'll bet $100 the device drivers will all be written in C. The thing people need to learn about
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by diydsp 13y ago
I took a brief glance at the LPC1830 and it seems it doesn't have hardware floating-point at all. (None of the mainstream Cortex M3 products that I've seen do). Do you have better info on this? So, I believe its FP support is th
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by diydsp 13y ago
In addition, there was a recent study that said when women write fake names on their test papers before they take math tests, they do better! [1] This suggests not only do gender expectations influence performance, but one's own asses
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by diydsp 13y ago
>Not long after obtaining his doctorate, he received an inheritance from his grandfather >“How could it be the case that this person is cofounder and CEO since 2005 and the company still exists?” The answer dates back to Karp’s decad
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by diydsp 13y ago
I agree a real nationalized healthcare system is in order, with many improvements possible. In the meantime though, you should know: You don't have to actually be dying of AIDS to get social services, such as public housing, in Americ
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by diydsp 13y ago
You meet $g at a caffeinated yogurt startup tasting party. You want to form an intimate relationship with person $g. $g looks you up on SureEros.com and finds a bogus profile for you claiming you actually don't like milk products or
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by diydsp 13y ago
What are these RAM SSDs of which the article speaks? I searched around for a bit, but couldn't find any place to order one (keep getting hits for PCs for sale)... are they available in say, 64GB in SATA?
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by diydsp 13y ago
hi! 1. Would it be possible to download the virtual machine onto my desktop/laptop, then, work on it for a bit, then upload it back to the virtual machine? 2. Would it be possible for the online virtual machine to access a USB debugg
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by diydsp 13y ago
One title from RD which still sticks out in my mind: "My Posse Don't Do Homework".
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by diydsp 13y ago
The Taoism analogy is an interesting one. Underpinning much of it is the idea that there is a time to move and a time to stand still. iow it's useful to learn when to resist and when to yield. Many times when people express opinions,
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by diydsp 13y ago
Solar energy hobbyist here: Figure: 1000 Watts of pure solar energy per square meter. [1] 20% efficiency from a typical panel [2] Panel area appears to be roughly 4 x (24cm*36cm) = .35 m^2 so energy received is about 69 Watts. Conversion
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes, currently I believe the cost is due to a single professor making it in a lab with lab assistants, ordering small amounts of materials, preparing in small batches. Potentially, it could be as simple as making soy protein or Smarties (th
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by diydsp 13y ago
One way to detect if your processor is bugged would be to run benchmarks. If the microcode is different, e.g. making backdoor operations between register accesses, your benchmark results will be different. A battery of tedious, slightly-di
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by diydsp 13y ago
http://yacy.net/en/index.html tri-platform, penta-language http://www.faroo.com/hp/p2p/p2p.html windows-only
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by diydsp 13y ago
Absolutely. Many key positions in police departments are filled through election. They may not seem important, but the folks we choose now to police our podunk towns go on to larger scale law enforcement. We should scrutinize the people
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by diydsp 13y ago
It would be good if people realized how snooping is connected to poverty. In my scenario, snooping is used to gain business secrets. These are used to undercut businesses, resulting in lower wages and poverty. E.g. Chinese hackers steal
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by diydsp 13y ago
Thank you for making that post. I've been repeating these points on broken-record for the last few months. I would also like to add /family/ as a huge pressure point, akin to your guilt by association. IOW, one may have no
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by diydsp 13y ago
ah, i can see how my comment could create confusion. I was actually intending agree with you, to mean that the low-level programmers are precisely those individuals who achieve the time-to-market. They can wade through the specs and config
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by diydsp 13y ago
heh. it was "new" in Dec 2012 as well. Same inventor: http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/12/11/new-straw-detects... It was also invented by scientists in Tel Aviv in August 2012: http:&#x2
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by diydsp 13y ago
hmmm. a bit harsh and inaccurate to call him "not a programmer." We are all really just digital stage managers. Here's the secret to understanding the difference between API'ists and low-level programmers: time-to-mark
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by diydsp 13y ago
From Metro Boston: round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 100.297/104.900/110.846/3.406 ms

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