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by gjkood 10y ago
I definitely did not learn it on my own or through self study. I attended Mandarin classes at the San Jose Learning Center. ( http://www.sanjoselearningcenter.com/mandarin.php ) A special shout-out to my fantastic instructor
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by gjkood 10y ago
Actually, buying Bunnie's "The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" [1] was what motivated me to make the trip. I was motivated enough to spent 7+ months learning basic Mandarin before making the trip. Not to mention t
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by gjkood 10y ago
I was in Shenzhen a few months back for the first time. I can only describe it as Disneyland for electronics enthusiasts. Going into all the specialized malls in Huaqiang Bei and seeing the entire supply chain in one building is amazing. Hi
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by gjkood 10y ago
I assume your response was addressed to the parent post? I didn't think I was passing any judgement on the Tatas. I was asking why the Tata name was brought up in the first place.
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by gjkood 10y ago
Can you shed some more light on why the Tatas should be mentioned in the article? As far as I can tell from Part 1 of the article which is posted, the discussion is more of society's use of Opium through the latter part of the millenni
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by gjkood 10y ago
And now its all ad-free binge watching...sigh.
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by gjkood 10y ago
But did she take the truck?
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by gjkood 10y ago
This was the computer on which I first learned to program. After that it was the Spectrum. Then the MSX series. Does anyone remember the MSX series of computers from various vendors?
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by gjkood 10y ago
Fellow FTC Coach here. Couldn't agree with you more. Point 4 - Remote Debugging is an especially important one. Not only not having to connect using the cable but saving the tremendous amount of wear and tear on the phone USB connector
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by gjkood 10y ago
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it's less of a farce than all other forms of government.
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by gjkood 10y ago
If you have carpeted floors, you can use those little teflon disks that you insert under your furniture legs. Once you have all the legs on the teflon disks, its quite easy to push them around. No need of lifting heavy furniture. You only h
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by gjkood 10y ago
I think if you replace Elixir with Erlang, the beginning of the hype cycle argument goes away since now we are talking about rock solid software backend that is decades old (from the 1980s) and powering a large chunk of the telephone switch
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by gjkood 10y ago
In the ancient times of databases we had to make sure that we wrote to 'raw' disk devices bypassing any possibility of the operating system file caching/buffering failing to 'flush' our writes all the way to the dis
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by gjkood 10y ago
I am partial to DaisyDisk on OSX. Nice UI. It comes in very handy on the lower capacity Flash Disks (64GB) on the early generation Macbook Airs. Needs constant housekeeping on those.
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by gjkood 10y ago
Fantastic job! Functional and beautiful at the same time. This is the kind of stuff that I love to read about in the mornings. I know this machine will not solve world hunger or bring about world peace but I know this would bring peace to m
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by gjkood 10y ago
> Hou, who currently outpaces the second-ranked female player by 68 points, recently left the women's chess circuit for mixed events where she can compete against men, who fill every spot in the world's top 100 rankings. I was
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by gjkood 10y ago
> Throwing a game against a woman because you're grumpy she's a woman is not a good thing. Not to be pedantic, but Lalith Babu, the Indian Grand Master, is male. I believe the article says Hou Yifan threw the final match agains
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by gjkood 10y ago
I know you didn't ask for books but here are some interesting ones. The first two cover individuals and the last two cover the works of others. Coders At Work ( https://www.amazon.com/Coders-Work-Reflections-Craft-Progra
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by gjkood 10y ago
Ah yes, the proverbial "ottokorrekt" as I call it. I am still on the fence about whether it is a blessing or a curse.
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Yes, the moderators should intercede and change the title. I wonder if the OP is no longer able to.
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by gjkood 10y ago
I think we have to recognize that the use of the computer has changed over time. It's no longer the "computing" device that the users of yore recognize. Before the late seventies, the use of computers were restricted to those
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by gjkood 10y ago
Wow, this is a very good list and eminently bookmark worthy. I would also include sites like Adafruit.com and Sparkfun.com for prototyping supplies and the blogs they host. I know Octopart or the other Parts searches would cover these. Anot
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by gjkood 10y ago
I have found the best way to enjoy Apple hardware without the sticker shock is to just go ahead and buy used Macs from vendors such as OWComputing (macsales.com) or macofalltrades.com. The hardware is rock solid even if it is 3 or 4 years o
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by gjkood 10y ago
Thank you MM for picking up the slack :). I was merely venting on a pet peeve of mine. Very informative videos.
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by gjkood 10y ago
Thanks for the image. I coach a First Tech Challenge robotics team and seeing all the different configurations for robots doing automatable tasks gives me ideas that I can present to the team when they have to come up with designs to solve
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by gjkood 10y ago
Informative article, but a picture is worth a thousand words. While I appreciate the picture of a drill ship in the ocean, it would have been more informative to see a single picture of one of these robots. I guess since the focus of the ar
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by gjkood 10y ago
The difference between a poorly performing product that uses an RDBMS backend and a highly performant one is purely down to SQL query tuning and finding the right indexes. It is the lowest hanging fruit to improve performance. Even if you d
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by gjkood 10y ago
One of the useful things that I learned as I began to use SQL is to learn how to use and analyze query plans. This will take you from the theory of indexes to actually seeing how it is used by the SQL engine. This will go a long way to buil
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by gjkood 10y ago
Would it be possible to make cogent arguments without resorting to stereotypical India bashing? Would you make the same arguments using Chinese manufacturing and the fact that it leads the world in electronics manufacturing? India is large.
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As we close the barn doors after the horses have left, we are left to ponder these two valuable resources for further edification. [1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cryptographic_Storage_Cheat_... [2] https:/&#x2

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