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by iyulaev 13y ago
With a pretty lavish college student lifestyle you can live on $20K a year. If you're pulling down $100K+ (reasonable for an engineer or an IB, I imagine) that's at least 2 years of off time you buy with each year you work. Not th
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Makes sense! This I can understand. Analogously, at the end of a software project you tend to have to take care of all of the little things - re-run all of the tests, figure out the packaging script, fill out paperwork, make sure the websit
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Question for you - how much more productive were you on your 80th hour than on your zero-th? I ask because I typically work 50 hour weeks. I've pushed to 80 when projects are wrapping up but I find that the extra hours are mostly only
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Great article! As an aside, my, Fast Company has really gone down the tubes...
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Perhaps it would be even better to say, "power transmission kills."
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Most likely because they didn't have that "totally positive effortlessly nice and socially easy" vibe. You know, sometimes, I feel like that's a personality trait that's often under-rated.
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by iyulaev 13y ago
School doesn't pay for itself (quite the opposite, really). Learning on your own time certainly doesn't pay for itself. You're right in that a larger proportion of programmers "make it big" but I don't believe
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Are you a bad artist if you don't paint on your own time? Are you a bad writer if you don't write on your own time? Are you a bad carpenter if you don't craft on your own time? No. You can be an excellent, professional .+\. B
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Important point - back in 2007, China mandated that all cell phones be able to charge from a standardized connector [1]. The connector they chose was Micro USB. Thus regulatory concerns played no small part in the mini vs micro wars. [1]
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Replying "this is not a bug" is equivalent to saying "I have read and understood your report, and this is not a bug, it is a feature." First off, it's not a dismissal, it's an acknowledgement. Second, since it&
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Did not consider this. Intermodulation and other distortion by-products are going to be difficult to control although I have no experience with the performance of modern amps for sub-MHz frequency ranges. Building a working prototype that c
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Did anyone else read this and immediately wonder, "how many watts?" 1.5 pages of prose and no hard numbers. Years in the industry reading marketing white papers and such cause things like this to really set off the bullshit detect
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by iyulaev 13y ago
you would still be fully wrong in selling the exploit to the highest bidder. It's not ethical to do that just because you failed to get a bounty after reporting it, especially if you only tried once. Well he tried twice, and they tol
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Not to sound arrogant, but I took a few MBA courses which included Enterprise Finance and Operations Management. There is some rigor to the courses, and I found the finance class in particular interesting and applicable. However, the level
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Except education loans don't get cleared in bankruptcy!
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by iyulaev 13y ago
The industry wants people who claim to be the best, and that's hard to do while also selecting for niceness. Absolutely true. The reason I point this out is that the cost of a jerk goes up as the size of the team he/she is on in
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by iyulaev 13y ago
There's one thing this article misses, and one thing I totally disagree on. Hiring for prior experience - the author emphasizes this, and based on my experience this should be de-weighted. The issue is that as soon as you start to defi
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Some vendors follow your suggested model, and are very open with support and documentation. Other vendors (some of the biggest are in this group) have terrible/non-existent documentation and provide application-specific support by ship
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by iyulaev 13y ago
"Just wait until he gets Pfizered." On a long enough time scale, everyone will get "Pfizered." What makes you think this is likely to happen soon? Genuinely curious, as a practicing (sort of) EE.
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by iyulaev 13y ago
I suspect it's a combination of support, documentation, and trade secrets. I've worked with numerous vendors over the last decade and the support strategies vary dramatically. Some vendors put up very nice datasheets, manuals, sou
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Hell yeah! If I'm shipping 10M units to my 5 favorite customers, and my documentation comes in Engineer form, I don't want to waste my time writing up 20K pages of documentation (which is about how much it takes) so that hobbyists
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by iyulaev 13y ago
This kind of stuff is run-of-the-mill when working with the large chipset/SoC vendors. I've worked on projects that have crashed and burned because at the last minute the chip vendor decided they're not going to provide the S
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by iyulaev 13y ago
POWER != PowerPC, although they are related. There are/were plenty of PowerPC-based microcontrollers. Freescale, among other vendors, had a few families. It's all ARM now though as far as I know.
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by iyulaev 13y ago
"IMHO, that doesn't mean it's not shouting. " So why did you write IBM, instead of Ibm? Or ARM, instead of Arm?
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by iyulaev 13y ago
How do you have time to post on HN?
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Big company decides to pull a grassroots-focused marketing campaign. Picks an inappropriate venue. Backs off. Is fb, for example, a more appropriate venue, selling likes and all that? They explicitly allow sponsored posts that appear to hav
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by iyulaev 13y ago
It's a phenomenon that happens to all waves, whether they are acoustic or electromagnetic. In fact, it's how your clock radio tunes to various stations. This property is a mathematical property of all waves, hence even when your b
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Tickets require the driver to be identified. There's no law about wearing a mask while driving.
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by iyulaev 13y ago
I paid about $600 for a Samsung 500T and I think it's a great device, albeit for a small market. I bought it because it was effectively a 1kg netbook with a 10 hour battery and a stylus. It's not as good of a tablet as the iPad bu
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by iyulaev 13y ago
Kind of by definition though - I think there are more hackers at 30+25 = 55 rather than 30-25 = 5.

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