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by iyulaev 14y ago
ICEs are significantly less efficient at startup and until they get up to their normal operating temperatures. That's not so much a problem for long range trips, but taking multiple single-digit mile trips spaced apart in the time dimens
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by iyulaev 14y ago
+1 For those too lazy to click, an excerpt Having had the "honor" of attending class with Mr. Stephens, I would not say that this rebuff is uncalled for. It is one thing to hold a contrary opinion, it is another to act on the matter that
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by iyulaev 14y ago
I don't think saying "120v isn't enough, you need to rewire your entire house" is really accurate either. Most water heaters, stoves, and some central heaters run off a merged breaker for 240v. You can easily use one of those lines for t
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Absolutely right. I was using 120V as shorthand for "the 120V/20A circuit that we're all used to."
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by iyulaev 14y ago
There's an interesting thread from the Tesla Motors club, with lots of input from actual Tesla owners: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13633-NYT-arti... From actual Tesla owners, the performance seen by the NYT reporter appe
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by iyulaev 14y ago
If I was a start-up, and you gave me $10M seed money, and I gave it back to you a year later saying I don't have any ideas, would you call me fiscally conservative, or a waste of time?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
In some ways this is a negative. Issuing dividends means a company thinks that an investor can get a higher return on the cash elsewhere. I.e. there is a lack of profitable opportunities for the company to invest their cash pile.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Paper towels are more hygenic as it turns out that friction after you wash your hands is essential for removing some dirt & germs. The environmental impact of paper towels is minimally worse than air dryers. http://conversableeconomist
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by iyulaev 14y ago
This reminds me of one thing I don't understand - keyboards that tilt up towards you. I find that wrists elevated and flat or slightly down is most comfortable, and the tilted keyboards cause me to bend my wrists up in an awkward way. Who d
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by iyulaev 14y ago
But I also think that to do hardware design in VHDL or Verilog, you need to understand the underlying structures - latches, flip-flops, decoders, muxes, etc. Only barely. Modern FPGAs are made up of LUTs and flip-flops, which can be abstr
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Eh, people worry about this but in my experience with storing vehicles is that it's really not that much of a problem. I put a motorcycle away for 1 year with zero prep. Next year, fired it up, ran the gas through (it seemed a little sluggi
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by iyulaev 14y ago
if the power plant generating the electricity is equal to the automobiles burning the fuel It's not. Even the worst, dirtiest coal plant is going to be more efficient than your car engine, since it converts much more of the energy (given
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Brand yourself as a generalist. It helps if you work for a company that does a whole gamut (from hardware to GUI-level software). Also do side projects in a totally different area from your work. I was (am?) a hw engineer but had no trouble
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Reminds me of SCIgen: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ Generate conference-ready CS papers in seconds!
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by iyulaev 14y ago
By the way, I was actually describing an extremely successful 20-25 person company. Not that I disagree with you, but even in companies of the same size, there is a huge range in strategies and outcomes for those involved. Small "family
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Between working at a huge company with rigid structure and payscales (what the author seems to be describing) and being a founder, there is a spectrum of jobs, with different risk/responsibility tradeoffs. When companies go public, it's not
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by iyulaev 14y ago
copyright reform is a fringe issue 5 years ago, it was. Today, after the SOPA/PIPA thing, it's much more mainstream. People who 5 years ago thought I was weird for talking about Lessig, today are familiar with Sonny Bono and feel strongly
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by iyulaev 14y ago
The memo was widely hailed by tech policy scholars and public interests advocates. And also the internet. At least one thing is certain - there is vehement opposition to any sort of copyright reform, and it is embedded deep into the polit
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by iyulaev 14y ago
In the natural sciences, this system happens to be the world in which we live Not to say I disagree with your post, but it's it more accurate to say that the natural sciences today explore models for the world in which we live? The mode
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by iyulaev 14y ago
This +1 What Tesla has done is made an electric car and marketed it as more luxurious and different from what's on the market. The Leaf is for hippies, the Volt is nowhere to be seen. The Tesla on the other hand is sexy. A bigger concern is
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by iyulaev 14y ago
You're right, although in practice it was largely the same thing. Huge database contains home listings, computer spits out which are due for foreclosure, a bunch of ex-fast-fooders sign them as quickly as possible. There was a human in the
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by iyulaev 14y ago
what other legal documents are mass produced by a computer with no human oversight? Mortgages and foreclosure documents come to mind. See "robosigners".
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by iyulaev 14y ago
you can absolutely socket BGA chips Eh, not really. Well, you can, but it's ugly, expensive, and usually only done for test fixtures and such.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
I think he's talking about conformal coating, not solder mask. Conformal coating can help but it's mostly there to prevent shorting across component leads from condensation. If you smash the Al casing against the board there's a good chance
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Tyler Cowen has a great TEDx talk (from a while back!) that hits many of the same points, in an arguably clearer way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEEDKwzNBw
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Before we jump into how the code might have been wrong, there are other issues that can impact mission-critical applications like this that have little to do with the high-level code. In financial applications it's somewhat common to build
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by iyulaev 14y ago
What else do you want said? Regulate facebook? Yes, they're scummy. But they didn't force you to put your personal info or photos on there. Don't want the internet to know something? Don't post it on facebook.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
I don't understand why anyone is surprised by this. Facebook is a commercial service that aims to make money from advertising to its users. That is the goal. Keeping the info (that you willingly put up!) private is only important insofar as
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by iyulaev 14y ago
This echoes TGS and such. OK. You've convinced me. But the article concludes without giving any constructive suggestion, other than some vague notion that youngsters today should really innovate. Give me some more concrete advice. What do?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Heh. My Nokia from '07 does this, too :)

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