jason_s

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   by jason_s 11y ago

   ... ??? why? What's wrong with json.loads()?
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   by jason_s 11y ago

   >To replace git, you need a new paradigm. I don't know what it is, and I think few people here would um.... how about a good command-line UI that doesn't require remembering all sorts of crazy command line switches?
3. 153.▲
   by jason_s 11y ago

   ??? Sounds like FUD to me.
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   by jason_s 11y ago

   Renesas is a huge microcontroller supplier that no one ever hears about for some reason. Other major competitors are NXP/Freescale, ST, TI, and Infineon.
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   by jason_s 11y ago

   Atmel's and Microchip's architectures are so different that I wouldn't expect any consolidation of platforms.
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   by jason_s 11y ago

   I commented in the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939576 : >People in this thread keep talking like this is the "death" of Atmel. I don't see it changing much other than being guided by
7. 157.▲
   by jason_s 11y ago

   http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ nope, just optimization. >Now that they won't be around People in this thread keep talking like this is the "death" of Atmel
8. 158.▲
   by jason_s 11y ago

   totally lost here -- can someone simplify? I'm barely up to speed with C++11 and recognize the && move syntax but I've never seen "using" and don't understand the author's intent.
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   by jason_s 11y ago

   ??? Microchip's IDE has always been free; the XC compilers all have free versions, the only restriction being that you can't use the higher level optimizations (-O2 and -O3 for XC16 are premium; not sure about XC8 and XC32)
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    I'd rather have the RSUs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_stock ) that my company gives us, than stock options. A chunk of them vests each quarter, they allocate an appropriate fraction of that chunk to co
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    .kniht uoy naht tnatropmi erom s'ti spahrep os ytilibadaer stcapmi xatnyS
12. 162.▲
    by jason_s 11y ago

    ? How does Javascript use semantic whitespace?
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    oh right -- mediants! I've never heard of Stern-Brocot but I know what it is. Why not just use continued fractions directly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction#Calculating... e.g. p = 3.1415926535897
14. 164.▲
    by jason_s 11y ago

    I'm assuming he's going to use continued fractions to find the best rational approximation to a given floating-point number.
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    Perseverance, gumption traps, and maintaining a growth mindset(blogs.atlassian.com)

    2 points by jason_s 11y ago|0 comments
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Microchip Technology decouples yearly reviews and pay raises. (And pay raises aren't necessarily once a year, it ebbs and flows with company earnings.) I like this a lot; it removes a lot of the stress from the review process.
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Yeah, it'll probably be a car crash or a hospital equipment failure :/
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Great read! Complexity is evil evil evil (my take on it: http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/132.php ) <quote from Conway's article> Incidentally, today’s automobiles share this problem of a massive am
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    You can use either Atlassian markup or Markdown to edit Confluence pages, it just takes a few extra keystrokes and I can't remember how to do it right at the moment. Not a piece of cake like Github/Stackoverflow, but at least it&#
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    NPR Ted Hour: The Meaning of Work(npr.org)

    2 points by jason_s 11y ago|0 comments
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Robot Odyssey!!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    the answers you linked to cite key sizes of c * 2^k where c = 1,3,or 5 -- like 3072 = 3 * 1024, 2560 = 5 * 512.
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    just because binary data is "random" doesn't mean it yields independent, identically-distributed random variables --- whatever the source.
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Is there a reason 3072-bit or 2560-bit RSA keys can't be used?
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    OK but where's the statistical testing to verify it? For microelectronics there are better ways for true digital random number generators, e.g. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.99....
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    An Interview with OEIS's Neil Sloane(wired.com)

    11 points by jason_s 11y ago|1 comments
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Ironically, that's one of the few useless parts of mathematics, and the least favorite part of my elementary school education. Suggest group theory or linear algebra instead. ;-)
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    ...except for the bug where the ball gets trapped in a line and pops out of an enclosed polygon.
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    Microchip does have a standard license for maybe 99% of its firmware libraries, that includes this proviso, that just forbids you from using the software on microcontrollers made by other manufacturers: Microchip licenses to you the rig
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    by jason_s 11y ago

    I'm not sure I would believe the comment by the person who you are responding to.