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by jotux 10y ago
>And as I mentioned elsewhere, "free rent and free food" was basically exactly what the rats were given in their utopia. You mentioned it and it's still inaccurate. The study gave mice everything they could ever want, in e
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by jotux 10y ago
The problem with your argument is that basic income isn't anything like a utopia or perfect world -- it's just enough to pay rent and buy food. Basic income for people is much closer to the treatment pet owners are expected to pro
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by jotux 10y ago
I designed a PCB once that had a pin on a regulator connected to a ground pour. In the CAD tool the pour extended to the pad between two traces but when I generated gerbers for the board the pour no longer connected to the pad. I didn'
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by jotux 10y ago
That's pretty interesting. I think most people feel that animals only have a simple subset of human emotions they can feel but maybe there are emotions they have that we do not. I imagine dogs, with a strong sense of social belonging t
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by jotux 11y ago
There are actually processors designed specifically to prevent issues like this [1]. They use ECC flash, ECC RAM, and dual CPUs that run in lock-step. 1. http://www.ti.com/product/rm48l550
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by jotux 11y ago
I work in embedded C/C++ all day and have a soft limit of 80 characters per line and 60 lines per method. 99% of my code will conform but no big deal if you go over and don't lose visual appeal. 80/line is nice because you ca
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by jotux 11y ago
Similar things happen with PCMCIA cards. The connector design on PCMCIA cards is just awful in that male pins are in the receptacle/PC. If you accidentally clog one of the holes on the PCMCIA cards connector and plug it into a receptac
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by jotux 11y ago
After some very brief googling it seems like there are many decent choices. Here's one: http://www.awaregps.com/
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by jotux 11y ago
>You keep your heart rate down by slow steady breathing, and always try and pull the trigger between beats. I used to be very active in competitive freestyle archery (scope and release) for both indoor and 3D. You do work to control your
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by jotux 11y ago
http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
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by jotux 11y ago
>If you only get canned questions >If they give you an IQ test or similar, run. I ran across this study a few months ago that says IQ-like tests, structured interviews (canned questions), and work-sample evaluations were some of the f
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by jotux 11y ago
It's neat but not very useful. I'd actually be interested in an editor that enforces E-Prime[1] to see if it made writing more clear. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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by jotux 11y ago
>they're usually poorly phrased with no effort put into them Or they're new to programming and lack the vocabulary to research what they're interested in or phrase a question well.
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by jotux 11y ago
I think the contract was just for software, probably in addition to installation, roll-out, training, and support.
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by jotux 11y ago
Even if this was a problem for potential female candidates how could you possibly fix it? Hide the gender identity of your team from the public?
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by jotux 11y ago
A prize for whom? The dead people?
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by jotux 11y ago
The title of this post is a question: Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries? My comment is addressing this question, and more generally, this recent interest in posting your salary.
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by jotux 11y ago
My comment is directed at these discussions in general. Knowing only salary and bonus just isn't very useful.
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by jotux 11y ago
It's strange to me that these salary discussions are so narrowly focused on just pay/bonus and don't seem to care about benefits and work/life balance. Here's stuff I track in my own career spreadsheet and compare n
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by jotux 11y ago
I worked at a company that made POS terminals on the OS development team. We had a proprietary OS based loosely on UNIX that was ~100KLOC (kernel). It was largely designed by 3-4 core developers and maintained by ~12 embedded software engin
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by jotux 11y ago
Embedded processors are reaching < 30uA/MHz operation and useful sleep modes in the hundreds of nanoamps. Super capacitor/battery density, and energy harvesting continues to improve. I think we're incredibly close to batte
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by jotux 11y ago
Four years ago I replaced my desktop and laptop with a maxed-out Thinkpad W series(W520). I7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and nvidia quadro graphics card. I keep it docked 99% of the time but I can throw it in a bag and take it with when the need
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by jotux 11y ago
RF/Microwave hardware isn't work, it's sorcery. You just enjoy being a wizard.
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by jotux 11y ago
Sacramento gets about 3-6 weeks of 100+ weather a year, and probably 1-2 weeks worth of freezing weather (freezing overnight only). Almost all homes and cars sold here have AC. The heat here is pretty dry so people complain about it but not
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by jotux 11y ago
>Are you suggesting that all criminals should be released immediately after being arrested? I am not and I don't really understand how you came to that conclusion based on my comment. It's completely reasonable to hold people p
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by jotux 11y ago
>The fact of the matter is you can't be imprisoned in the US for a crime you haven't committed or at least that judge and jury haven't deliberated on. Kevin Mitnick spent 4.5 years in jail waiting for trial. https:/&
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by jotux 11y ago
18F has what I think are pretty good descriptions of junior-to-senior level developer expectations (related to their pay scales). See the section titled, "Selecting a grade level." https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f
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by jotux 11y ago
If you're a watch geek it's much easier to get Casio, Seiko (especially Grand Seiko), and Citizen watch models in Japan. Grand Seiko watches are gorgeous but not as well known outside of Japan. If you can hit up a knife shop try t
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by jotux 11y ago
Comey in testimony today: "Whatever the judge's decision is in California ... will be instructive for other courts, and there may well be other cases that involve the same kind of phone and the same operating system" It'
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by jotux 11y ago
Google's conclusions, summarized: https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful...

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