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by jotux 11y ago
Has anyone used the new controller and compared it to the original that came with the first steamboxes? I had a friend win the steambox lottery and I tried the original steam controller -- I found it simply awful.
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by jotux 11y ago
I wouldn't say you can't learn about them but it makes it more difficult. Some people are really good at memorizing and when you ask them a common problem it's not useful -- they will just regurgitate the answer and reasoning
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by jotux 11y ago
A problem with this is that it's asked so frequently people just memorize the answer.
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by jotux 11y ago
>they might be great if you're doing scripting, messing around with the back end, or dong DB stuff. But for me, writing day-to-day JS, HTML, CSS code, VIM seems like a very huge burden. Why is back-end different from front-end? It&#
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by jotux 11y ago
I've never seen (in code I've worked on) if (condition) Foo(x); Bar(x); But I have seen if(condition1) if(condition2) if(condition3 && condition4) Foo();
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by jotux 11y ago
Apple should ban the app for this, right? http://danielamitay.com/blog/2015/5/29/shutting-down-a-500mm...
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by jotux 11y ago
I think the only interaction most people have with Asimov's laws is just reading them and thinking they seem reasonable. If people actually read the stories they'd learn that the robots are constantly put into situations that pose
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by jotux 11y ago
I do a lot of embedded C, so I generally avoid dynamically allocating memory, but when I do the way I try to avoid memory leaks is to always try to allocate and free in the same scope. For example, you malloc in your get_line function but y
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by jotux 11y ago
Some general feedback: In C you separate your implementation from your interface with header files. If you include .c files in .c files it will end up causing a lot of problems and start making includes order dependent (like how your code w
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by jotux 11y ago
Embedded in academia: http://blog.regehr.org/
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by jotux 11y ago
>their answer amounted to "be working somewhere else". It does not amount to that. In many, many, cases people start looking for jobs wishing they could stay at their current job.
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by jotux 11y ago
I understand this is the current and prevalent mindset I just think it's wrong. If you are told or find out someone is looking for another job, and that person is a good and important resource to your organization, why not take every r
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by jotux 11y ago
>you're basically waving a big flag that says "don't invest in me." If you're shopping around this can mean your employer has already refused to invest in you, no?
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by jotux 11y ago
>They'd have to be idiots to promote you under those circumstances. Why would they have to be idiots? Doesn't this just create a crummy atmosphere where promotions only go to people unwilling or unable to leave the organization
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by jotux 11y ago
There's a small company that sells spinning, inexpensive lidars: http://rplidar.robopeak.com/ You can purchase it from seeed: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/RPLIDAR-360-degree-Laser-Sc...
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by jotux 11y ago
$90: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13167
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by jotux 11y ago
I use my phone (Note 3) for texting, surfing, playing games, and talking -- in that order. Texting, surfing, and playing games are all better on a larger screen.
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by jotux 11y ago
There are many apps that have ads and no paid ad-free version.
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by jotux 11y ago
The ability or inability to describe an idea in simple terms has no relation to the validity of the idea. >If Zappos has a unique take on how to replace middle management, let's all hear it. I think their idea is in this book, menti
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by jotux 11y ago
Was it this one? http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/truth-wont-admit-dr...
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by jotux 11y ago
>in one sentence with fewer than 20 words Seems like an arbitrary restriction to put on something that's probably complex.
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by jotux 12y ago
Generally more design time and more money can remove most constraints -- you just end up with a product no one is willing to purchase.
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by jotux 12y ago
Often people end up resting their feet on the brake pedal just enough to turn on the brake lights which makes them useless as indicators to the people behind you.
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by jotux 12y ago
>If correct, Intel could gain a capability as early as 2016 to produce 10nm transistors as much as 200 millivolts lower in power consumption than the rest of the industry. Poor writing for a site called EE times...
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Dad gets new face from his son after skin cancer left him with gaping hole(mirror.co.uk)
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by jotux 12y ago
I'm a serial low-volume costco shopper (<5 items) and don't really care if they put in express lanes or not -- I just wish costco would go to the single-queue model for checkout.
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by jotux 12y ago
Questions: "What is best in life?" Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living." Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their wo
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by jotux 12y ago
This is not twitter -- there is a reply button below every comment.
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by jotux 12y ago
>I'd say markup is about structure where code has inherent meaning. With this definition couldn't you make the argument that code that defines structure isn't code, but markup?
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by jotux 12y ago
This is so childish and condescending.

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