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by kosma 11y ago
How is this even legal? I can't even imagine this happening in Europe; you can't dismiss someone from school without legal basis. Is it different in America?
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by kosma 11y ago
It's not the travel itself that matters, but the challenges and new perspectives that it brings. You won't get an epiphany on an all-inclusive trip; and I've seen people relocate across the globe and continue to live the same
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by kosma 11y ago
The language barrier is a huge thing - especially if you're trying to live like a local (as opposed to being a tourist). I've been to Spain and England on that particular trip, and the latter was ten times easier simply because I
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by kosma 11y ago
Strange how all the stories here are positive & cheerful. I did the very thing two years ago, mostly due to peer pressure and reading too much HN, and it was a disaster. I didn't meet any interesting people, had no exciting adventu
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by kosma 12y ago
Because taking accurate reproductions of small flat objects boils down to three things: zero distortion, even illumination, flat focus plane. Even if you can find a well-corrected macro lens, building the physical setup is a major PITA and
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by kosma 12y ago
I'm genuinely worried about people with sensory oversensitivity problems. Personally I shudder to even think about spending time in a building like that one; those uneven lines painted in the common rooms, bright orange walls, breath
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by kosma 12y ago
...and their most important improvement isn't even their own. I'm not a fan of bashing any product, but after using MongoDB in several projects, in legitimate document database use cases, I just can't find any bright side.
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by kosma 12y ago
> Reduces operational overhead up to 95% And 40% more hip. Gotta love those numbers. Also, don't forget about the new WiredTiger storage engine - sounds way cooler than, say, InnoDB! Hype is strong with this one.
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by kosma 12y ago
> If I recall well, Polish typewriter layout (PN-87) was still available on Windows 95/98. It's way worse: it's installed by default up to (at least) Windows 7, along with a silent (no feedback!) Left Alt-Shift shortcut th
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by kosma 12y ago
It definitely affects the learning curve. Have a look at the Czech keyboard layout; when I first started learning that language I ended up using the Compose key. Why on Earth would you put diacritics on numerical keys without any kind of
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by kosma 12y ago
I initially planned to put a TL;DR here, but it's the best bug analysis I've seen in months - a pleasure to read! - so I'm leaving it for others to savour. The very same bug used to be present in early Windows mobile GPU driv
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by kosma 12y ago
By the way, is there anything special about that STM32 programmer, or is it just a neat ST-LINK/V2 clone? Ever since the original ST firmware leaked, everyone seems to be building them.
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by kosma 12y ago
We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops. – John Cleese
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by kosma 12y ago
That's only because author uses a pretty standard compiler. Try building your flawless library on ARM, Newlib, etc. and you're pretty much fighting your tools all the time. The first compiler/toolchain bug is a rite of passag
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by kosma 12y ago
In a typical UNIX fashion, there's a program that runs programs: ping 127.0.0.1 | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | xargs -d'\n' -n1 say
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by kosma 12y ago
As usual, the answers are not simple. At our last hardware startup we ended up manufacturing the mechanical parts (injection moulded case, springs, etc.) in China via our industrial design company but did PCBs, assembly and packaging locall
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by kosma 12y ago
I used to trigger NMI by shorting the first two pins on an empty ISA slot with a screwdriver (conveniently NMI and GND); stopped when the screwdriver slipped once. Thankfully nothing died on that day, but the cascade of sparks convinced me
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by kosma 12y ago
He thinks that after a few times you should learn to pay attention to what's happening in front of you. What kind of hunter are you if you constantly bump into other hunters? ;)
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by kosma 13y ago
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll probably end up implementing this in my I2C driver. The temporary GPIO switch won't hurt; at that point, the I2C host should probably get a reset too just to un-confuse it (at least I can generate T
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by kosma 13y ago
> The compass (AK8963) has a reset line, the other two have no reset line at all. Your best bet is to drop VCC, but what are the chances the hardware guy just tied them to the power bus and left it at that? That is, if you also have even
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by kosma 13y ago
It takes just one bad apple to spoil the entire team. I've been in this situation three times. Reporting that your teammate is dragging the entire project down is a horrible feeling - but it's the only responsible thing to do. If
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by kosma 13y ago
There's nothing dirty about shipping. 10x means shipping - and nothing else. It's just one trait - being able to attack small chunks of work and finish them before moving to the next one - and it doesn't say anything about th
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by kosma 13y ago
So basically, online shopping hits big food corporations because they can't exploit people's basic instinct to trick them into buying something they don't really need ? That's actually a good thing.
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by kosma 13y ago
IOT engineer here. As much as it hurts, I have to agree with the spirit of this article: we, as the industry, are simply not prepared. Your average embedded engineer does not care much about security. When you launch a hardware product, the
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by kosma 13y ago
I've been writing accelerometer coordinate system rotation code for the whole day. Almost melted my brain; trying to imagine 3D rotation is hard, especially when you lack the proper tools and have very little experience with it. Finall
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Analog clock on an oscilloscope using sound card output(github.com)
2 points by kosma 13y ago|0 comments
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by kosma 13y ago
Wonderful - showing how little magic there really is in kernel programming. I recommend that everyone who does Linux programming go through this tutorial, even if just for fun - and for the sake of seeing how different the world on the othe
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There is no right way to do anything (hackerideals.tumblr.com)
1 points by kosma 13y ago|0 comments
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by kosma 14y ago
If the author stopped at the title, he would be one hundred percent correct. It's easy to rant about unit tests. Don't fall into that trap. Be aware that it's a hype, and correct for that fact - and once you do, use your best judgement. In
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by kosma 14y ago
If you are born as a creative person, like Bukowski, you will create this time and space, no matter what. For the rest of us, Cleese tells us about the importance of creating them - while Bukowski warns that they're just a tool, not a sol

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