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by ladyada 16y ago
you can probe USB commands, but that takes a lot of time. much faster to connect a usb analyzer and then 'replay' to see what commands do what. http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/09/kinect-hacking-video... (demo of analyzer) http://git
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by ladyada 16y ago
Before trying to read Infinite Jest, try to read all his other essays (and short stories). This is really helpful. Be OK with the fact that you really aren't going to understand what happens the first time though, like at all. The book -mu
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by ladyada 16y ago
If you try to get new customers with price-cutting deals, you will get customers who want & expect price-cutting deals. If you try to get new customers with quality goods at a fair price, you will get customers who will pay a fair price
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by ladyada 16y ago
im like the last person you should ask about embedded linux. ive done a smattering of projects but nothing detailed enough to advise :) that said, i think the svideo thing is a 50/50 linuxwiki/TI problem. on one hand, the linux community lo
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by ladyada 16y ago
It is also a total PITA to get 'booted' since it comes blank you need to mkfs a sd card. if you have linux on a computer already, this is pretty easy. but what if you dont have a linux machine ready to go? if you're me you spend 2 days tryi
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by ladyada 16y ago
y'see, thats why i got myself a pick and place! :) ( http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/mdcpickandplace ) its great for the "first 1000 or so" - if something gets popular i can send it off for manufacture - but only because i can bridge manufactur
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by ladyada 16y ago
When I was there, this was true, and probably still is. I did an MIT EECS MEng and I'll be honest with you: its probably not worth it if you dont land a TAship or RAship that covers all costs. Getting into the MEng program is not done by ap
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by ladyada 16y ago
Two chargebacks a year? Thats quite a bit. Do you deal with a lot of sketchy places? Do you file a chargeback if you're not happy with the service?
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by ladyada 16y ago
Its been a while, but I recall that you -do- need to make an account - it gets created when you make your first purchase. But having to send people off to another site (where they get to reenter all their address info -again-) is a PITA and
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by ladyada 16y ago
How would a online merchant get PIN debit rates? I mean this in a very practical manner: I have never seen a merchant with any way to use a card as Debit - only as a credit card.
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by ladyada 16y ago
This is misleading. The 1.9% interchange fee is going the MINIMUM of many many different interchange fees especially Amex's and the vast number of 'rewards' cards. For online 'e-retail', expect at least 2.5% as well as many new and exciting
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by ladyada 16y ago
Shafi is a mathematician/computer scientist, and Jepsen and Ellsworth are not programmers - they are engineers! Go engineers! Our wrists hurt less!
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by ladyada 16y ago
its not technically, but it is practically. i wouldn't say they -collude- but their discount rates (what merchants pay) have been going up. there are also new, completely arbitrary fees (yay NABU). and there is no incentive for prices to go
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by ladyada 16y ago
Slashdot should be nuked from orbit & put out of its misery. Its more painful to watch it because (at least) I expect better from geeks. Especially old-skool geeks. I've seen entire article comment threads that were completely technical
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by ladyada 16y ago
You are right...but it still doesnt matter who said what when, because Big Daddy Merchant will always side with the customer because Big Mommy Credit Card will always side with the customer. Not sure if you have ever sold goods to customers
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by ladyada 16y ago
OK but...4-6 weeks is a very long time. Customers are used to Amazon-style shipping. If you aren't going to ship in < a week, you should auth and not capture or have a mailing/waiting list. (We don't capture till the moment they get a t
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by ladyada 16y ago
also, http://www.ladyada.net/wiki/pcbchecklist (much less photogenic)
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by ladyada 16y ago
whenever i hang out with alums (from ~'02) i'm always surprised at how few value the concept of Selling Things you Engineered for Money. Most are extremely happy Designing Things for Big Projects (NASA/DARPA/Google) or Working as a Quant -
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by ladyada 16y ago
You're misquoting my quote ;) The sentence fragment I'm addressing is "...the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video
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by ladyada 16y ago
This project is very cool. But I wish that the person who wrote this article would have done a bit more research before writing this article "Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software; the Qi Hardware cites just fou
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by ladyada 16y ago
If you're paying $75/each for PCBs, even in hobbyist quantities, you're paying too much. I even wrote a calculator, it is handy!@ http://www.ladyada.net/library/pcb/costcalc.html
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by ladyada 16y ago
well... yes, hobbyists have more choices about what to use - a 555 or a PIC or a laptop - and there's more bang for the $ with the new arm cortex chips. But when it comes to products, there are some very serious constraints with pricing and
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by ladyada 16y ago
So this essay is an expansion of http://twitter.com/Jason/status/12621363849 which is almost certainly a response to http://pastebin.com/PSY4iYZ0 If you can't keep your talent as an employer, that's your fault. Berating them for taking
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by ladyada 17y ago
There's a really good ('selfish') reason to properly put interns on payroll. A tech company that has an unpaid intern working on something 'useful' - like writing code - is in a terrible position. If the intern is ignorant, sure no problem.
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by ladyada 17y ago
Woah! Are you sure that pownce got attention solely because of "Leah's looks"? or do you think its more likely that its because it was founded by Kevin Rose, who has had much bigger press (cover on Business week, TR is peanuts in comparis
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by ladyada 17y ago
Which I find quite interesting. I know plenty of men who are terrible engineers and post pretty bad stuff on their blog, but none get the kinds of evisceration that you are referring to - mentioned over and over again in blogs, forums, etc.
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by ladyada 17y ago
For many (small) sites, having comments is a net good, but theres some sites out there that its like a plague. Think of it this way: I like to walk around the city. I do not like to walk on sidewalks that have piles of dog excrement and pud
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by ladyada 17y ago
Well we've only heard of this happening when there's a chargeback/claim & they had to pay the claimant. Not sure if its happened just because an account was shut down for 'risk management' Still, we prefer to keep as little $ as possib
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by ladyada 17y ago
You may be able to avoid the biggest problem - which is money 'trapped' in the account by depositing all your funds, daily, into your bank account. Its called Daily Sweep. Wait, you've never heard of it? Oh yes, thats because not only is it
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by ladyada 17y ago
sadly, this system is incompatible with 'noprocrastinate' :)

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