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by lfowles 11y ago
I remember being told by my cable company that network channels were free of charge with internet service. Of course, they were on crazy channels I have to have the TV autoscan for. And now they're probably encrypted and I'd have
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by lfowles 11y ago
I use a Homeworx dvr. Have to supply my own USB hard drive and deal with a goofy interface (not that you'll see it just for pausing live TV), but otherwise it works well. It can buffer live TV for a decent amount of time too. http:&#x
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by lfowles 11y ago
Doesn't look like plagiarism to me. Who is trying to misrepresent it as their (or their institution's) own work? I see no real reason for the URL change either, since both articles are the same. Edit: The esciencecommons blog has
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by lfowles 11y ago
Closest that comes to mind is Ender's Game. Ender doing simulations that abruptly increase in difficulty.
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by lfowles 11y ago
At the very least, people would be signaling BEFORE they start the lane change maneuver. That can only be an upside.
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by lfowles 11y ago
The young bucks? Implying this guy isn't young himself? Handheld radar wasn't an uncommon project in the EECE department at my school.[0] :) I'm not entirely sure the students building radars would want to be on teams where t
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by lfowles 11y ago
Sure, but a good author is someone who has read many books. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. (I admit that I don't know much of modern philosophers, but I find it hard to believe they are not making good use of those w
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by lfowles 11y ago
> My mind was absolutely blown when I first realized that the function of a CPU is pretty much to read tokens from a stream and perform an action for each. - no magic! The magic is mostly in the pipelining bit :)
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by lfowles 11y ago
Agile hardware sounds dauntingly expensive!
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An hour for 10 focused applications is a little ambitious as well. I easily spent a day on each focused application back when I was applying for jobs. And very few of the targeted companies got back to me. I now work at a place that got my
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by lfowles 11y ago
> The only thing I can think of is that in this day and age of everything being simplified to a few mouse clicks or screen taps, everything else becomes a monumental chore by comparison. Or that now you know what the tradeoffs are and th
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by lfowles 11y ago
Not sure, but I've seen Feeling Good by David Burns[1] recommended in ADHD circles. Can anyone back this up? [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-The-Mood-Therapy/dp/03808...
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I don't actually have any textbook recommendations for you, but with respect to Comp. Sci., keep in mind that there is a difference between Comp. Sci. and programming. Obviously there is a large overlap, and you can use a lot of
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by lfowles 11y ago
I sit down and read through the textbook, taking notes on anything that seems remotely important, doing every exercise and problem set (preferably those with answers). I try to really grok the material and integrate it with existing knowled
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I fully agree with this, and I think the problem is schools too easily trap people into fixed mindsets. There are so many exams in school that if you constantly get medium to low scores it's easy to think you just aren't smar
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by lfowles 11y ago
I've started using tools that have sane default workflows. Learn to live with the defaults I guess :) Then the hurdle is just getting programs installed. Which I'd prefer to do clean slate instead of from a backup to get rid of cr
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by lfowles 11y ago
Some chat service I use does this and it's confusing because I don't expect it. I check the last message to see if there's anything new, not necessarily the scrollback. Basically, it triggers an annoying O(N) operation whenev
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by lfowles 11y ago
Isn't it written in python? weight = 1000 if "cat" in title.lower() else 0
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by lfowles 11y ago
I was looking at renewing my IEEE membership yesterday to get article access... Naively I assumed the THREE articles per month level was included in regular membership dues. What a racket :/
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I definitely agree. We actually make heavy use of sequence diagrams where I work to show how our code works to non-coder stakeholders, where the syntax of a particular language is just a distraction. Like you said, UML is only useful as far
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by lfowles 11y ago
> maybe because you wasted your time studying UML Seems a bit misleading, UML is consistently the best way I've seen to communicate ideas to other devs (especially in an OO environment, but some diagrams could be useful from a funct
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by lfowles 11y ago
I agree with that to an extent. IDEs are certainly a powerful tool at some fuzzy point in your programming career when you've had enough of the ancillary details and want an environment to help you code. Most IDEs are a distraction to
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by lfowles 11y ago
Is it not possible there is also some disconnect between a MechE and the technicians? Yes....theoretically these materials work this way, but practically no one can manufacture this thing for you. It's definitely more apparent with SEn
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by lfowles 11y ago
At my college Software Engineering was under the Computer Science program, so they wouldn't have taken most of that. Even in Computer Engineering I didn't take half of those... According to Wikipedia, Software Engineer is protecte
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by lfowles 11y ago
In the US, there is a software engineering PE test (although I'm sure it's next to impossible to get licensed at this point though).
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For a direct comparison between Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering as defined by NCEES, here are the specifications for the Software Engineering PE exam: https://cdn.ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2012&#
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by lfowles 11y ago
Recently I unsubscribed from the digital-only crossword and had to call in to get it done despite signing up entirely online. Their pricing structure isn't the only antiquated thing in the process.
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by lfowles 11y ago
A year old report on motorists passing stopped school buses: http://www.ksde.org/Home/QuickLinks/NewsRoom/tabid/586/aid/5...
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by lfowles 11y ago
One idea: On crash, the module could lock down to broadcasting a timestamped accident warning (no replay attacks) and would need someone with authorized access to reset it. Doesn't really solve a hacker getting a non-crashed-but-otherw
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by lfowles 11y ago
Depends on what you're trying to auth with. For example, I was just reading about activating 2FA on my Google account and the backup options were: * SMS Verification code * Manually generated list of backup verification codes

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