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by malexw 11y ago
Huh. I really should have talked to you before I exercised my options last year. Clearly I didn't understand the tax laws as well as I thought I did.
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by malexw 11y ago
My guess is that the arc through air gap is functioning as both the detector and speaker here. I suspect that the arc can only be sustained in one direction, probably from ground to the cable, which would give us the required clipping. At t
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by malexw 11y ago
Not just anyone - Jono literally wrote the book on building developer communities: http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/
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by malexw 11y ago
I'd love to know that too. His goodreads profile shows 107 books read this year, so about 2 per week. I think my personal best (since I started tracking) was 12 in a year.
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by malexw 11y ago
I was in university when I first heard the word 'hackathon'. The CS club had reserved a student lounge on campus for 24 hours and donated a bunch of snacks and drinks. I don't think I made it through the whole 24 hours, but I
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by malexw 11y ago
When I used to work on those devices, the arguments went something like this: "Adding video input means we need an additional connector on the device, which the Industrial Design guys hate." "We could multiplex the signal, bu
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by malexw 11y ago
Ah, that's great to know it didn't break dual-boot. I've been holding off on updating dual-boot machines until I heard from someone else. Thanks for letting us know!
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by malexw 11y ago
On a Mac with Chrome 43, I had a small pop-up at the top of the screen that asked me to allow the page to capture my mouse input.
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by malexw 11y ago
Well, consider me a user. Is this a side-project for you, or are you going to build a company around it? Naturally, I'd like to know that if I enter my data in here, I'll be able to export a copy of it in the unfortunate event tha
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by malexw 11y ago
This is great! A boss at an old job used to track little nuggets of information in a Word Doc he called his "Master" file. It had everything from bugs he had discovered with rare microcontrollers, to short reviews of meals he orde
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by malexw 11y ago
It's a good quote, and a sentiment that I've seen echoed by CTOs and VP Engs who actually are running or are currently migrating their companies to microservices. That said, I feel the quote should be: "As of 2015, almost all
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by malexw 11y ago
The Vulkan spec hasn't been published yet. It's also a very different API so it wouldn't make sense to show on a page of docs for OpenGL.
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by malexw 11y ago
Hey, it's good to meet someone else who suffers from this. Funny that it only developed for you in your mid-twenties - I've had it all my life. Not from the sight of my own blood, but from reading medical texts (such as the page y
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by malexw 12y ago
Location: Toronto, Canada Remote: Local preferred, would consider remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Full-stack web: python, flask, kyototycoon, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (+Google closure libraries and compiler) - Mobile: Android an
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by malexw 12y ago
What part of the world are you from? Here in Canada, if you were to say "Canada is in America", it would sound as strange as saying "Spain is in France". To Canadians, America only ever refers to The United States of Ame
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by malexw 12y ago
That's true, but in the past I've found that if I call Microsoft support and explain that I'm re-installing, they'll give me a new key over the phone.
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by malexw 12y ago
I just wanted to echo your sentiments. I bought my T440p last year and have otherwise been reasonably happy with it (though not entirely, due to the iffy trackpad). Fortunately the first thing I did was replace the hard drive. Despite that,
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by malexw 12y ago
This is all solid advice. To me, this reads like page one of a hypothetical book "So You Want to Start a Hardware Company." There's a lot to learn about building a real hardware product. I'd love to read the rest of the
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by malexw 12y ago
This is the second time now that I've seen this come up with somebody impersonating a doctor in Canada. Someone created a fake Twitter account and website for a Dr. O that I know. Can I connect you with Dr. O in case these two incident
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by malexw 12y ago
Absolutely, yes. I like the idea of System76, but I find the quality of the chassis they use to be abysmal. I considered installing Linux on Mac hardware, but the hoops you need to jump through to install it and the challenges with drivers
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by malexw 12y ago
It seems like there are a lot fewer of us keyboard zealots these days. I've been hoping to see an update to my now 4-year-old HTC Desire Z. Physical keyboard, removable storage, and swappable SD cards are great - I really don't wa
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by malexw 12y ago
They both stand on spindly legs
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by malexw 12y ago
Seconded! I was able to set up a toy blogging system with Docker, but it's not something I'd feel comfortable using in a production environment yet. I'd really love to know more about how robust production environments are bu
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by malexw 12y ago
If he has access to the account, why wouldn't he just write up an explanation of the problem and push it to the Kindle?
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by malexw 12y ago
I think the author did understand the comic, but his point is that we can't enforce the "use four random common words" rule on users since the users don't understand the XKCD password scheme. They'll pick "le
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by malexw 12y ago
Aha, thanks to you and ufo for the explanation. I think the problem was that I was thinking about it in complex exponential notation. If I had done it in matrix form, the cancellation of the two amplitudes of the |0> state would have bee
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by malexw 12y ago
I'm having trouble understanding his explanation of interference. I understand applying the 45 degree counter-clockwise rotation twice would transform the qubit from |0> to |1>. I don't understand how this implies that there
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by malexw 12y ago
Interesting, I had the exact same reaction as you. Bought the book (along with Michal Zalewski's Silence on the Wire), got less than a chapter in, and put it down in frustration. I've since wondered if I should go back and give it
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by malexw 12y ago
It's worth noting that the K810 is rechargeable, however. You can leave it plugged in over USB while it's at your desk, and unplug as needed. I carry mine around with a tablet as a laptop replacement and charge both every few days
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by malexw 12y ago
Interesting! I don't have any college degree - I left in fourth year and joined a startup. I mostly hated college classes. I felt that many instructors either didn't want to be teaching, or weren't very good at it, and didn&#

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