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by metaphor 10y ago
Agreed. It's quite sad that the impetus is on Nintendo to flood the market with product. As of this post, there were 3,800+ posts on eBay[1]; there's at least an entire page-full listing Buy It Now @ $1000 or more. [1] http:&#x2F
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by metaphor 10y ago
>> Would it not be more appropriate, in this century, to realize that since indentation (and spacing in general) is essentially something that only pertains to the graphical representation of program's code... False assumption. S
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by metaphor 10y ago
>> I have a job now, which claims ownership over any tech-related IP I create. Is there an omitted qualifier to this, e.g. ...while on company time; for IP with sufficient correlation to your primary role? I'm having a difficult
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by metaphor 10y ago
In case anyone else was looking to vet the entire character set[1]. {I, l, 1}, {Q, O, 0}, {S, 5}, {Z, 2}...if I have to pause even for a second to find confidence, it won't be in editor. Old school MIL-STD-100 and its modern ASME Y14 e
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by metaphor 10y ago
This had a way of always confusing me. For clarity, I'd declare them as: int i; int* p;
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by metaphor 10y ago
>> Syntactic differences aside (declarations in C can get pretty hairy), the steepest learning curve while writing anything useful in C is with a) pointers and b) memory management which this guide doesn't seem to cover. Coincide
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by metaphor 10y ago
And how long did that take?[1] [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/guess-how-long-overnight-succ...
1328.
by metaphor 10y ago
That's GS-14/15 compensation based on DC locality[1]...doubt it. Government hourly equivalent is also based on a 2087-hr divisor.[2][3] [1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
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by metaphor 10y ago
> ...on par with the mythical $800 government toilet seat, except that this cost us taxpayers far more. Sorry to burst your disposable consumer-centric bubble, but not all toilet seat applications are optimized for profitability at econo
1330.
by metaphor 10y ago
Here's to hoping HN has a resident SMPTE and/or display industry gray beard or two who could chime in with historical lore.
1331.
by metaphor 10y ago
I can think of one reasonable instance in which home equity may have equivalent liquidity as a savings account: when filing for bankruptcy.
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by metaphor 10y ago
>> In general, Americans don't value high quality food. What precisely qualifies food as "high quality", and what meaning does value have if it's allowed to be subjectively redefined by others?
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by metaphor 10y ago
The attack involves taking down a high-value system via low-value, readily accessible USB port. I imagine that the USB PHY of a well designed system exposed to this attack will not survive, but the entire system won't be so easily nerf
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by metaphor 10y ago
Agreed, although rasterizing was likely the simplest way to ensure that redacted information can't be (somehow) reconstructed.
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by metaphor 10y ago
Agreed...although it is rather ironic that "CrackStation's Password Cracking Dictionary"[1] tops their list of most downloaded by a respectable 9% over 2nd most downloaded "Arizona State University Twitter Data Set"
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by metaphor 10y ago
"$10,000 for Ethernet cables?! What a rip off,” says Mr. Morita[1]. [1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have...
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Bell Labs Centenary Homage to Claude Shannon(bell-labs.com)
2 points by metaphor 10y ago|1 comments
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by metaphor 10y ago
Customs actually won both the original case[1] and subsequent appeal[2], which leads me to suspect that the underlying motive is less punitive, more intern busy work (annual reviews aside, revision history aligns well with ASME B18.2.1 publ
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by metaphor 10y ago
Audiophile Mistake #1: Proposing a sensible solution to a problem which doesn't exist.
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by metaphor 10y ago
For small personal projects, iTeadStudio[1] is my go-to PCB fab house. If their design constraints fit your needs, I'd def recommend giving them a shot. I've personally spun 10-ish projects with them and have yet to be disappointe
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by metaphor 10y ago
I work at such a place (16.6, to be sure), and agree that it is indeed quite painful. Fortunately, after almost 2 long years of pushing, a colleague and I finally convinced our branch of its technical merits and justified the business case
1342.
by metaphor 10y ago
Dear 18F [1]: Help, please. [1] https://cloud.gov/
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by metaphor 10y ago
> I always claimed I wanted qwerty keyboard. ... nobody buys phones for one feature. Barebones BB Curve 9310 user here for ~4 years and counting, which replaced a Treo 755p when seemingly everyone had iPhones back in uni. Been meaning to
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by metaphor 10y ago
> [citation needed] http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2014/11/13/b-2-pilot-flew-lo...
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by metaphor 10y ago
> Arial bombardment is tougher without carriers, of course, but the U.S. bombed Iraq and Afghan targets using planes that took off and landed in the U.S. [citation needed]
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by metaphor 10y ago
> I get that, but why does the jobs program need to be specifically aircraft carriers? Why can't the jobs programs be drones or cruise missiles... Different colors of money, for starters[1]: DoD cannot procure drones or cruise missi
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by metaphor 10y ago
Seriously just interpreted this as Harry Potter grammar correction using upper camel case.
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by metaphor 10y ago
What is the feedback loop that regulates the artificial heart's pump rate, assuming it exists at all?
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by metaphor 10y ago
A federal agency constructively coordinating with multiple state agencies...I believe that's considered an emerging paradigm shift. EDIT: To be sure, Honda isn't the only major vehicle manufacturer involved [1]. Observing that thi
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by metaphor 10y ago
> [Shigeshisa Takada] didn’t mention that Takata had tried to fix the problem by changing the propellant formula in 2008. My Acura TL is affected by this airbag recall, and it's a fairly recent 2012 model too. Whatever changed cir

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