mrmekon

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by mrmekon 9y ago
> Featurewise, I haven't noticed anything that I can't use Gitlab for that I wanted to do. I've only noticed one: the ability to do less. Along with its excellent improvements over the years, it also gained some staggerin
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by mrmekon 9y ago
This was pretty much my experience with getting a project posted in HN. A bunch of bugs reported in the HN comments, and not a single issue opened on GitHub. Since I wasn't the one who posted it, the only reason I found the bug report
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by mrmekon 9y ago
Docker didn't invent the term 'container' for... well, _containing_ an environment. It's not really overloaded here. 'Container' means a contained environment that can see itself, and cannot see other containe
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by mrmekon 9y ago
I can't believe wayback machine has this. I ran a text-only scraper for ~200 websites back in the early 2000s. https://web.archive.org/web/20060803053549/http://inr.cjb.ne... Most were RSS feeds, s
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by mrmekon 9y ago
Internationalization, exponential worldwide population growth, and technological advancement are probably all major factors in making labor , across the board, less valuable. I would imagine that it affects low/non-skilled the most,
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Show HN: ToucHNews – Hacker News for the Mac Touch Bar(github.com)
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by mrmekon 9y ago
You left out a third group: C (or "systems" or "embedded") programmers. What am I going to do in a weekend that will be fun to show off? "We made a minimal binary IPC protocol over named pipes that is 2.5% faster
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Show HN: Rubrail – A New Library for Creating Mac Touch Bar UIs in Rust(github.com)
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Connectr – Spotify Connect systray/menubar controller and library, in Rust(github.com)
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by mrmekon 10y ago
It depends on when and why I'm defining it, but my guidelines are more based on how they work than what they know: * Junior developer - Will not produce much business value if left alone, and may produce nothing at all. Requires super
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by mrmekon 12y ago
As a consultant, you get to decide how often you take jobs. You can work yourself to the bone, or you can take 6 months off per year. You can change your work schedule as your mood or personal situation changes. If you're up for it,
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by mrmekon 12y ago
[This post assumes you actually need hardware design . If you really just want a Raspberry Pi with some custom inputs, none of this applies.] Yes, there are hardware design firms. Your software experience may or may not help at all, depe
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by mrmekon 13y ago
I see two other people commenting about framing memories based on moving at a young age. I have the same thing, and I wonder if moving at a young age correlates with higher childhood memories. I moved when I was 7, and it's a very d
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Georgia Tech. Quite a few American universities have co-op programs, though they aren't hugely popular.
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by mrmekon 13y ago
To do anything, if you want to do that thing on a processor with Von Neumann architecture and guarantee efficient memory or CPU usage. Admittedly, this comes with a significant cost of development time.
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by mrmekon 13y ago
I was in my university's co-op program, but didn't apply for any jobs. A couple of weeks after the interview period ended, a representative from the school's co-op program called me and said they had a company that was despe
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by mrmekon 13y ago
I once had a particularly slow week at work, and decided to write an article about how "Hello World" works in C. How it really works -- including compiling, linking, system calls, operating system involvement, hardware I/O
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by mrmekon 13y ago
The software has become dramatically larger, dramatically more complicated, and dramatically more important. At the same time, the process around developing embedded projects has not even slightly kept up. Most of the crappy projects I&#x2
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by mrmekon 13y ago
I was an embedded contractor for 8 years. It was a huge majority of EEs writing the production code at every company I worked with. I probably worked closely with about 300 engineers in that time, and fewer than 20 of them had Computer
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Homebrewers have been doing this by hand for years. I do this often at parties when I don't have space in the fridge. Fill a pitcher half full of ice, add cold water to above the ice, and a bunch of salt. Insert bottle, and spin by h
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Taxes are easy to look up. There are calculators where you input your salary and the state you will live in and it'll spit out a pretty close number. Expect somewhere around 30% income tax for a middle-class salary. Numbeo is ok for
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by mrmekon 13y ago
I'm terrible with languages... it will probably take 5 years to reach 'conversational' levels. My company is extremely international, and all business is done in english, so there is no problem. Other companies I interviewed
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by mrmekon 13y ago
I moved to Stockholm from the US earlier this year. The salary is supposedly good for Stockholm, but about 20-30% lower than offers I had in the US. I took it because I particularly loved the idea of living in Sweden, and I was not disapp
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by mrmekon 13y ago
My god. The responses are basically saying that they agree with the government kidnapping and robbing the family of a journalist in retaliation for the journalist's legal news coverage.
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by mrmekon 13y ago
> internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was threatened with 35 years in > prison under the CFAA for allegedly stealing mass amounts of > academic articles Using the word "stealing" at this point is not only wron
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Certainly not arguing that it's difficult. It's extremely trivial. It just makes no business sense for the camera manufacturer. The CCD is a generic chip that spews clocked image data over some serial connection. Keep it simple
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Hardware-based can mean two things. 1. The CCD IC controls the LED 2. A intermediate IC has firmware that controls the CCD and LED It is safe to assume that the LED is always controlled either by an OS driver, or by an intermed
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by mrmekon 13y ago
That would be hardware-specific, but probably _always_ independently controllable. It's not like the IC manufacturer is going to link the CCD to an LED.
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Hardware vendors have the absolute worst, lowest quality software I have ever worked with. It's ubiquitous across the industry. The best players in manufacturing silicon ship software that's unworthy of a student in a high schoo
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by mrmekon 13y ago
Agreed. Hardware costs a ludicrous amount of money to design. It costs a ludicrous mount of money for each prototype run, of which there will be several. It costs a ludicrous amount of money to have PCBs fabbed. It costs a ludicrous amou

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