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by nas 17y ago
Not cool. I realize that companies feel like they have to protect their trademark, even in borderline cases. However, this seems like a boneheaded move for SPARC. People using SparkFun tend to be young techies, the kind of people who might
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by nas 17y ago
The quoting rules in the Plan 9 shell rc are much saner. Bourne and C shell quoting rules are a recipe for trouble. Sloppiness (e.g. leaving out quotes, using the wrong kind of quotes) works about 99% of the time which leads you to think yo
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by nas 17y ago
I have an unencrypted file for low security passwords (e.g. web sites that require passwords). I use something like pwsafe for high security passwords. Whenever I create a new password now it is randomly generated. I don't reuse passwords b
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by nas 17y ago
Seconded. It's a bit idealistic but is also very simply and dramatically demonstrates how poorly most people understand economics. Politicians are especially serious offenders, possibly because even if they know better, solutions that are e
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by nas 18y ago
You have to wonder what the buyers where thinking. One problem was that the rating agencies (paid by the companies creating the products, BTW), rated the stuff AAA.
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by nas 18y ago
Neat. I've had good luck with Olimex stuff, for example http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i... . You need to buy a parallel, usb, or serial programmer as well but that's a one time cost.
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by nas 18y ago
It really depends on what kind of customers you are serving. There are many industries where it is the norm to call a vendor if you are interested in their product.
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by nas 18y ago
Read "The Intelligent Investor". It was written many years ago and is still relevant today (it's actually scary how history seems to repeat itself). Regarding fees, note that commissions are not the only costs to transactions. Remember t
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by nas 18y ago
I think Guile was rather less successful than was originally hoped. Quick, name three GNU applications that use it. :-) At this point, I would use Lua if I needed a lightweight embedded interpreter and Python if I needed more power. Just