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by new299 10y ago
That doesn't seem reasonable. They had the same routes to profitability as Google, but just didn't execute well.
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by new299 10y ago
As an aside, how to you accurately measure memory bandwidth? I've been looking for a good solution but couldn't find one.
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by new299 10y ago
Basically I think that's dumb. That sounds harsh, but I think this is over-reach on the part of the FDA and is limiting innovation. A long as the device doesn't give a diagnostic output I don't see it as a big issue. The pote
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by new299 10y ago
I enjoyed this! I'd personally move the DM section to the top, and put the bit about pre-made quests earlier too and that was the question I had in my mind when I started reading, but it wasn't answered until the end of the docume
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by new299 10y ago
The article is interesting, I learnt about a few apps that could be valuable to me. But what I found most worrying was the lack of acknowledgement that exclusively using cloud storage has caviates associated with it. Are we really so comfor
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by new299 10y ago
Which political issues? I'm honestly curious.
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by new299 10y ago
The context of the next line is somewhat important: > Trump's election just means the threats will be much greater, and the battles a lot harder to win.
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by new299 10y ago
Glassdoor could do with some competition, reviews hidden behind login is annoying, and the top review always seems to be astroturfing. There review system is also quite harsh. If they consider you review "unbalanced" they reject i
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by new299 10y ago
Honest question: Can you name a public figure that people down the pub do say positive things about?
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by new299 10y ago
What's a significant amount of money? Solexa raised 130MUSD pre-launch: http://41j.com/blog/2016/01/a-solexa-story/ Quite a new life science/biotech companies do.
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by new299 10y ago
Company 1: Established large software company with healthy market Company 2: Startup with 1.5 years runway. If the pay is the same, equity compensates for lack of job security in company 2.
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by new299 10y ago
If you have no intension of every going public or selling the company do you still fall inside the current definition of a startup? It seems unfair, if the founders are able to sell their equity privately. Overall, in a startup my view is t
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by new299 10y ago
Devil's advocate: The idea that a personal computer is a good idea is just insane, for this reason: You're going to be connected to a mainframe anyway. Even if your personal computer did have enough storage and power you're s
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by new299 10y ago
I'm a bit shocked to see this on the front page. That's possibly a comment on me as much as anything. But this is just really simple bit packing. Is this something many engineers (maybe frontend/JS) don't know about now?
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by new299 10y ago
Is there anywhere that covers technology/scientific development well? (Non-software). I'm always looking for those kinds of things (new sensor, scientific methods, medical advances). But have never found a good forum for this.
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by new299 10y ago
One other point. You don't even need to remove the EEPROM, you can reprogram them in-place using an SOOC-8 clip and an SPI interface (eg buspirate). There lot of info available.
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by new299 10y ago
Right, but I'm still surprised they've not at least implemented "if can't read EEPROM at boot disable EEPROM writes". With the architecture used, they're never going to be too robust to physical access. Overall
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by new299 10y ago
It's great that they've never fixed this, as I regularly pick up old Thinkpads super-cheap because they have supervisor passwords. But I've always been a bit confused as to why they've never fixed (or at least tried to f
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by new299 10y ago
Go on smaller boards is solved (5x5). Solving on 9x9 or larger is likely not possible.
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by new299 10y ago
I don't think it works like that. Use a typical trace width calculator e.g.: http://www.circuitcalculator.com/wordpress/2006/01/31/pcb-tr... And you'll find that a 1.5mm wide, 1mm thick, trace
621.
by new299 10y ago
Dropboxes lack of transparency is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance. In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board ( http://
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by new299 10y ago
Unless you're installing from a package manager with signed packages everything is going to suck by comparison. What exactly is the alternative the author would suggest? Git checkout? Couldn't you paste-jack that too? If the instr
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by new299 10y ago
Pedantry: It wasn't a geiger counter because it wasn't using a Geiger-Müller tube. I don't think you'd see much of a difference even with a decent Geiger counter from a banana. The levels of radiation in food are tiny, a
624.
by new299 10y ago
well it's using a 555-based power supply (555 drivers a step-up transformer), bit ambiguous but I think it qualifies. I'm really glad to see this kind of thing on HN, much nicer than the usual "framework for X".
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by new299 10y ago
I feel like there's so much momentum around RISCV recently, it should really take off... These guys have just completed bringup of their first Cortex M0-like RISCV implementation: http://hackaday.com/2016/10/1
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by new299 10y ago
It's an SV engineers salary, but it's probably not an SV contractors salary. Contractors have overheads and inconsistent work, 500USD a day is reasonable. I would also assume their contractors are fully up to speed with the projec
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by new299 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see if the AirPods have similar latency issues or with push toward Bluetooth Apple have resolved many of the latency issues (obviously low latency wireless is totally possible).
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by new299 10y ago
Yes... two is in fact... multiple. There might have been more, we don't know. In this specific case, the event organizer wanted to include women, specifically because they were women. According to the article. He said he couldn't
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by new299 10y ago
According to the article he ignored any women in the audience (at least 2 according to the article)... The point of contention, as clearly stated in the article, was that he appeared to be actively looking for female founders... but making
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by new299 10y ago
yea... not really. We only have the article to go on, but according to the article there were multiple woman in the audience (at least 2) he could have talked to. I guess we'll never know the reality of the situation.

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