octorian

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by octorian 8y ago
This is only possible when the customer isn't completely disconnected from the user, there is real competition, and that competition is based on the product itself... Not the contract to buy/develop said product. These reasons are
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by octorian 8y ago
> They care about your daughters but they care about their children too. If they do not fill in electronic records they will have to stay after work. Many doctors have to work at home until 1-2AM to keep up with recordkeeping. I can cert
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by octorian 8y ago
There is no "Arduino chip." Its a hardware module and software ecosystem built around the Atmel AVR microcontroller series.
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by octorian 8y ago
> can run operations 30 to 100 times faster than a standard iPhone or tablet Probably because "kids these days" don't actually know any computers exist, that aren't mobile phones (or phone OS based tablets). Its a stu
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by octorian 8y ago
> I'm a bit surprised that they went with the Arduino "standard" Well, for some reason the entire "maker" community thinks you need to shove the Arduino stack onto something before you're allowed to write
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by octorian 8y ago
I feel like there are two ways to get access... 1. Get hired by an SV-area startup that cares more about how interested you are in them than the other way around (assuming you're good). 2. Relocate (or pretend you've relocated) to
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by octorian 8y ago
> She really thinks she's "fighting the good fight" by posting a fresh outrage every day. I have a few people in my feed who do this, from both sides. It almost feels like they've turned into nothing but meme/sha
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by octorian 8y ago
And how the heck does a charging station, at a car dealership in the middle of a city, actually help you when you're on a highway trying to actually drive between cities?
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by octorian 8y ago
> While superchargers are great, I don't think they as big an advantage as you are making them to be. How often do you drive more than 200 miles in a day? 3 times a year? I am not going to buy a specific car for that reason. So ever
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by octorian 8y ago
A disorganized collection of text files, often (but not always) in Dropbox, and random pieces of scrap paper. I've tried fancier solutions over the years, including Tomboy and Evernote (and maybe even Google Keep, for a few minutes), b
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by octorian 8y ago
I started on the Apple II with BASIC. Then, some computer teacher convinced my parents that I should be learning LOGO instead and gave me lessons. After spending some time on it, I found it sufficiently frustrating that I actually gave up a
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by octorian 8y ago
Yet I somehow feel like the whole Commercial Crew contract wouldn't even exist had SpaceX not paved the way. Other space launch activities, however, have been getting their lunch eaten by SpaceX. This is probably pissing off everyone w
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by octorian 8y ago
I actually have an Altairduino kit sitting in my closet, waiting for me to get around to building it. :-) So far, these are the only three kits I'm aware of. At VCF-West for the past year or two, the Computer History Museum (in Mountai
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by octorian 8y ago
I actually built this kit recently. I'm now gradually building a collection of these front-panel-simulation machines. (Last year, I built his PiDP-8 kit.)
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by octorian 8y ago
> Don't forget the Supercharger network For some reason, the majority of the "competition" does forget the supercharger network. Its the reason Tesla is a road-trip car, and capable of being your primary/only vehicle.
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by octorian 8y ago
> You used to be a "programmer". Now you're a data engineer, ops engineer, front-end engineer, back-end/full-stack engineer, ios/android/react, system/OS programmer, etc. I still wonder when there'
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by octorian 8y ago
I remember reading stories from the era following this (maybe the late 2000's) where getting hired by Google was incredibly difficult. As in "You're already a superstar, waste 6 months of your time going through a complicated
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by octorian 8y ago
> Key takeaway is “hobby-based” That's actually not a bad thing in my book. When I was at the beginning of my career, the fact that most companies completely disregard any non-work-related experience was extremely frustrating to me.
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by octorian 8y ago
I used C for my last ESP8266 project, which seemed mostly okay. It did involve a fair amount of HTTP request/response and parsing, where I was just careful to do things incrementally. I don't think I ever considered C++ for the pr
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by octorian 8y ago
And like all these cool new *nix terminal projects, they seem to forget that a configuration GUI is worth having. Sure, you don't need it every day, but its really darn handy when you're first setting it up. The cycle of "Loo
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by octorian 8y ago
Especially when you start adding modern peripheral hardware that contains more general-purpose processing power than the C64's CPU itself.
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by octorian 8y ago
> The one much more important thing that OSS never did well is managing/making device drivers. I know it's not primarily OSS's fault, but it has made Linux on consumer devices unusable for me and for many others. Unusable
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by octorian 8y ago
> "...putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers..." I actually hate how this attitude often seems to be the focus of GUI environments in the Linux world. The effect is that if you have to deal wi
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by octorian 8y ago
The biggest one, IMHO, was a business model shift. Apple treated the end-user (not the carrier) as their customer, and used their clout to put their boot on the carrier's neck in enforcement of this. No longer were you buying the carri
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by octorian 8y ago
> The course "College Algebra" has the highest fail rate among all university courses in the US After I finished my undergraduate education, I moved to a different area and started to hang out around people who were attending t
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by octorian 8y ago
I don't know if its just me, but TripIt feels like a polished iPhone app that was begrudgingly ported to Android. That being said, I'm on Android and do use it to manage all my trip data. Prior to that, I was using various version
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by octorian 8y ago
> Our main disagreement would be “who” pays, but that’s a debate for another time. Our main disagreements are about "who" pays. Or at least that's what all of our major political fights seem to be about. Its a great distra
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by octorian 8y ago
> The us amazon seems like a place where you can get anything, quickly and cheaply. And its a very rude awakening whenever you actually try ordering something from a non-Amazon place that isn't trying to compete with them. Suddenly
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by octorian 8y ago
I really wish Tesla had more people as public-facing representatives of the company. Their image would improve dramatically if they were actually viewed as a corporation, and not just as Elon's little project.
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by octorian 8y ago
Let's please stop doing that to interesting vintage computers. Well, at least to working (or fixable) ones. I cringe every time someone shows off that sort of project.

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