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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   To add to this, use shower board from a hardware store. The cost is usually <$20 for a 4'x8' sheet. The quality varies but the price is hard to beat.
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   Thanks! I don't currently have Newegg prices yet, but I hope to add those soon. Their prices are usually competitive and they're known to run some pretty good deals from time to time.
3. 63.▲
   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   Ok, I've added it to the overall CPU list: http://pcpartpicker.com/partscharts/cpu/overall-list/
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   Thanks! I'm glad you like it. It's still very much a work in progress - I was debating whether I should post the link or not given how much I left to do before it's really "ready". For CPUs, were you looking for a price/core ratio?
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   At $38.99 for a 160GB drive, they're paying $0.244/GB, which is pretty bad. Of course, at the low end of the price ranges, the price/capacity ratio goes up a lot. Their part selection still leaves another $7.05 available, which means you c
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   Definitely. I would classify myself as someone who desires the challenge, autonomy, and opportunity for growth of a startup, but I have a difficult time identifying viable ideas. I feel like I'm a creative problem solver , but not a crea
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   I'd guess he's referring to template metaprogramming.
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   I saw the same thing. Add a trailing slash and you'll get the HTML page.
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   by pcarmichael 16y ago

   I'm building an immutable filesystem of sorts on top of a distributed key-value store, and am about to benchmark Riak to see how it might fare (as the underlying key-value store). I'm also looking to do some visualization for execution tra
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    (Disclaimer: I work on LabVIEW.) For refactoring and layout, there is a diagram cleanup tool that will automatically re-layout your diagram for you with just a button press. It does a pretty good job IMO, and really changes the way you co
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    I work on a graphical (dataflow) programming language called LabVIEW. It is primarily used by scientists and engineers for measurement and automation, but is also useful for general purpose problems. The code looks similar to a circuit di
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    MongoDB was ruled out because auto-sharding is still alpha (though it should be out of alpha soon, I'd prefer to wait and see what the community experience is with it first.) Between Cassandra and Riak, I chose Cassandra because it can run
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    The timing for me is interesting as I was just about to start up a cassandra setup here. This might be a better fit for my particular needs if I could get it running. Unfortunately, I'm having a difficult time figuring out where to start.
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    I've actually been working exactly that as a side project. Not only will it walk you through the component choices, it will also allow you to limit choices to components compatible with what you've already picked out. If anyone is interest
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    I'll take that over constantly having to upgrade my install or recovering from being hacked.
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    Just out of curiosity (as it is closely related to a side project I'm working on), would you find utility in a listing of laptops across a range of manufacturers arranged in a way that would make comparisons of CPU/LCD/hard drive(s)/memory/
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    That's 400MB of cache on the die, which seems highly unlikely.
18. 78.▲
    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    I'm pretty sure that's going to exceed the $25 budget.
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    It might help to be more specific - what kind of voltage are you looking to control? AC, DC, or both? High voltages or low voltages? High current or low current? Is the load reactive or resistive?
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    by pcarmichael 16y ago

    I've gone the Lord of the Rings route before using locations: shire, barrowdowns, moria, lothlorien, isengard, mordor, rivendell, etc. The only bad thing was that only about one in ten people knew how to spell isengard.
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    Tom Kelley, IDEO - Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life(ecorner.stanford.edu)

    7 points by pcarmichael 16y ago|0 comments
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    The iPad isn't going to destroy tinkering. The whole "oh no one will tinker and no one will want to be a software engineer" complaint is getting old. If closed platforms abound, tinkerers will create an open and adaptable one. There is a
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    At the local Fry's (in Austin), there is a section of HDMI cables by the TVs and DVD/Blu-ray players. Cheapest in that section is about $20-$25 as you mention. However, over on the other side of the store, near the computer components, th
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    If you want identical results regardless of optimization level or machine characteristics, you should really be using fixed-point instead.
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    It isn't snake oil - it works and works well in the right situations. Sequential code is very readable, but not efficient at scale. If you run a single thread (without the event based approach), each request must wait for preceding request
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    Agree 100%. It's a great series with many good talks. One of my all-time favorites is from Tom Kelley (IDEO) on being an innovator for life: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2054
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    My company blocks irc. The best way I've found in that case is to gauge the community by reading the mailing list posts and bug report comments.
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    Definitely agree on the learning curve. I'm using twisted for a distributed computing framework that is custom tailored for our requirements (looked into Hadoop, disco, etc. but decided against for valid technical and/or logistical reasons
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    Phone screen with not just your standard questions, but also simple algorithmic questions. An example might be to ask the candidate to write an algorithm to shuffle a deck of cards and describe it over the phone. This is sometimes a good
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    by pcarmichael 17y ago

    I just finished listening to the audio book format of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507853... (Hopefully I get this right... was pretty sleep deprived while listening to it.) In th