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by phugoid 17y ago
I use Amazon. Find a dozen books on a given topic, read the descriptions, reviews and ratings. Pick the one that fits your tastes, and read it. All. Reading a textbook always helps. With experience, you'll get "luckier" at picking the ri
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by phugoid 17y ago
Are you saying that a single bidirectional pipe is the only way that two linux programs can communicate?
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DARPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR): Topics(acq.osd.mil)
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by phugoid 17y ago
Please provide some examples of job postings for low paid embedded system dev jobs. Or was that speculation?
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by phugoid 17y ago
I do. Spend your time working with black boxes like I do, and you might dream of throwing away the technology stack to start talking to a processor directly. Why do you feel the Chinese should do it? Because they're smarter than everyone e
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by phugoid 17y ago
Fair enough. I agree the numbers could be interesting. But it's quite different if you want to see users' names. I grow weary of HN's Singaporean (overly sanitized) approach to geek discussion. Geeks suffer enough from intellectual narci
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by phugoid 17y ago
It would likewise be interesting to hear what are your thoughts about anonymity and freedom in general. Should we publicize a list of people who voted for the Canadian Lobster Party, because they obviously did it out of spite and should be
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by phugoid 17y ago
To be fair, he rejected only the opinion that there was no cure. It looks to me like he did lots of research and explored his options with an open mind.
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by phugoid 17y ago
I stutter, and I've had similar experiences. I had a bout of stuttering in early childhood, which therapy seemed to have cured. It came back when I was twenty years old, standing in line to buy movie tickets. I can't recall which movie, bu
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by phugoid 17y ago
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, in one sitting.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Great. We'll have that as soon as people agree what the facts are.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Can someone explain whether we might in theory watch the video using moonlight? From Ubuntu I tried installing moonlight-plugin-mozilla (I assume this installs Microsoft Media Pack), and spoofing my Agent as IE 8; that got me a different ve
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by phugoid 17y ago
Companies are persons of law, not moral persons.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Their "scientific" explanation is nonsense. Their compare the "energy" of the hurricane system with that of a detonation. Then they say you could change the Category of a hurricane by just increasing the ambient pressure. Angular momentum
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by phugoid 17y ago
The article seems fixated on consumer electronics. But in the same way that software is built and sold to businesses, the same can be done with hardware. Not everything has to ship in a shrink-wrapped box. I don't know much about that mar
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by phugoid 17y ago
At first I was thrown off by the way you wrote the value. If "point 9 recurring" means the same thing as: the limit of the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, etc. then I know it equals 1 because that's what I was told. Math in engineering school wa
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by phugoid 17y ago
ARM Assembly. I want to commune directly with the bare metal. I want to lose my fear of those hex dumps machines spit out just before they die.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by phugoid 17y ago
The pointer optimization you're talking about is possible in C, because of potential pointer aliasing. Say you have the following sequence: val = [asterix]p1 [asterix]p2 = 1 val = [asterix]p1 p2 might actually point to the same location as
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by phugoid 17y ago
I want to believe that, but assume that the number of applicants is a hundred-fold more than the number of interesting positions available. You need to survive that first sift through the pile, especially if it's done by non-techies.
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by phugoid 17y ago
It would be more relevant if everyone here commenting would indicate whether they are personally involved in the hiring process, and in what role. Otherwise, we may as well be discussing the purchase of a new car with folks who have never a
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by phugoid 17y ago
Same here. I just didn't get Sugar. I'd rather see my young son figure out a typical GUI desktop than a whole new concept which I feel is a dead-end, even if it's arguably better. If they had made it such that within 5 minutes I could have
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by phugoid 17y ago
Forcing someone to commit suicide? That doesn't compute. Let us honor Turing's memory without making nonsense of the tough choices he faced.
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by phugoid 17y ago
I think dealing well with frustration is a personality trait. In a large enough company, I really believe you should let people specialize in dealing with the client. To do it well requires a skill-set and personality that are at odds with
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by phugoid 17y ago
Couldn't agree more. Thermodynamics by Enrico Fermi is a little jewel.
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by phugoid 17y ago
That was a lot of fun! I didn't follow the start-up idea thread, I went to home and started from scratch. From the second screen, where it asked me if alien abductions were real, I was hooked. Even if I had no idea where the whole thing w
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by phugoid 17y ago
Not of an entire nation. Of the whole world! It's one thing to be spiteful in public, but quite another to be spiteful in a medium that publishes immediately to the whole planet.
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by phugoid 17y ago
Guitar, electric and acoustic. I'm very much out of practice these days - my two year old son is the priority. He already has musical taste - he comes over and mutes my strings whenever I play! I love playing some of those old Celtic tune
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by phugoid 17y ago
Believe me - nothing is perfect. No school, no ideology, no government, no schoolbook, no person. Don't spend your time lamenting that fact and using it as an excuse not to do your best. In your situation right now, this week, this month,
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by phugoid 17y ago
Sorry - problem seems to have been on my side. I can download that second file now.

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