robkix

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by robkix 11y ago
The company I joined makes packaging machines. So there is some "software" development for PLCs and robots but it's nothing like the modern software industry. Plus feature creep costs the customer millions, so it is a prett
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by robkix 11y ago
I quit the software industry and all of its stupidity. After trying to change culture I decided that maybe it was me that didn't fit the ridiculous notion that software companies are today. We will see how my next endeavor goes but a
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by robkix 11y ago
Why reversed range? Range is fully capable of descending [1] You also missed the point of the exercise: start at 0 in your index, but count backward from 100 in output. So the map is 0->100, 1 -> 99, ..., 99 -> 1, 100 -> 0 [1]
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by robkix 12y ago
The IRC and IBC do specify minimum sizes, so if your county adopted either of those then there is a built in minimum. > Every dwelling unit shall have at least one habitable room that shall have not less than 120 square feet (11 m2) of g
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by robkix 12y ago
I'm not going to weigh in on CC itself (I don't have an opinion either way), I just want to point out that when Texas, NY and California (or any combination of those 3) adopt a standard it becomes almost impossible to find a text
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by robkix 12y ago
The army of lawyers headed your way? How about the CFAA for 'unauthorized access' to Twitter? When Twitter has all the money and lawyers it's sure tough to argue.
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by robkix 12y ago
And that's the thought process that got a bunch of toys banned or restricted (such as magnets[1]) even though they can be responsibly used by many children. I don't think the problem is the product and certainly making it easier
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by robkix 12y ago
That's not true at all [1]. This holds for previous years as well. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...
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Maybe You Should Send Your Co-Founder a Valentine This Year(entrepreneur.com)
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by robkix 12y ago
If I understand correctly the Speedlite is battery powered, so as such shouldn't cause any voltage spike on mains.
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by robkix 12y ago
Not to dive too off topic, but the telecom industry has been heavily regulated and in no way represents a free market. Through franchise fees, fighting public right of way sharing, and other forms of lobbying these large corporations have u
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by robkix 12y ago
No, it means the last mile remains exclusive to the provider.
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by robkix 12y ago
Those aren't really designed for long term daily use, can lead to accumulation of wax and serious infections if used repeatedly and continually. Also in my case they put too much pressure on the canal which eventually gets quite painfu
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by robkix 12y ago
I wonder, though, if your key were a confession to a crime you did actually commit (perhaps you stole a pack of gum) and you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself, how would that turn out?
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by robkix 12y ago
> even under Stalin To be fair, Stalin had a habit of just killing people instead of sending them to the Gulag. Not that it excuses the US incarceration rate but your comparison isn't very good.
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by robkix 12y ago
In this case "the government" refers to the upper management of Ford, or at least that's how I read your parents post. To reword: > But since this time, the shareholder value has taken over the government. But since that t
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by robkix 12y ago
I've never seen this be effective. I worked at a place that had quite a few people leave within a few months, all citing more or less the same issues I did, and still to this day the culture and problems are the same. The truth is if
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by robkix 12y ago
Did you read the article? It very much mattered in this case, and has historically mattered in the scientific community quite a lot.
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by robkix 12y ago
And now you know why the US houses most of the world's prisoners [0]. This is the same thinking that brings the US security theater at its airports. Anything for safety, even if it only mariginally works. [0] https://www.a
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by robkix 12y ago
How, exactly, would they deploy their gear inside of Comcast data centers without Comcast approving it?
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by robkix 12y ago
The DEA may not directly set drug policy [0] (it's also part of the "federal government" so I don't understand your distinction here) but it most certainly has a large input on which schedule a drug gets classified. The