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by shortsightedsid 8y ago
The only thing we want is to beat you at cricket. - India.
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
My 10 year daughter loves legos but complained the other day it seems only boys play legos. I would argue that legos and building things for fun is STEM, and it's curious why girls aren't encouraged to play with legos as much as b
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
The original software engineering study about the performance of some programmers being higher (28 times as per the paper) was in 1968 - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=362858 . After that there really haven't been a
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Text Editor in College
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
It's funny that the tech industry is so insistent on side projects. I mean - would you hire a marketing person based on their 'side projects' or a corporate lawyer purely based on their pro-bono work? Likewise, who on earth a
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
If you want to learn Smalltalk, there is a MOOC that’s just started. http://files.pharo.org/mooc/ . Also Pharo by example is a good book.
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
When FB and social media is used in a way that results in a "favorable" change its called the Arab Spring. When the result is "unfavorable" its called Russian interference.
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name MOTHER OF EXILES.
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Someone's old data from 2012 to build a core-image-sato using Yocto is just over an hour - http://www.burtonini.com/blog/2012/11/15/yocto-build-times/ . That said, core-image-sato used to be ju
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Oh, absolutely. The most familiar to software engineers is the AVR used in Arduino but there are so many 8 Bit micros out there (literally 10's of thousands different device) and new ones are coming out every month. So plenty of new de
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Nope. In an ideal situation the quality of my work and its impact is more important than the means and effort to achieve it. So live streaming won't work for me.
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
I really meant circuit/physical design rather than high level design i.e pre-tapeout. Also PCBs are visually designed though I learnt about using python above and need to check that out.
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Interesting. I have not tried SKiDL. All my designs are in Cadence or Eagle. Thanks! I will try itout
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
While I don't disagree with your comment, it's a little ironic that hardware is designed visually. Instead of writing a netlist by hand, it's drawn as a schematic. The same applies to mechanical, construction or any tradition
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
It's a form of propaganda. Release just enough information to pip curiosity and speculation. Then call the rest of it classified. For all you know it could be having a dummy payload but call it classified and the bad guys would think t
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
It's also means that they are looking not for tech talent but for skilled labor. Highly skilled labor assumes no re-education for the current job but does not account for future work. If you are a master carpenter or a master mechanic
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by shortsightedsid 9y ago
Not really the right term IMHO. Instead of calling a return which implies ROI, it's a discount. If you did sell it at the higher price and notwithstanding taxes, overhead of inventory management, other costs and your make 27% then it&#
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
Your personal problems (and health and family) should always come first before work. Any reasonable manager should be able to recognize that and help you out. Worst case take a day or two off to solve your problem. Long run - day or two won
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
Not just Germany but I found the same problem in Amsterdam when I tried to set up Internet for my apartment. It took 2 weeks for it to be enabled and it was really surprising since it takes about a day or two to get it setup in AZ.
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. - Grace Hopper
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
It would be more interesting if the code was tied with parenscript instead of generating the raw HTML directly. That way you could generate the Javascript needed to manipulate the real DOM. Otherwise, this isn't a virtual DOM, it'
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
Having sufficient factors. The only change I would do (if I could) is to make the metric system use Base-12. That would be something truly better because one-third would now be 4; quarter would be 3; half would 6; three-fourths would be 9.
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
You are right. I completely forgot about ADA and representative clauses. I remember reading that representative clauses mapping to register fields. And to be fair, basic and pascal also can be used for bare metal stuff.
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
I'm a embedded software dev and write code all day in C. Sure enough forth comes up in conversations once in a while as does other ideas like Python, JS, Lua etc.. Of all the alternatives to C, Forth is the only one which groks hardwar
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. - Eisenhower
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
No, but there are other parallels - Madoff, Skillings, Ebbers.
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
I think the problem is going to more in closing the startup. I don't know much about labor laws but it seems to me that it's easier to hire/fire people in the US. Startups by definition are very risky and therefore, it's
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
I'm in Amsterdam right now as well. > Brakes don't work? Here, put this duct tape on the brake pads, now they work. That's something which I have not seen. Not duct tape but brakes. I must be one of the few who don't
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
I recently moved for an year's assignment to Amsterdam. Intercompany transfer. The process has been interesting. The main thing which took time was getting my Birth certificate legalized under The Hague convention a.k.a apostilled. Aft
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by shortsightedsid 10y ago
I was on the same boat given that I have used IRC for since the 90s. The one thing that Slack does solves is IT. It makes IRC "enterprisy" which means that IT can do account management, tie it with authentication etc.. The second

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