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by sn 15y ago
There's already the paper-based mobius circuit: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/mobiuscircuit
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by sn 15y ago
"If you have to have everything on your requirements list, you can't be agile" Anything on the requirements list which isn't necessary to the product shouldn't be listed as a requirement in the first place. "If you need to plan beyond the n
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by sn 15y ago
What about dataflow programming? Shell scripting is one example. I think the same thing could be implemented using event driven programming, the event being the completion of some function, though that would be a little less clear.
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by sn 15y ago
Having used xemacs for quite a while now, I'm finding visual studio to be more effective for following convoluted code. But maybe that's how the code got convoluted in the first place. Perhaps there's something to be said for less capable
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by sn 15y ago
This is why we use version control.
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by sn 15y ago
Readability depends on the writer, and if someone is trying to duplicate the functionality of C++ in C I expect they're liable to do a worse job than using C++ directly. void* pointers are one example of why.
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by sn 15y ago
Try reading the linux kernel. A beautiful example of object oriented c, but it's not any easier to read than c++.
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by sn 15y ago
I have little quantitative intuition, which typically leads me to have to work through everything rather than give an off-the-cuff answer and checking my results multiple times.
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by sn 15y ago
This is a bogus comparison. The difference between software engineering and other types of engineering is that for software, the detailed design is the implementation. For other engineering, several months or more of design and simulati
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by sn 16y ago
>That said, I'd argue that unless you grew up with computers and were interested in programming them early in life you probably aren't the startup type. "That said, I'd argue that unless you grew up with money and were interested in tra
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by sn 16y ago
Geez, you think it's just guys who hate to shop?
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by sn 16y ago
>Mobile operating systems (and, in my cases Linux in general) are very bad at solving the hard yet common problems -- like seamlessly printing documents or working with arbitrary hardware and software. You're out of date. Printing is a
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by sn 16y ago
Check out QML.
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by sn 16y ago
He discusses counseling but not medication. If the latter was never tried, I find this even more sad. Talking about suicide is a taboo subject. And doctors and others in caretaker positions are legally required to alert the authorities if
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by sn 16y ago
My mother did a fresh install of windows because it was a second-hand computer and now nothing works because the drivers aren't present. I recommended she try ubuntu for that reason.
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by sn 16y ago
I installed a PDF "printer" on windows and I haven't been able to "print" to PDF or the built-in microsoft XPS file write for a really long time now, which is incredibly annoying. Haven't had any problems printing with ubuntu on at least 2
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by sn 16y ago
I'm considering making a morning playlist of songs that get me motivated for when I wake up.
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by sn 16y ago
Maybe you could get some kind of co-membership thing going on with hacker dojo? SF is just too far for me to go most days.
169.
by sn 16y ago
Your girlfriend is sexist then.
170.
by sn 16y ago
So the wife wasn't the co-founder?
171.
by sn 16y ago
Such things are available for purchase at many fine establishments.
172.
by sn 16y ago
I've never used ovi for any of my software downloads.
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by sn 16y ago
Have you checked out women 2.0?
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by sn 16y ago
This is really, really important. Not getting enough sleep will just make any problem worse.
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by sn 16y ago
Speaking from personal experience: 1. Seriously consider getting your own place or room. At minimum find somewhere you can go to be by yourself and not worried about being judged. 2. In the US (don't know about India) grades mostly only mat
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by sn 16y ago
+1 on nice hardware, -1 on durability. My n900 had to have warranty service so I used the free nexus one I got from google at a conference. Using the nexus one, which has no keyboard and an extremely oversensitive touch screen, was extreme
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by sn 16y ago
You might try going to professional societies or related meetups and asking questions.
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by sn 16y ago
Adults in the work force range from late teens/early twenties to mid/late sixties. A lot of times I go to lunch with people from work and they are talking about things from their high school years that occurred before I was born. So I th
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by sn 16y ago
I'm reading "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" and yeah, learning more about compilers would be cool, but a big time commitment is not something I want ATM. Might try asking the dojo if you're in south bay on any semi-regular
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by sn 16y ago
I think there was some progress on the n900.

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