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by tjl 10y ago
Ah. But, you could easy say it's 5 then. iPhone, AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, and MacBook. But, it's no different than if the AirPods were another pair of Bluetooth headphones, except Apple has a nice charging solution (and carryin
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by tjl 10y ago
Facebook wants to be a place for news as well, with things like their "Instant Articles". It's a historically significant photo and was actually on the front page of the NY Times when it came out. So, would they censor a post
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by tjl 10y ago
Yep, 2.5mm was the standard on phones that had a jack. There were also phones that used an adapter that went into the micro USB (or was it mini USB) port.
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by tjl 10y ago
The iPhone, the AirPods, and what? A laptop, an iPad? The AirPods charge in the battery case (which is good for 24 hours of playback). The AirPods charge quite quickly in the battery case. I've heard that it's several hours for ju
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by tjl 10y ago
No 3.5mm jack goes back for years. It was only around the time of the iPhone 3G that it was standard in smartphones (I'm not saying that Apple caused it to become standard, it's just it that time frame). Earlier models of phones e
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by tjl 10y ago
The basic Apple dock also has a headphone jack. So, if you have one at your desk you can charge and listen at the same time. It's been this way for years.
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by tjl 10y ago
The AirPods headphones are actually Bluetooth. It's just that they have their own chip to manage the headphones. That said, I'm not sure if there's any way to pair the AirPods with anything other than an Apple device. It may
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by tjl 10y ago
You might want to try Taskpaper. It's a just a text file so you can edit it however you like. There's an OS X app that's excellent, but the iOS app has been removed. However, a number of the better text editors on iOS support
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by tjl 10y ago
When I worked at Bell-Northern Research (and Nortel) they had two tracks for advancement. One was the managerial track where you were promoted from a technical staff to a manager, the other was the independent technical adviser. If you did
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by tjl 10y ago
Co-ops still have boards and often employees that report to the board (or another employee). There's a structure there, but they also tend to be smaller so the structure has less impact. I was treasurer of my housing co-op and we had o
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by tjl 10y ago
I love The Left Hand of Darkness. That said, I'm not really a big fan of her Earthsea books.
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by tjl 10y ago
I think a bigger problem than spelling is people using the wrong words. They'll use defiantly instead of definitely, heal instead of heel, too instead of to, and a number of similar mistakes.
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by tjl 10y ago
I love Gore-Tex as a material. It's one of the few materials that has a negative Poisson ratio (when you stretch it the material expands in all directions, it doesn't narrow). My Ph.D. supervisor keeps a small sample of it to use
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by tjl 10y ago
My best guess is that the NFC chip is locked for security and that it's highly linked to the secure enclave. Maybe it's discussed in the iOS Security document? I haven't checked. Apple has a habit of introducing something ver
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by tjl 10y ago
I know that traditionally Instapaper basically required you to load the page at least once first so you'd get all the ads then. But since then there's APIs that bookmark directly to it. My guess is that it isn't used enough f
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by tjl 10y ago
As others have said it's the drug company itself, not an insurance company. The patent they had on the injector has expired so others have tried and failed to bring alternatives to market. Unlike drugs, each medical device has to be ve
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by tjl 10y ago
I love DEVONthink Pro. I have the Pro Office version. I especially love the "See Also" feature as that will suggest other documents to look at when you're hunting through your references.
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by tjl 10y ago
For code samples I prefer to have them in separate files and include them so it's just one command that imports them and formats them. I wrote both my Master's and Ph.D. theses in LaTeX and found it much better than the alternativ
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by tjl 10y ago
Yes, I did. In fact, if you're a recent grad you probably had me as your TA at some point as I was a TA throughout most of my grad school and did core courses.
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by tjl 10y ago
I didn't know about INCOSE or IISE, so thanks. I've been a member of ASME since I was presenting at their conferences and submitting to their journals as a grad student given the material was focused on mechanical (and textile) en
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by tjl 10y ago
I'm a systems design engineer so there was no way I'd use Excel for ODE solving unless I had no other choice. Matlab and Maple are the two languages I know best, but I'd also consider Fortran, Octave, Python, or Scilab for so
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by tjl 10y ago
The civil engineering department at my university doesn't have any dedicated programming or numerical analysis course. So, they're taught to use Excel. I took a structural dynamics grad course from them and the instructor explaine
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by tjl 10y ago
That's what most software people think my "systems design engineering" degrees are about, but my program fits the NASA definition much better. It's quite frustrating.
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by tjl 10y ago
I graduated from a "systems design engineering" program. In it, we had courses in human factors, mechanical engineering, electrical/computer engineering, graph theory, software development, and you could branch out from there
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by tjl 10y ago
Except you can use perennial sunflower which is an oilseed crop for crop rotation.
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by tjl 10y ago
That's great. It's been a while since I did a lot of simulations (which used double precision) so I didn't know that had changed. I still wouldn't say that they're highly optimized, though.
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by tjl 10y ago
They're optimized for single-precision linear algebra. If you need double-precision all those optimizations go out the window and you're left on your own.
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by tjl 10y ago
It may be that Agile developed in reaction to Waterfall, but that just says to me that the creators didn't look at all the other methodologies out there.
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by tjl 10y ago
There's a lot of development methodologies and if you actually think this you probably haven't seen many of the others. It regularly seems to me that people think that there's Agile/Scrum and there's Waterfall and t
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by tjl 10y ago
I downloaded their albums when they gave them away. Some of the tracks are truly excellent.

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