I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lawschool that had students supporting patent trolls. There are some schools out there that are founded on ideological grounds.
I have the Acer C720 and installed Linux on it. It is an excellent development machine for what it is. Cheap but sturdy, light enough to carry places that I'm afraid to bring my Chromebook Pixel, cheap enough that I wouldn't be too bothered if I were to lose it instead of the Pixel, and fast enough to do most of what I want.
Amazing post from someone who's done amazing things and has an amazing life. He's also done a great job of highlighting the different expectations and demands between men and women in the workplace. This reminds me of someone else who changed directions in life but received a surprisingly large amount of criticism. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-huerta/why-i-left-google...) I have the suspicion that Schireson will not get the same amount of criticism that Huerta received when she wrote her article. But in any case, it will be interesting to see how Schireson's post will be received.
Github is a much more social and connected platform than google code. Easier to find and fork projects and more of a neutral venue where different technologies can co-exist. Another interesting thing is that a lot of the google developers are on stackoverflow, which isn't google centric, but is very accessible as well.
That seems to be the problem right now with most iBeacon makers, too much proprietary stuff out there. I think iBeacons can really take off if there were more open standards across the board.
His friends consisted of "99.9% of everyone I know uses iOS", are probably contemptuous of Android. Which seems to be a common attitude amongst the apple fanbois. I don't think his friends could've helped him.
>the transistor pulls current from the node between the two resistors
The battery is connected incorrectly for this scenario to work. Node 2 of R2 should be connected to the positive battery terminal for correct flow to the LED.
>the phototransistor's collector won't pull much closer than a couple hundred millivolts to its emitter while conducting that much current
The transistor won't operate like that given the way it is biased in the circuit.
>most optocoupler diodes have a forward drop of 2V or more
The data sheet for this opto lists the forward voltage drop as 1.3 - 1.7 volts.
Yeah, the LED in the opto isn't even connected correctly. I doubt it would ever light up. I left a post on the website explaining how it should have been setup.
Shopping at Trader Joes is a good start for keeping within budget, but you can't really make the case for eating well on $35/week if you go out occasionally and DON'T count that in your budget.
Absolutely. Even when you amortize the cost of condiments, oils, spices, and vegetables, that would go over budget. Along with the eating out and more expensive items like chicken shu mai, this is not going to fit within the $35/week budget. What he needs to do is to cut out anything over $35/week to get a realistic picture of what it really means to survive on $35/week. I would like to see his meals and response to that situation, otherwise it's not realistic enough and he can't really make the case that you can eat well for $35/week.
I remember about 3-4 years ago, a couple of programmers talking. One said to the other, "you know, javascript is getting respectable now." I'm blown away by how such a complicated system can be described and implemented in so few lines of code. When I went to school, seriously complicated programs took a lot of time to write and render. The easy way involved Matlab because it had a lot of graphics libraries. It looks like javascript really has turned the corner into becoming a language with serious possibilities.
Sorry, I don't recall the particulars since it was a long time ago. But believe me, there were lots of problems with the libraries. I still cringe whenever I have to deal with a Gtk library.
I'm talking about the change from Gtk1.0 to Gtk2.0 (or that's what I remember mostly). I gave up on Gentoo around 2001 or so. Things were better when I left, but there was still breakage whenever I did a world-update. I had fallen into the lazy habit of not updating often enough which contributed to the problem, but still, the promise was that all you had to do was to do a world-update and everything would work fine. Maybe it does now, but I remember having to run a crippled system for a couple of weeks at a time, while trying to sort through the numerous broken packages. I had used many different desktops including XFCE. They were all pretty good and completely flexible under Gentoo, as the Desktop designers had intended. That part was fine, but the underlying Gtk libraries were a complete PITA whenever there were large changes.