coderjames

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by coderjames 9y ago
Airplanes are already using the higher-accuracy GPS+GNSS to land safely on the runway in low-visibility conditions, guided in by the Flight Management Computer. It makes a big difference whether the plane is 5 meters above the runway or zer
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by coderjames 9y ago
I'm one of the early birds. I'm awake by about 5 AM without an alarm, regardless of weekday or weekend. That keeps my sleep schedule consistent. I get to the office between 6 and 6:30 in the morning and take a 30 minute lunch, so
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by coderjames 9y ago
Universal Avionics provides their Engineers private offices. It was important to the founder of the company, so when a new building was constructed it was specifically arranged to provide as many offices as possible, even if some are intern
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by coderjames 9y ago
> All interesting types of development work can easily be done remotely. My employer would prefer I not walk out the building with the rather expensive test equipment necessary to debug our latest prototypes (which they would also prefer
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by coderjames 9y ago
Or PowerVR texture compression, which according to Anandtech is the canonical method for iOS development: "Because Apple’s SoCs have always used GPUs from the same vendor, certain vendor-specific features like PowerVR Texture Compress
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Police Report Untangles Uber Crash Mystery(eetimes.com)
3 points by coderjames 9y ago|0 comments
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by coderjames 10y ago
I was thinking about this recently when I filed my taxes. Maybe if they provided some kind of itemized receipt? "You paid $x in taxes. This was distributed as $y to infrastructure, $z to education, $w to defense" etc.
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by coderjames 10y ago
Casey Muratori: https://mollyrocket.com/casey/
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by coderjames 10y ago
Many of the control codes are still in active use today in the air-ground communications protocol spoken between airplanes and Air Traffic Control. The ACARS[0] protocol I work with every day starts each transmission with an SOH, then some
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Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco(techcrunch.com)
1 points by coderjames 10y ago|0 comments
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by coderjames 10y ago
This was an insightful and thought-provoking response. Thank you for taking the time to write it. Given how much a word processor's spelling and grammar checking improves my own writing, I can definitely see how an equivalent assisted-
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by coderjames 10y ago
I've been developing a Motorola 68K-based retro computer. The goal is somewhere around Atari ST-era sophistication, but it isn't quite there yet. Currently has a UART, some switches, some LEDs, and a periodic timer. Still needs ke
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by coderjames 10y ago
>To fix this, we need to increase the currently tiny number of people who are able to write, modify, combine and share software. We need a tool that makes writing software easy and fun, and accessible to everyone. A tool that enables sof
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by coderjames 10y ago
I meant that I literally did not have a visible Start Menu that I could interact with because Windows 10 uninstalled the version of Classic Shell[1] I was using as part of installing the Anniversary Edition upgrade. I actually had that mess
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by coderjames 10y ago
> uninstalling user-installed apps I ran into this when the Windows 10 Anniversary Update rolled out. In my case the program Microsoft uninstalled was a Start Menu replacement, so I didn't actually have a functional start menu for s
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by coderjames 10y ago
> This was for a particular team in one branch. Which is a bummer. When I interviewed at Amazon a few years ago, it was a day of coding on the whiteboard. Turned out I didn't have the Java experience that group wanted, and I'm
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by coderjames 10y ago
For developing 2D games, I've found the combination of Love2D [0], Bump.lau [1], anim8 [2], and Gamera [3] to be extremely productive for me. This is a Lua game engine with additional libraries for collision detection, animation, and m
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by coderjames 10y ago
Apparently a startup built or is working on building an after-market ADAS system for Hondas. In typical startup fashion they seem to have moved fast and broken things, failing to consider the regulatory environment in which they tried to in
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Comma.ai Fiasco Leaves None Unscathed(eetimes.com)
3 points by coderjames 10y ago|1 comments
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by coderjames 10y ago
I use Tile Studio as my only sprite and map editor for 2D platformer development (first in C, then C++, now Lua/Love). The ability to define my own output format instead of having to deal with somebody else's XML is a killer featu
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by coderjames 10y ago
> I would expect an un-biased search engine to rate pages with and without AMP equal Well there's your problem :-). Google isn't an unbiased search engine, they're a commercial entity with a financial interest in feeding
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by coderjames 10y ago
My wife does this pretty much every night with her iPhone SE. Listens to music on her EarPods while keeping it charged up.
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by coderjames 10y ago
Hopefully that will change in 1Q2017 when Xilinx finally releases to production their new Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC[1]. It has a quad-A53 cluster and a dual-R5 cluster. It is still in early-access so I can't say much more beyond that (we&
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by coderjames 10y ago
I use the headphone port on my rMBP (2013) daily. Frequently use it at the same time as both USB ports and the mag-safe charging port. HDMI port used often enough that I wouldn't buy a laptop without one. I've never used either Th
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by coderjames 10y ago
My experience: the three companies I've worked for as a Software Engineer in the USA all tracked vacation and sick leave as two distinct buckets. Vacation gets paid out when you leave the company, sick leave does not. If I'm sick
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LiteBSD is variant of 4.4BSD operating system for microcontrollers(github.com)
60 points by coderjames 10y ago|13 comments
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by coderjames 10y ago
I'd never heard of the Rex Neo until your post. Looks very interesting!
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by coderjames 10y ago
I've started putting something together, but in case I never finish, I've at least tossed the schematics, gerbers, and CPLD source code up on the web, if you're really interested: http://coderjames.bitbucket.org
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by coderjames 10y ago
That would be awesome! Thanks for the idea.
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by coderjames 10y ago
My home-brew 68K machine just recently reached the same level of completeness except for the particular BASIC implementation (Tiny vs. Microsoft). Guess I should get it written up as a blog post or three.

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