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by utborin 5y ago
Be careful with this. I used to give aircraft simulator instruction and had to learn that AC backwards and forwards. Bottom line is it's not enough just to get a certified yoke and throttle quadrant. The entire package, hardware and so
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by utborin 5y ago
That's fine for something a person is working on in their spare time, but when it's a multi-million dollar company whose mission statement is "we simplify the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps," I th
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by utborin 5y ago
> I feel sure that some of them also felt that they were, you know, continuing to move and shake and improve their lives whereas, from their perspective, I’d sort of given up — my life appeared to be a static thing, unchanging, and ther
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by utborin 6y ago
Yeah, this blog post is a real drag. Ok, so you've been at this for a long time and are super smart and experienced. Great. That's not who Arduinos are for. They're for folks who want to use a microcontroller and don't w
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by utborin 6y ago
And if they sell four? Wish I still had a copy but there was a brilliant story printed years ago called something like "there are numbers smaller than 1%." It illustrated the fallacy in the thinking behind saying things like, &quo
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by utborin 6y ago
There's an avalanche of people commenting on this who didn't bother to check the article before raising their methodological objections, so let's get these out of the way here. - Yes, they controlled for objects appearing in
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by utborin 6y ago
> Our goal is to fundamentally shift how developers I'm tired.
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by utborin 6y ago
Grandmaster: Revolution? How did this happen? Topaz: Don't know. But the Arena's mainframe for the Obedience Disks have been deactivated and the slaves have armed themselves. Grandmaster: Ohhh! I don't like that word!
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by utborin 6y ago
Oh, yikes. I understand what's happening here but this is going to bite a lot of people. I might be misreading the grammar but it looks like you can produce the desired effect by using an attribute, e.g. the following would perform an
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by utborin 6y ago
As someone who is in week two of spooling up on a multi-million-line codebase where most of the original authors have moved on to other projects, please, I beg you to heed this advice. I spend the vast majority of my time figuring out whe
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by utborin 6y ago
Because it’s 16 bytes, and in Python 2 strings were just bytes, so any 16-byte string could be interpreted as an IPv6 address. Doh.
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by utborin 7y ago
“We have miserably spent 3 years of our lives and are still ashamed of the result.” This should come with a trigger warning.
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by utborin 10y ago
"For those who object that dot files serve a purpose, I don't dispute that but counter that it's the files that serve the purpose, not the convention for their names." Oh, that's rich. This from the guy who designed