vkuruthers

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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Yes, I strongly prefer waterfall. Back in the good old days we had a biz. quarter to deliver a set of features. This allowed time for a spec., thinking about how it would all work, doing a design doc, working with QA on how they'd ef
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
100% this. I also find it extremely annoying to have to give daily status updates on highly complex, time consuming problem. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the work being done. The sooner we move om from this Agile garbage t
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Just ordered "Show Stopper" now and started reading it, looks like a great read so far.
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Did anyone see any mention of the networking tech. their using in each light, e.g. 4G or something else?
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Do you have any more details on the re-programming that would be occurring on non SLC flash cells, even if mounted in read only mode? This is something I was always concerned about too.
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Hi @bhhaskin, what practical advantages do you see to running IPv6 at home? I think my ISP (Xfinity) provides it, but have not tried enabling it yet.
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Any good recommended tech related audio books?
3 points by vkuruthers 8y ago|1 comments
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Thanks for the response. Do you have any recommendations for tax software, or do you have your accountant handle tax payments? I'm a sole proprietor now but am going to upgrade to an LLC soon.
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Contract workers (USA): how do you calculate how many $$ to put away for taxes?
2 points by vkuruthers 8y ago|5 comments
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Thanks for posting, looks quite interesting.
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by vkuruthers 8y ago
Quite good performance from that antenna for it's size and cost yes. I wonder what tools they used to design it?
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
+1, those guides are excellent!
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Thanks @vibrolax, that does look ideal. I was going to muck around and design the circuit myself (hopefully based off a solid reference design), but the COTS setup you listed above looks just like what I need, so I think I'll go ahead
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Thank you sir! I'll do some part searching this week.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Does anyone know what kind of circuit would be able to convert 12VDC (e.g. from a small lead acid gel. cell battery) to 20VDC (which my Lenovo E470's DC charging voltage)? The E470 is my work computer and does not have an easily swapp
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
I used one of their Cortex M3 parts on a project a while ago that needed a large number of SPI ports to drive strings of LEDs. Was very easy to get the initial POC working, and their IDE software worked surprisingly well.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
What a cool and useful sounding project! Does LORA handle any of the meshing aspect, or do you have to manage that at the application level? Also what kind of node to node range are you getting from the radios, and when the users install
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Musk has painted himself into a corner. He is probably aware that skipping the hard tool test phase was a bad idea, but had no choice, they would've run out of money adding another 6-12 months to the model 3 timeline. What they'r
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Anyone have any info on how the Strobe Lidar(s) compare to Velodyne systems?
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Is there any less expensive way to get the original Thinkpad style keyboard on a more modern motherboard? I really like this retro machine they're releasing but it's just too costly for me.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
I agree with this comment. OTOH it's very hard to have and enforce discipline in commercial SW development in the US anyway. Managers just want solutions hacked out as quick as possible, so no real time for properly crafting solution
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
OK going to msg. you privately with some more details.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Looks pretty good. However, how are you going to differentiate your offering from other more established players out there? (e.g. ThingWorkx, AWS IoT etc.)? Also usually these types of "no embedded code needed" offerings are OK
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
I find tools not so important, as working conditions. Most important are quiet conditions, minimal interruptions & meetings and confidence management know what they are doing.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Need to view that equity as icing on the cake, that's all. Highly likely to lead to a meaningful cashout, unless you were a founder.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Sounds like your agile process was actually "flacid agile", this is very common. Suffering this at my current workplace too.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
I've always wondered about a place where time had > 1 dimensions, it would surely allow for some strange things to happen (e.g. something appearing out of nowhere when it's time "vector" crosses my time vector")?
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Sounds quite boring. Go somewhere where your mind is fully engaged the you will be much more satisfied.
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
Is anyone using RISC-V in commercial, shipping projects? If so, was wondering what the process was to convince management to go this route over the huge choice of other platforms out there?
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by vkuruthers 9y ago
No agile!

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