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I took this course with O'Hallaron and it's fantastic. I highly recommend doing the labs that come with it- they're fun and give you lots of working experience with the material.

I think it's a neat idea, but computing is cheap nowadays. When you have a nice screen, battery, and enclosure, throwing in some compute isn't a huge deal.

As you mentioned, I think this makes it redundant with the cloud when you can make thin-ish clients for everything, like Chromebooks, or Apple and Microsoft's initiatives to seamlessly transfer your workflow from one device to another.

I have the same misgivings with crowdfunding hardware, but I ended up backing this project. The same group has shipped two other similar portables in the past, and have some working prototypes. Seems like they know what they're doing.

Edit: I think a big part of it is that they've had prototypes since the campaign launched, but filled the promo page with mostly renders for some reason. If you look at the Updates section, you can see some photos and videos of it in action.

Here's a review of it by Hackaday: http://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/

Yeah, I've been taking UberPool for my work commute in Boston recently. It's still around 3x more expensive than the monthly bus pass, but at 2.75 per ride, it's plenty reasonable.

Yeah, reading through the Wikipedia, it looks like this reduces the total error of the combined estimator, but the error compared to an estimator of any one single parameter could be worse. So you can combine whatever crazy parameters you want, but it's only really relevant when you have things that are associated with each other somehow, and you want to reduce the total error of estimating all of them.

I think that's the entire point. There's no inherent value attributed to labor except as a piece of the value produced. For the paintbrush example, you just want your room painted and a price you're willing to pay. When the benefits of productivity are largely captured by the management class, which then hires less people, that's having your cake and eating it, too.

The article isn't loading for me, but SemiAccurate isn't a totally unknown site. They're a bit like The Register for hardware, with an overblown writing style, but their analysis is decent.

Give Fitbit another shot some time! We've focused on significantly improving the hardware quality with the latest generation of products, and they're much less likely to break. They also all have interchangeable bands for the case that they do.

It's still mainly the core developer, with PRs and issues coming in from other contributors. Development seems to be pretty active and responsive, though. I think it's in a very usable form at this point.

I used to use Firefox for Tree Style Tabs and Pentadactyl, but I recently switched over to Qutebrowser[0] and I'm loving it. It has Pentadactyl-inspired keybinds, vertical tabs (no tree-style just yet, though), and it's _way_ snappier than FF. It's refreshing to use after all the bloat that Firefox has acquired and the slow-to-nonexistent development of Pentadactyl. (Not to mention the existential crisis of the FF WebExtensions switch.)

There are some sore points revolving around the use of QtWebKit engine, but they're mostly workable. I set the user-agent to either FF or Chrome to get some sites to not redirect me to their compatibility site, and YouTube support isn't great (no fullscreen). I just set up a keybind to send the current url to youtube-dl/MPC-HC and it works fine.

[0] https://qutebrowser.org/index.html

This link seems to explain it in some detail: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Idea/Negative_Differen...

A typical transistor doesn't have the red part of the curve where resistance goes up with increased current. This effect might be useful for multi-level logic or for self current limiting (similar to a lamp)?

Shame, too, as it was the Dropbox feature I used the most. I hate having to link people to the clunky, slow-to-load viewer interface that Dropbox presents when you make a share link. I also don't want comments! (which always takes up an entire sidebar and has to be manually closed)

It's great for certain interactions. I use it to turn off the lights and set alarms before I go to bed, get the weather every morning, make grocery lists, etc. Nothing huge, but the reduced friction is great.

Also, for the $100 price it frequently goes on sale at, it's a great wireless speaker with Spotify integration built in.

OneNote files are stored in the OneDrive file sync service by default (and I assume has the same data hiarangees), but you can save them locally if you'd like.

Yeah, it's been a bit vague on whether Fitbit is going to keep the servers alive, although the article hints towards it. People on /r/Pebble have been working on an open source community store to keep the ecosystem alive.

I thought Pebble really nailed balancing the engineering tradeoffs that go into a smartwatch, but I guess it didn't translate into mass market appeal. It's surprising how quickly things turned after the modest success of the Pebble Time.

Yeah, Windows 10 is a huge improvement but there are still some hairy parts.

I've run into the search issue as well, and resolved it by tweaking some options in "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows". I believe it was the "Animations in the taskbar" option, but I'm not 100%.

Flux also destroys your framerate when it transitions. I tend to just launch it when I need it and set it to always be tinted.

The touch and pen support is fantastic, though, and has become second nature to me for web browsing and note taking.

I've also more or less been able to recreate a Linux-like development workflow with Windawesome[0], cmder[1], chocolatey[2], and qutebrowser[3]. Msys in cmder gives me the unix-like terminal I need while still being able to run Windows-native utilities, and things I install from chocolatey like git, ag, and vim are added to the cmder PATH and just work. Bash for Windows has been quite nice as well.

[0] https://windawesome.codeplex.com/ [1] http://cmder.net/ [2] https://chocolatey.org/ [3] https://qutebrowser.org

As a Fitbit employee and a huge Pebble fan, I feel conflicted... I hope the fantastic engineering put into the Pebble OS and hardware will be put to good use.

Just installed VS Code with the Vim extension and everything seems to be working pretty well for me, including yy and shift-P. I had to set "vim.useCtrlKeys": true to enable some of the keybinds that override VS Code bindings.

The camera is much improved from the OnePlus 2. AnandTech did a review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10411/the-oneplus-3-review/5

Check out the OnePlus 3. It's a "flagship killer" at a low price. I have one and it's excellent.

The foundries have been consolidated to a select few, and it's been increasingly difficult for Intel to stay competitive on both the design and fab front. People have been talking about when Intel is going to spin off their fabs (or design, depending on how you see it), and I see this as being the first step.

Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I enjoy using the ErgoDox: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/infinity-ergodox

I sourced and built my own, but I think the Infinity ErgoDox kit ends up being cheaper than that.

I think the author is missing the forest for the trees, here. Schools often don't have much of a computing curriculum, and these classes are great for improving general programming literacy. And if one kid finds out he really enjoys it when he wouldn't normally have through school, that's a win. It's true that most of them won't become programmers, but we don't teach biology in high school assuming you won't become a biologist, either.

CMU SEI is more or less a separate institution that was founded with government money. Very little relation to the workings of the school, but it's still unfortunate that the work was done under the CMU name.

Instructions Per Second is different from the clock speed. In this case, it looks like each core is ~1 Instruction Per Clock, so 1 * 1.78 GHz * 1000 cores.

The trick is that getting 1.78 trillion IPS distributed over 1000 cores is very different from getting that over a few cores.

http://asciiflow.com/ ?

It always has been. Think back to Bell Labs. I think it's simply a sign that AI has matured to the point where it is widely useful and applicable.

I think it's totally valid, but I can see how the word 'homemade' could be misleading. All designs nowadays start as HDL, even the ones manufactured at a foundry.

As a side note, I fixed the Start menu searching issue by disabling the slide animation for the menu: http://lifehacker.com/disable-this-animation-to-make-windows...