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mindcruzer

72 karma · joined July 25, 2011

Software dev in Austin TX
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mindcruzer··on Ask HN: Hourly freelancers, what do you do when you can't figure something out?
I'm not sure if by "microchip" OP means MicroChip the manufacturer, or just micro-chip in the more generic sense.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: Hourly freelancers, what do you do when you can't figure something out?
I know how you feel. Dealing with hardware issues can be _extremely_ frustrating. It's very easy to dig yourself in a hole wherein you stop thinking clearly. In this situation, if you haven't completely given up on it yet, maybe take a day or two off and work on something else? I find that helps. Otherwise I would contact the manufacturer or post to their forums.

Feel free to email me if you want a second pair of eyes. sean at [myusername].com

mindcruzer··on Ask HN: Hourly freelancers, what do you do when you can't figure something out?
Have you successfully configured the ADC on this chip model before? I've been through the ADC docs for the PIC32MX/MZ many times and they're quite dense. It would be very easy to miss some required configuration bits.

In my experience, it's never a problem with the hardware itself, but you never know. I spent 3 weeks last summer debugging a problem with the MRF24WG0MA, and was almost convinced the chip was defective, until I realized that Harmony configured a few things incorrectly (the interrupt polarity being one of them). But yeah, for a show stopper issue that I'm not making any progress with, I would just get in contact with the manufacturer.

mindcruzer··on Eight billionaires 'as rich as world's poorest half'
Ok, but unlike the title implies, them being rich isn't what's making those people poor.
mindcruzer··on Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba
Yeah last time I checked it was at Columbia & Phillip, right next to UW.
mindcruzer··on Men in committed, romantic relationships have lower testosterone
My guess is that it's the former. In general, women are attracted to masculinity (assuming heterosexuality), a factor in which testosterone plays a large part.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated?
Manual: Every now and then I run an rsync script to backup my stuff to an external drive.

Automated: I have SpiderOak set up the auto backup select folders. I have about 1 TB of offline storage for $12/month.

mindcruzer··on Stop overanalyzing and become the best version of yourself
I have noticed this exact same behavior in one of my friends. It is indeed annoying as fuck. It's impossible to have any kind of intellectual conversation with him. When he claims to know why something is the way it is, and then I question him about it, and he just changes the subject, or uses some kind of blanket statement and walks away.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
I decided to verify that I am not making things up ;)

Starting Strength, 2nd edition:

- There is a whole section on barbell rows in the "Useful Assistance Exercises" chapter. See page 263.

- Barbell row substitution is mentioned in the "Programming" chapter. Page 289, start of 5th paragraph: "People without access to bumper plates may choose to use the barbell row instead of the power clean. This is not a terrible substitution, but be aware of what you're giving up if you do..."

I guess Rip changed his mind?

mindcruzer··on Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (2010)
No
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
Fitness and nutrition are those kinds of topics that no one ever agrees on. Everyone thinks their way is the "right" way, as exemplified by the enormous number of unique replies to this thread. This could be attributed to the ignorance of the commenters, or that everyone just finds different things work for them. It is probably a combination of both, with an emphasis on the former.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
I agree, but I swear he said that in starting strength.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
I believe Rip mentions in his book that you can switch out power cleans for bent over rows if you like.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
Deadlift is not one of the most complex weightlifting movements. As far as weightlifting movements, it's quite simple--the only trick being keeping your spine neutral. A proper squat is harder to execute than a proper deadlift.

Also, starting people with deadlifts is fine, as long as you keep the weight low. Not to mention that if you had to choose, deadlifts would do a lot more for you than turkish get ups (which I've honestly never even heard of until now, and I've been a serious weightlifter for years).

mindcruzer··on Yale Launches Expansion of the Department of Computer Science
Yeah. Some of my friends have been given signing bonuses 4x that amount, and salaries > $150k.
mindcruzer··on The new MacBook
Fully agree. I just got a new MacBook pro in January, and I'm completely blown away by the UX.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: Differences you've noticed between CS students and the self-taught?
I agree. I only did a CS minor (10 courses), but even just doing that exposed me to things that I'd never really been exposed to, like operating systems and numerical computing.
mindcruzer··on Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
Very nice! I have been using something similar, but mine is only for setting up a dev environment in vagrant, not deployment. I will definitely use this as a reference for when I extend my provisioning to include deployment.
mindcruzer··on Ask HN: Did anyone get their myo and what do they think of it?
There seems to be a lot of hype around this device, but I personally just could not get it to work very well, nor could the 3 or 4 people I showed it to. I understand that the gesture recognition is based on statistical data and there will be people with issues, so perhaps I am just one of the outliers. That being said, I have not tried their new firmware (I will in the next couple days), so maybe that will help.
mindcruzer··on 23andMe UK
Such as?
mindcruzer··on Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code
Right. Wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. That would be terrible.
mindcruzer··on Corporate Tax Dodgers [pdf]
People need to stop using the word "fair" as if it's not an extremely subjective term.
mindcruzer··on What if you didn't need money or attention?
> You aren't rich enough until the whole world is rich with you.

According to you, anyway.

mindcruzer··on Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane Carrying Over 200
You realize that once you are dead it makes no difference how long you were alive right? When you are dead there is no inherent regret that you didn't live longer. Whether you were 67 or 3, you're still dead--the end result is the same. No one life is more valuable than the next. Think about that before you make any more short sighted comments.
mindcruzer··on Where do you find the time for side projects?
* if they find out
mindcruzer··on Keyboard innovation is making them worse
I feel you. I use my desktop 80% of the time, touchtyping on my Das Keyboard. When I switch to my T430s my typing speed definitely drops for that reason.
mindcruzer··on Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
Once you're dead I don't think you'll mind.
mindcruzer··on Silk Road 2.0 Launches
It's not like he has a choice.
mindcruzer··on The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check (2012)
* Renamed following a $25 000 000 donation
mindcruzer··on I've become what I wasn't supposed to be
I started coding in grade 9, but I went to university for medical science, got good grades, did some research, and intended to go to medical school. But, the closer I got to graduation, more and more I started to realize there was no way I was ever going back to school--I just wanted to code and make things. No regrets.
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