iyulaev
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Hardware/Software generalist. Everything from mobile development down to PCB-level design.
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Comment · 12 years ago
Not sure how long you've lived there but the mall I think you're referring to (utc) was remodeled not long ago. The clientele in the area has gotten more upscale and the re-design and new stores (upscale restaurants, tesla, etc) reflects on this. Fwiw based on trying to go there for lunch, foot traffic has never been better.
Comment · 13 years ago
Why not Gallium Nitride?
Comment · 13 years ago
Bay Trail atom is already competitive with tablet-focused ARM. I've got a Samsung 500T that runs "real" windows. It weighs as much as an iPad and has ~10 hour run time, same as the iPad. The whole microarchitecture thing is less of an issue for power consumption and performance than most people think.
Comment · 13 years ago
"Hitting The Market" != "there is no general availability of the Dell "Copper" servers at this time."
Comment · 13 years ago
Why don't we take the brilliant hackers and programmers at the NSA and task them to fix and re-build the ACA exchange system?
Building a database to track the communications of ever single person in the US and ever foreigner they talk to? Piece of cake.
Building a database to track the health insurance policies for a subset of Americans? Over budget, behind schedule, still doesn't really work yet.
Priorities.
Comment · 13 years ago
My Atom-powered Windows x86 tablet weighs 1.5 lbs (same as iPad) and gets ~10 hours of run-time. How does Windows suck at power again?
Comment · 13 years ago
Change isn't intrinsically bad. Change is bad when it removes characteristics of the neighborhood that caused people to move there in the first place.
Isn't this NIMBYism, just from a different demographic?
Comment · 13 years ago
Furthermore, unless you get stuck out multiple times a week half the rent cost still puts you way ahead.
QFT. The thousand-plus dollar difference in rent buys a heck of a lot of "I got stranded" Uber/Taxi rides.
Comment · 13 years ago
Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani looks really promising as an introductory algorithms textbook. I wonder if anyone has experience using it in class?
We used this in our upper-division intro to algorithms course. Solid book, goes over important algorithms while remaining short and concise, A+ would read again.
Comment · 13 years ago
True. But generally the cost of guessing and doing something wrong is much higher than saying "I don't know" and asking someone else or Googling the result. School, through homeworks and especially exams, trains us to do our best without outside help. I would argue that this behavior is maladaptive to engineering in the real world.
Comment · 13 years ago
Barely. IIRC it's 0 points if blank, -0.25 if wrong, so if you eliminate 1 choice it's worth it to guess. I'd like to see it be -5 points if wrong, since this is more reflective of the real world. When I entered the industry as an electrical engineer this was a difficult transition for me. In school, you're incentivized to guess and BS. But in the real world, the penalty for being wrong is HUGE.
Comment · 13 years ago
Thought this at first but seems like the model is pretty different. Bandcamp sells direct and allows tons of free streaming. This service is geared towards placement in "stores" like iTunes and Amazon.
Also the community feature of bandcamp will be harder to beat.
Comment · 13 years ago
What about lying down? A few years ago, BBC covered a scientific study[1] showing that sitting at a 135-degree angle dramatically reduced spinal disk movement. Anecdotally, I found that this sitting position, midway between sitting and lying down, is most comfortable for prolonged periods of time. Maybe at my next workplace I'll insist that my office be fitted with a lounge chair.
Comment · 13 years ago
Agree that it will look better, and is probably a better experience. Sadly college admissions is a game, and it is risky to ignore it.
Comment · 13 years ago
Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.
Sadly, nope, unless you're applying to a high-end private school. I know the UC system doesn't care at all about your work experience, and even if you founded a company when you were in HS, that would at best be worth 150-300 SAT points.
Now that I think about it, it's scary that I still remember this.