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Comment · 6 years ago
Hi! GoldenHour creator here. You can set that using the slider in the app! You get a full range of color temperatures.
Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve been using this tool with a 10 person team and it’s -awesome-

I love the focus and clarity it brings to our work. And I am so glad to have a much better sense of peace while working at my computer than when I’ve used other tools for collaboration.

Comment · 8 years ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time both on learning electronics and understanding how to teach it, I would argue against this as bad advice.

The Art of Electronics is like a recipe book — it's a (whimsical, yes) set of reference designs to be referred to like templates for a design engineer. The Art of Electronics is not a well-suited recommendation for a beginner or novice.

Furthermore: I have spoken to Forrest Mims (disclosure: the discussions I have had with him were in the process of creating circuitclassics.com. That said, I have not met him personally.) The conclusion I came to was that his personal beliefs do not affect and have no bearing on his technical work.

(Broadly, I do not understand why this man is so hounded for his particular personal beliefs.)

It is true that hundreds of thousands of engineers launched their careers after being exposed to his books, that they are quite good at this, still relevant — and probably the only book on electronics to sell over 1M genuine (and many more untrackably via unauthorized reproduction etc.) copies.

Comment · 10 years ago
Baha — amazing! Love the idea of calendar decoys.
Comment · 11 years ago
now they do!
Comment · 11 years ago
it's like Pascal's Wager for security
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks Dan! Maybe if this one goes well I'll get to do a sequel :)
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks joe! Yeah, sadly through hole seems to be going away on the whole, but the color codes are still used often by some people, especially while breadboarding or prototyping. I actually referred to a prototype of the card myself while designing a board a few weeks ago:) so some people will likely find one side or the other more useful. Fortunately we've designed the card to be useful in a good variety engineering contexts!

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