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As an addition to this, if the bad news will have a big impact on whoever you are delivering it to, just tell them the bad news and then sit back and wait for them to start talking…

Check http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ for a treasure trove of similar helpdesk oddities.

It may be worth adding that EMC compatibility is only one step in getting your product ready for market introduction. Depending on the category of the product (consumer, medical, a…

Yes, you do need to take it into account, but even so, there are no guarantees you _are_ going to pass the first time around. EMC is as much dark art as it is engineering, and some…

It's interesting then what makes Gilstrap so energetic in his efforts to keep those patent-cases coming. Assuming there are no direct monetary payments from patent trolls coming hi…

Yes, there are some (there are 4 in the Netherlands, for example: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_slavernijmonumenten_... ), but I think people in Europe are generally less…

This is part of the standard FDA procedure. It starts with a formal warning letter (they send out many of those each year, for varying degrees of severity), and give the company a …

> Watching two radios frequency hop, and negotiate to avoid a > congested wifi channel was unreal. Exactly. As I said in another comment, we did a test in a very busy office space …

I am currently in the process of developing a BT based embedded system, and in my experience Bluetooth is extremely resilient to the crowded 2.4 GHz space. It has very good and fas…

How big a job is customizing all this to work on a different board? At work we use iMX6-based SoM's on custom baseboards, and so far have stuck to Linux. But we'd like to experimen…

There is a fairly well known Dutch pilot whose last name literally translates to "brick". I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether that is an example of nominat…

The locale and language are system settings. My point is that applications and websites have no business second guessing those system settings based on location. For the system-lev…

Apart from travellers, there's people who don't want to deal with the often atrocious and incomplete translations provided by sites and applications.

"it's irritating when apps don't use my location to pick sane defaults" No, no, a thousand times NO. Location should NOT EVER be used as a basis for things like units, currency, da…

Fascinating: 71% say they trust climate scientists regarding climate change, yet only 49% say they think "most scientists think global warming is happening". This would imply it is…

This article seems to assume you're single and not in a hurry to start a family. I'd be interested to read an article "Does it make sense for a programmer with a wife and kids to m…

Excellent point. Getting rid of timezones would mean most people would have to switch to a different _date_ at some random point (determined by their longitude) during the day. Ver…

It's not that bad. ASML ships several tens of units (costing $millions to $tens of millions each) each quarter, but they also have an order backlog of several thousand units. This …

Indeed, the difficulty getting a reliable EUV source with enough power is arguably the reason why this technology has been delayed so much. Cymer, the company who was in the proces…

No, it's not. Maybe where you're at, but not where I'm at.

FTA: "He highlighted how complicated history has woven the borders in the area close to where Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany touch, leaving enclaves and strangely twisted bor…

They do have an Android app, but I must admit I haven't used it on an Android tablet, so maybe it is only for phones?

As I understand it, this does not mean you can power your laptop forever with a single charge, only that it can be recharged an indefinite number of times.