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High precision gyroscopes showing a 15 degrees per hour drift? Thanks Bob! :-)

My exact thoughts as I was reading the OP: "This guy doesn't know how talented he is at writing".

Same here. The "Casio hackers" community was nowhere near as large as the TI folks, but we had some good times and some impressive projects too. :)

It doesn't make much sense for people who always heard and thought that "an interface just lists the public methods and properties of a class". In that view the classes always come…

I discovered software programming about 20 years ago during high school by fooling around with my Casio programmable calculator. I spent countless hours writing small utility progr…

The article's subtitle literally says "The best backend is no backend at all". The article gives the impression you have no idea what a backend is supposed to do, except expose som…

Let's say my startup makes a product featuring some sort of kanban-like board. The user moves a card from one column to the other. According to this article, the frontend might jus…

I think he has more than enough skills to be his own boss and charge by the hour.

Ah thanks, I suspected something like that but wasn't sure how to read this.

After reading the article I'm not entirely sure all these drivers did participate in the race using their own setups while staying home. Especially after this part: "[Pike] and Maj…

FYI my wife and I signed for a mortgage 4 months ago here in France for our new home. 325k€, 25-year, 1.66% interest rate, 0.8% insurance rate for complete coverage of the both of …

Interestingly the French market (and more generally the European Market?) seems to have been spared from that trend, at least for now. The prices have remained steady during the la…

You seem to forget that maths and physics are meant to describe reality, not be reality. Any abstract concept (like numbers, forces, shapes, temperatures, energy levels, ...) we us…

"Good luck to have that in France." It's not as hard as you seem to think. Earning ~3500 euros/month (net of taxes) is definitely doable as a software developer if you have good sk…

Knowing how to sell/market your product is more important than having a fully functional or carefully engineered product. Nobody will give you money for your (master)piece of softw…

Something important to keep in mind for founders and investors I haven't seen mentioned yet: in France, capital gains are taxed at 33%. And there is an additional tax for wealthy p…

For those wondering (spoilers), the puzzle he's talking about in section 2 ("the second puzzle in the game") is a simple puzzle where you just have to double the values provided as…

I think the author missed the opportunity to show how choosing better identifiers for his example would have eliminated the need for comments immediately. Also notice how his comme…

I don't know what you call a "very large" app, but I have a fairly complex app relying solely on Knockout with hundreds of observables/computeds being triggered in real-time to upd…

Here [1] is the second part of the presentation, featuring the complete video (which you can find here [2]). I actually think the way they presented the device during the keynote w…

Reading the article I was also wondering if most traits weren't simply due to the author's personality rather than to a form of autism.

The solution presented here basically consists of implementing a VehicleType class with a bunch of static instances without using the class syntax. I can't decide if this was a del…

Wait, how does that work? Looking at the malicious javascript code issuing ajax requests to github, it doen't seem github's response is evaluated. Is this alert even displayed? If …

It's not about what people believed in the past or what they believe now, it's about what they might believe in the future. By erasing all traces of other religions (and even all t…

There is no missing foreach loop because LINQ iterators are smart enough to combine predicates whenever possible (source here: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Core/Sys…