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Indeed, the Robot is a wonderful piece of good old engineering, and it makes fantastic espresso without much fuss. Haven't had to do any maintenance since I got it, almost four yea…

I'm glad I stumbled upon his books when researching design patterns early on in my career. His writing in 'The Timeless Way of Building' left a big impression on me, precisely beca…

Of course this is purely anecdotal, but I also smoke rarely when drinking, and only then. Some nights up to half a pack, sometimes just one or two, but only two to three times a ye…

I agree on all accounts, however I've always taken "Law is a programming language" or, maybe better, "Law is a program" as more of a metaphor. I see many similarities between law a…

Regarding point 3: At 150 modules consuming about 25W each, your LED wall is consuming about 3750W max. An 80" TV will consume about 300W. Power consumption of the LED wall will, h…

No, f = O(n log n) means that f doesn't grow significantly faster than n log n. That is true for f = n log n, but it's also true for f = n. The "or better" is implicit by using big…

You probably tried this already, but for reference there is an easy fix for the screen issue which seems to work for most. Google "Pebble display fix", takes 5 minutes max.

Es heißt "unhöflich", und da fehlt ein "dass" (...gehe davon aus, dass wir alle...). Stilistisch etwas besser wäre: "Es tut mir leid, wenn das unhöflich wirkt, aber ich gehe davon …

The visualizer is really nice, the examples could use some work though. Selection Sort, for example, makes the algorithm look extremely (impossibly) good at first glance - O(n) - b…

These look like diagrams from Bosch Otto ECUs (ME series). FWIW, the ECUs in question (EDC17) use much more descriptive names: Epm_nEng - engine speed; InjCt1_qSetUnBal - set quant…

I have only written very few pieces of code which I'm not ashamed of right now. A few functions here and there which make me smile when I read them. But despite that I have the fee…

For reference, that's about as fast as a Motorola 68030 @50MHz [1] which was used in the AppleIIx, and while that was no slouch when it was released, you wouldn't want to run a mod…

A Windows Phone App which uses the Location Service is required to have a setting to enable/disable the use of this service[1]. It's probably not as comfortable as the solutions of…

I'll be honest with you: I'm maybe not the one to give proper advice on paredit. I'm using C# on my day job, and as such have no use for paredit (I do use ViEmu for VS though, whic…

Honest advice: The power of paredit lies not in managing the closing parens. I found that the benefits of paredit show only when you use barf/slurp/split/join. Keep the paredit che…

While your observations are definitely true for the "older" generations (the ones for which many tombstones had to be carved), I'd say that title fetish is fortunately declining qu…

Theres somewhat hidden extensive technical information on the developers blog at http://piface.openlx.org.uk/ with the schematic. The chips on the top are actually a simple SPI IO …