I was getting incredibly sick of typing in each file individually that I wanted to remove from my mercurial reposity. so I finally looked up a better way to do it.
hg addremove
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Friday: 4/27/2012
This is the only way so far that I've found to shorten the Directory Path in your windows command prompt. If someone knows a better way please let me know.
subst R: “C:\development\tools\programming\testing\project1\code\tsf\runnable\path\node\bin\”
Type R: and hit the return key.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Thursday: 4/26/2012
Here are some notes to help me get ready for my third test in Econ202. I'll be taking the test in about 2 hours.
Marginal revenue is the amount by which total revenue increases when output increases by one unit.
A monopoly market structure is characterized by a firm producing a unique product.
An oligopolistic market structure is characterized by (1) few firms, some of them very large, (2) a high market concentration ratio, and (3) firms producing a homogeneous product.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Friday: 4/20/2012
The best developers aren't the ones who can write the most code in the shortest amount of time or out-reason anyone on the internets. They are the ones that only write the code that's most valuable to execute and only enter the debates of high substance.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Tuesday: 3/27/2012
In this post I show you how to write the verilog test bench code to simulate the waveform output of a Gated D Latch.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Saturday: 3/17/2012
Jason Fried:
Making people read more instructions is not a design solution. It's a chore. Rework the design so less needs to be explained.
So true.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Thursday: 3/8/2012
Dmitriy Yakovlev:
I find Xilinx ISE to be horrible. It's an application written by VLSI engineers for VLSI engineers. As a result, it has about five times as much functionality as anyone of a single profession would ever want to use, and no sensible user interface design to make up for this. Couple that with its completely unpredictable gotchas and non-deterministic nature, and you get a recipe for long nights working on microprocessor assignments.
Fed up with this, I went to seek out a better alternative, one that works on Linux.
I too have hand countless problems with Xilinx. If I ever get some free time I'll see if I can get Dmitriy's solution working. I wonder if I can find a solution for OS X?
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Saturday: 2/18/2012
Scott H Young:
Learning theory matters. Math matters. Not the symbol manipulation that most people are force fed in calculus classes, but the general principles that help you understand how the world works.
How can you possibly hope to create positive change in the world if you don't understand it? No, understanding is not exclusively the domain of textbooks and classes, but if you don't ever bother to learn how things work, you'll always struggle to change things, whether that's in finding a career or improving your life.
...often the best way to change the world is to first understand how it works
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Saturday: 2/18/2012
When we fail, it’s because we act on urges without thinking, without realizing it.
The pause is the answer to so many of our problems. Such a small thing, and so powerful.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Tuesday: 2/14/2012
If I could name only ONE person that I would want to be like it wouldn't be Gary Vaynerchuck, or Tim Ferriss, it would be Marco Arment. :)
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Monday: 2/13/2012
Patrick has made a ton of video tutorials including a bunch on calculus. I watched several tonight that helped me with my homework. You should definatley watch these if you are currently taking a math course. I also like the way his site is laid out with a list of hundreds of video links nicely sorted by topic.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Sunday: 2/12/2012
The world is full of ideas that can be executed with 10 to 20 hours per week, let alone 40.
from the comments:
Plenty of great companies got started by people initially doing it on the side or without big-bucks backing or with other claims on their time. They just usually did not come out of the Valley.
I have no need to measure my revenue dick with anyone else’s. We’re terribly content with what we have and how we run things. I think plenty of others would be more than happy to have what we have, even if there are others that may be doing even better. This post is reminding people that there’s an alternative to the 110% all-in hyper race that’s getting all the coverage these days. We run a company that is not only family and hobby friendly, but embraces those as values of strength. There are lots of other companies that are similarly run. They just tend not to get much attention compared to the “I Can Work Two Full Time Jobs” brouhaha.
A post written just for me. Dare I say that even if you only have 1% of your time to give per week you can still build something great? I think so. Thank you DHH.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Saturday: 2/11/2012
Here are some of my notes:
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Thursday: 2/9/2012
Sahil Lavingia just got funding for his new startup Gumroad. Sounds like something very interesting to follow and see how it does. One of the interesting things is that he is only 19 years old.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Wednesday: 2/8/2012
How to Direct Diligence Toward Remarkable Results - is a great article written by Cal Newport. I specifically like the part about him transitioning away from being a theoretician:
I left my theory group to become a postdoc in a systems group that focused on making real world wireless networks better. This was not an easy transition for a theoretician. I had spent the previous five years working primarily on whiteboards, proving theorems. My first day in the systems group, by contrast, I found that someone had left a toolbox on my desk. A toolbox!
I also think that I want to be able to do things that are hands on and building things for the real world instead of just on a white board.
Remarkable accomplishment requires a remarkable amount of focus; this much is clear. But focus without grounded direction is unlikely to hit the sweet spot. The key observation, however, is that this directed diligence approach is not about figuring out in advance what you were meant to do or identifying a can't miss idea. It's instead about coupling your diligence with continued exposure to what real value looks like. You won't start out knowing exactly where your story is heading, but you can have confidence that you'll end up with the right sort of ending.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Monday: 2/6/2012
You and Your Research - Was a talk dilivered my Richard Hamming eight months before I was born. I was going to list a bunch of quotes from it, but I ended up taking notes on each paragraph so you might as well read the whole thing yourself.
I'm linking to this talk because I want this website to be themed after the principles taught by Hamming. I hope that as this site continues to develop and as I continue to progress as a Computer Science student that one day maybe I too can do great research.
~Posted by Blake Erickson | Monday: 2/6/2012