Actually, thatâ(TM)s a diode not a capacitor. Which makes much more sense given the symptoms.

To be fair, I felt ripped off when I ordered through UberEATS and the food I ordered came from a restaurant with a different name. I chose to order because the restaurant's name was supposed to be something like, "Rotisserie Chicken Kitchen." I thought, hmmm, that seems to be a new mom and pop place; I'll give it a try. When the food came, it was in Boston Market bags. I never would have placed the order had I known I was ordering from Boston Market. I felt ripped off by that.

So, if they're going to deliver food for a restaurant without that restaurant's permission, they should at least use their name. Using their logo is illegal, but not using it feels fraudulent to the customer. To me, this means there's really no good way to deliver food from a restaurant without that restaurant's permission without doing something fraudulent(esque) along the way.

I live in Chicago. GrubHub frequently labels a restaurant as having free delivery, but then they charge you about $8 in "fees to keep the lights on." Even when they charge for delivery, they still charge those fees on top of the delivery fee.

They also calculate the percentage tip based on the total prices, including tax and fees. So, instead of giving, say, a 20% tip for the $35 worth of food, they make it 20% of the $50 or so total which includes the taxes and fees. They probably do that to help keep drivers, but it's still slimy.

I've also noticed many times that the prices for the food on a restaurant's own website will be $1-$3 (or more) cheaper per item than the price on GrubHub... and many of these restaurants offer free delivery, or cheap delivery, when you order directly from them.

They're vultures. I hope they lose the lawsuits.

This article is complete garbage. If the author had bothered to watch the presentation, he would have noticed that Apple claimed it is faster than 98% of laptops in the same price category as the MacBook Air. Therefore, his argument that they are including $150 laptops is completely false.

I have the iPhone X, and I stopped using the Ookla app months ago after I discovered that it was giving me incorrectly slow results. When I use the dslreports speed test, I consistently get the speeds I expect to see on any given wifi network; however, the Ookla app shows a much slower speed (consistently) on those same networks. When running these speed tests over cellular, I observe the same issue. This observation led me to conclude that the software was no longer useful, and possibly had gone unmaintained. However, if theyâ(TM)re advertising this data as factual, it leads me to believe they may be doing this as an anti Apple campaign. This makes me wonder if Samsung (or another company) has paid them under the table to do this.

As soon as I saw this, I knew my answer: thousands of monkeys wearing space suits while pedaling small bicycles attached to generators! Bonus cred if the bicycles are instead used to pump water from a reservoir far below and drop it through hydro turbines to provide the power, while squirrels run from monkey to monkey, feeding them fresh bananas.

Seriously, we should all start boycotting companies which do this. There are enough of us now to make an impact. If we can convince our friends and families to boycott, too, it will make it more expensive to hire H1Bs than it is to hire Americans. We need to stop idly watching from the sidelines and do something about this. If we don't, they're free to use, abuse, and discard us with impunity.

I was 7 when I learned to program. I was taught how to draw graphics in BASIC on an Apple ][. Not having to draw every point manually was a great motivation to learn loops. The rest is history. Kids love graphics and quick results. These days, I would teach a kid programming in Swift, if you have a Mac, because the instantaneous results in the other pane and the graphics and animation capabilities will make it fun. If it, I'd use Python, because I've been calling it the new Basic for years. All the beginner programmers immediately get defensive when I say that, while the more experienced ones chuckle. Proof enough that it's the new Basic? Remember, it doesn't need to be writing a game to make it fun. That's a little too tough at age 7; not because the programming for a simple game is tough, but because kids that age usually can't yet wrap their heads around what makes games fun. Because of this, they have a really hard time coming up with something fun, and they can end up disillusioned from the experience of doing a lot of hard work just to make something boring. Also, remember that what makes programming fun is the reward from figuring out how to make something work, so at this age, resist teaching data structures and algorithms. Instead, just give some trivial examples and let them play.

If you really want to tinker with that old technology, why don't you start out right by making it useful? Install Linux on it. It's too slow for Android, but you could try Firefox OS on it. Then you wouldn't be wasting your time learning an api for a dead OS.

It sounds like you're using the GPU as a DSP. Why not just get an embedded processor with a built in DSP? An example of an older generation one is the Atmel at9g45m. This is an older ARM core processor which has more power than you would expect. You can probably get away with using a fanless ARM system for your application. You may even find one that has enough processing power which doesn't even need a heatsink.

In Slackware, you learn how to do things on any Linux distro. In Ubuntu, you only learn how to do things in Ubuntu, Debian, and Debian derivatives. I owe to Slackware the fact that I can sit down and work with any Linux distro out there. It doesn't include its own special tools for anything, so you are forced to do everything the "standard Linux way," which is the way that works on every distro (with some special exceptions, like DSL).

I would teach them basic bash scripting, and about /proc and /sys. Then I would have them write scripts to automate extracting information from /proc and /sys in bash using grep, sed and maybe awk. Teaching them how to work with Linux from the shell and how to pull information out of the kernel like this should give them some good insights into the operating system and its tools. Additionally, I would teach them how to write init scripts and how to do "fun" things to get them excited about Linux.

I had the same dilemma, except I also knew I would eventually add 3D graphics as well. I wanted it to be portable to anything, and I needed it to render accurately and with proper anti-aliasing (anti-aliased while drawing, not via a filter after the fact). After mulling over all the options, I came to a difficult conclusion: write it myself. This is more work than I'd like, but it allows me to ensure it will run on anything, anywhere. If something new comes out that I want it to run on, I just port to it; I don't have to beg a vendor for it to be ported for me. Performance isn't paramount to my application, so I can put enough abstraction layers in to make the porting process relatively easy. All frameworks seem to put performance as the highest priority, which gets rid of the ease of portability. If your application will render graphics that sit still most of the time, this may be your best option (assuming you know linear algebra if you want vector graphics, and know graphics programming regardless).

This option worked for me.

You'll find getting back into the field, to program in high level languages with all of your previous experience outdated, to be very difficult. Companies will not want to pay you the salary your years of experience would warrant, and it would be like starting over.

Instead, the method back in that I've found for those of us who started in the "old days" is to go for embedded systems development. The embedded world uses 10+ year old technologies, so your experience with assembly language programming and writing software for systems with limited amounts of RAM and storage space is a big plus for embedded systems development. There are plenty of companies still creating software for processors that run at between 4 and 20 MHz with anywhere from 256 bytes of RAM on up to a handful of kilobytes of RAM. I've found this sort of development work is much more interesting, anyway, and people with old school knowledge are considered more valuable, rather than a dinosaur, for such work.