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Re: Persuasion Reading List - Updated 1/18 - Dilbert Blog

DavidEGrayson — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:55:30 -0000

Weird, I thought WhenHub was your favorite way to post small lists of things on a website!

Re: Solving the North Korea Situation | Scott Adams' Blog

DavidEGrayson — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:02:55 -0000

If you say that a government is going to come destroy or seize my house 100 years from now, the value of the house will go down *today* because the person I would sell it to will be counting on selling it to someone else who is counting on selling it to someone else and so on until it is sold to the last buyer, who will buy it very cheaply knowing it will be gone soon. Telling South Koreans that all their property might be seized by communists in 100 years is very similar.

Re: A Direct-Democracy Healthcare Bill | Scott Adams' Blog

DavidEGrayson — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 12:32:48 -0000

With all the talk of online organization, I thought this post would end in another ad for WhenHub.

Re: Returning to Microsoft

DavidEGrayson — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:27:39 -0000

This blog post was pretty coherent until the last two paragraphs, which have incomplete sentences. What's going on?

Re: The Best Gaming Headset (for Most People)

DavidEGrayson — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:30:30 -0000

I bought the HyperX Cloud after seeing this article and found that the cups were too small to surround my ears. The Logitech G930 is much more comfortable.

Re: Dilbert Book List | Scott Adams' Blog

DavidEGrayson — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:10:34 -0000

It has long been possible to make lists that include dates in text files, HTML files, and spreadsheets. These low-tech lists would be more usable than WhenHub because they would allow me to see more than four items on my screen at a time.

Re: The Best Micro-USB Cable

DavidEGrayson — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 16:48:03 -0000

Thanks, Ralph! It's cool that you did some real tests of the voltage drop.

Re: The Best Micro-USB Cable

DavidEGrayson — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:24:58 -0000

I'm actually OK with replacing USB cables once in a while since they cost less than $5. But the only USB cables I have ever broken are ones that I've abused (e.g. using them in a state where I am bending them at a sharp angle). The Volutz cables you pointed to look good because they have 19 AWG power wires: thicker than Tronsmart. I also like that they are color coded. Thanks for the tip!

Re: The Best Micro-USB Cable

DavidEGrayson — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:34:23 -0000

I think you can't really do it with one strand, but you can certainly take all the strands and see which holes in a wire stripper they can fit in to as a whole. Since the marketing materials might be inaccurate, I think the testers at TheWireCutter.com really should be cutting USB cables open and measuring the gauge. It would not add too much time to the hundreds of hours they already spent on testing.

Re: The Best Micro-USB Cable

DavidEGrayson — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:53:23 -0000

What thickness are the Anker power wires and how did you determine this?

Re: The Best Smart LED Light Bulbs

DavidEGrayson — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:34:34 -0000

You mentioned this in the flaws section: "If the power goes out and comes back on again, the bulbs will all light up in full white mode." Does anyone know of a good hack or workaround for this? Is there any brand of smart bulb that does let you set a default color?

I would like to be able to use a regular light switch to control my bulbs most of the time. It's ridiculous to think that I would reach for my smartphone every time I walk in my room and want to turn on the light, and if I just turn it on using the switch then I would get an unpleasant color.

There is a long thread about this topic where the Phillips Hue developers are defending this design flaw for bad reasons and otherwise failing to listen to what their customers want:

http://www.developers.meeth...

Re: The Best Micro-USB Cable

DavidEGrayson — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 02:17:58 -0000

Hey, why is there no discussion of the gauge/thickness/AWG of the USB cables? The thickness affects how much resistance the cable will have.

The Anker cables on Amazon that you link to in this article have this weird diagram that makes it look like their positive power cable is 24 AWG and the ground cable is much smaller. That would seem like a bad decision, since the power wire and the ground wire both have to carry the same amount of current. Also, one of the cables has a diagram which is drawn exactly the same except it claims that the power wire is 20 AWG. Those diagrams are thus inconsistent with eachother and it also seems like it is marketing BS.

I prefer Tronsmart USB cables because they claim to have 20 AWG power and ground lines. They are also available on Amazon and they seem to be a lot cheaper than Anker cables.

Re: .NET Core, a call to action

DavidEGrayson — Thu, 19 May 2016 09:58:44 -0000

I would love to use .NET Core if it had the GUI library we use, System.Windows.Forms.

Re: Timeout: Ruby's Most Dangerous API

DavidEGrayson — Thu, 07 May 2015 20:56:20 -0000

So if you use a low-level network timeout, how exactly does that prevent the same 6-step sequence from happening and leading to disaster? Would you close the connection instead of returning it to the connection pool? Can't you close the connection after a timeout no matter what type of timeout you used?

Re: The Two-Bit Idiot — A Word on Jon Matonis

DavidEGrayson — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 19:49:40 -0000

Could someone explain the "What tipped us into filing..." comment? What is the significance and why is it so damning?

Re: Las Vegas Ruby User Group

DavidEGrayson — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:35:22 -0000

Brian Hughes said the other day that returning nil is almost always a mistake. I am skeptical and would like to see someone actually put together an argument for this.

In my Doku gem, I have a "solve" method which either returns a filled-out Sudoku puzzle (i.e. the solution) or it returns nil. I do things like this:

puts puzzle.solve || "No solution."

Re: Las Vegas Ruby User Group

DavidEGrayson — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:01:20 -0000

Also check out chruby, which is even simpler: https://github.com/postmode...

Re: Las Vegas Ruby User Group

DavidEGrayson — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:59:49 -0000

Hey, also check out chruby, which is even simpler than rbenv:
https://github.com/postmode...

Re: Python- Knit in ASC-II

DavidEGrayson — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:49:54 -0000

Indentation is important in Python, as it affects the flow of your program. So should try to put that code between

tags. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and there is no hyphen in the acronym.

Re: kevinwchang : Wixel USB SNES controller

DavidEGrayson — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:43:18 -0000

The actual program Kevin wrote for this application (snes_controller.c) is only 110 lines of code. I think that's pretty cool.

Re: How to Pay Three Percent Less with Flat-fee MLS - Ryan Mulligan

DavidEGrayson — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:31:29 -0000

The content in this post is somewhat lacking... or rather missing.

Re: Capital Preservation - Ryan Mulligan

DavidEGrayson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:56:11 -0000

Just make sure to spend it all before you die.

Re: Non-violence in Iraq - Ryan Mulligan

DavidEGrayson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:48:46 -0000

It's conscience, not conscious.

Re: Pancakes by Mail

DavidEGrayson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:35:10 -0000

hahaha I miss college

Re: A Man Eating Some Pants

DavidEGrayson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:29:16 -0000

It's great to see that your obsession with pants continues.