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Modern versions of excel (after office 2007), using .xlsx files, have a 1,048,576 row limit. But older versions of excel (before office 2007) used .xls files and had a limit of 65,536 rows.

I could easily see them exceeding this limit, if they were using an older version of excel.

Alternatively, even the new versions of excel enforce the 2^16 row limit if working on a .xls file instead of a .xlsx file.

Unfortunately many managers are not adults, emotionally.

I used to write my resume with LaTeX, but the last time I was job hunting I decided to take a different approach - now I keep my resume as a single semantic HTML document, and I apply useful categories and tags (as classes) to each bit of job experience/accomplishment/education I have listed, and I have a bit of javascript that makes it easy to hide portions from the printed version (via css print styles).

I do it this way because it allows me to keep all of my experience and history in one single place, while also making it easy to create reduced subsets tailored to specific jobs.

One of the original starcraft games accepts 11111-...-11113 (I don't remember how many places, but all 1's and then a 3 or 4).

Guess how I figured that one out.

Sorry, but no.

Most lithium chemistries have a nominal voltage near 3.3 - 3.7V per cell.

When you stack lithium cells in series for any sort of high-performance application, you need additional balancing circuitry to bleed off energy from the cells individually (tiny variations between cells results in them having different capacities, which means some will charge up at different rates, resulting in them DISCHARGING at higher rates, which results in pretty serious negative effects for the life of the battery pack). The only exception here is extremely well matched cells, which is how Tesla is able to get away with not using much balancing circuitry (they are very picky about the cells they use, and have enough cells in stock to pick ones with very similar capacities).

And the safety features include a lot more than fuses - there are over-voltage protection circuits (extremely important!), over-discharge protection circuits, temperature protection circuits (you can overheat a cell even without drawing too much power out of it).

In short, large stacks of lithium cells are a difficult and dangerous beast to handle, and a lot of work goes into keeping them safe. These cells tend to have very low internal impedance, and as a result a chain of them can produce staggering amounts of power.

Source: I work on the embedded protection systems for a company which makes specialty lithium-ion battery systems for industrial, aerospace, and defense customers.

They are (1), and although that did hurt Ubiquiti's stock price nothing else ever came of it. I have no idea why anyone listens to these guys.

[1] http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-ubiquiti-networ...

> Birth defects aren't contagious and are not often fatal.

Well, not immediately fatal, anyway. What if a gene modification is developed that halves the rate of aging? Is it a birth defect to have a maximum life expectancy of only 120 years instead of 200 years?

I had to deal with CORBA 6 months ago in the large scale architectures class at my university. I'm _very_ glad that class is over.

My main display is the same resolution. I absolutely love it, and rarely feel like I'm wanting for space.

If you're only interested in blocking the trackers, you might appreciate ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/) - it does exactly that.

I disagree with this, in my opinion slack has a lot of features on top of IRC (offline messages, webhooks, etc) that make it much more usable for its target audience.

I hope they present and push a focus on security with whatever they do. I use android because I don't like apple, but it seems like there's a new critical android vulnerability every 2 weeks, and they all take 4 - 6 months to actually get the patch to my phone.

You are correct. I know there are sites out there that even aggregate camera feeds, although the more ethical ones remove any feeds where there may be privacy concerns.

Frankly, I would NEVER install such a device in my house. The engineering on many is (almost?) criminally flawed.

These attacks are showing that's it's trivial to achieve remote-code-execution on many of these devices. So in a way, yes, they do have self-destruct built in.

Simple connect to one, and then overwrite the boot partition. Or rm -rf /. Or even just use the firewall to block all inbound and outbound connections (an IP camera isn't very useful if you can't view the feed).

This is something that has occurred to me too. It would also -hopefully- result in large, class action lawsuits against the manufacturers for producing products so insecure that they got mass bricked.

I would be all for such... preventative action... if it wouldn't also hurt the consumers. Unfortunately it is the end users that would lose.

A fairly large and obvious difference is that around Christmas I can (and usually do) break up the cardboard boxes into smaller pieces, and put them inside my trashcan instead of just on the curb, so the fact that I got, say, a large tv is hidden.

This sort of database would not be opt-out.

Here's the thing though - you have to have a DAC in the phone anyway because the phone needs to have a speaker built in. Now, it might be nice for some people to be able to get an external DAC in addition, but that should already be possible with something like USB OTG.

> It's not about rich, it's about having coding after-school classes as available as soccer (or whatever) practice.

Ok... so what about the kids who want to play soccer instead of being cooped up inside?

The idea that you might have to choose between playing a sport and getting enough experience to consider going into CS/SE in college is ridiculous.

@it33, apologies for the slow reply here, I basically never check my messages. I'd be happy to do that once I get some time at work, or afterwards.

For the sake of replication, my keyboard is "Hackers Keyboard", running on Android 5.1.1 (specifically OxygenOS 2.2.1) on a OnePlus 2.

On my android phone, the mattermost app does something weird to my keyboard - it replaces the right-most 1/3 of the spacebar with a key with a '->|' symbol on it that closes the keyboard when pressed. I've never seen any other app do this, and it's (of course) really annoying because it means when I try to hit the spacebar the keyboard closes instead.

That's just one of a couple issues I have with the app (push notifications not really working, the chat taking 15 seconds to reload everything upon switching back to the app, etc) that have basically made it useless to me.

Just one result? I wonder if it was one of their plant results. I've heard rumors of Google seeding some (just a few) obscured google searches with totally irrelevant results, so they can catch competitors scraping results from their site.

Cool Retro Term is my guilty pleasure. I spend an awful lot of processing power just to make my terminal look older and less reliable.

But somehow, to me, it doesn't feel right to use IRC from anything other than a fuzzy and flickery orange screen.

This is true, but Apple has the same model - you need an OS/X machine (note: much more expensive than a basic windows machine) to develop for iOS, and I believe the app store fee is also $100. It doesn't seem to have hampered iOS at all. (although the argument to be made is that because they were the first to get big, the barrier to entry didn't matter much).

Because one of the characteristics of McMansions is that they (poorly) copy the style elements of classic designs while ignoring the rules that governed those designs.

Modernist and postmodernist architecture isn't trying to imitate classical mansion architecture.

Wow, I had never heard about that. It will be interesting to see how long it takes FossHub to make some sort of statement addressing this incident.

I find it interesting that the FossHub homepage still says

  No adware, No spyware, No bundles, No malware, Fast downloads, Free services and a single ad.

I just got to try this out yesterday. Like many others, I wasn't convinced going in but now I'm a "true believer".

I don't think VR will directly compete with the traditional video game interface, much like handheld consoles don't directly compete with PC gaming. I do think it will spawn a whole new branch of the gaming industry.

As a side note, I don't think the screenshots do justice to just how _good_ 'The Lab' looks once you're wearing the Vive.

This example doesn't very well, it's rather awkwardly contrived. In the US you would just buy 1/2 or 3/4 of a pound, not 1/3.

Similarly, I wouldn't expect you to buy 0.67 kg of food priced by weight outside of the US.

I generally find this to be true for myself, too. Although I would add the qualifier that I find Java to be an exceptionally wordy language, for lack of a better term. It seems to take a lot of talk to do a little in Java even compared to other object oriented languages.