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I'm not sure if by "microchip" OP means MicroChip the manufacturer, or just micro-chip in the more generic sense.
I know how you feel. Dealing with hardware issues can be _extremely_ frustrating. It's very easy to dig yourself in a hole wherein you stop thinking clearly. In this situation, if you haven't completely given up on it yet, maybe take a day or two off and work on something else? I find that helps. Otherwise I would contact the manufacturer or post to their forums.

Feel free to email me if you want a second pair of eyes. sean at [myusername].com

Have you successfully configured the ADC on this chip model before? I've been through the ADC docs for the PIC32MX/MZ many times and they're quite dense. It would be very easy to miss some required configuration bits.

In my experience, it's never a problem with the hardware itself, but you never know. I spent 3 weeks last summer debugging a problem with the MRF24WG0MA, and was almost convinced the chip was defective, until I realized that Harmony configured a few things incorrectly (the interrupt polarity being one of them). But yeah, for a show stopper issue that I'm not making any progress with, I would just get in contact with the manufacturer.

Re:Eight billionaires 'as rich as world's poorest half' on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:33PM (#13407897)
Ok, but unlike the title implies, them being rich isn't what's making those people poor.
Re:Microsoft acquires deep learning startup Maluuba on Saturday January 14, 2017 @01:37AM (#13397245)
Yeah last time I checked it was at Columbia & Phillip, right next to UW.
My guess is that it's the former. In general, women are attracted to masculinity (assuming heterosexuality), a factor in which testosterone plays a large part.
Re:Ask HN: What's your backup setup? Manual or Automated? on Thursday May 21, 2015 @12:58PM (#9583925)
Manual: Every now and then I run an rsync script to backup my stuff to an external drive.

Automated: I have SpiderOak set up the auto backup select folders. I have about 1 TB of offline storage for $12/month.

I have noticed this exact same behavior in one of my friends. It is indeed annoying as fuck. It's impossible to have any kind of intellectual conversation with him. When he claims to know why something is the way it is, and then I question him about it, and he just changes the subject, or uses some kind of blanket statement and walks away.
Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Monday April 13, 2015 @08:27PM (#9371376)
I decided to verify that I am not making things up ;)

Starting Strength, 2nd edition:

- There is a whole section on barbell rows in the "Useful Assistance Exercises" chapter. See page 263.

- Barbell row substitution is mentioned in the "Programming" chapter. Page 289, start of 5th paragraph: "People without access to bumper plates may choose to use the barbell row instead of the power clean. This is not a terrible substitution, but be aware of what you're giving up if you do..."

I guess Rip changed his mind?

Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:02PM (#9355184)
Fitness and nutrition are those kinds of topics that no one ever agrees on. Everyone thinks their way is the "right" way, as exemplified by the enormous number of unique replies to this thread. This could be attributed to the ignorance of the commenters, or that everyone just finds different things work for them. It is probably a combination of both, with an emphasis on the former.
Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:57AM (#9355148)
I agree, but I swear he said that in starting strength.
Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:47AM (#9355080)
I believe Rip mentions in his book that you can switch out power cleans for bent over rows if you like.
Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:43AM (#9355060)
Deadlift is not one of the most complex weightlifting movements. As far as weightlifting movements, it's quite simple--the only trick being keeping your spine neutral. A proper squat is harder to execute than a proper deadlift.

Also, starting people with deadlifts is fine, as long as you keep the weight low. Not to mention that if you had to choose, deadlifts would do a lot more for you than turkish get ups (which I've honestly never even heard of until now, and I've been a serious weightlifter for years).

Yeah. Some of my friends have been given signing bonuses 4x that amount, and salaries > $150k.
Re:The new MacBook on Monday March 09, 2015 @04:09PM (#9173636)
Fully agree. I just got a new MacBook pro in January, and I'm completely blown away by the UX.
I agree. I only did a CS minor (10 courses), but even just doing that exposed me to things that I'd never really been exposed to, like operating systems and numerical computing.
Very nice! I have been using something similar, but mine is only for setting up a dev environment in vagrant, not deployment. I will definitely use this as a reference for when I extend my provisioning to include deployment.
There seems to be a lot of hype around this device, but I personally just could not get it to work very well, nor could the 3 or 4 people I showed it to. I understand that the gesture recognition is based on statistical data and there will be people with issues, so perhaps I am just one of the outliers. That being said, I have not tried their new firmware (I will in the next couple days), so maybe that will help.
Re:23andMe UK on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @01:03PM (#8688621)
Such as?
Re:Places Where Women and Girls Can Learn to Code on Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:05AM (#8601829)
Right. Wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. That would be terrible.
Re:Corporate Tax Dodgers [pdf] on Sunday June 01, 2014 @02:55PM (#7830223)
People need to stop using the word "fair" as if it's not an extremely subjective term.
Re:What if you didn't need money or attention? on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @05:03PM (#7431837)
> You aren't rich enough until the whole world is rich with you.

According to you, anyway.

You realize that once you are dead it makes no difference how long you were alive right? When you are dead there is no inherent regret that you didn't live longer. Whether you were 67 or 3, you're still dead--the end result is the same. No one life is more valuable than the next. Think about that before you make any more short sighted comments.
Re:Where do you find the time for side projects? on Friday January 24, 2014 @11:28PM (#7119854)
* if they find out
Re:Keyboard innovation is making them worse on Saturday January 18, 2014 @12:31PM (#7081489)
I feel you. I use my desktop 80% of the time, touchtyping on my Das Keyboard. When I switch to my T430s my typing speed definitely drops for that reason.
Once you're dead I don't think you'll mind.
Re:Silk Road 2.0 Launches on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:29PM (#6686352)
It's not like he has a choice.
Re:The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check (2012) on Saturday September 21, 2013 @02:44PM (#6423966)
* Renamed following a $25 000 000 donation
Re:I've become what I wasn't supposed to be on Friday March 15, 2013 @10:26PM (#5384111)
I started coding in grade 9, but I went to university for medical science, got good grades, did some research, and intended to go to medical school. But, the closer I got to graduation, more and more I started to realize there was no way I was ever going back to school--I just wanted to code and make things. No regrets.

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