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sometime i felt like the whole Noble things also became a joke, just like politics. People think blue LED that invented in 1990 didn't get fair treatment until 2014, but not too many people know the infrared LED was first invented in 1962, but the inventor Nick Holonyak still didn't get any fair treatment even till now.
Re:Robert M. Pirsig has died on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:13AM (#14191405)
“I think it’s important now to tie care to Quality by pointing out that care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristics of Quality” Thank you and RIP Mr.Pirsig
Re:Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:45PM (#13814003)
I have three recommendations: 1.read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman 2. think in Bayesian term about statistic when you see the "facts" they claim from a report 3. being okay with the fact that you might waste time and efforts or being wrong on thinking regarding about issues (disclaimer: I am not a psychologist or data scientist)
Re:Ask HN: How should I teach code to kids? on Saturday February 18, 2017 @05:03PM (#13676961)
I don't think there is a one size fit all method, so take mine as grain of salt. From my exp of teaching my brother programing, I think something that combine HW with SW is a good way to go, he first got into programing by playing/programing with Lego EV3(age 6~7). I think the EV3 (Labview) programing interface is very easy for kids to understand some basic ideas behind programing. Also, the ability of seeing their programs can run in actual brick also help a lot. Then after that it become more easy to learn some other more advance stuffs(Javascript, python, etc)
Re:Demo of Short-Range Wireless Power Transfer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:44PM (#13664300)
from what I observe after work in high power radio wave industry, there is a possibility that long time exposure to high power radio wave can have effect on people's chromosomes, not quite sure what will happen if someone expose too long to this type of device
Re:Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:32PM (#12649781)
Hi Dhruv,thanks for taking time and answer my question, I weren't keep track the application, so I didn't realize the changes. One more question, so is this nanodegree also has the same guarantees that helping someone to land on a related job within 6 months after graduated?
Re:Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:50PM (#12647164)
Hi Dhruv, I got an email said the course start at the end of Nov, but when register I remember the post said it start around Oct, can you please clarify that? Thanks
Re:Ask HN: What does an electrical engineer actually do at work? on Saturday September 03, 2016 @11:12PM (#12422479)
depend on what hw skill that you try to acquire, things like fabrication/device level design, antenna RF design/measurement etc, you have to go to university, because many of these topic require some very expensive equipments to gain the hand on exp, but not necessary truth for like something like digital circuit design
Re:Ask HN: What does an electrical engineer actually do at work? on Saturday September 03, 2016 @09:50PM (#12422252)
I was a RF engineer two years ago, and now I am doing software development. I think I kind of resonate with many of the above comments. While I was doing RF design, I spend a lot of time on CAD tools(I agree many of them are overpriced), after I got my design from the fabs or manufactures, I spend most of my time on lab to validate/optimize my designs, due to that fact that some unforeseeable fab/manufacture processes variation that are not captured by the CAD tools. thing I feel very gratifying was if you utilize the right framework/methods that are reason upon physics, the performance of the design most likely will mach to what you predicted, and that allow you to design something reach/surpass some industry benchmarks
Re:U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @02:21PM (#10808481)
I understand your feeling. But speaking about dead end, that is exactly what a concentration means while you pick a major in college, otherwise you can pick liber art. If you change the perspective and think like a you are a software developer without any other skill, you are in dead end too. I think the main problem is laid on whether you like to learn more about other skill sets and take risk to create something new from what you learned
Re:U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:04PM (#10804732)
I optimistic about such issue. I will say software is good occupation while everything is blooming, but you can be more secure during the down time if you are an EE. Furthermore, you can train yourself to be a good software developer if you next to a computer and have internet access(of course you need dedication), but you cannot be a good EE without knowing how to operate a very expensive equipment(i.e PNA, MOCVD, etc). Disclaimer: I am a software developer with a background in EE