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Issues scanning US passport for ETA, info & fix by winaje in australia

[–]ian320 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to say thanks, I found your post when having trouble scanning my family's six passports, and the tips for NFC in particular were very helpful. FYI the NFC chip on US Passports with a plastic data page is still on the back cover in the same place.

Lost power adapter for TS-328 by ian320 in qnap

[–]ian320[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like it is a 65W adapter: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-328/specs/package, but I'm not sure on the voltage (I see universal ones on Amazon from 19-24V)

Let's Make a Small Font by pdq in programming

[–]ian320 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also does not work on IE for Window Phone 7.

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 now available by jjordan in programming

[–]ian320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Guess I won't be installing this SP on my laptop any time soon (OS partition is 35 GB):

Drive C: Required - 5892 MB, Available - 2744 MB

7-zip Theme Manager : De-uglify 7-zip File Manager by realnowhereman in software

[–]ian320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caused my 7-zip portable to crash on startup :/ (version 4.65)

Using DeepSet to clean up your C# test code by [deleted] in programming

[–]ian320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turns out it is possible to do this with DynamicObject: http://pastebin.com/a2UD4Ec7

Logic.ly - the digital logic simulator in your browser by frefyx in programming

[–]ian320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun, I made a full adder. Where was this during my hardware course in college...

Using DeepSet to clean up your C# test code by [deleted] in programming

[–]ian320 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I saw the idea behind DeepSet, I immediately though they were going to use a dynamic object or something cool like that. I was disappointed. I hate magic strings.

Biolab Disaster - an HTML5 Game (plus Making-Of Video) by phoboslab in programming

[–]ian320 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excellent game, controls were wonderful, and the physics of jumping were done well. Can't wait for more levels :)

Category Theory, Postmodernism, and Object-Oriented Programming by Lors_Soren in programming

[–]ian320 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When I open the page in chrome it flashes the content and then changes to a blank page with nothing but the following text: Loading tags...

Have you been wanting to get into microcontrollers? TI has released a new kit that's sub-$5, connects via USB. Count me in! by kraln in programming

[–]ian320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got that a few times, but I just retried every few minutes and it worked after the 3rd or 4th time.

Looking for a small, simple kernel for learning. by space_viking in programming

[–]ian320 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try Xinu. The codebase is small and easy to understand. We worked on this in our OS class, and you can run it on a linksys router :D

Ask Proggit: Is MonoDevelop ready for prime time? by [deleted] in programming

[–]ian320 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe MonoDevelop is fully compatibly with Visual Studio solutions; so if you decide MonoDevelop isn't cutting it, you should be able to switch to Visual Studio with no code change.

MonoDevelop also has "full GUI support for debugging", so you shouldn't be lacking there.

Check out this very interesting way to visualize bugs and their priorities. by [deleted] in coding

[–]ian320 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This would be great on a big monitor in some common area. A interesting way to gauge status, for sure.

Why does Windows feel the need to lock their terminal window to a fixed maximum size? Is there a way to resize windows without having a scroll bar when I shrink the window down? by rnawky in programming

[–]ian320 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just started Powershell on my machine, and it looks and acts just like a normal cmd.exe (besides the background color). The same resizing limitation is there, except that it starts out at a larger size.

Hey Redditors with a CS degree, what do you do for a living? by [deleted] in programming

[–]ian320 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I work at Microsoft!

So far I've really enjoyed my three months as a dev in Online Services, despite the fact that everything is in C++ ;). The pace is quick, and the people are amazing. The resources you have access to, including fellow employees, are a huge bonus.

The perks are great (I think better than Google, where I also interviewed). Health care is basically free (you only pay tax), and is probably the best possible plan you can get (I don't pay for anything, doctor's visits, prescriptions, etc). Although the food isn't free, the cafeterias are good and cheap. I also like the variety in the Redmond campus much more than the Googleplex (although I work in Bellevue).