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Pullup and Pulldown resistors

Stuff I either didn't learn or don't remember from my highscool electronics course.

So, if you're like me, and your formal (haha, high-school is formal) electronics education was nigh on two decades ago, but you want to play around with the exciting new developments in microcontrollers, you're going to need a bit of a refresher course.

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SOAP vs REST

There is apparently a large debate of philosophies raging; none of it makes much sense to me.

There is apparently a large debate of philosophies raging: SOAP vs REST. None of it makes much sense to me.

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Stupid security policies

In which I am asked by my employer to incriminate myself in future crimes in the office

I recently discovered that my employer wants ALL employees to swipe their badge in the elevator, even if another employee is present. In response, I came up with these scenarios (without even doing much thinking):

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Flight times

Why is it that a flight from L.A. to Orlando takes the same amount of time that a flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake City?

Why is it that a flight from L.A. to Orlando takes the same amount of time that a flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake City? There's something going on there that I just don't understand. Prevailing winds? Differing altitudes? Rotation of the earth?

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Doesn't everyone...

Every blog needs a mission statement.

Doesn't everyone have some sort of retarded "mission statement" for thier blog as the first post? Well, I've thwarted you all, I've bucked the trend, I've made an end-run and done this at some point afterwards (depending on what I decide to fill out under the "publish later" boxes).

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Just wanted to save this for posterity

Why your suggested approach to fighting spam will not work.