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Ken Shirriff's blog: Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package
Disassembling Apple's diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals a technologically advanced flyback switching power supply that goes beyond the typical charger. It simply takes AC input (anything between 100 and 240 volts) and produce 5 watts of smooth 5 volt power, but the circuit to do this is surprisingly complex and innovative.
Engineering  Hacking  Electricity  Electronics  Embedded  CompSci 
8 hours ago by mfernando
Edmond Lau's answer to What makes a good engineering culture? - Quora
Key stakeholders in a decision need to decide effectively and commit to their choices. To borrow a phrase from Bill Walsh, a leader who coached the 49ers to 3 Super Bowls, strong leaders need to "commit, explode, recover," which means committing to a plan of attack, executing it, and then reacting to the results.  A team crippled with indecisiveness will just cause individual efforts to flounder.
culture  management  engineering 
9 hours ago by sstrudeau
Legos, spaceships, breasts. « Kate Bachus
"I want you to go to Target. I want you to go to the Lego aisles and just go look at the toys, for a minute. And think about it. Think about young women who don’t go into science and engineering, even now, who struggle with math for reasons that have nothing to do with their innate intelligence, potential, ability."

"I want you to think about how many female engineers you know."

"And I want you to get pissed."
girls  parenting  engineering  toys  kids 
11 hours ago by charliepark
Pretty RFC
RFCs are documents produced by The Internet Engineering Task Force, and many are official standards for various Internet protocols. This site indexes and formats these documents for easier finding & viewing.
documentation  programming  reference  rfc  internet  engineering  task  force  ietf  official  standard 
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