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NYC Soldering Championship
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IEEE Spectrum http://spectrum.ieee.org stopped by Ignite NYC, where Bre Pettis and the NYC Resistor hacker collective hosted a contest to see who had the fastest soldering iron in the city. The contestants all raced to build a TV-B-Gone kit http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKAD4, and the first to turn off the TV won.
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much easier than cutting the leads to length before soldering them onto the board.
—'ph' is a recurring phoneme throughout the English-speaking world. Since it comes to us from ancient Greek, you could argue that 'ph', as an orthographic element, pre-dates the influence on written English, of the vast majority of other languages!
there may be such a reason why 'solder' is pronounced differently, but mikeselectric's point is that, if there isn't such a reason, and the 'L' is just being dropped, then it's sloppy—like friends of mine who just say '1, 2, free', because they never paid attention. so, "it's said that way beca
use it's said that way" is really a non-response.
—it's the prize for acknowledged status within the social group. Regular assembly-line workers, female or otherwise, are just boring. Offbeat dudes living the dream, working on hobbies in basements—now that's cool!