coderjames

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by coderjames 10y ago
This is highly relevant to my interests, as I'm currently home-brewing a 68K-based system in need of a video card. Thanks for sharing your work! This is awesome.
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by coderjames 10y ago
> back in the dot com boom this thing would have been held by mom and pop. Who also should have known better. If someone doesn't understand how a company they invest in makes a profit, or what the risks to that company are, they hav
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by coderjames 11y ago
My single biggest pain point was the single-buffered UARTs in the 53X series. On the BF-538 that we were using, there are three of them and we needed them all. Since each one can only buffer a single incoming or outgoing byte at a time, the
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by coderjames 11y ago
That was my reaction, too :-). My day job for 4 years was writing a software-defined radio for aviation on a Blackfin-based system. Intel and ADI made some really unfortunate design choices with that architecture that ADI seems surprisingly
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by coderjames 11y ago
Aerospace. If I have to put in a 50 hour week, something's gone horribly wrong and its probably an "all hands on deck" situation.
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by coderjames 11y ago
And now you've added a new project to my TODO list. Thanks :-)
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by coderjames 11y ago
I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that Apple can push OS updates to a locked phone. What Tim Cook wrote is that > "install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation." > "the potential to unlock any
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by coderjames 11y ago
Now you can self-host BitBucket also with BitBucket Server[1]. We're starting a migration to it at my work right now. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/download
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by coderjames 11y ago
> This seems to be very short period for closing down a service. That's because "things changed when [Frederic] discovered Telize was being used by malware and ransomware." > However, some trouble could have been avoide
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by coderjames 11y ago
You want the author to do more than just minimal work. The minimal work was the two weeks notice. "I stopped the service as planned, on November 15th, after a two weeks notice." They had a chance to patch and didn't take adva
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by coderjames 11y ago
I work at a successful avionics company writing software that goes onto airplanes. We do not have critical issues that warrant 2am calls. I'm in the camp of "will not work at companies requiring on-call or pager-duty."
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by coderjames 11y ago
Very interesting approach, and pretty straight-forward as you said. Thanks for sharing that. Have you considered letting the compiler produce DWARF-formatted debug information and using an existing DWARF library to handle the symbol to addr
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by coderjames 11y ago
I wondered about that too. In some of those benchmarks, the Pi was only 4x faster or so. But the 700 MHz Pi clock is about 12x faster than the 60 MHz SPARC. So in a same clock rate test (e.g. a theoretical 700 MHz SuperSparc), it seems like
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by coderjames 11y ago
Maybe they were running the sentence software on those new Rockchip SoCs with the long Novembers :-)
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by coderjames 11y ago
That's interesting, thanks for adding that explanation for us not in the space. What I'm surprised about is that the campaigns are willing to let this data be stored in the cloud on shared systems. I would have expected all propri
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by coderjames 11y ago
Exactly. The Windows "OEM" or "System Builder" edition is only valid for computers that are sold on to the final end user. They aren't legal for personal use by the original purchaser. [1] [1] = http://ww
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by coderjames 11y ago
I do, as part of a diversified portfolio. I couldn't find an ETF with reasonable fees that provides the make-up I wanted: long-term history of dividend growth ex-cigarettes/pharma. This dividend stream will provide a meaningful pe
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by coderjames 11y ago
This looks pretty awesome, I might have to pick one up. Always wanted to play with a real, native Oberon.
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by coderjames 11y ago
A more focused Twitter is much needed if the company ever hopes to become profitable, and not just remain a money pit.
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by coderjames 11y ago
This looks absolutely awesome. It is the kind of software I thought the RPi was originally going to ship with.
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by coderjames 11y ago
From their about page, they are a non-profit, so there isn't any. "Ghost(Pro) is what funds the Non-Profit Organisation which organises and runs the Ghost Open Source project."
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by coderjames 11y ago
This helps clear things up for me, thanks.
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by coderjames 11y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I didn't look into what businesses the sponsors were in.
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by coderjames 11y ago
I'm obviously misunderstanding something about this. Since grsecurity is GPL'd (being modifications to the GPL'd kernel), anyone that is "a customer of any product that uses grsecurity in binary form, [is] entitled to th
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by coderjames 11y ago
I wrote up a response to this, but accidentally did it under the wrong comment (see my response to thieving_magpie). In that reply I explain what I felt I was baited with and what it was switched for. Maybe you could explain how you feel th
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by coderjames 11y ago
I recognize that Kickstarter funds are donations, but the product I donated to is not the product that was being developed. I was baited with this: "The product is fully functional today, with the hardware design final, tooling complet
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by coderjames 11y ago
As a backer now apparently getting a refund, I'm extremely disappointed with the way this project was managed. The DRM that apparently blew up the project wasn't in scope when I backed it. This was supposed to be an open source, N
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by coderjames 11y ago
That's what existing reinsurance companies do, if I understand correctly. They insure the insurance companies.
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by coderjames 11y ago
He doesn't seem to be much for story-telling about the old days, but several months ago I did find this interview he had done previously: http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/interview/caswell.htm
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by coderjames 11y ago
I emailed him the link and a link to this submission. His response was, "Lordy, people really do have too much time on their hands. Thanks, though. Consider me amused."

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