nascentmind

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by nascentmind 10y ago
Zomato and Flipkart are not successful. They are just surviving. Most of the startups are "me too" kind just copying what has already been done but just localizing it to the Indian market. It just takes a foreign entity entering t
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Keeping cash under mattress is risky. Why not buy gold(or precious metals)? Movement and hiding it is way easier than $100 bills and transport too is easier. Just wear it as jewellery.
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Just curious, did you fund your FU fund living in the current place?
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Renters will increase the price knowing full well that people will double up. Also if the renters are ruthless they would directly tell you to have more people packed in an apartment to pay their price and if people are helpless they would
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Opening up bit streams would be really great. I am still hoping that someday we have completely open source FPGA tools.
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by nascentmind 11y ago
How long can the circus keep going? It might collapse at any moment yet I don't think anyone knows for sure. This statement is fundamental. It is very very hard to time the market. In fact there is a famous saying by John M Keynes &quo
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Fountain pens. I have some fountain pens come down to me from my mother's student era.
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by nascentmind 11y ago
As a person who bought these ads I think you would be the right person to answer some of my curiosity. Do people really click ads and buy? Is there data of the whole from click to the buy revenue? Are your products US centric? If yes what p
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by nascentmind 11y ago
The idea to write a tiny modular driver came to me because of need. Sometimes developers do not need a write and simply need to read a file. Sometimes they want a very minimal read and then would like to write. This would be in case of stor
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by nascentmind 11y ago
I have been writing a FAT32 driver to understand the FAT32 file system. It is very exciting as this is my first time I am dabbling with file systems. I will be porting this to my baremetal firmware for the MINI2440 SBC.
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Thanks! I also have a blog ( http://thesoulofamachine.blogspot.in/ ) where I go in detail explaining parts of the code of the various subsystems to get things up and running. I have developed without any costly JTAG tools a
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by nascentmind 11y ago
I see a lot of people having problems with the BSP. Excuse me for the shameless plug but I am developing an open source baremetal firmware for the Samsung SoC S3C2440 ( https://github.com/mindentropy/s3c2440-mdk ) and
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Sometimes people use a RTOS in the SoC. Some people run baremetal OS or NoOS in these SoC's. I myself and developing a baremetal OS for the Samsung S3C2440 and I find it hard to get documents from Samsung. I have to rely on the SBC man
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by nascentmind 11y ago
It is mixed. On the one hand there are quite a bit of honest people and there are quite a lot of corrupt people. The problem is the amount of variables which are huge and how it has become a way of life.
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Yes it is. Such smart people should be working on these things and should be encouraged. Of course his system is still a lot rough and a lot of work has to go into it but he is just one person doing a lot of thinking. In the interview he ha
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by nascentmind 11y ago
I personally use xubuntu. What myztic meant was using "plain ubuntu" instead of alternatives like xubuntu, lubuntu or kubuntu. Xubuntu is medium light for me and is fast. Previously I had only fluxbox on Kubuntu for the KDE apps w
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Congrats geohot. Come up with a good development framework for people to build on and it would be awesome. This is good innovation and engineering. Like the article said it sure beats writing code to make people click ads or fixing some obs
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by nascentmind 11y ago
No I don't. It is just an observation. Now in for e.g. India there are a lot of people going into engineering or medicine as a way out of poverty. So you are right but now it is the profession through which to get out of poverty and t
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by nascentmind 11y ago
>But if you come from a poor family, then sports is one of the ways to get out of poverty, because even if you can't go pro, there's still the chance of college athlete funding or becoming a coach for a school. This is true. In
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by nascentmind 11y ago
I have seen that most of kids who have struggled in their childhood because of say low income from their parents or bad family have a kind of a fighting spirit. Most of the people who you see achieve greatness either say in sports or in eng
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by nascentmind 11y ago
What will be the impact of this on jobs? I see a lot of layoffs in the semiconductor industry. I don't know what is the impact on jobs for a firmware engineer. I don't see anything new coming soon in the embedded space and IoT loo
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by nascentmind 11y ago
This is the problem here. As an embedded developer where every cycle counts I have come up with the same question as the poster above why bother with such languages. If a switch processes packets at line rate with the use of ASIC's why
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by nascentmind 11y ago
xobs, What was your experience working with the CPU vendors to open up the ROM or atleast provide a method to by pass the ROM and use an external ROM?
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by nascentmind 11y ago
You can always go for the Samsung S3C SoC which loads 4kB of code from NAND flash. Now if you ask me whether the loading is software in a certain boot rom internal to the chip or hardware logic I don't know. You can also try Texas Inst
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by nascentmind 11y ago
There are very good TI Cortex M3 and M4 Tiva Launchpad boards (for $12.99) and for the ultra low power applications the MSP432 cortex M4 launchpad boards (for $12.99) with very good documentation and support.
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Apart from this there are other issues to consider when you have to go through different certifications required for different domains. When you have MCU's in automotive,industrial,medical and millitary (invasive instruments) it is be
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Isn't USB data lines differential?
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by nascentmind 11y ago
Free GCC tool chains are present for the TI MSP430, TI Tiva Series C (Cortex M4) and also TI Hercules (Cortex M3) series. Apart from that I have tried STM32F4 series with GCC tool chains. I have personally developed Bluetooth stack using th
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by nascentmind 11y ago
I too find myself in the same conundrum. People and contacts just disappear if I don't put effort in it. It is always me who have to follow up for some reason. How did you get over this?
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by nascentmind 11y ago
I don't understand why there is such a disdain for blue collar jobs. Isn't it honest living? The good are tangible and benefits the society. Boys in the developed world are 50% more likely to flunk basic maths, reading and scienc

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