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by yekim 10y ago
Love this article. For those of you who enjoy a heaping meal of architectural commentary sprinkled with a generous portion of sarcasm, check out the author's blog [1]. Literally LOL every time I get a chance to read it. [1] http:&#x2
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by yekim 10y ago
No, it's not worth it. Modern IDEs make so many things easier than vi / vim / emacs ever did. vi / vim / emacs can be useful in certain situations (Unix / Cygwin command lines, low level embedded systems that
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by yekim 10y ago
Yes - a thousand times yes! The goto has gotten a bad rap over the years because of Dijkstra's paper. And that paper has unduly influenced a lot of incorrect thinking. There are valid use cases for goto, and this is certainly one of
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by yekim 10y ago
Hear, hear! Unfortunately, C does get a lot of hate on HN. I suspect it has to do with this site's demographics. Many (not all) of the HN clan seem to be oriented towards / mostly familiar with web based technologies. I suspect
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by yekim 10y ago
https://spa.mnesty.com/ = server not found. Anyone else seeing this?
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by yekim 10y ago
I'm in Colorado Springs. Didn't know a CO based city was doing this. That's pretty awesome!
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by yekim 10y ago
So bummed to read this. Even though I wasn't going to directly benefit from Google Fiber, it was sure nice to have a non-entrenched player tackle this market. From the big G's standpoint, it makes good biz sense to exit this mark
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by yekim 10y ago
Thanks for posting re: the fairphone. Never heard of that before. Got any personal first hand experience with it?
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by yekim 10y ago
Nice. I'm always taking books that are mentioned in various HN comments and adding them to my reading list. Thanks for making it easy!
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by yekim 10y ago
Wow - that. looks. exhausting. And like an overall pretty ineffective use of engineer's time. At least for the kind of SW development that I generally do. I can imagine certain limited scenarios where this kind of problem solving app
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by yekim 10y ago
Assembly language can be fun and awesome! For me, if I'm ever working in assembly, which is pretty rare these days, it's usually on an overall "smaller" system. Ie an embedded system where all the SW, HW, and tools ca
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by yekim 10y ago
Depends on what you're debugging. Desktop apps w/ C/C++ -- IDE based debugger (Visual Studio, GDB w/ a front end, ADB) print / logging statements Embedded C -- IDE Debugger (Green Hills, ARM DS-5, IAR, Eclipse w&#x2
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by yekim 10y ago
Wrt Perl being readable / legible; I think most find Perl hard to read because there are 3-4 different ways to do the same thing. And many of the more "advanced" ways of doing things rely on short, terse single characters th
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by yekim 10y ago
True, to an extent. I'm assuming you are referring to the Arduino family when you say "8-bit AVR controllers"? If yes, they do in fact do a great job at making things somewhat easy for the dabbler, and have many resources av
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by yekim 10y ago
Depends on how deep down the embedded rabbit hole you want to go. Personally, an article like this, with its main diagram and high level descriptions, would have been enormously useful back when I was just starting to learn the dark arts
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by yekim 10y ago
ARRL handbook = this? http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2016-Hardcover-Editio...
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by yekim 11y ago
I also want to thank you. For making me bust out some google-fu to figure out what "Poe's law" and a "fugue" are. And for the lulz of course. That goes with out saying.
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by yekim 11y ago
"Technology has a peculiar ability to light gigantic piles of money on fire." Just wanted to say thanks for the laugh! It's not often than a comment on HN makes me laugh out loud. As in laughing with you, not at you...
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by yekim 11y ago
This article is absolutely hilarious! I rarely laugh out loud when I'm reading stuff, but this line just got me. "Because I’m overeducated and insecure, I package my banal observations in semantic finery, so I feel a kinship with
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by yekim 11y ago
That's awesome! I think more SW engineers ought to be getting exercise for all the benefits mentioned in these comments. Me personally - I climb, bike, run, and lift. I like variety, and I usually only do one of those activities a da
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by yekim 11y ago
This is a very interesting idea. Have you, or anyone else on HN, ever seen this in action? I would LOVE to hear stories about this, either successes or failures.
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by yekim 11y ago
Or like becaks and opelets in Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_rickshaw https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oplet
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by yekim 11y ago
Something else to consider is that many embedded Linux systems do not have bash, only sh (aka Bourne shell). It is often easier to use only Bourne shell-isms to get things to work in a cross-target fashion. That said, I prefer bash for mo
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by yekim 11y ago
Pretty sweet. Will be interesting to see where this lib goes. If someone has some time, maybe they could give it a mention on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats
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by yekim 11y ago
Caught the tail end of the event. Elon definitely comes across as genuine and a real person. That said, a little practice in the stage presence / showmanship department could certainly help things flow smoother and amp up the excitem
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by yekim 11y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware that this was the case on Android. I've now turned my WiFi "completely" off.
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by yekim 12y ago
I wasn't even aware of Google Flights until I saw the article posted on HN. Go figure... For some of us, the constant deluge of info, along with work and family life, makes it tough to stay on top of all the latest developments. Glad
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by yekim 12y ago
I can't get to komments.net. HN server overload? I'm getting this error message: Application Error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. If you are the applicat
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by yekim 12y ago
Thanks for throwing this out there. Never heard of this command before! Definitely a good one for my bag o' tricks.
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by yekim 13y ago
Thx for the info on startpage.com. Never heard of it till this thread on HN. Just made it my homepage and added it to my tool bar. I switched to DDG a couple years ago after becoming concerned about privacy. Unfortunately, DDG has never

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