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(Shrug) No, welcome to "Hacker News." Supposedly, people here are hackers. The fellow throwing away the scope is generous, certainly, but other than that, he

(Shrug) No, welcome to "Hacker News." Supposedly, people here are hackers. The fellow throwing away the scope is generous, certainly, but other than that, he appears to be the antithesis of a hacker.

jodrellblank 17y ago
"we need to measure differential inputs" suggests he's not at home hobbying. Maybe he's too busy to look at it, or doesn't have the right paperwork to certify a repaired one, who knows. Apart from you, that is, who jumps straight to "he seems to have more money than me therefore he must be lazy and stupid". Maybe $2k isn't a lot of money to him and he has plenty of brains and you're just judging him by your different-but-not-more-correct standards?
charrington 17y ago
This is Trevor Blackwell we're talking about. Perhaps you should be careful before casting aspersions. http://tlb.org/ http://tlb.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell Ad-hominem attacks are not the kind of thing Hacker News is about. Please keep that in mind.
- CamperBob 17y ago
  I really don't care what he built by duct-taping motors to PC-104 boards from the back of Nuts-n-Volts. If he throws away scopes and iPhones he's not someone who impresses me as a Hardware Guy. Edit: keep in mind that his cartoon is mostly a bunch of whining about how he can't do this and can't do that because of how modern electronic equipment is made. Meanwhile, a friend in Portugal just used his homebrew wire-bonding machine to repair an 18 GHz YIG-tuned oscillator for me. (He failed this time, which is damned rare for him, but he sure didn't balk at trying.) I do respect his generosity, though -- hopefully, some talented kid's going to get a nice present out of it. I try to help out in the same spirit when I can, because I benefited from similar generosity as a newbie.

(Shrug) No, welcome to "Hacker News." Supposedly, people here are hackers. The fellow throwing away the scope is generous, certainly, but other than that, he appears to be the antithesis of a hacker.

jodrellblank 17y ago

"we need to measure differential inputs" suggests he's not at home hobbying. Maybe he's too busy to look at it, or doesn't have the right paperwork to certify a repaired one, who knows. Apart from you, that is, who jumps straight to "he seems to have more money than me therefore he must be lazy and stupid". Maybe $2k isn't a lot of money to him and he has plenty of brains and you're just judging him by your different-but-not-more-correct standards?

charrington 17y ago

This is Trevor Blackwell we're talking about. Perhaps you should be careful before casting aspersions. http://tlb.org/ http://tlb.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Blackwell Ad-hominem attacks are not the kind of thing Hacker News is about. Please keep that in mind.

CamperBob 17y ago
I really don't care what he built by duct-taping motors to PC-104 boards from the back of Nuts-n-Volts. If he throws away scopes and iPhones he's not someone who impresses me as a Hardware Guy. Edit: keep in mind that his cartoon is mostly a bunch of whining about how he can't do this and can't do that because of how modern electronic equipment is made. Meanwhile, a friend in Portugal just used his homebrew wire-bonding machine to repair an 18 GHz YIG-tuned oscillator for me. (He failed this time, which is damned rare for him, but he sure didn't balk at trying.) I do respect his generosity, though -- hopefully, some talented kid's going to get a nice present out of it. I try to help out in the same spirit when I can, because I benefited from similar generosity as a newbie.