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for some people the fun is just in learning, not necessarily doing the state of the art things.
by znpy 2y ago
for some people the fun is just in learning, not necessarily doing the state of the art things.
- dare944 2y agoTotally get and applaud that. Indeed, I built a high-performance Ethernet driver for the STM32F4 chips just because I wanted to say I've done it. But his stated goal is to build a TCP/IP stack, not futz around with SPI and the particulars of an idiosyncratic network chip. There will be plenty of work (and learning) to do once he starts climbing up the network stack.
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- alsetmusic 2y ago> for some people the fun is just in learning, not necessarily doing the state of the art things. Over a decade ago, when I was just learning Linux, I set out on a quest to turn a CentOS box into a router that could perform NAT between two different networks. I spent an entire weekend researching and following every suggestion I could find until it finally worked. I was so proud when my pings reached their respective destinations. I took it apart the next day and never did anything more with it, but the journey and the reward was the fun of it.
- kjs3 2y agoYou must be new here. It's a law of nature around HN that whatever you post that you've done, there's some twit who will condescendingly lecture you on how you should have done it.
- znpy 2y agoI'm not new here at all (this account was created in 2015). I know fairly well HN and its "idiosyncrasies" but I like to call them out from time to time. Be the change you want to see in the world.