austinz

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by austinz 13y ago
You know what I wouldn't mind seeing first? An unmanned base on the moon to work through the kinks of in-situ fabrication and resource extraction in an extraterrestrial environment. It wouldn't have to be too big and it could even
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Snowden denies allegations of spying for China(nytimes.com)
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by austinz 13y ago
It depends. Coal, charcoal, wood. The house where my father grew up vented smoke/exhaust from the fires in the kitchen under a hard clay bed built into the house to keep the family warm in the winter. You can see the effect of years of
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by austinz 13y ago
I'm glad to see someone with this point of view. A lot of people don't seem to realize that there is a huge difference between the idealized American farmer and the lives of real peasants living in rural China. It's extremely
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by austinz 13y ago
When I was taking EE/CS courses, I'd consciously try to look for courses with large, open-ended projects (without eschewing theory completely). Although project classes can be run very poorly, the good ones tend to be the exact op
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by austinz 13y ago
It might be beyond the scope of a normal hobbyist project, but writing Verilog or VHDL to drive an FPGA might bring interested people half of the way there. You mentioned Altera design software in another post; I don't know if Xilinx&#
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by austinz 13y ago
I was reading up on Catania (the city from which he hails) and it looks like a beautiful place - very different from SF, but still having a large number of tech companies.
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by austinz 13y ago
Re. (2): The US could bolster its case by pointing to specific examples of products or technologies produced by Chinese companies which appear to have benefitted from IP stolen through hacking. This is something that the government hasn&#x2
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by austinz 13y ago
I'm 25 as well. I share a bit of my own experience, in the hopes that you may find lessons (both positive and negative) from it. I don't pretend that anyone should consciously follow the path I took, but it did work out pretty well for me.
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by austinz 13y ago
How do we know which problems are fake problems and which ones are real problems, though? Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it might not be as clear. Twitter probably seemed like a fake problem at its inception (post 140 characters to a per
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by austinz 13y ago
I agree with you; in the cases you mentioned there don't seem to be any good arguments for not using a higher-level language with managed memory, properly implemented data structures, etc. It seems like there are at least two threads of tho
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by austinz 13y ago
Agreed; OS kernels and firmware for embedded systems all require low-level access to hardware in a way that high-level desktop applications do not. Being able to easily reason about how C is going to use resources and be compiled down to ma