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by buserror 9y ago
Best message on this topic. Thanks. What the old Leica of old did was the famous 'F8 and be there' -- basically at F8 with a mirrorless rangefinder there was enough DoF to shoot pretty much anything, at anytime (apart from pitch b
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by buserror 9y ago
I would just have taken his source, compiled it and provided it for free -- he had no real intentions of opening it, and in fact never released his 'code' afterward, which proved my point. it's not the first time I see that,
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by buserror 9y ago
I tend to agree, up to a point, however I still use the GPL because it at least gives me a leg to stand on for people actually ripping your code and selling it as is... (What I call the packagers) I'm sure that if Linux wasn't GPL
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by buserror 9y ago
I've worked with the really shitty Indian programmers, the dishonest one, and occasionally one that was both! However, I also worked with a couple of really brilliant ones... But then again I also worked with non-endian programmers tha
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by buserror 9y ago
A bit yes, I have to admit this. However it's not HARD to find new&interesting way of screwing up with the language, it's been done for longer than I'm alive, and some people abused it in extraordinary ways over the years
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by buserror 9y ago
Ah, the weekly 'C is evil' HN bit. FYI, your mouse is also dangerous, you can easily click the wrong way and send all your money away to someone in Nigeria. Should we blame the mouse?
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by buserror 10y ago
I love mine(s) now. I made a bridge between my RF wall switches [0], outlets and so on and I can turn things on/off using Alexa. The best is at night before going to bed, I can say 'Alexa, turn off downstairs' and that will t
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by buserror 10y ago
The FC R5 is a HUGE case, and it's as good as my mac pro 2008 really. Lighter too! Very, VERY well designed, excellent filters, and I run 3 140mm fans in it so it doesn't make a noise; the fans are permanently just over the stalli
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by buserror 10y ago
Yes I had a previous hackintosh running for a few years in parallel with the Mac Pro. It's actually quite simple but it requires a bit more patience, especially during updates. It's mostly a case these days of doing the update,
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by buserror 10y ago
Gave up on the mac pro years ago. I replaced my unkillable 2008 Mac pro with a lovely Fractal Design R5 case, a stonking 5930k overclocked at 4.5Gz on a 'posh' ASUS Mobo with 64GB of DDR. It's a 'hackintosh', sure e
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by buserror 10y ago
Well, seems we can't seem to agree on a simple thing, I don't want to waste my time attempting to discuss anything more complicated than a word. You went straight for the cool-aid bottle on the previous comment, and you wonder why
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by buserror 10y ago
This is not making fake quotes, it's called paraphrasing. And "just don't" is impolite, I can just do pretty much as I like, as it is my own interpretation, Mr PC.
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by buserror 10y ago
No amount of 'type safety' will prevent idiots from being idiots, and with all the other languages, the problem is very often sitting on the chair. People will screw up creatively in any language, and trying to 'hide'
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by buserror 10y ago
Ahah nice example! "I can't code, but if I were, I would like to be productive in something that doesn't require me to make any effort in understanding the problem, please advise" I don't know where all the C hate i
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by buserror 10y ago
Mostly: function ff() { find ${2:-.} -name "*$1*" ; } function gg() { grep -n $* ; } function ggr() { grep -rn --exclude-dir=.git $1 ${2:-.} ; } function ggi() { grep -in $* ; } function ggri() { grep -rin --exclude-di
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by buserror 10y ago
I disagree with quite a few of them. The title should be "Principle for C programming ON UNUX BASED SYSTEMS". C programming is quite a bit wider that this, and some of the typical points here are no-no if you want to write /p
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by buserror 10y ago
You are bit hard on Olimex -- to be fair, they release hardware specs, schematics and so on well in advance, and in true 'open hardware' form -- so nothing stops you actually reviewing and/or fixing it if you get a chance! I&
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by buserror 10y ago
If you get any money on your paypal account without a bank account linked, you can't 'move' it. So I just let Mrs BusError loose on a shopping spree immediately! that usually clears the balance in no time at all.
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by buserror 10y ago
Well, at the point where you want to make a 'public' API for any sort of service, one would hope you know enough about the problem you are trying to solve to be able to provide a nice API? Also, for a 'public' API, I wou
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by buserror 10y ago
I don't agree fully to that (1). I used to do it, because it sounds like a great idea... However, the implementation of your use case is often too subtle to get the API right to start with, and you end up having to play around and
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by buserror 10y ago
Ahah, thanks for that -- I thought it was pretty clever, but it's hard to explain why to someone :-) If you look closer, you can see I've actually repurposed the main interpreter core, and uses a GNU awk (of all thing) to extract
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by buserror 10y ago
I do use it as interpreter on embedded boards! Preprocess/trim the headers you need, and add #!/bin/tcc -run at the top of your .C file, add a +x to it and it'll run just fine! I love tcc, in fact I added a firmware
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by buserror 10y ago
To be fair, with the macintosh they went completely the other way. You could customize/translate and do many, MANY things with just ResEdit, and many 'power users' did just that...
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by buserror 10y ago
No I do not necessarily advocate instruction level -- sometime it's just not practical. If course if you can it's good (aka QEMU or simavr) but sometime it's not possible or not necessary. For example in my last opens sourc
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by buserror 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of simulations, I don't think you can develop a 'good' embedded system without it. My way of implementing something embedded is: * Develop a capture program for the input feed/sensors, and capture as
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by buserror 10y ago
I so totally agree! Forgetting stuff is as important as learning new one, because it forces you to learn/re-learn quickly. I wrote millions and millions of lines of code in my 30 years career, I was once a top shot mac developer, and
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by buserror 10y ago
Looks fun! I did some reverse engineering for the RF sensors of my weather station a few weeks back, I used gnuradio, audacity etc but it was all 'manual', ie feeding the .WAV capture file to my own program and trying to find the
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by buserror 10y ago
There is no real timeline for me to do it, it mostly depends if I feel bloated or not. So for example I hadn't done one in about 3 months, but I rather coincidently started one yesterday... It's always a mix of thinking I could &#
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by buserror 10y ago
Yes, most definitely -- as mentioned you stop being hungry anyway, and you get a bit of a 'high' as well, perhaps due to the typical drowsiness of digestion not being there... My pet theory is that we evolved it, as hunter gathere
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by buserror 10y ago
You can't actually /binge eat/ after a fast. You can eat a lot, but you will still eat less than an usual day anyway, you can't possibly eat as much as you've missed, it's impossible. As I mentioned before, I a

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