cheponis

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by cheponis 19y ago
How do posts get NEGATIVE points when we only have "up" buttons for voting?
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by cheponis 19y ago
I worked on the original hopping/jumping/running robots at CMU and later MIT with Marc Raibert. I can assure you that everything done was above-board, published, and open. Dr. Raibert is one of those rare scientist/engineer/entrepreneur t
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by cheponis 19y ago
Dump the girlfriend. You need to devote all of your attention to the startup. This will just be a distraction. If she loves you, she'll still be there after your startup is done.
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by cheponis 19y ago
If you truly want to understand the x86, you should first learn the 4004, then the 8008, then the 8080, then the 8088, then 8086, then the 80186, then the 80286, then the 80386, then you can go in a number of directions that others have sug
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by cheponis 19y ago
I need reliability, with a bias on using source code to produce my running binaries. Of course, I run NetBSD.
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by cheponis 19y ago
Verilog. You software weenies don't seem to understand that your fluffly abstractions need to run on real h/w. So I'd rather have control at the lowest level.
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by cheponis 19y ago
I don't think you guys get it: qwertyy IS Aaron Swartz!
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by cheponis 19y ago
IBM 1401. 12K of characters (BCD-coded), card I/O, fast printer (600 LPM!) and a 1311 disk (2e6 characters, random access, with removable disk packs. About the same capacity as a floppy). Fortran IV, COBOL, RPG, Autocoder (assembly) and m
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by cheponis 19y ago
53+BS EECS + all non-thesis work toward PhD But what's the point of data from a self-selecting sample?
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by cheponis 19y ago
Have you tried 802.11a ? Same speed, more bandwidth, less interference.
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by cheponis 19y ago
I think this is why all TRUE wizards write in Assembly Language.
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by cheponis 19y ago
OOP is heavily overrated. Anything that can be done with OOP can be done, and often done better, without OOP.