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by djhworld 7y ago
> Then I realized that I could do far more damage in software (at scale) than with hardware Haha, this was pretty much it for me too. I'd imagine going down the hardware route is a lot of fun with a lot of lessons learnt, but an exp
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by djhworld 7y ago
I actually read this book in 2012/13, it inspired me to build my gameboy emulator! It's definitely an excellent read. I can't remember if the book discussed the gate level stuff, maybe that washed over me a bit at the time I&
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by djhworld 7y ago
> I went a little overboard and created a C backend for the emulator along with an in-browser JS client that was pretty much a full-blown machine language IDE and debugger. My original goal for the project was to type a letter on the key
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by djhworld 7y ago
A colleague linked me to a similar course - I'll definitely be checking this out though - thanks
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by djhworld 7y ago
Bookmarked, thanks for the link, I think it will help me with the next step
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by djhworld 7y ago
Hello! Really enjoyed your story. While I wasn't up against any deadlines I did have a few of those so-simple-it's-painful fixes when I was doing this project haha
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by djhworld 7y ago
Oh yes, I've seen other people do similar things with 8-bit CPUs on a bunch of breadboards which is awesome, maybe I'll attempt that another time! I did suffer a different form of pain with trying to implement all the gates togeth
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by djhworld 7y ago
No worries, thanks for the kind words. I got some great feedback from friends and colleagues before publishing it so thanks to them too :)
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by djhworld 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback, these are some good ideas if I was do do this again. I'm sorry you didn't think I took the best approach.
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Hi author here! I actually didn't set out on building anything, it all happened organically! I honestly cannot remember why I chose the book, I think I just saw the blurb and figured it was good enough to read. It was only when I was a
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by djhworld 7y ago
I think the stuff that surfaces on places like HN is mostly out of the ordinary. I've worked in enterprise shops churning out staid Java code on weblogic servers in the past, if anything HN was kind of an escape hatch for me to see wha
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This is really cool. I tend to do a lot of exploratory work in Jupyter stuff, but find the whole process really annoying and cumbersome to set up - just been playing around with this VS code extension and it seems really neat! I've bee
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by djhworld 7y ago
Joe did talk about wanting a web where addresses are directly associated with an exact piece of content (i.e. addressable via a hash) and be able to live forever through some sort of distributed web. I really hope that one day that vision b
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by djhworld 7y ago
I sometimes read papers but I find them an absolute pain to read them on my phone because the two aren't really designed for each other. So I end up with this frustrating experience of zooming in/out to read this bits I'm int
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by djhworld 8y ago
I've only seen glimpses of this great man from his conference talks on YouTube, but he came across as a very intelligent, relatable and humble person. It's a great loss.
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by djhworld 8y ago
This is devastating, RIP. I watched this talk a few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmueBVrLKcY called "Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed" It was superb, I think it's unfortunate that he
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by djhworld 8y ago
Already happening here in the UK, especially in prisons where external dealers can drop packages over using a drone
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by djhworld 8y ago
https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/reference/container-contra... Details the contract your container must meet to run on the service and limitations you might run into Quite a nice document to be fair. Would b
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I'm reading "But How Do It Know" right now and programming a software version of the computer the book is describing. It's fun and gets you to learn about NAND gates and other things without intimidating electronic engin
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by djhworld 8y ago
Congratulations on the new job!
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I subscribe to 1password where your data is synced to their servers. I'm not sure if this is a good idea now that I've read this...
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by djhworld 8y ago
I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago (Planet Money) and was genuinlely shocked at how poor the US payments network is in relation to here in the UK. Most bank transactions here complete within 2 hours (faster payments service) and a
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by djhworld 8y ago
I take the opposite view, SQL is very high level. It's a declarative language that in theory abstracts you away from the underlying execution environment, it's up to that engine to work out how to optimally execute the query,
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by djhworld 8y ago
I'd imagine the Prince's staff contacted Instagram to talk about having an account set up, and maybe suggested the name. Instagram people were probably star struck, and salivating at the idea of _millions_ of eyeballs and media in
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by djhworld 8y ago
In some ways the 'old' web died around 2006-2007 when Facebook started to get its hooks in. MySpace was a big thing before that, where people curated their own profiles with custom HTML, then Geocities before that. When Facbeook c
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by djhworld 8y ago
Pretty sure they had this at McCarren when I was there late last year, just had to dump my bag in the tray and walk through the metal detector (didn't even need to take my shoes off - although they had a sniffer dog earlier in the line
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by djhworld 8y ago
This article was written in 2013, I wonder how he's been getting on since? I'd imagine a lot of companies have wised up and won't call 0871 numbers. Interestingly he mentioned he puts his 0871 number as his contact number for
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by djhworld 8y ago
I personally quite like twitter, although I tend to lurk rather than actively participate (don't feel I have much to say I guess) In some ways my twitter feed is almost like RSS, and the people I follow tend to be interesting people wh
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by djhworld 8y ago
Has anyone been running this in the field for a few months/weeks. I'm wondering how the SD card gets on with the constant writes into InfluxDB (assuming the samplesa are taken frequently)
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by djhworld 8y ago
I subscribe to Giant Bomb (a video games website) and they have a premium tier for content. The podcasts are available for free, but funded by ads, or you can subscribe to the premium feed where the ads are edited out.

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