markb139

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by markb139 7y ago
I think the guy needs to read a bit more physics. Electricity travels at about 2/3 the speed of light in copper wires.
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by markb139 7y ago
My AAPL stock has paid for several devices and given me my initial investment back
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by markb139 7y ago
>* It isn't invented at, supported at, and marketed by a FAANG-type company. Money moves mountains and Ericsson doesn't spend as much on Erlang/BEAM as, say, Google spends on Go. Indeed it wasn’t. In fact it was designed b
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by markb139 8y ago
There is. The new compute module has up to 32GB
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by markb139 8y ago
I had one from 1988. It was totally awesome. My first experience with a Windows PC 5 years later was a like being slapped with a wet fish. Also, the 8MHz ARM out performed the 486 100MHz by a long way
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by markb139 8y ago
Personally for me, the home computer came at just the right time. As a teenager I was a hopeless student and really had no direction other than an interest in computers. I didn't really know what that meant until I got unsupervised acc
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by markb139 8y ago
A 12 year old me watched this when it was broadcast. I knew after seeing the programme what I wanted do for a career. 40 years later I'm a software engineer - my teachers at school would be most suprised :)
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by markb139 8y ago
I've recently started to work on an implementation of Forth, targeting the RPi. Only runs on Qemu at the moment. A great way to learn about low level programming
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by markb139 9y ago
52 here. Did some Pascal at university on a VAX. Currently working in python in fintech environment.
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by markb139 11y ago
The Scouts aren't armed with concealed weapons.
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by markb139 11y ago
Re 16 bit 6502. See http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/index.cfm
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by markb139 12y ago
Electricity doesn't conduct at the speed of light. Its about 2/3 the speed of light.
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by markb139 12y ago
I thought en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAProf Was designed for this exact thing
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by markb139 12y ago
There seems to be a bug in the string compare function. If either string is empty the function return 0 meaning success.
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by markb139 12y ago
I wonder what the same animation would look like for sw developers. Im 6ft6 and 252lbs. Though being a Brit I'd say 6ft6 and 18 stone or even 2m and 114.5 kg.
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by markb139 12y ago
I'd look at the discrete stuff before looking at arduino and raspberry pi. Start slowly and build some kits. You need to learn to solder and you need to learn how to "debug" hardware. You also need to get some tools. If you s
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by markb139 13y ago
I worked (contracted) in the Nokia world at this time. The big game changer the iPhone bought and I think was missed by Nokia and others was the inclusive and easy to use data. In the uk data on phones was very expensive and in some cases y
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by markb139 13y ago
Oh, I'm buggered then. 6ft6 ugly 116kg monster. Better stick to the day job
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by markb139 13y ago
I'd say the Commodore PET was the 6502's breakthrough machine
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by markb139 13y ago
But electrical signals don't propogate at the speed of light in a vacuum ( I didn't read past that point). The signals travel at about 2/3 the speed of light. This is very significant when you look at path lenghts
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by markb139 13y ago
It probably felt like it to the staff who got fired a couple of years back
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by markb139 14y ago
You guys need to read the book "hackers delight" full of really great stuff like this ISBN-13: 978-0-321-84268-8 ISBN-10: 0-321-84268-5