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by zerohp 8y ago
No. It's not realistic to get an improvement that way. FPGAs can provide improvement in some important cases but the system design (software and hardware co-design) is radically different. You can't expect to iterate your way ther
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by zerohp 8y ago
1. Chip design 2. Prior to going to school I was a full stack web dev. I was tired of the framework of the week treadmill and didn't think it was something I could find fulfilling for the next 20-30 years until retirement. 3. I'm
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by zerohp 8y ago
I started college for the first time at 35 years old, and finished earlier this year after getting a BS CS, BS EE, and MS ECE. After 3 semesters at a community college, I transferred to a competitive engineering school (UIUC). My experience
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by zerohp 8y ago
Nobody with any credibility claimed that Macs don't crash pre-OSX (the 1990s). They crashed and froze all of the time. That's why everyone was begging for an all-new operating system.
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by zerohp 8y ago
Try resetting it or add an alternate face while it's in the cradle. Mine unlocks from pretty far away.
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by zerohp 8y ago
A lot of Commodore users switched to the IBM PC because they wanted the same machine at home and at work. My father, for example, picked up an IBM XT but later also bought an Amiga as a second computer because the XT never really replaced t
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by zerohp 8y ago
None of the other 6502 machines could compete with Commodore in a price war because Commodore owned MOS technologies. The C64 was all custom chips, which is why it was much cheaper than other machines with similar capability. Apple may have
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by zerohp 8y ago
Not only is it chaos for battery life, web push notifications are almost entirely spam. The web should have never added them in the first place. I’m glad that Apple stands against that crap.
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by zerohp 8y ago
This is a false equivalency because in a bootcamp most of the learning is in class. In a CS degree program most of it is not. At a top university, students put in 60 hours a week for 16 weeks every semester.
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by zerohp 8y ago
C didn't take over from Basic. Basic was used by the end user because it was free with the machine. It wasn't used by that many software engineers. Most of the software made for the early personal computer (8-bit era) was written
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by zerohp 8y ago
I paid for my own travel for an interview once. I wasn't happy about it but I thought it would be a good excuse to visit a new city for the weekend. I'll never do that again. The cheapskates that wouldn't pay for travel offer
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by zerohp 8y ago
If an app, or even a website (Pinterest), requires an account when one is not obviously needed for it to function then I don't use it.
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by zerohp 8y ago
I stumbled across a planning map during my time at University of Illinois. It was marked showing 50, 75 and 100 year expansion possibilities. The land supporting 100 year expansion is already owned by the university and leased for commercia
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by zerohp 8y ago
You find these jobs through word of mouth and professional networking. There aren't a lot of people doing this work, and most of them know each other (with 1 or 2 degrees of separation.) It's hard to cold approach a company and ge
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by zerohp 8y ago
> Right now I'm really into C and want to dive deep and learn the language well. You can't learn C in isolation. Even though C is full of surprising and unexpected behavior, it is a very simple language. Great C programmers did
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by zerohp 8y ago
A packaging facility is not a fab. It doesn't really give them any advantage in reverse engineering the silicon over someone that buys the end product and de-packages the die.
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by zerohp 8y ago
I work for a FAANG and not a single post on there for the last 3+ years has any basis in reality for my company.
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by zerohp 8y ago
He stuck around for a while attending classes without being enrolled. That says something about how much he valued college.
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by zerohp 8y ago
Most of the questions are appropriate to ask when an offer has been extended (but not yet accepted). There are plenty of high paying jobs at companies that can answer these questions.
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by zerohp 8y ago
I spent 10 years doing web development that eventually lead into a few years of systems and network programming before I went to college for a CS degree. Many CS problems were still challenging even with all of that experience.
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by zerohp 8y ago
Are there any independent tests to back up the claims made about Berkey filters? I was given a Berkey filter and I spent some time trying to find independent validation of their claims. All I could find were just circular references between
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by zerohp 8y ago
This is a usenet post, not an email. RFC 1036 includes 'Summary' as an optional field.
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by zerohp 8y ago
No that is not the entire thing. That's just the abstract. The patent makes 63 claims. Claims are the only part of the patent document that matters for litigation.
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by zerohp 8y ago
No, not at all. Even a standard CS curriculum doesn't teach enough in the required classes to give enough context to fully understand the preprints in the two subfields you used as an example. An important part of academic research is
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by zerohp 8y ago
I'm 41 years old and I just pivoted from software to hardware by going back to school for an MS EE. I now work at a FAANG in hardware but not in the valley. I think you should consider why you're not getting interviews and try to
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by zerohp 8y ago
Prototyping using TTL chips to validate the logic design was still common throughout the 1970s. 100 TTL chips is pretty small. The Motorola 68000 team published several papers that are still available through IEEE that describe the design p
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by zerohp 8y ago
Unfunded? They are suppliers. It's just another cost of doing business with Microsoft.
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by zerohp 8y ago
Unexpanded Amiga 500/600/1200 don't use the 68000's DMA support, so an accelerator board can ground the bus request line and take over the system bus.
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by zerohp 8y ago
Article is wrong about Amigas having mono output. Every Amiga model has stereo output. It was one of the many things that set it apart.
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by zerohp 8y ago
I'm going to nitpick. Instruction sets matter as long as caches are fixed size. The real benefit of x86 is that the instruction encoding is very dense, making the L1 cache more effective. There is not an x86 emulator in software. Micr

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