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by zerohp 10y ago
China has yet to design a viable server CPU, so I find the claim very hard to believe.
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by zerohp 10y ago
I don't think you can draw that conclusion either. At my university, the Electrical & Computer Engineering curriculum teaches freshman assembly language before C. All of the ECE students understand pointers immediately. The Compute
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by zerohp 10y ago
The process described is not narrowly focused. It's full system design, implementation, and validation. Engineering is more than just coding and can be much more satisfying.
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by zerohp 10y ago
My understanding is that USB 1.1 is slow enough that you can get away without a analog/mixed signal PHY. I have not done it personally but I've read that you can even do USB 1.1 by bit-banging with a cheap micro controller.
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by zerohp 10y ago
You may be right, but I would be interested in seeing a study of ageism and non-traditional students. I am one. In my experience, and observation of other students like me, the situation is opposite to what you are saying. That said, none o
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by zerohp 10y ago
I don't know that ageism in technology necessarily means that older students are less likely to be hired out of university. I would be interested in seeing data to support that. As an anecdote, I have observed older students that atten
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by zerohp 10y ago
It sounds like they were a bad fit for the job, but that's not true for all programming jobs.
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by zerohp 10y ago
Patent and copyright are an external force created by a bureaucracy that prevents a free market for these products.
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by zerohp 10y ago
I am not a young person but I am a graduate student with a lot of young friends. At my university, Facebook is primarily used as a carefully curated photo album and an event planner. The genuine social interactions on Facebook have moved in
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by zerohp 10y ago
That division of programmers is a very good model. I spent many years as a self-taught programmer of group (1) but I really wanted to do the work of group (2). I found the skill gap to be impossible to bridge on my own and went to college t
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by zerohp 10y ago
That's my problem. I cannot in good faith give this kind of link to my friends.
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by zerohp 10y ago
I'm showing my age here but I remember when Google started doing it. It still annoys me because I can't Right Click->Copy Link and get a proper url for the link.
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by zerohp 10y ago
I once interviewed with a company that would not pay for travel. I saw it as a red flag but I went anyway. They are in a city I was interested in visiting, so I scheduled a half day interview for a Monday and took a long weekend. The trip w
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by zerohp 10y ago
Conferences and journals are a filter. If your paper can't pass a few rounds of anonymized review (for a conference) then it probably isn't worth the readers time. As an example, arXiv is has a lot of great papers but it also has
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by zerohp 10y ago
University students are still studying it. They graduate and go to work for companies that develop operating systems.
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by zerohp 10y ago
HBO Go doesn't stream from the operator that you sign in with, it streams from nearest node. I am temporarily living in a place with Time Warner cable but I sign in to HBO Go with an Xfinity account. The stream comes from Time Warner.
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by zerohp 10y ago
It is changing. At UIUC undergrad enrollment is officially[1] 1 female per 4 males in Computer Science. I have been told that this year's incoming freshman are 1:1 and they achieved it while raising the average test scores. It will tak
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by zerohp 10y ago
> over 80% of projects on Github don’t have an explicit license. I wish more people understood that this is a bad thing. These projects are ones that every business should fear more than the GPL3. Copyright is the default in the US, not
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by zerohp 10y ago
It's hard to imagine that we would be even close to where we are now if non-compete agreements, that are common in other states, had existed in California in the 1950's and 1960's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by zerohp 10y ago
When the ECE department at my university revised the undergrad Computer Engineering curriculum, they rejected the CS introductory courses partly for this reason. They also want to teach hardware first, but more importantly they teach "
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by zerohp 10y ago
I agree with your skepticism. They will not detect a performance regression when there is a change in instruction mix or cache miss ratio.
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by zerohp 10y ago
Get out before the pressure mounts. Speaking from experience, the stress that leads up to the bust is on an exponential curve. Worse than a bust, many SAAS startups become a regular small business with a few big clients but everyone is disg
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by zerohp 10y ago
My girlfriend had that experience with her high school friend group. Nearly all of them went to the same college for Computer Science but she chose Electrical Engineering to study computer hardware. They poked fun of her major and talked do
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by zerohp 10y ago
The 950 Pro (NVMe) uses PCIe x4, not SATA.
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by zerohp 10y ago
I'm a current graduate student in my 30's in a top five ECE department. I spent 15 years in software but I only recently completed my undergrad. I'll address only a few things you mentioned. > Is this even possible, though
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by zerohp 11y ago
I am aware of how chips are constructed. They are not built of discrete parts even though they are composed of multiple chemical elements. They are assembled through chemical processes that create a unified product through a few hundred ste
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by zerohp 11y ago
CPUs don't have a billion parts. The unpackaged die is one carefully crafted solid.
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by zerohp 11y ago
My undergrad was at a Big Ten university. The analog signal processing course in EE teaches how to use differential equations to solve circuits. Right after they taught it, we learned laplace transform and never looked at a differential equ
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by zerohp 11y ago
Don't forget that dumbed down features and arbitrary rules were what made Java popular.
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by zerohp 11y ago
Most companies won't consider you for an internship if you're not a student. Age might be a factor but its not a big one. I am a 38 year old graduate student and I had no problem getting a paid internship for the summer. I'm

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