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by zhemao 13y ago
Okay, yeah, I guess I was overthinking it a bit. It does seem relatively straightforward now that I reflect on it some more.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Although the article as a whole makes very good suggestions about keeping your skills fresh, I think his standards for the candidates he interviewed are impossibly high. Expecting an understanding of what the kernel does when malloc is call
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by zhemao 13y ago
You don't need to Google his name, even. He says he's in Beijing at the end of the first section. Presumably wyclif was so turned off by the spelling mistake in the title, he decided not to read any of the article itself.
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by zhemao 13y ago
No it doesn't, but since it has USB ports you can augment it with a USB wifi module. A word of warning though. If you're thinking of buying one of these, make sure to check that it has good Linux support.
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by zhemao 13y ago
That number is a bit disingenuous, since some of the individual bullet points are pretty catch-all. For instance, No bath, beauty, and cosmetic products; electronic surveillance equipment; eyewear (sunglasses, prescription glasses, and othe
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by zhemao 13y ago
> You don't see professional musicians trying to play 10 different instruments on world level. Yeah, but a violinist wanting to learn how to play the piano doesn't try to rub the keys with a bow. If you are a Javascript Web Dev
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by zhemao 13y ago
You know, he never said he was a CS or engineering major.
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by zhemao 13y ago
So, I don't really buy arguments like this. Would your friends who are comfortable with JS but aren't engineers actually be interested in learning microcontroller programming because they can do it in JS? When you move from script
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by zhemao 13y ago
There was also a project to embed a Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel. http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern/
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by zhemao 13y ago
There's not really much need for scripting on an embedded device. Embedded systems are meant to do a single task and run continuously. If he is already comfortable with C, he clearly doesn't have much use for a language like Javas
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by zhemao 13y ago
Pretty much every one except Perl or PHP.
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by zhemao 13y ago
But that's a library issue, not a hardware issue. It shouldn't be difficult to write a wrapper for bonescript that turns the first example into the second example.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Errrrm, if you ever look at the AVR C library that Arduino was based off of, you would probably not be so quick to say that it isn't a language issue. Not having to know the weird unpronounceable mnemonic for a certain register as well
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by zhemao 13y ago
On an embedded microcontroller, pointers and manual memory management tend to be less of an issue, as you're doing most of the stuff on the stack. I don't think I've ever had a reason to call malloc in an embedded C applicati
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by zhemao 13y ago
How would you run Node on it otherwise? If it's not running an operating system that Node already supports, it means they've done the very large amount of work needed to port a Javascript interpreter to a bare-metal environment. I
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by zhemao 13y ago
It also assumes that anonymous sex is something that appeals to a large majority of men. I'm not entirely certain that this actually holds up to evidence either. Does anyone know of any research that studies this? I vaguely remember re
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by zhemao 13y ago
Not every language has to have webdev functionality shoehorned into it. I hardly think that having more web developers involved would speed up the development of the high quality scientific packages that Julia contributors are already curre
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. You think if the software is GPLv3, Apple won't put restrictions in their hardware in order to be able to shift the software with OSX? More likely they will just not use that software a
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by zhemao 13y ago
Just put a Faraday cage around it by wrapping it in tin foil. </sarcasm>
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by zhemao 13y ago
Well that's just dumb.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I mean worry about more than the 90% who have been fired and (presumably) don't have access to NSA computers anymore. Also, I don't think leaking NSA secrets is the main problem. I think their main problem will be finding and reta
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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh wait. Okay, I guess the attackers created the file as well.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Why did they even make this a PHP file? Why not just HTML or plain text?
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by zhemao 13y ago
Well, it's probably the 10% they didn't fire that they have to worry about now.
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by zhemao 13y ago
How is the title ambiguous? GNU in this case refers to the organization and not the license and is part of the project's proper name. In the same way that the "Mozilla" in Mozilla Firefox refers to the Mozilla foundation and
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yes, please. Anything but C++. The progress of Rust and Go make me hopeful for the future.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Actually wait, yeah, that's pretty feasible. It seems that glacier pricing is free for low storage volumes. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh, so it's not a web-based client. Sorry, I confused it with Mega. To be honest, why not roll your own alternate solution? This one here is just a frontend to S3 and glacier. It shouldn't be too difficult to write a script that t
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, you wonder why they don't open-source their front-end client code so that it can be easily audited to make sure the encryption is done right. It would go a long way to increasing some users' peace-of-mind. Then again, since
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by zhemao 13y ago
I think the issue here is that Qualcomm won't even allow AOSP to distribute the binary blobs.

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