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  1. Re:Happy Hacking lite USB on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    Doh s/lite/lite2/

  2. Happy Hacking lite USB on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    I have 3 of them. Also, it has two small USB slots on the back, perfect for the Logitech dongle that talks to a m570 trackball. Three identical setups, 2 at home, one at work. Observe that esc and ctrl are in the correct place with the HH lite. Just right for Emacs.

  3. Re:Controller? on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    Or SpaceOrb360

  4. Re:What about Ada? on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Use it all the time for my embedded stuff. Even on a $2 bluepill. http://www.hrrzi.com/

  5. SoC roms on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Been doing rom fw for SoCs for years. I am 56. There is a near 100% chance you have used some of my code indirectly as these SoCs are ubiquitous. Young coders show no interest in this type of work, also, the c/asm code must be near bug free since respins cost $100'sk and schedule loss.

  6. Done. Where's my money?

  7. IBM 370 via punch cards. This was 1979. Luckily got a wilbur acct for the 370 assembly class or it too would have been punch cards. Imagine assembly on punch cards....

    Before that if it counts, Ti 58C calc.

    H.

  8. We? on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that's a "We, and we alone..."

    (why open the door to those other competing payment methods).

  9. PlexNAS + openport + Cellphone [to car BT] on WiFi-Connected Hard Drive Fits a Plex Server In Your Pocket (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Leaving the HD at home. At least with audio it streams nicely to wherever, video needs a good LTE link and a NAS that can transcode (Intel).

    H.

  10. PL/1 on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 1

    Using punch cards on CUNY's 370. Max was about 3 runs/listings per day.

  11. Switched to plex and never looked back. Works streamed to your cell, and then on to a bt stereo in the car also. Joy. Ripping though, I still use itunes, and then move the media to the plex server.

    H.

  12. Costco on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This is one of the reasons Costco is successful. You let them 'curate' by picking a subset of items they like and can get a good discount on. It's very well known to them that the paralysis mentioned leads to a more stressful shopping experience for shoppers, less selection => less stress. If you don't like that model, there are other stores eager to help.

    H.

  13. 10B$ valuation on Snapchat Will Introduce Ads, Attempt To Keep Them Other Than Creepy · · Score: 2

    Well on the way to monetize eh? Go get those eyeballs. I heard they have 35 employees. Thats an amazing ratio, 10B for 35. GPRO a week or so ago was 11B for 350. BRCM is 21B for 11300. Makes you wonder...

  14. A rule based language. 1000's of productions can be waiting to fire by querying a database (lhs waits, fires, triggers rhs updates). In my mind, its a bit like a seeing a VHDL language meet a database wrt the parallelism that comes out from it.

    Programs written in it don't look at all like programs you normally would write in the life of a typical coder.

  15. Emacs for C & assembly on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    C and ARM assembly. Same .el files from circa 1985 or so still work (with (dot) replaced by (point))

    Started with Emacs on the Decsystem-20 in 1980.

  16. 580 employees on Priceline To Buy OpenTable For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 1

    Not bad 2.6B for 580 -> ~4,5mil/employee.
    FB though is 165B for 6820 -> 24mil per.
    Where I work is ~1mil/employee

    Has the bubble formed yet?

  17. Descent + SpaceOrb 360 on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the SpaceOrb never really caught on (too hard for many to use so I heard, or at the other end of the spectrum purists preferred mouse and kbd). I have about 4 of them, they are old school RS232 9600 baud, far behind the curve for plugging into the HID USB world we live in now.

  18. Re:Good to be a Winklevii on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Winklevoss twins. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101190181

    I you believe their comments here, @120$ in the article, they feel it has 100x to go... that would be... $12000? Still a ways to go yet if their
    prediction is right.

  19. Good to be a Winklevii on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    They have 1% of the supply per wikipedia in 4/2013.

    A good speculation for them with their FB winnings I would say.

  20. From the not las Malvinas dept on GOCE Satellite Burned Up Over Falkland Islands · · Score: 1

    Was that you Margaret?

  21. Take the call. The world revolves around *you*. A sense of entitlement surrounds *you*. Ideally the call should be in a disparate language to the general meeting group. Lets assume English for the meeting, then the call would be in Hebrew, French, Farsi, Cantonese etc (esp languages where speakers naturally raise their tone when in heated conversation). Don't forget to speak loudly and quickly!, cell phones have notorious connection issues, make sure the other party hears *you*!. You are *important* your ideas and thoughts have a lot of merit that need to be conveyed one-way over the handset, everyone in the room realizes that and will make allowance for *you* because of the stature you present.

  22. Re:32 bit? on Imagination Tech Announces MIPS-based 'Warrior P-Class' CPU Core · · Score: 1

    I think it stems from the initial directions each co took.

    MIPS started from a 32bit Stanford grad project (MIPS-X) spun out to become the R2000 workstation class CPU. No hint of embedded arch at all at that time.
    They steamed on finally hitting 64bit archs relatively quickly. Once they got to the R4K32 series and upon adding MIPS-16, they had a small footprint embedded soln but...

    ARM started from basically a hobbyist computer, already with some small footprint pedigree built in. Very quickly Thumb was adopted, arch just as a translator initially but subsequently with on chip native decode. Now they have a 64bit arch, but because of their small footprint roots and aggressive licensing, they
    really caught the lions share of sockets. They can now come to capture a 64bit space that was MIPS's to own years ago by osmosis of the socket market.

    ARM had a first mover advantage in embedded and they executed well and did not allow competition to unseat them. It could have been different, they could have mucked up a design and lost share, but that did not happen.

    Both companies have first rate tool chains also (that can be a deal killer). Thus its a wash for softies when HW pitches a design, if the license is favorable, and the die area+power draw meets managements expectations, then that vendor will get the nod for new IP. ARM has been fortunate in that there is also a bit of industry simpatico wrt ARM adoption... others are using it, so why not us?

    H.

  23. The Internet of Disposable Things on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 1

    1) When the CO sensor exceeds 5yrs. Replace: cost $129
    2) CO sensor on the ceiling. Not where CO collects
    3) For the A/C model, just 2 wires, not the red 9v interconnect protocol (Firex, Kidde). Thus all alarms (n * $129) need to be installed. This cannot coexist with a legacy detector system and provide the interconnected alarm.

    Pretty enclosure though and the alerts are cool (verbal and web).

    I just installed 7 A/C ionization alarms @9$ each. Good for 10years all interconnected.

    H.

  24. Re: Oh good grief. on The Most WTF-y Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    It can go wrong sometimes. That said, don't knock hive till you've tried it.

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/467900/20130515/man-sweden-dies-sex-hornet-s-nest.htm

    H.

  25. BMW Aztek on BMW Debuts First Electric Vehicle Made Primarily of Carbon Fiber · · Score: 2

    Aztek redux now with battery and the prestige value prop logo.