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(HUMOR) Are you sure it was a mistake? They are politicians...

For better or worse, most commercial embedded development is done in C/C++. If you are already familiar with these, start with Atmel Studio and an AVR 8 bit processor (easier to le…

"SQL for Smarties", Joe Celko -- an excellent resource

And even then, Kotlin, not Java.

We have been using Asterisk (SIP/IAX) for about 7 years both on "cloud" servers and field communication devices with no issues on production devices (only minor problems during dev…

If you are looking for speeds on the order of 0.0024 Mbps (2400 baud) then maybe. You could use amateur radio packet radio gateways and radio modems and set something up. You could…

Take a look at Autodesk Fusion 360. It is free to makers / small startups. I use it extensively for product prototype development including for 3d printing and subtractive machinin…

Get a good lawyer, even if you only pay for a couple of hours. There are things you can do immediately (depending on whether you received a letter or they actually filed a suit) th…

As a developer it is worth it as long as you have separate teams responsible for development and production. Segmentation means that a prod server can't accidentally be configured …

I would start with Octave. You can use it to quickly learn the math behind music synthesis and experiment with the various methods. It is open source and available for Windows,Linu…

I think that would be a square peg in a round hole. If you want open, what's wrong with ODF?

It is not a high-end notebook construction-wise, but I have had very good luck with a Toshiba S70 with a full-hd screen. $499 on woot and it has a 17.3" screen, i7, a second sata b…

Stock certificates may also be subject to dilution at the whim of the majority shareholders.

Easy, abolish the TSA

Another non-answer for your question, but I'm not convinced that WiFi is the way to go for IOT. WiFi networks don't deal well with large numbers of clients, power is an issue and s…

A couple of years ago IKEA NA sold a motorized sit/stand desk. No idea why they stopped carrying it, but I would assume slow sales was the reason.

C++ or Delphi (pascal) via Embarcadero

Yes, a significant number of our users still use Windows XP and building things to XP compatibility increases the chances of running under Wine for the 0.5% or so of our users who …

Delphi -> C# is a pretty short walk, and there are lots of C#/.NET jobs around. As for learning C#, there are lots of good books and you can download Visual Studio Express and just…

Not with a strong cypher. Any single bit change in the source will result in what looks like a new pseudo-random output. Determining the private key given the public key in RSA-204…

If the cypher being used is secure, encrypting a block of 1s or 0s will generate an apparently random stream of 0s and 1s. There will be no way to determine the private key from th…

Are you asking what languages fill that gap, or how C programs interface with assembler libraries and OS interfaces?

Or get the best of both and get an Aeron lab stool and use with a sit/stand desk. You can stand when you want to, and just pull up the stool to sit. http://www.hermanmiller.com/con…

If you want to learn assembler to analyze malware, learning x86 assembler under linux or windows is where you should start. If you really want to start with a microcontroller, the …