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This article is about the NES expansion port though, so I'm a bit confused at why a Super Famicom peripheral is relevant? I agree the SatellaView is cool though...

It's intended to be a drop in replacement for the Terasic DE10-Nano, and it uses the same Cyclone V FPGA.

I love this! Great post.

Ah wow this is great! Very clear explanation. I particularly liked that there are fields that you couldn’t identify but you were still able to get the information you needed!

Planet Labs | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA / REMOTE North America Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This con…

I have been working through this book in rust, and I have to say, the book is a real joy. Extremely clear writing, very good pacing, and excellent explanations of technical topics.…

I find the perspective of the SEO guy interesting, even if I find what he does kind of skeezy and annoying.

This movie is incredible. It's amazing how everyone making a game in this movie explicitly states that they feel like they are going to die or kill themselves. Interviewer (paraphr…

There's also a BBC story about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16174972

I don't think Justin Frankel has worked for Winamp for some time. He's over at Cockos these days.

This seems pretty different from the Canadian asset requirement [1]. The Canadian asset requirement is meant to ensure that new (skilled worker) immigrants can support themselves (…

Core Intuition ( http://www.coreint.org/ ), is a really great podcast by two iOS/Mac developers (Daniel Jalkut of MarsEdit fame, and Manton Reece of tweetmarker). Daniel's shtick i…

In what sense is there less lock in with Brightbox than with EC2? I've run EC2 images on other IaaS clouds, and it's easy to pull an image out with ec2-download-bundle.

Do you think maybe you could explain why it isn't functional?

Diffeent platforms use different font rendering algorithms. I'll avoid saying that one is better than the other, but it's off putting to see one rendering alongside another on the …

What incentive is there to create great Playbook Native apps when you can just make 1 web app that "will work" in a "browser" for Playbook? Developers who really care about the pla…

I think so long as you're satisfied with your tool, you should just keep using it. If you "don't believe the hype", then doesn't just that mean that the benefits that people descri…

What are you talking about. What Macbook Air runs iOS?

Hmm. I've never used SciPy before but let's see if I can figure it out: $ brew install python pip gfortran # Fortran's for scipy... $ pip install numpy $ pip install svn+ http://sv…

Yeah. It's just a Xen VM. I do this every month or so. You just have to make sure that you have a kernel and modules you can boot the image with on your local Xen host. This is pre…

Uhh, what about ec2-download-bundle? Last I checked you could use that to download your image files. http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineR...