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Thanks for pointing out your article about the 76477. Fascinating stuff. As for my second paragraph about "digital-analog", this reference on VCO-based quantizers [1] is not the on…

Does anyone have a good reference on how analog is done on logic processes, specifically the bits that have to interface off the chip, like gpio, lvds, and serdes. I'd much appreci…

This following a fantastic book, with good exercises, and most importantly it includes applications: Real Analysis and Applications by Davidson and Donsig http://www.math.uwaterloo…

Why would you link directly to this? Anyway, anybody who's anybody knows that "Théorie des espèces et combinatoire des structures arborescentes" is what you should be reading, sinc…

Is there a story here?

Congratulations. I hope Samsung nurtures the technical excellence at Joyent. Please, please continue to develop your public cloud offerings. Having options other that the myopic, m…

Bitcoin is simply going through a discontinuity brought on by a fixed blocksize. Personally, I feel uncertainty is the real issue. The "community" should either accept this, or opt…

Here is a math-focused submission from way back [0] where I made some suggestions that I stand by. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273012

There is a sort of analogue to this: parents praising their children as beautiful/pretty or brave/strong. Both vacuously reduce the childs ability to reflect genuinely on their str…

Okay, so how does the "free market" address a growing underclass that can't afford to live outside poverty? How does the "free market" address social issues caused as a result of t…

Sure if it's about the client then sure but as soon as SpiderOak open sources their software they start competing on price because anyone can write a backend to use another storage…

How do you know what is running corresponds to the provided source?

For people interested in other SDR options, I believe these guys were YC funded: Per Vices, http://www.pervices.com/ Their hardware is significantly meatier, supporting frequencies…

Doctors do have "skin in the game". They face rigorous scrutiny for their medical actions.

> SSL is as save as the CA list used by the browser is. It really doesn't matter which CA you actually choose then. Which is why a _comprehensive_ history of when, how, and why CA …

You are absolutely right that I didn't have to reveal my "prejudice" here. For that I apologize. However, you are mistaken that I don't have to trust StartSSL, or any CA at all. In…