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I'd say maybe indie developers. 'Maker', to me, means the culture that started with O'Reilly's Make magazine, Maker Faires, and the subsequent culture that grew around it, which co…

Not just revenue, but 'products'. Maker, to me, means someone who makes projects, not necessarily things for other people to consume.

The variety of memory used for computers is amazing, and I find it a lot more interesting than the history of the CPU. CPU architecture is very diverse, but physically tends to be …

It can run on steam if you like; it just needs one rotating shaft as input power. I did have the first version hooked up to a model steam engine, shown at the end of the video here…

The infinite tape requirement is a bit difficult to fulfill, but that's true of the silicon implementations as well.

I wouldn't call that a mistake on your part; it's over-use of capitalization in the headline.

I used to work in a company which had "a culture that enforces a library-like environment on an open floor plan" as indicated (it wasn't a written rule, just the way the culture wo…

I quit the co-working place I was working out of and went to work in the public library instead. It was free and their wifi was more reliable.

I have my SCAD files on github. It seems wrong to me to have a build result (the .STL file) under version control though.

It calculates a cellular automata called Rule 110 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 ) which is very difficult to code for. I've seen a paper which shows a method for coding a…

That's mine. It's a physical implementation of a 5-symbol, 2-state Turing machine which was shown to be universal by Wolfram. If it were perfectly reliable (it isn't) and had an in…