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stephenmm

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About stephenmm

Principal Hardware Engineer at Oracle Labs

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    Comment #24304833

    There is, sort of. There are many people/services that will print these parts for you.

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    Comment #21455289

    The executives and board members are not delusional. According to legal precedent set by Dodge v. Ford Motor Co, a 1919 decision that held that "A business corporation is organized…

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    Comment #21444262

    To me this is exactly the problem of our times and should not be trivialized. Were there too few gatekeepers of news in the past? Maybe, but the "new" problem is that it has become…

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    Comment #21443948

    I was a little skeptical of take home coding exams but the more interviewing I do it seems to be a pretty efficient way to screen candidates as it is less stressful than live codin…

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    Comment #18603761

    Yah I am sure hardcore hackers are giving up the gig b/c they need a PHOTO of an ID! And now the ones who are legitimate have to trust a company with their IDs? This seems like a V…

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    Comment #17934428

    He calls it RISC5, one might assume but does anyone know if it is using the RISC-V ISA?

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    Comment #17827666

    Nice work! If I could make one suggestion it would be to use hex instead of decimal. It would make the numbers easier to remember (shorter) and I think it would be easier to recogn…

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    Comment #15099830

    Agreed. My neighbor (a Mexican national in the U.S.) who has successfully started many companies is looking for a place in Canada this week. His moving will be a great loss to the …

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    Comment #14549873

    Actually there is already a Scala version that is well defined. From the website https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ 'Chisel is an open-source hardware construction language develope…

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    Comment #13427950

    Not sure but I bet that ARM is starting to pay it some attention! The great thing about being open is it allows academics and inventors to try out new ideas and have the ISA and as…

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    Comment #13385567

    I could retire today and be very comfortable for the remainder of my days (I am 41) but man would life get boring. Even if I work on projects I haven't had time for and travelled t…

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    Comment #12797799

    I live in Austin and they literally just yesterday marked up my yard where the fiber is supposed to go. Does anyone know if they will finish the job or am I left out to dry here?

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    Comment #12661867

    Looks interesting but its not clear to me what it is... Anyone have more noob friendly introduction?

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    Comment #12586091

    I like to see this stuff (seems like they should have had this earlier) but to me the real market shifting is less about performance and much more about preformance/watt and unit p…

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    Comment #12263126

    Would be neat to give it real topo maps and then have it generate the towns and see how well it matches reality. Great work!

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    Comment #11707837

    They did adopt ARM earlier than most and had a license for it that would allow them to even make innovations of the ARM core like many of the current successful chip developers but…

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    Comment #11707749

    They made several attempts ( http://www.cnet.com/news/intel-sells-off-communications-chip... ) but I think Intel has a huge cultural problem that does not allow for true innovation…

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    Comment #11669170

    If this works well than this indeed is a HUGE reason to use BK!

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    Comment #11545988

    The new name has to be dcbash or maybe dcsh but dcbash is more fun.

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    Comment #10532946

    I like the idea. I wonder how much the Google Cloud Platform is costing him?

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    Comment #10037219

    I am sort of new to this stuff but I believe Django essentially does this correctly as long as you have your site under version control. Although having a DB instance for each deve…

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    Comment #10020772

    They should have made the charge port in the back center of the car. Then while driving along a charging vehicle with a snake on the front would drive up behind and charge you up! …

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    Comment #9951378

    Actually this is the area that I am most interested in. I am responsible for writing SystemC models of our designs so that firmware/software guys are able to work in parallel with …