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Wirth also created successors to Pascal and co-created an operating system and the hardware it ran/runs on.

It's currently unobtainium, it can't be purchased.

Here's a suggestion I haven't seen: Unless you have full management support, a skilled team, valid business reasons for this conversion, and expectations of succeeding, consider mo…

MIPS hasn't gone anywhere. You can get PIC32 chips and boards based on them for various projects include the Open Source TenTec 506 Rebel radio. While there's more tools and chips …

I comment them at the time of creation and add them to my snippets file with the comment.

There's a lot of open data available, depending on what you are looking for. If I had time, I could probably spend it on this SE and earn points, count coup, or whatever. Instead I…

The first hit/dose is free. On the other hand you do have companies that do make millions that are bailing on certain aspects of Microsoft tools and servers due licensing costs and…

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I recommends Zed's to the absolute beginners. If they can handle LPTHW, they are on a good track for the future.

The OP has "dabbled", he hasn't committed himself to a single language nor a good regimen/project to succeed. Let's look at this quote: "On top of that, there’s a constant din of “…

Having been "online" since the '80s, I respectfully disagree. Relative anonymity in "real" life leads to antisocial activity and rudeness since there's little chance of identity or…

This is similar to what I would do in the same situation. If I didn't need the income of my day job, I'd spend the time on public service or charity of some sort. I can't see mysel…

It's not debugging as much as what us old timers call troubleshooting. At the university I had an insane advantage over those folks that had never seen a Simpson multimeter nor sol…

If the organizers really want to make a difference, the site should replace the words "call and email" with "buy and pay".

I refused to install Skype for work, pointing out that it's not as secure as it's alternatives. Plus the fact it's disrupting, crappy software and you still can reach me by email, …

I agree with the author in regards to coding web sites. It's not enough to know a just a few languages, there's a whole frickin' vocabulary of crap piled on layers of services and …

While I love the blog and the very clear explanations, none of this is new nor amazing to the experienced RF engineer, enthusiast, or practitioner. What's awesome is that the hardw…

I used to repair KLA wafer steppers and loaders back in the day as ppart of my job. Not something you would find outside a fab, lab or test facility.

No. "brow" is short for browse. Cookie if you know what language.

I chose my laptop mainly on the quality and layout of the keyboard. Unlike the OP, I don't travel as much so I had more choices due to the fact I have 17.3" laptop.

It's not stupidity for everyone, it's just that every recourse outside of violence has been captured or gamed by those truly in power in the US. Plus the media has been captured 99…

Have you met the author? Peter is opinionated, but most of the time he has a valid reason for it. As a writer and a programmer, a good keyboard is a necessity for his work. (I'd be…

I was given a bunch of DG gear around Y2K. Kept a couple of Aviion boards to hang on the office wall after having to purge the system collection before moving. As much as I love ol…

VAXen to play with? What type of hardware you running on? I vaguely remember VMS and DCL from the late 80's and early 90's, we had terminals everywhere on the floor and in the fab.…

How's availability outside of China? I'm not finding many of these systems in the US.