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Love this article. For those of you who enjoy a heaping meal of architectural commentary sprinkled with a generous portion of sarcasm, check out the author's blog [1]. Literally LO…

Haha - I get it!

No, it's not worth it. Modern IDEs make so many things easier than vi / vim / emacs ever did. vi / vim / emacs can be useful in certain situations (Unix / Cygwin command lines, low…

Yes - a thousand times yes! The goto has gotten a bad rap over the years because of Dijkstra's paper. And that paper has unduly influenced a lot of incorrect thinking. There are va…

Hear, hear! Unfortunately, C does get a lot of hate on HN. I suspect it has to do with this site's demographics. Many (not all) of the HN clan seem to be oriented towards / mostly …

https://spa.mnesty.com/ = server not found. Anyone else seeing this?

I'm in Colorado Springs. Didn't know a CO based city was doing this. That's pretty awesome!

So bummed to read this. Even though I wasn't going to directly benefit from Google Fiber, it was sure nice to have a non-entrenched player tackle this market. From the big G's stan…

Thanks for posting re: the fairphone. Never heard of that before. Got any personal first hand experience with it?

Nice. I'm always taking books that are mentioned in various HN comments and adding them to my reading list. Thanks for making it easy!

Wow - that. looks. exhausting. And like an overall pretty ineffective use of engineer's time. At least for the kind of SW development that I generally do. I can imagine certain lim…

Assembly language can be fun and awesome! For me, if I'm ever working in assembly, which is pretty rare these days, it's usually on an overall "smaller" system. Ie an embedded syst…

Depends on what you're debugging. Desktop apps w/ C/C++ -- IDE based debugger (Visual Studio, GDB w/ a front end, ADB) print / logging statements Embedded C -- IDE Debugger (Green …

Wrt Perl being readable / legible; I think most find Perl hard to read because there are 3-4 different ways to do the same thing. And many of the more "advanced" ways of doing thin…

True, to an extent. I'm assuming you are referring to the Arduino family when you say "8-bit AVR controllers"? If yes, they do in fact do a great job at making things somewhat easy…

Depends on how deep down the embedded rabbit hole you want to go. Personally, an article like this, with its main diagram and high level descriptions, would have been enormously us…

ARRL handbook = this? http://www.arrl.org/shop/ARRL-Handbook-2016-Hardcover-Editio...

I also want to thank you. For making me bust out some google-fu to figure out what "Poe's law" and a "fugue" are. And for the lulz of course. That goes with out saying.

"Technology has a peculiar ability to light gigantic piles of money on fire." Just wanted to say thanks for the laugh! It's not often than a comment on HN makes me laugh out loud. …

This article is absolutely hilarious! I rarely laugh out loud when I'm reading stuff, but this line just got me. "Because I’m overeducated and insecure, I package my banal observat…

That's awesome! I think more SW engineers ought to be getting exercise for all the benefits mentioned in these comments. Me personally - I climb, bike, run, and lift. I like variet…

This is a very interesting idea. Have you, or anyone else on HN, ever seen this in action? I would LOVE to hear stories about this, either successes or failures.

Or like becaks and opelets in Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_rickshaw https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oplet

Something else to consider is that many embedded Linux systems do not have bash, only sh (aka Bourne shell). It is often easier to use only Bourne shell-isms to get things to work …

Pretty sweet. Will be interesting to see where this lib goes. If someone has some time, maybe they could give it a mention on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag…