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Post by gvand »

pkiller wrote: post #24
kotrunga wrote: post #20

If you wrote a book explaining how to do this, teaching the concepts, etc... I think a lot of people (or at least me) would be very interested!!! Great job

Thanks :) I've kept this project to myself and would only describe it occasionally to some coworkers and friends. I never thought that many people would find it cool. And always thought that people with more knowledge than me would find a lot of flaws. So it's really awesome to read yours and all the other comments. :) I don't think I could write a book, but I have though in writing other posts, giving more detail in…

You should do both! :)

Start writing a book and keep writing posts on some of the details and use them to collect emails of people interested in buying the book once it comes out. Also, get on twitter for the same reason.

Re: Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

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Post by Rooster61 »

This is a wonderful project. Well done. You might just inspire this software engineer to take his first crack at hardware. :)

One somewhat personal question, if you don't mind. You say you are Portuguese. Is English a second language for you? I don't see the telltale signs of a Portuguese -> English speaker (I have a lot of experience interacting with Portuguese speakers, and their English mistakes are pretty uniform due to the specific differences between the languages, esp regarding prepositions and tense). Your article, as many have noted, is beautifully written even for a native English speaker.

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Post by bantunes »

Rooster61 wrote: post #113

This is a wonderful project. Well done. You might just inspire this software engineer to take his first crack at hardware. :) One somewhat personal question, if you don't mind. You say you are Portuguese. Is English a second language for you? I don't see the telltale signs of a Portuguese -> English speaker (I have a lot of experience interacting with Portuguese speakers, and their English mistakes are pretty uniform…

It's almost like Portuguese people are not a uniform block, right?

Re: Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

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Post by Rooster61 »

bantunes wrote: post #114
Rooster61 wrote: post #113

This is a wonderful project. Well done. You might just inspire this software engineer to take his first crack at hardware. :) One somewhat personal question, if you don't mind. You say you are Portuguese. Is English a second language for you? I don't see the telltale signs of a Portuguese -> English speaker (I have a lot of experience interacting with Portuguese speakers, and their English mistakes are pretty uniform…

It's almost like Portuguese people are not a uniform block, right?

Who said anything about Portuguese people as a uniform block? That doesn't even make any sense as it's not only Portuguese people that speak Portuguese lol. I only referenced those who have either chosen or were involuntarily exposed to English as a second language who speak Portuguese natively.

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 »

This is simply incredible. I teach high school and elementary kids, and the thing I'm always telling them and parents is how the added complexity and modern design of software and hardware have made it so challenging for kids to take a "peak" under the hood. Projects like this are such a wonderful way to really spark that curiosity between hardware and software. So inspirational!

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Post by bantunes »

Rooster61 wrote: post #115
bantunes wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's almost like Portuguese people are not a uniform block, right?

Who said anything about Portuguese people as a uniform block? That doesn't even make any sense as it's not only Portuguese people that speak Portuguese lol. I only referenced those who have either chosen or were involuntarily exposed to English as a second language who speak Portuguese natively.

> and their English mistakes are pretty uniform due to the specific differences between the languages, esp regarding prepositions and tense

This is not the case. Different people make different mistakes, as any exposure to a high-school level English class will allow you to discover. There's a case for clusters of similar errors, but then again any generalizing statement is true for a sufficiently high level of clustering.

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Post by Rooster61 »

bantunes wrote: post #117
Rooster61 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who said anything about Portuguese people as a uniform block? That doesn't even make any sense as it's not only Portuguese people that speak Portuguese lol. I only referenced those who have either chosen or were involuntarily exposed to English as a second language who speak Portuguese natively.

> and their English mistakes are pretty uniform due to the specific differences between the languages, esp regarding prepositions and tense This is not the case. Different people make different mistakes, as any exposure to a high-school level English class will allow you to discover. There's a case for clusters of similar errors, but then again any generalizing statement is true for a sufficiently high level of clust…

"Their" referring to the group of Portuguese speakers that I know, not Portuguese people as a block. That implication came about due to you alone. The observation that you quoted is based on both my interaction with them, but also their interpretation and observation of themselves relayed to me in conversation(many of them are in the field of linguistics, so this type of thing comes up a good bit).

I can see how you could draw that conclusion from my post, however. I assure you there was no intent to generalize.

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Post by virusduck »

beachy wrote: post #48
snazz wrote: post #28

As much as I enjoy quickly building circuits on a breadboard like in many of the photos, they’re hell to debug, because there’s so much that can go subtly wrong. It’s much easier with digital than analog circuits, of course, but it still can be crazy hard to logic-probe every connection to get it all to work. I have spent far too much time fixing little bugs in breadboarded circuits. The toughest issue I encountered…

When I was a lad, wirewrap was the thing. You can prototype quickly, and make changes easily too. (It seems like it's still a thing in fact http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/wire_wrap_is_alive... )

Learned this technique in uni ca. 2004 and still use it for hobby stuff. It's nice to have a more stable, noncommittal method!
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