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Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by paganel »

kragen wrote: post #195
paganel wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Truth being flagged just because it doesn’t look “cool”. This profession desperately needs a re-do. Otherwise I’m pretty sure that the person that flagged my statement really cares about the environment and recycles religiously.

People are flagging your comments because they aren't innumerate enough to be taken in by your silly argument that this project is somehow relevant to our current environmental catastrophe.

> is somehow relevant to our current environmental catastrophe.

And you think our "current environmental catastrophe" is caused by big giant anti-environmental alien monsters that do their anti-environment stuff against the wishes of all the good people in here? No, they're caused by you and me and this guy who thinks that a paper-only business card that can self-decompose if left in the elements in a matter of months is worse than this useless stuff that will electronically pollute the environment for thousands of years.

Like I said, we desperately need a change of mentality in this domain, starting from above (Apple and its environmentally disastrous phones and laptops) and going all the way down to "mere" technologically-obsessed and not seeing-the-forrest-for-the-trees programmers.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by ufmace »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #70

This is cool as it showcases his embedded engineering prowess. Years of startup meets[1] have left a bad taste in mouth for the business cards. I've seen people exchange business cards ceremoniously, only to give a missed call to each other immediately. Business cards are a waste of money, paper and I don't want to get started on the plastics. I honestly thought that proliferation of NFC in smartphones would help to…

Actual card exchanges seem to be used as a polite way to fob uninteresting people off as much as an actual exchange of contact info with people you want to talk to later.

This seems to be a bit of an exception. They're not really expensive, but they are expensive enough that you're not going to just hand them out to random annoying recruiters or wantrepreneuers you want to fob off.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by lonelappde »

cyphar wrote: post #203
lisper wrote: post #197

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Yes, that's true. It has been O(1 hour) for pretty much the entire history of Linux. And if you think about it, this makes sense. If it were significantly less than that, the development cycle would speed up so it would be easier to add capabilities, which would slow down the build. If it were significantly longer, the addition of new features would slow down until the hardware started to catch up. So the compile tim…

I'm not sure that is the primary reason -- many other projects have had their compile times explode over many years, even though the same logic should apply. Not to mention if you build the kernel regularly, you benefit from incremental compilation. If you change a few non-header files the rebuild time can be as little as 2-3 minutes. Oh, and "make localdefconfig" will reduce your from-scratch compile times to the 5-…

It's a lower bound for a highly active project.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by tyingq »

eeZah7Ux wrote: post #250
tyingq wrote: post #196

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There's the Lichee Nano. Same chip, available with a WiFi module that plugs into the SD card slot. $8 total. https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Lichee-Nano-Linux-Develop...

$8 vs $3 is hardly justifiable

Well, it has WiFi, and it's assembled. I imagine I'd blow more thab $5 worth of time trying to reflow solder tiny pins on a CPU.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by leoc »

neurostimulant wrote: post #67

To me it's truly mind-bogging that a tiny $1.42 chip contains almost everything needed to boot Linux: a 500mhz cpu, 32MB SDRAM, 2D GPU, SD/MMC support, and USB controller, all packaged inside a 10mm x 10mm chip? It makes me really want to get into embedded development.

Twenty years ago, a car stereo that ran Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car https://web.archive.org/web/20000815214315/http://wired.com/... was the toast of Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/03/03/1216251/linux-power... .

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by wcarss »

winrid wrote: post #108
XzAeRosho wrote: post #73

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I mainly work in web-dev, but working in embedded systems is kind of my hobby. It's kind of refreshing working on bare-metal, optimizing up-to single bytes of data, when I'm usually working on layers and layers of abstraction everyday.

I just finished Michael Abrash's Black Book. Lots of assembly. You may like it. Like 30 hours of reading.

http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/ is an excellent online version of that amazing book that I believe is hosted with Michael Abrash's permission.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by fest »

lisper wrote: post #225
brantonb wrote: post #212

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When I worked at Microsoft, Windows took far, far longer than an hour to build from scratch. I remember walking a few buildings over to the burn lab to pick up DVDs of the latest build. I don’t have any hard data, but running a full build on your dev box was very rarely done.

The dynamics of commercial projects can be very different from open-source. You're much more likely to tolerate sitting through long builds if you're being paid to do so.

Until management notices, does the X hours saved multiplication by number of developers, and the resources for improvement will be found soon.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by 0x5345414e »

seabird wrote: post #220
nickreese wrote: post #118

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Where does a web-dev turn to to get started in this as a hobby?

No matter what you do, you NEED tools. I cannot stress this enough. If you can spend $250-$500 on a nice desktop scope, awesome. If you only have $80, you can get a serviceable Hantek USB scope that will at least give you an idea of what you're doing. If you can only spare $20, you can at least get an el cheapo JYETech scope. In addition, you'll want to pick up a multimeter and probably a logic analyzer. Again, no ne…

Another good book is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4073235-msp430-microcont..., which I'm sure you can find online for free somewhere.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by jimhi »

_9hey wrote: post #170
bigbong wrote: post #130

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Really loved the look of your website... Is it designed by you?

It is nice! Congrats on your career/YC. I really liked "The art of being Disagreeable" because I've found that to be quite accurate in my experience.

I assume the parent comment is talking about op's website but thanks! I have been trying to write about all the things I wish I knew when I started.

Re: My Business Card Runs Linux

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Post by jbverschoor »

ohazi wrote: post #83
jbverschoor wrote: post #22

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Is that really the responsibility of the person making the card? This is the responsibility of the creators of the USB hardware, firmware, motherboard firmware, electrical design, OS developers / driver developers. It should be safe to plug in a USB device by default

should be safe, in theory, sure. But in practice?

Then we should stop any form of communication.

In practice it can be safe on multiple levels. He could’ve also just put some malware I. A pdf or word document, as word is what recruiters want.

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