Moore is no more. :(
Gordon Moore has died
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Blossom book house <3
In 1999 on MG Road, it was more likely a roadside vendor with pirated books, Higginbotham, or unlikely, Gangarams. Blossom’s (Church St) wasn’t yet open IIRC. Late 90s and early 2000s, I recall that Intel Inside, Lee Iacocca’s book, Who Moved my Cheese, Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, Jack Welch’s book, etc were commonly sold, in addition to the latest novels. I even remember buying Sylvia Nasar’s A Beautif…
wow, I'm just too young to have experienced all this :(
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#244I once got the opportunity to ask Gordon Moore a question, “what is the equivalent of Moore’s Law for software?” His response, “number of bugs doubles every year”. Great man.
I suspect the same holds true for hardware bugs in silicon, given the increasing complexity of CPUs. ;)
Yes, because those HW bugs are at the origin, SW bugs.
I heard that the last processor where they still used VLSI by hand was DECs ALPHA. Now everything comes from HDL synthesis so bugs are common.
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#245I have never had any brush with the giant. But I have my own little story to share. Way back in 1998, I was a newly minted engineer in India and was visiting Bangalore. While roaming around on MG Road, I picked up a book named “Inside Intel”. It is through that book that I learned about Gordon Moore. On the 48 hour train journey back to Delhi, I devoured the book. It left an impression and I was in awe. It also ignit…
Happy memories of the book shops on MG road. Last time I went most of the Bangalore book shops were a shadow of there former selves
Re: Gordon Moore has died
#246I have never had any brush with the giant. But I have my own little story to share. Way back in 1998, I was a newly minted engineer in India and was visiting Bangalore. While roaming around on MG Road, I picked up a book named “Inside Intel”. It is through that book that I learned about Gordon Moore. On the 48 hour train journey back to Delhi, I devoured the book. It left an impression and I was in awe. It also ignit…
Happy memories of the book shops on MG road. Last time I went most of the Bangalore book shops were a shadow of there former selves
On the contrary, the bookshop situation in Bengaluru is exceptional!
The old book shops have been disrupted. Sapna is one that has adapted well, with a publishing house, decent web-presence, and has grown too.
For the best technical books, you now go to Tata Book House (may be others, I am unaware of). Novels, and such, Blossom's on Church Street is one of the best. Then there are cafe-bookshop types like Crossword, etc.
Kannada and other language book stores are also thriving.
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To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)
At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.
I thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.
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do you mind elaborating?
it's always the good ole days for someone. it's always 5pm somewhere for someone.
"It's always the good ole days for someone" is a little phrase I'm going to try to remember and think of from time to time. Thank you for this :-)
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Happy memories of the book shops on MG road. Last time I went most of the Bangalore book shops were a shadow of there former selves
On the contrary, the bookshop situation in Bengaluru is exceptional! The old book shops have been disrupted. Sapna is one that has adapted well, with a publishing house, decent web-presence, and has grown too. For the best technical books, you now go to Tata Book House (may be others, I am unaware of). Novels, and such, Blossom's on Church Street is one of the best. Then there are cafe-bookshop types like Crossword,…
Ok thanks, I’ll try those you have suggested :)