Looks like a phone with specs close to today's flagship phones. "Ready to hack" is a great selling point, and something that I would like. It's probably more of a competitor to the Nexus line than all of the other phones. This is more like an example of what Google's Project Ara was trying to foster, without the funky hardware. I always thought Project Ara was much more suited for other kinds of devices than phones, and some of my friends were using them for other projects.
Many reasons for lots of legacy software that just gets updates and refreshes. Someone mentioned the small size of the market, which I think is the main reason. Originally, these programs were designed and written by EEs themselves, who weren't really experts at SW. Today's software has moved towards user friendliness and onto the web. The EE tools are mostly based on older windows platforms or Sun workstations that ran primitive x-windows environments which looked like windows 3.1.
The best stuff is usually pretty expensive. Although Altium is making lower cost and free versions available with their CircuitMaker series.
No comparison, Altium is much better than Eagle, especially for professional work. I haven't used Orcad in a long time, but back then, Orcad was much better than Altium. Nowadays, Orcad is priced beyond mortals, Altium is relatively affordable, and Eagle is cheap. Kicad is free and considered equivalent to Eagle.
Looks like a cool project. And since it's based on javascript, it shouldn't be too difficult to add a graphical interface, so the system could be driven primarily by graphics instead of using text only. A graphical interface would vastly improve on productivity and open up hardware design to more than just hardware engineers. Heck, this might give FPGAs a boost in popularity.
Since nodejs is single threaded, you'll get the best results with synchronous logic. Even asynchronous systems are difficult to design in real life, so it's not a bad idea to use nodejs.
I've never used Arch, although I've considered it. I was a Gentoo user for many years, and went through some breakage here and there. I finally went to Ubuntu and friends because it was cutting edge enough without the breakage that I've always experienced with cutting edge stuff. Even with the breakage from Gentoo, it was always much better than Windows, although windows has gotten much better since the Win95 days. I hardly have problems with Ubuntu, and I use mostly Xubuntu on my laptops.
The case can be retried, but it runs the risk of being tossed out because of the invalidated patents. If that were to happen, Apple might be able to recover some court costs.
I hope yahoo mail sticks around. I've been using it since forever, and would hate to change to gmail. Yahoo mail is kind of slow, but gets the job done, gmail is too chaotic for me. Maybe I'm old school about that, but I'm all in on yahoo mail.
I'm a total linux user and have tried *Bsd from time to time. For some reason, the bsds have always taken a very long time to boot up and even to start X. The last time I tried FreeBsd (about 3-4 years ago), a friend asked me to help him debug why X windows didn't run. It was taking 15+ minutes to startx on his brand new server class PC that he built up himself. We didn't realize that it took so long to start up until we went out for dinner and came back, surprised to see X had started. Same with OpenBsd, it took 10+ minutes just to boot up. I thought I didn't install it correctly and re-installed it a couple of times. I'm guessing, the Bsds are meant to be run continuously and not shut down? I've asked a couple of other Bsd people, and they couldn't provide an answer, so I'm left up in the air about that.
Awesome work, I love the speed. What it needs is a useable vim plugin, otherwise, it would be too difficult to use regularly, or for any real work. BTW, I also appreciate that it's cross- platform and runs on linux.
"For the last three and a half years, every single command I’ve run from the command line on my MacBook Pro has been logged... the return I’ve gotten on that small investment is immense."
I'm still not sure why it's helpful to have three and a half years of your bash shell logs.
Another free CAD program for pcb making is designspark pcb (http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/eng/page/de...). It's not opensource like Kicad and gEDA, and it's only available on Windows. But it's easy to learn, very polished for free software, and quite capable. Lots of tutorials as well. There is a lot of free software available for hobbyists/makers today and they're pretty impressive compared to commercial software.
The Theranos story is unfortunate due to the likelihood of fraud because the healthcare industry is in desperate need of disruption. Even if just from the periphery, which is how I would characterize Theranos' role, I think that could enable a change in how health care is done and delivered in the US.
If the SaaS companies are dumping their desktop offerings, who is buying them? Like you, I'm wondering if this really is a pattern, but it sounds interesting.
Since the CHIP is similar to other single chip SOC platforms like the Raspberry Pi, beagle bone, etc, the use cases are very similar. The CHIP has the advantage of being smaller in size than the other small cpu's but also much cheaper.
I've never read any of Le Carre's books, but saw a couple of films based on his books. The Little Drummer Girl was a pretty good film, so I'd like to read that book.
I don't recall Microsoft saying that they would promise to stop. What they've done instead was to act in more honorable ways. The jury is still out when it comes to forgiveness, but they've made a pretty good start at it.
Sounds good. I hope that OpenJDK improves, because it's been sluggish and buggy in my experience. What Google should do is to move to something like Kotlin, which might make the whole programming environment less tedious than Java.