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kartDon Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor

This is a basic summary of why it sucks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276471

kartDon Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse

Oh I see, thanks!

kartDon Apple is struggling to become an AI powerhouse

So what would be an advantage of Apple's system (assuming they improve speech recognition) and how would that contrast with Google's approach?

kartDon Ask HN: What is in a toolbox of modern C developer?

Highly dependent on the type of project. Embedded, networking/systems, open source or really ancient codebases (20 years plus)

For Embedded - anything, but you might get stuck with the microcontrollers IDE which is just a layer on NetBeans or Eclipse and annoying as hell to use since it's some old gcc version

For networking and systems, I imagine IDE freedom but tools are varied: dtrace, strace and all of LINUX/BSD's goodies.

Open source is similar to the systems.

I would say for C you'd want Valgrind and gdb with the new fancy frontends or modified gdbinit file. I'm in embedded and I prefer vim (going to shift to neovim soon). Clang with the static analyser is great as well.

For C the main problem is ancient code bases and companies that aren't willing to adopt some of the newer methods of testing, source control etc.

C has rarely struck me as a frameworks kind of language because most of what you need is available in POSIX.

You may want to check big modern C projects for what they use. E.g. Cloudflare's stuff, Redis maybe Google Fuschia

kartDon The Horror in the Standard Library

Actually from my understanding, it's libstdc++'s allocator that is causing the issue, not malloc.

kartDon AMD Ryzen AMA

I'm also on the look out: I'm thinking about AVADirect (www.avadirect.com), they let you make fully custom ones. Depending on what you're looking for, some options might be maingear, alienware, falcon northwest, xotic, velocity micro and origin.

Hoping someone who's ordered from any of them can chime in and share a bit more

kartDon How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

I think it's this one https://www.amazon.com/Breville-Fast-Slow-Pro-Silver/dp/B013...

kartDon AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling

Holy crap that was a bit much. Good for AMD though, they need any break they can get..

kartDon CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]

oh haha, that's a good one!

kartDon CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]

I don't get it, could you explain it please?

kartDon Snap Inc. S-1

So what's the transition time from an S-1 to being able to buy shares. Does it mean the stock will list tomorrow?

kartDon People Like Netflix’s Original Content More Than Its Other Content

What about a Spotify equivalent with everything, but you can only stream x amount of hours/shows/episodes per year?

I agree the market is too fractured and everyone subscribes for just a few shows on each service

kartDon Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013)

It's been removed from coursera. I completed and it isn't available to me either. This is the stanford link (http://online.stanford.edu/course/startup-engineering) but it just points to coursera as well.

kartDon A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline

Tap the time (x mins/hours ago) of the comment you want to favourite. That should take you to a page where you can favourite it

kartDon Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

Grokking algorithms. Great book, especially for someone like me who doesn't deal too much with this stuff (as an embedded systems engineer).

Grokking functional programming and deep learning seem awesome as well, but I haven't finished either so take my recommendation with a pinch of salt.

kartDon Xiaomi stops disclosing annual sales figures

Are you using it outside of China? Just curious because I'd like to try importing their stuff

kartDon Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity Issues

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11182080

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6531251

kartDon Ask HN: What are the best STEM toys for kids?

http://littlebits.cc/ is a great start

kartDon The Case Against Python 3

Ah but where's the fun in that? Just look at the number of people who've jumped the gun. Makes me wonder about the media and how we consume information in general...

kartDon The Case Against Python 3

He definitely is...

I just checked his twitter to make sure I'm right. He's clearly joking.

https://mobile.twitter.com/zedshaw

kartDon The Case Against Python 3

Pretty sure Zed's playing a joke on experienced programmes. He's clearly mentioned that the book is for complete beginners and that's why the entire section for experienced programmers is crap.

Funny how many haven't seen it and are arguing pointlessly.

kartDon Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Auto-Playing Media in Browsers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_DFrVkfy2Os

Cage the elephant- ain't no rest for the wicked

In case anyone is wondering

kartDon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

Hi, I'm interested in the firmware position, but I don't see any role on your career page. Is it still open?

kartDon Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

It's not clear why they're getting sick or what percentage of people are getting sick. It's good they're taking it seriously and being cautious.

"Our tests all came back negative for food pathogens, toxins or outside contamination,” so it's possible that it affects just a few people but they're still be being careful.

And frankly in this case refunds are implied, I would imagine that they would be sued into oblivion otherwise.

I just think it's good to see a company take things seriously and act rather than engage in PR. E.g. Theranos, Samsung etc.

kartDon Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

Still waiting for the facts, but I'm pleasantly surprised and impressed by Soylent's response. I think they're doing the right thing.

kartDon FreeRTOS meets Rust

I had heard about the book. Thanks for the info!

kartDon FreeRTOS meets Rust

Little off topic, but does anyone have a good resource or tutorial for FreeRTOS. I find freertos.org sparse and not really illustrative.

kartDon iPhone 7

The iPhone ships with lighting to 3.5mm adapter so Apple has heard users... Kinda

kartDon Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month

They hired a significant portion of their staff from CMU's robotics division.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...

kartDon An Expert in Valuation Says Uber Is Only Worth $28B, Not $62.5B

I disagree with his valuation, but yes, he is brilliant. People should definitely check out his work.