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Ah well. I recently (a week ago) started a new project with the Arduino and then they release this beast. It's basically cheaper than an Arduino (except that there's no storage in the Pi) AND faster than the Arduino.

Sure, it won't have the same IO capabilities as there's much more layers but it will be pretty close and I don't really need great performance anyways.

I guess, I'll have to switch to the Pi, it's not even a fair race at this point.

(luckily for me, I was mostly writing the SaaS that would work with the Arduino and only spent about a full day's work doing C/C++ coding so far)
Oberon was actually used in a couple of German universities, not just because of the language, but because of the whole environment (which feels a bit like SmallTalk for bit-twiddlers and -shavers).

Having said that, Oberon is a pretty strict and bare language compared to others, e.g. in its current standard, the old structured programming rule of one return statement per function is strictly enforced. Whether that's an advantage for teaching or not, I can't really say.
> Firefox with Firebug and all its plugins is the best web development browser

Sorry but no, unless it has catched up with Chrome Developer Tools (back into native since the last 3 years so I don't know the actual differences).

EDIT: Made the content between parenthesis clearer.
Nice. Interesting design choice to not have ethernet on it.
You are correct, this is call for proof.

It seems that in your worldview, one either believes the author, or calls him a liar. But in real life, the third option is actually more optimal in majority of cases. This third option is doubt.
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Perhaps the post is alluding to some different use of statistics than I'm used to - but isn't it normal to view a certain set of outcomes as a sample from some larger population, and not as eg: a sequence. In the case of a given coin, and a controlled sequence of flips, we can ask different questions, like what is the probability of heads following heads vs, heads following tails? (Eg: when a certain experimenter flips the coin, do the side that is up at the start of the experiment affect the outcome? Will someone that mechanically flips a coin 10s or 100s of times in a row end up with such a similar mechanical motion that the coin tends to spin approximately the same number of times from "flip" until it lands?).

I think the author mixes up the mental models involved, when mixing "throwing away information", "sequence" and "a (typical) fair coin" and "a (typical) unfair coin".

There's this coin, this sequence, and those typical fair/unfair coins.

In as much as I've been able to grasp anything about proper statistics, it's the idea that without some idea of the population and sample type (eg: can we expect a Poisson distribution?) -- most modern statistics makes no sense. And one can look at things differently. Just like Newtonian physics is correct at the same time as quantum physics is correct (most of the time). But sometimes we need to change our theoretical model to be more precise (quantum) in order to predict and model behaviour mathematically.
Quote from the article below. I'm curious - is this type of behaviour the YC-encouraged way? Skirting laws and regulations to grow revenue? IIRC PG has mentioned preferring founders who are willing to break the rules. Or are startups like AirBnB and Zenefits the outliers?

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"I made like $15,000 in the time I was there, just on commissions. And I never got my license," said an insurance salesperson who left Zenefits this summer. She estimated she had more than 100 conversations with different customers about insurance. "I took my test three times in a row, and I failed. They still let me work."

Without her license, she had to improvise on calls with customers.

When faced with a tricky question, "I would just google it,” she said. She would tell the customer, "Hold on one second, let me email the expert, he's on the line, hold on one second, I'll get back to you.” But in reality, “I would pick one of the first three links and I would just go off of that."
In QNX, the serial console, if present, is managed by a driver in user space, loaded with the kernel as part of the boot image. That's how all initial drivers in QNX start up. For embedded systems, the serial console driver might not be loaded, or could be a special-purpose driver for the hardware. The user mode driver is used for any messages during boot; there's no special startup-time kernel driver.

The boot image may be in ROM, and on small embedded devices, it usually is. For QNX, disks and file systems are optional. If disk support is desired, some disk drivers and an init program are included in the boot image, and the later phases of startup are somewhat UNIX-like.

It's possible to build a QNX boot image so that networking comes up before the file system, which is useful for headless embedded systems. It's also possible to build a classic system for x86-type BIOS-controlled boot from disk, and run QNX on the desktop, but that's not done much any more.
Walmart's $9 Android smartphone is a fantastic pile of junk
It's now been a little over a year that I've been in Pittsburgh and mostly gotten to and from work by bus. Here's how it looks to me:

1. You have to arrange your life around the schedule. The buses, OTOH, don't. Last winter it was not uncommon to wait half an hour with no shelter or place to sit, in below-freezing weather, for a late bus. The bus I get on in the morning has tended to be five to ten minutes late (which means delays for transfers), and once pulled in shortly before the bus making the next scheduled stop.

2. Once the bus does arrive, there may or may not be a seat available.

3. If the buses have shock absorbers, I've not seen or felt evidence of it. The driver's seat, OTOH, is quite the technological miracle of jerk (in the physics sense) minimization.

4. The buses aren't designed to accommodate any items a passenger might be bringing along.

5. The bus driver sometimes either can't or doesn't bother to set the bus's identification of itself (to potential passengers via signage or to apps). It's a good way to make people miss their buses.

I can only describe my experiences with the Allegheny Port Authority, others may differ. When I've called, the recording describing the menu runs at VERY low volume, perfect for trying to get help on a busy street with traffic noise. When I got through and described the issue, I was asked if I wished to register a complaint. I did; I think I may have gotten a followup on it once. OTOH, that's not been as much of an issue lately, because now you can only call between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., just the thing for avoiding people having problems during the morning and evening commute.

I will celebrate when mass transit is disrupted out of existence.
Hard to generalize from a sample size of one (about which we don't even know that much).
LFT's "bitbuf" sequencer[1] is one of the better examples I've seen of the concept "leaving money on the table". He released the demo video in 2011 and people are still trying to buy it in the comments.

I would pay good money for just the his code that transposing/modulating live MIDI loop sequences (e.g. from the bass line).

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/bitbuf/
Because everybody is too afraid to confront them.
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/gene-drive-mosquit...

Because almost all the progeny carry the new genes, instead of just 50 percent as would be expected by Mendel’s laws of genetics, the inserted genes are expected to spread rapidly and take over a wild population in as few as 10 generations, or a single season. A large region, at least in principle, could be freed from malaria, which kills almost 600,000 people a year."
Glad to hear FPC is still well alive and kicking.

BTW, AFAIK Wirth's work is not limited to Pascal (there are Oberon and Modula, for example). Wonder why those languages don't gain as much exposure as Pascal does?
A better wording for the question the teacher was really trying to ask might be:

“What quantity does the symbol ‘5’ in the decimal number ‘582’ represent?”

Then the answer is unambiguously ‘five hundreds’.
Didn't get the joke I guess?
Play!Framework 2 for Java is awesome in this matter. You write public members, but at compilation it transforms them into private members with getters and setters (if not final). It means if you write the setter, it overrides the default one.
Haha what about the legal mess around cloning... seems like that would be a tad more expensive process than getting a licence to build a bridge...
Well... in fairness to this product, it's licensed with an MIT license, so in theory you can plug in whatever danged infrastructure you want.

Seems disingenuous to say "not really" to the open source question when it has such a liberal license. Fork it to use whatever you want.
Again: When you bundle it as a unwanted drive-by install and steal users' data, it's hard to not call something spyware.
UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements
Some good replies to my question here, thanks.
>I think the answer is that everyone is scared to confront them.

Yep. They're winning because people are too afraid to confront them. And people are too afraid to confront them because this is what happens when you confront them...

At Work: They complained to HR that you sexually harass them. You get fired.

As an Administrator at Universities, Schools: They accused you of being racist, and you get fired.

As a Student at Campus: They and their 100 mob of students surround you. They are clearly angry. 100 people. Surrounded you. Angry. Anything goes. You will obviously have to apologize for having a different view than them, if you want to get out of there in one piece.

Online: They accuse you of doxxing them. The mods bans you.

And so on and so on...
Note how you completely avoided addressing my point.

>...stay skeptical...

Well, no, skepticism is withholding judgement pending evidence. You judged them and found them guilty without waiting for evidence. That's cynicism.
True. I've seen multiple teams putting a lot of effort into removing Lombok from their codebases after all the trouble it caused.
This is intriguing.

Is there a list somewhere that shows the cheapest possible place to get raspberry hardware modules.

Also, where do you guys buy your modules? You can include Arduino stuff.
Sorry friend. Your experience is wrong. We don't tolerate different opinions here.

Besides, you just haven't seen public transportation done right. You know. Like communism.
>'steal users data'

Please. Aren't we all tired of this?
> In 2014, that deal accounted for most of the nonprofit organization's $330 million in revenue, according to financial results just now released for that year

Wow, that's a lot of cash. What are the top expenditures of Mozilla?
Lombok does the same ;)
Sold out at Adafruit which is really the only place to buy it in the US. Life is sad right now...
It would be nice if there was an interface to solder on one of these dirt cheap wifi modules. SPI?
This was a very insightful read.
A logical omission. Something so small is likely to be mobile anyway.
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Ok weird, as a scala programmer these aren't the main pain points when I go to a less powerful language. I miss monadic comprehension, implicit parameters/higher kinded types (for type classes) and inference the most.
A look @ the young startup that calls itself “THE WORLD'S MEANEST SEARCH ENGINE”
USB?
Free Raspberry Pi Zero with the magazine, wow!

"Zero" is a great model name, since the price is negligible (approximately equal to 0 for most purposes).
I just use eBay for Arduino stuff. It's a bit more expensive than AliExpress but I suppose I get a bit more buyer protection.

This screen* is pretty cheap, right? I'm currently using one (on an Arduino, different seller) and it works great.

* http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-204-20x4-Character-LCD-Displa...
Wrong side of the tty in my opinion. Everything that is done by tty should be done by the terminal, except generating signals from keyboard input (because that needs to happen on the same machine as the controlling process).

Only reason its in the kernel is that you couldn't patch a VT-100. Virtual terminals are a lot easier to extend than a web browser, and yet they haven't seen a widely adopted extension in more than 20 years.

Working on it. :-)
I don't think "Microsoft", "90's" and "victim" really go well together unless you're talking about Netscape as the victim.
He has the right to no like gay people. Just like you have to right to not like [insert whatever it is that you don't like]

As long as he don't act out on it, and go around killing gay people or something.

Just like you have the right to not like George Bush, or football jocks, or goths, or whatever. Nothing wrong with that. As long as you don't try to assassinate George Bush, you have the right to not like him.

I mean, sure, not liking gays make him a homophobic, but as long as he don't continuously go around calling all gays "Faggot" to their faces, harassing them, threatening them, etc.
That's great.

Personally, one of the downsides of the original RPi (and RPi 2 as well), was it's , believe it or not, size.

Sometimes I wanted to have some portable embedded projects, for which small micro-controller would not be enough, but RPi, was 10 times bigger.

But it's just my personal nitpick, overall RPi devices, community and it's ecosystem is just great.
Thanks. updatePath is actually something I've been missing so that's great.
Really cool.

Why is it called 8-bit music?
I generally use python when manipulating lists, and C++ for floating point oriented tasks.
Agreed. I use(d) Namecheap because of their Just-Working(tm) interface. Everything was simple, fast and easy to be found. That changed. That changed heavily.
In fact, it's really easy to generalize like that.
I'd like to get into this world. At this point I don't have enough experience or knowledge to know what kinds of things I can do with this thing. Or what kinds of things this is more appropriate for compared to a Raspberry Pi 2, or vice versa. Any pointers?

Could I make some kind of driver/controller for a small synchronized christmas light show with this? Or some kind of toy with lights and sounds for my toddlers?
Enforcement of fun and tolerant atmosphere at the office, obviously.
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There are serial-to-wifi modules for the Arduino; surely one of them would work on the RPi header, though you might need some new software to forward the network packets to it.
In areas where people want to get off at many exits, a network of surface arterial streets has better commute-time throughput than a highway.

Highways are great for long-distance trips to sprawling suburban destinations. They don’t really mix well with dense cities though. Highways have high speed but low capacity relative to the amount of space they take overall, in comparison to surface streets. When they reach a certain traffic density, highways get blocked up, even if you add a lot of exits.

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/07/is-induced-demand-re...

(I think that blog may have better posts on this topic, but that’s the one I could find in a quick search.)
Somewhat disappointing that in Australia RPi Zero costs AU$19.38 (plus AU$12.95 shipping). Quite a lot more than US$5 (=AU$6.93).
I was incorrect. It does support other mounted filesystems, just not multiple root trees. As you suspected, `updatedb.conf` had /media in PRUNEPATH.
If you download and install App A because you want App A, but unasked App B also gets installed as a paid-for drive-by installation which sets itself as your new default browser, which upon first launch (because its now default) imports all your data, history, bookmarks and passwords from your actual preferred browser and then proceeds to send all this data to App B's vendor without making it clear to you what just happened...

How is that not stealing? How is that different from what we usually call spyware?

There is nothing legitimate about how Chrome has hijacked a multitude of users' PCs and their data. There's no way to defend this behaviour.
Ethernet is handled by an extra chip that also provides the USB hub function. This is wired up like the model A(+) which also doesn't have Ethernet.
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I'd say bullshit. Most terrorists come from religious minorities/immigrants that usually study engineering as it's more accessible than humanities/arts etc. due to language and/or cultural barrier. That's all.
I write performance critical software for a living (industrial image recognition) and I often try to squeeze the last few percent out of an algorithm. But even in my case the by far largest part of code I write is not performance relevant at all. And there I prefer terseness and readability over performance. Yes, there can be some cases where I have to switch to a more efficient version later, because profiling shows a bottleneck where I did not expect one to be. But in my experience this has never been too big of a problem to sacrifice readability from the beginning in all places.
All sold out!

Wanted the MagPI Magazine with a free RPi Zero but its sold out!
There's more likely thinking: "why sponsor a competing browser when we have Chrome nagging everyone to sign into Google"
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Yes and yes. Obviously, you will need a bit more hardware than only a Raspberry Pi.

The simplest one I found is here: http://opensource.com/life/15/2/music-light-show-with-raspbe...

And there's plenty of other results on 'raspberry christmas lights'.
And still a human seems to know how to deal with a 0% trustworthy human better on the road. We are still busy making self-driving cars follow the rules, but much of the driving is to predict how other people bend them...
$19.29 over here in SGD :<

wished it had wifi tho
Yeah, it is a little bit different. AFAIK "Tabs from other devices" shows only tabs that are currently open.
Send tab to browser is more like "ah this seems cool, I'll read it on my desktop later > send to device > close tab in current browser".
Now when Firefox on the second device syncs it will automatically open a new tab with the URL you wanted to read.
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If you're a CEO and you're purposely creating a toxic work environment by continuously saying racist things to your workers, then obviously, you deserve to get fired.

But hell no you should not deserve to get fired for donating to the Republican Party. You have the right to donate to whichever LEGAL organization you want.
As a data point there has been at least one proposal to reduce on/off ramps on I-95 in Connecticut to help with traffic congestion.
I wonder how patenting a specific implementation of an already-known thing is allowed. Why is this considered an original invention?

Among other things, it violates the intent of patents "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
I don't see anything about Ethernet/Wi-Fi. Am I missing something?

I understand they had to cut some features to reduce the prize. But networking is such a fundamental requirement for these types of systems, you'd think that it would be the last feature to be excluded.
This seems like an important moment for humans and computers. The cable to connect the computer now costs more than a 1GHZ computer.

It feels a lot like a tipping point for something.

http://makezine.com/2015/11/25/raspberry-pi-announces-5-comp...
Note that that is a negative log, and so isn't saying the person was slowed down (which you may or may not have thought, but just verifying).

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0so/kG3B...
That does sound like a terrible public transport system, good bus transport does exist though; at least in the UK - we also have bad ones in rural areas.
If you're familiar with the JVM's "escape analysis" then it is at least possible to write allocation-free code. But keeping a mental model of the JIT's optimizer in your head does not make for fun or easy programming. It's so much nicer to work with value types such as those found in C#.
Yeah, thanks for spotting that - that should be a link to the Get Started tutorial.

Basically I was experimenting with funding models and Popmotion Pro was a commercial licence that I tried a subscription model for, and a flat rate for. Neither was picking up any traction so I'm still tinkering. It'll always be free for at least personal and non-profit use but I do need to figure out some kind of funding model.
As a whole, anthropologists and archaeologists are more motivated by cultural movements than "a young blood wanting to get away for a while". Single people don't leave much to the archaeological record.
There's a USB port.
Yep - I strongly believe that people in charge of these systems should have to use them to get to work.

Especially people running the trains in the UK.
I don't see how getting an administrator, who support a women's right to freedom of speech, freedom of expression (the ability to wear a nurse outfit for Halloween, the ability to wear a Native American outfit for Halloween, since she loves Native Americans). I don't see how getting an administrator, who support a women's right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression, fired is going to help women become less oppressed.
"Now it takes very long time to find functions, it took me about an hour to change nameservers on my domain ..."

Me too.

I'm moving my domains off Namecheap. Who hired the idiot that made this decision?
Universal? I don't think "metro" sees use in the US for any mass-transit related purpose, and I'd be surprised to see it used for buses anywhere.
My solution is to pop the spring out of a pen, and wrap the spring around the end of the cable. It achieves the same thing: adds support while still being flexible.
To what degree are the power requirements on their faq still valid for the pi zero ? https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/faqs/#power

The question I really want to ask is, how long will a 1.2A supply last with nothing else attached to it ?
The article covers this possibility, and argues that the evidence shows this isn't the case.

(I am not stating my opinion, only pointing out what the article says - and wondering whether you actually read it)
This is seriously impressive.

While the Raspberry Pi is not the perfect hacker-friendly computer, it has done a lot of good. Some reasons off the top of my head:

1. Providing a low cost computer has given many people access to computers. Giving more people access to the web, email, an office suit, a programming environment AND giving people the ability of safely tinker without the fear of bricking an expensive device.

2. Introduced many different types of people to the FOSS landscape of powerful tools (e.g. distros such as Debian, tools such as Python).

3. The Raspberry Pi foundation has paid developers to write/optimise FOSS (e.g. paid Collabora to optimise WebkitGTK+ -- I think some Wayland work was also done).

4. Built on top of existing FOSS tools (e.g. building Raspbian on top of Debian), instead of doing everything on their own in a proprietary fashion. This has no doubt also helped to introduce new people into these communities.

This is a really good counter-point to all the "locked down" (hacker unfriendly) devices like smart phones and tablets.
The chinese don't worry too much about pinyin. Arguably the "correct" orthography would be 西安.

How do you feel about 陕西?
The networking on the other Pis is attached via USB. It's a very easy and obvious thing to drop.
The bitbuf is primarily an ATmega88, an 8-bit microcontroller (see his earlier project, the Chipophone[1]). He is also alluding to the 8-bit "chiptune" style of music from the C64/NES era.

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/index.php
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