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This article is about the NES expansion port though, so I'm a bit confused at why a Super Famicom peripheral is relevant? I agree the SatellaView is cool though...

It's intended to be a drop in replacement for the Terasic DE10-Nano, and it uses the same Cyclone V FPGA.

I love this! Great post.

Ah wow this is great! Very clear explanation. I particularly liked that there are fields that you couldn’t identify but you were still able to get the information you needed!

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I have been working through this book in rust, and I have to say, the book is a real joy. Extremely clear writing, very good pacing, and excellent explanations of technical topics.

If you're at all interested you should buy this.

I find the perspective of the SEO guy interesting, even if I find what he does kind of skeezy and annoying.

This movie is incredible. It's amazing how everyone making a game in this movie explicitly states that they feel like they are going to die or kill themselves.

  Interviewer (paraphrased): What if you don't finish your game?
  Phil Fish: I will kill myself, That's my incentive to finish it.

There's also a BBC story about this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16174972

I don't think Justin Frankel has worked for Winamp for some time. He's over at Cockos these days.

This seems pretty different from the Canadian asset requirement [1]. The Canadian asset requirement is meant to ensure that new (skilled worker) immigrants can support themselves (and it's on the order of $10 000. The immigrant keeps this money and can spend it however he likes.

Canada does have something similar to this visa though[2], but the investment is managed by the government.

1. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/funds.asp

2. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/investors/in...

Core Intuition (http://www.coreint.org/), is a really great podcast by two iOS/Mac developers (Daniel Jalkut of MarsEdit fame, and Manton Reece of tweetmarker). Daniel's shtick is that he's a punkass, but it's immediately apparent that both of them are pretty humble, and always trying to keep it positive. The most insightful part of the show they take questions from the audience and answer them.

I was hoping Build and Analyze would be more of the same, but the show took another direction.

In what sense is there less lock in with Brightbox than with EC2? I've run EC2 images on other IaaS clouds, and it's easy to pull an image out with ec2-download-bundle.

Do you think maybe you could explain why it isn't functional?

Diffeent platforms use different font rendering algorithms. I'll avoid saying that one is better than the other, but it's off putting to see one rendering alongside another on the same display. Apple got into trouble with this when they ported Safari to Windows, and used OS X font rendering on that platform.

What incentive is there to create great Playbook Native apps when you can just make 1 web app that "will work" in a "browser" for Playbook?

Developers who really care about the platform will create native apps, and ones who merely want Playbook users to be able to run their app will go with some cross platform thing. (The web, Android, etc).

I think so long as you're satisfied with your tool, you should just keep using it. If you "don't believe the hype", then doesn't just that mean that the benefits that people describe from their experience with vim/emacs/whatever aren't that important to you? If when people describe how they like being able to delete 10 lines with 10dd, or use '.' to repeat the last thing they did, and that doesn't sound interesting to you, then don't worry about it.

Personally, I love vim, and have been using it for years and years, and feel hobbled without it, but if you're satisfied with your tool, and don't long for something better, stick with it.

What are you talking about. What Macbook Air runs iOS?

Hmm. I've never used SciPy before but let's see if I can figure it out:

$ brew install python pip gfortran # Fortran's for scipy...

$ pip install numpy

$ pip install svn+http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk/#egg=scipy

If you don't want to use the SVN version of SciPy, you can just use:

$ pip install scipy

Homebrew and pip are the first things I've ever used that made me not miss apt on debian.

Yeah. It's just a Xen VM. I do this every month or so. You just have to make sure that you have a kernel and modules you can boot the image with on your local Xen host. This is pretty easy, you can do it with whatever package manager your distro comes with, or if you created the image on a local Xen machine, you probably already have this. (yum install kernel-xen works on rhel)

It's true that you can't really do this with a live VM, since the AMI on EC2 will be whatever you had on the image before you last booted it. But you can do a ec2-bundle-vol on your live image to create a new AMI, then do your ec2-download-bundle on your new AMI.

You're really not as "locked in" to EC2 as some people think. You can easily pull your images off there, and then install Nimbus or OpenStack or something and run a local cloud. That's what we do at my job.