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I wonder what pg has to say about this situation. His post on the topic of H-1B workers created a huge discussion, I'm surprised that more comments haven't been posted here.

Hopefully his career will continue and he comes up with a new breakthrough battery.

A little more info about the bankruptcy filing here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/radioshack-files-for-bankruptcy-...

Sounds great! Question I have is, are these services only available to yc companies? What about startups that are not a part of yc?

"Does this not outrage you?"

It does not outrage me. I'm more outraged, well maybe not outraged but concerned, by your strange and desperate claims of Ulbrict's innocence.

Afghanistan is also a fairly heavily Islamic state, but it has quite a history of drug production and distribution.

Nice. Glad to see more info out there for people to see and use. Backblaze has done a great service for everyone including the hard disk industry.

Probably places like Somalia and other countries where there is no functioning civil government.

"how do you feel about the government neglecting to charge him with those crimes?"

I understand that the government will try Ulbricht for those crimes. How do you feel about being informed of the facts?

"He didn't violate anyone's rights, defraud anyone, or engage anyone with violence. Who is the victim?"

All of the correspondence about murdering people doesn't look innocent to me.

And gets sued by the patent holders of the DNA code!

Which brings the question of: How does Amazon get away with not showing immediate and growing profits while other companies claim they need to do so.

It would be nice to hear from honest IBM managers, who are doing the firing and downgrading of employees, what is really going on. Though I'm pretty sure most people know what the score is.

I had no idea that Amazon shareholders were patiently waiting for future profits.

Now I'm feeling inadequate. Growing up in an intel dominated world, you couldn't touch a Sparc or MIPS machine if you were a mere mortal. Everything accessible to me was on windows, and the hard to load versions of *BSD or linux. Nowadays, we're beginning to get access to ARM machines like the Raspberry Pi, or 8 bit things like PICs or Atmels.

Funny thing is, high cost compilers are suddenly becoming free such as Windows with their VS stuff. While gcc has been the gold standard, because it's been free, newer technologies such as LLVM are also beginning to thrive in the free and open source world. Amazing times we live in!

This is one way for Microsoft to get into the IoT game. It'll be interesting to see if their ARM port is useable on the new Raspberry Pi.

Nice update, and still at the $35 price point. Too bad it's still ARMv6. It would be nice to have ARMv7 which is where all of the high performance stuff is.

Edit. I take that back, it will be ARMv7 arch. Other articles state that the new Broadcom SOC will be using A7s. That makes it huge for this price point.

I picked up a lot of printers for free that were orphaned from windows vista, 7, and now windows 8. They worked fine under linux, without any monkeying around. Free printers due to windows updates. Great stuff!

This is brilliant. Love your description of the different platforms. I really don't think today's Ubuntu desktop is any worse than Windows. In fact, the Unity desktop is much easier to use than windows 8, which is thankfully going away.

I haven't tried cygwin in quite a few years, but I hear that it's improved a lot. Still a large installation though, but very useful if you must use windows.

LOL, that's what they needed at my last company.

When I saw the headline, I thought, "Oh no, I hope they didn't implement the MS Ribbon?" Thankfully they didn't. That MS bug still trips me up whenever I fire up Word. Looks ok, I don't really notice much, mainly because I hardly use it or Word.

Sounds excellent. I need it today.

This is huge. There are so many approaches to cross platform mobile development, yet none of them really make it easy to integrate a full stack web platform. This is one step closer.

Interestingly, a lot of the parts discussed are still in wide use today. Much of the concepts are necessary for understanding circuits and how they work.

I loved that book. Glad to see an update. It has much practical advice that you don't get in the classroom.

I wish Google Fiber would come to SF. I understand they're doing something like that in the southbay though.

If MS threatens something like that, you'll probably see a large scale migration to desktop linux.

Maybe, but it wouldn't take much to improve on Windows 8.

Strange, but most people I know really can't stand windows 8(.1). Some have been beaten into submission by being forced to use it, but if anything, they'd prefer to go back to windows 7 or xp.

I may be a linux user, but that's only because windows sucks so bad. Lots of people will tell me that it's really my fault that windows is behaving badly on my machine. But when I explain to them that I don't have the same problems using linux on the very same machine as windows, they can understand my point.