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I remember TCP/IP maturing in the protocol wars of the 90s

Good times. But it didn't matter because ATM was the future. /s

Many of these came from companies who created the protocol solely to push products

Like 100Base-VG? That was a good laugh.

TCP/IP won out for general use because of its low cost of deployment and ongoing support compared to alternatives, and that point is lost on the modern engineer that’s just looking at this stuff as “paper problems”

Welcome to my world...


How do you think 'file-sockets' are implemented over a network?

They don’t have to use TCP. The point was to use sockets as the abstraction layer and use another inter-connect instead of TCP/IP. That way you’ve easily replaced TCP in the datacenter without major changes to many applications

Oh...your argument is replacing TCP is the easy part. Gotcha. Sure.

Speak for yourself. If 'HN' doesn't want to read it, that's what downvoting is for.

What makes Qualcomm somehow sacrosanct and immune from analysis or critique?


>What makes Qualcomm somehow sacrosanct and immune from analysis or critique?

None of what was written is new. And it is not Qualcomm is immune to analysis. It is the other way around. Any evidence that benefits ARM and harm Qualcomm in this case has been completely ignored on HN.


> Any evidence that benefits ARM and harm Qualcomm in this case has been completely ignored on HN.

This feels like beating around the bush.

Can you give examples or citations of “evidence that benefits ARM and harm[s] Qualcomm,” so that we on HN may avoid completely ignoring it? Otherwise it feels like we’re doomed to tilt at windmills in your view, but we have no way of knowing how to disabuse ourselves of notions you only vaguely gesture at.


Nifty. If you're going to really nail the side-project, go weird or go home. chef kiss

I think it's worth it. Much less SEO-driven crap; pages with actual info about a search term seem to be more prominent than pages trying to sell me something related to the search term. YMMV.

Which level are you using? The $5/mo? or one of the others?

I got the 'family' plan as my wife & kid were complaining about search sucking; they like it as well. I paid for a year and I'm about halfway through.

You must be new here. It's a law of nature around HN that whatever you post that you've done, there's some twit who will condescendingly lecture you on how you should have done it.

I'm not new here at all (this account was created in 2015). I know fairly well HN and its "idiosyncrasies" but I like to call them out from time to time.

Be the change you want to see in the world.


The one thing that has become a bit harder to find are lab and assembly workbenches.

I bought a 6' and 12' assembly benches, complete with overhead lights, when Hayes Micro went under 30 years ago or so. Paid less than us$200 for them. Still going strong in my shop.


I always thought BCPL would have been a great language for 80s era micros. Fortunately, we had Turbo Pascal.


But C was better because it incorporated byte addressing (BCPL was based on word addresses).


Except the contemporary C compilers were uniformly terrible.

When we back-of-the-envelope it, a 'working year' is 2080 hours. So more like 4 years of a full time job.


My best friend (son of a session musician) tells the joke "what's the difference between a session musician and a pepperoni pizza...the pizza can feed a family of 4".


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