Hey, any chance your hardware developer friend could spare a few minutes to talk about his/her work? I'm a freelance hardware+software developer and there's not many of us out there it seems. It would be great to get some feedback on some long-term business goals. You can reach me at contact5m4t@peakdata.io Thanks!

I'm one too, and I lurk on several subreddits these days.

OT, but are you from Jarnac? A good friend of mine lives in Tilloux

No, my handle comes from a famous duel. A case of judicial combat that undermined the French crown.

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I just ordered my book. Here's a 37% off discount code: fccpicheta courtesey of /r/nim and /u/psychotic_primes

Thanks, that convinced me to pull the trigger.

HP 32SII scientific calculator. I had one in high school (not sure what happened to it), recently picked one up on ebay and haven't regretted it!

I'd suggest the HP-16c programmer's calculator. It was small, programmable, and did calculations and conversions in hex, octal, decimal, and binary. At the time I bought one, the early 80's, I was doing embedded programming in assembler the thing was a life saver. And what's cool is that I still have it and it still works.

I've recently started using Syncthing to synchronize files between different machines. I'm super impressed at the quality of the application, its stability, and the documentation. Syncthing is written in go and open source. https://syncthing.net/

This article was linked on HN last fall I believe: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-... Basically the airlines are outsourcing maintenance to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China. The FAA has very little capacity for providing the same level of oversight previously conducted in US-based maintenance facilities. Scary.

Yikes. Horrifying stuff. If you've ever read the book "Poorly Made in China" it's kind of frightening to imagine the same techniques being applied to airplane maintenance.

wow, with all due respect, to me this vision of the future sounds horrifying. My refrigerator on Facebook? No thank you.

To you, it sounds horrifying. To your children, or grandchildren, though, It will be completely normal.

Things can be completely normal and still horrifying. No matter what section of the status quo you bring up, there will be someone who despises it.

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Embedded systems programmer here. I'm learning Elixir and am very excited about the nerves project: http://nerves-project.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpzQrFC55q4 Edit: There also seems to be a good Elixir/Erlang community here in Berlin Germany where I live at the moment.

Do you have some link or contacts in/to this community? I am in process to develop a quite interesting application on Erlang and I am struggling to find a community (in Germany) where I can either ask questions or have a pool of possible people to hire.

Hi, I'm quite new to the community myself, so I don't have any established contacts to share at the moment. I recommend checking here: http://www.meetup.com/Elixir-Berlin/ This company also has an office in Berlin now: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/contact.html

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