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Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB |
Date: |
Mon, 7 May 2012 17:52:10 -0400 |
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Dave Taht <address@hidden>:
> When eric and I first started talking about this 11 months ago we
> stalled out for 9 months on some of the basic problems. Then he
> blogged... Going from concept to working hw in the under 60 days since
> is astounding.
In truth, I'm a little astounded myself. Maybe I really *am* Manfred Macx.
For the rest of you: Manfred Macx is a character in Charles Stross's
novel "Accelerando" who describes himself as a "venture
philanthropist" - wanders around seeding product concepts for free and
connecting people who need each other to make business ideas work.
Charlie once told me, after I voiced a suspicion, that Macx was not in
fact me but was designed as sort of a composite of several people he
knows, two of them being RMS and myself.
Novel here:
http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/accelerando.charles_stross/sisu_manifest.html
> We just arbitrarily picked 100 as a good number. More would be better,
> 2 would be a start.
And I took the scaling issue very seriously. It's why I zeroed in on
"Plain Jane" and mostly ignored all the clever DIY ideas.
> Several posters here seem to have the assumption that the
> hardware/OS/queues in play can't heisenbug the data, and I assure you,
> it can....
Yup. Anyone who's done OS-level work ought to have known that going in.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, (continued)
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Ed W, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Terje Mathisen, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Ed W, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Gary E. Miller, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Hal Murray, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Eric S. Raymond, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Dave Taht, 2012/05/07
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB,
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- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Hal Murray, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Eric S. Raymond, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Ed W, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Dave Taht, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Eric S. Raymond, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Ed W, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, tz, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Eric S. Raymond, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Ed W, 2012/05/08
- Re: [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB, Eric S. Raymond, 2012/05/08