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grandalf
·10 年前·議論
I'm not sure. I resorted to buying a copy of Windows 10 to use with certain software and utilities that seem primarily supported on Windows.

The windows software seems to be under active development and I was able to skype chat with one of the engineers before I bought it to ask a few questions.
grandalf
·10 年前·議論
The UX is pretty good. The utilities seem to have originally been created for the Chinese speaking market but there are English language versions of the software that are very easy to use.

Good idea about mapping some knobs to the UI.

I've used it to measure harmonics when testing some low pass filters, and the readings match some other gear I own.
grandalf
·10 年前·議論
There's a lot of nitpicking about the details going on in this thread, and it's very interesting to read.

But I think the gist of the post is that the hardware cost of a high end ultrasound unit is rapidly decreasing due to advances in ADC technology and the general trend of moving more and more functionality into DSP that used to require specialized analog circuitry.

For example, I recently bought a 20MHz spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope with built-in tracking generator for $145. Gear of similar quality would have cost tens of thousands of dollars just a decade ago.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018XD6Z5O/ref=oh_aui_sear...
grandalf
·10 年前·議論
@dang thanks to YC for making this happen! I read HN for the comments and this AMA showed why HN has the best comments on the internet.
grandalf
·10 年前·議論
If you feel like elaborating on this comment, I'd be most curious to read more detail.
grandalf
·11 年前·議論
There is some great advice in this thread. One thing that I've learned is that different organizations have very different cultures and ways of viewing technology (and thus technology leadership).

Some are more deadline oriented, some are more bug/problem oriented, and some are more product oriented, and others care a lot about the price per head of engineers and would prefer to outsource everything to the third world if they could ever manage it. A small number of companies care about open source contribution, attracting top talent, and innovating.

So whoever is hiring you probably has a very clear idea of what they want from the tech lead, so considering that the goals can be very different, you might want to ask this question. In my opinion, it won't seem like a naive question to ask because there are so many facets to people and technology leadership.
grandalf
·14 年前·議論
I started with BASIC at age 8 and then 6502 assembler around age 10. Sadly I failed to optimize those years of ample spare time, but I did come away from it with a sincere love of code.