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"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If you know the answer just post it
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you will proved tomorrow's clue? 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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if you like 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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mountebank = swindler
To horse - mount
electronic - e
riverside - bank
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Congratulations!
You are up tomorrow! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I had previously vowed to never use Python in protest of its use of significant whitespace.
However, I've been seduced by microprogramming projects using ESP8266 chips on which Micropython is a major player. LUA is my other option but comes with disadvantages.
I may have to learn one of them and the allure of micropython is WebREPL which leads me to believe I can create a little dynamic webserver on about $10 worth of components drawing modest usb power.
It's not so much the webserver part that's interesting but these devices are so cheap and easy to program against and wire things into you can automate most of your home with them if you're inclined. They're magic, and they all speak WiFi.
If I can run python on an $8 chip that I can slave an arduino mega 2560 to I will rule the world (or at least the gadgets in my home) for about $15. Woo!
This is fun.
Python tho. Seriously. Python.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Resist. Do not let yourself be drawn to the dark side.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Too late! Already a witch.
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Look out! The Witch has found a new passion! 
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I was actually into building simple circuits before I ever started programming. This combines the two, it's just I never really had a reason to do it before, but now with WiFi being so ... cheap and readily connectible to dumb 8 bit hardware how can i not be thrilled by this? The possibilities are endless. Most of them involve clever ways to use AI to harass my cats, but still.
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Careful that you don't alienate your familiar!
I have very little hardware sense, to the point where I'd relate to it in terms of how it would be done in software.
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When you're working with digital circuitry it's not all that different. I mean, there's some different ground rules, but it's all just logic. Logic circuits vs. lines of code.
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Logic circuits were OK, but I remember thinking of timeswitches in software terms.
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What? The witch isn't familiar?
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Significant whitespace always turned me off of it.
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That's about the only good thing about it, as a teaching language.
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If you've used it, how do you feel about LUA? I've never used it. I ask because that's my other main option.
It might be possible to get C code compiling to it, but I've only found hints that it can be done, i've not found anything on actually doing it.
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You've written interesting parsers and more, so a C compiler is just a baby step away! After all, it's just a toy language.
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C is actually kind of hard to parse because it's ambiguous without type information.
Still I'd much rather use something somebody made already. There is a C toolchain out there for this chip - it's just a matter of finding it.
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There is an LGPL'ed tiny C compiler out there with backends for x86 and x64. I recall a (much earlier) tiny C compiler in Byte magazine for 8- or 16- bit processors. Modifying one or the other shouldn't be too difficult for one of your talents.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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No, not touched LUA, not a Unix guy.
If you're dealing with hardware, you should be using a low level language, not a scripting language or virtual-machine language.
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It's funny because you'd think so, but with microcontrollers these days apparently it's not hard to find them out there running a version of python, lua or even javascript when they're not running the more traditional C variants. Hardware is cheap, and lower power chips can do a lot more than they used to.
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