Was a time when people actually had boards for bread, and kids swiped them to pound nails into, the which to solder wires from tube sockets and coils onto. No tubes, no coils, no bread, but still the same thing.
The holes to poke wires into are weirdly reminiscent of the tube sockets.
As many times as I've used breadboards, I wondered where the name came from. Thanks for sharing this! Wikipedia seems to agree and has a few example images.
Yup. That's why they're really called "solderless breadboards" although most people drop the "solderless" part.
When I was about 12 or so I had an electrical kit that used screws with caps to connect the wires and components. I don't remember what the substrate was, but it could very well have been wood.
A few years back, I re-wired the electrics in my guitar using a semi-complicated setup of a 6 way switch for pickups in-phase or out, and parallel or series, tone and volume pots, and distortion. There was also some choice to be made about what capacitors to use, and picking a diode for passive distortion.
After a first pass trying to just wire it directly, I ended up hot gluing a tiny breadboard into the compartment. That went much better and allowed me to swap candidate parts until it was right.
> For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow.
Not just Monica, this coincides pretty perfectly with multiple bad decisions made by the company. I don't understand how Spolsky can think he's going a good job.
As a long time Fog Creek customer, the game plan seems to be driving the customers to other services. They have other products in the new company portfolio, but we are moving to Atlassian. Between the products not having been updated in 5+ years, frequent service outages, and support requests not even being answered, we are done with FogCreek.
If anyone needs any tools for migrating from Fogbugz to Jira, I did our last QA load on Thursday, and finished the wiki to Confluence migration last night. :-)
Rich guy gets to hang around in Manhattan condo without a full time job. Sounds fun, where can I sign up?
I would suggest that this blog entry was posted out of idolatry rather than being posted for its insightful content. I don’t know what anyone’s supposed to get out of this.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 52.7 ms ] threadWas a time when people actually had boards for bread, and kids swiped them to pound nails into, the which to solder wires from tube sockets and coils onto. No tubes, no coils, no bread, but still the same thing.
The holes to poke wires into are weirdly reminiscent of the tube sockets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard
When I was about 12 or so I had an electrical kit that used screws with caps to connect the wires and components. I don't remember what the substrate was, but it could very well have been wood.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
Just "too permanent" for rapid prototyping / playing around?
The big problem is high speed signals.
After a first pass trying to just wire it directly, I ended up hot gluing a tiny breadboard into the compartment. That went much better and allowed me to swap candidate parts until it was right.
> For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow.
Not just Monica, this coincides pretty perfectly with multiple bad decisions made by the company. I don't understand how Spolsky can think he's going a good job.
If anyone needs any tools for migrating from Fogbugz to Jira, I did our last QA load on Thursday, and finished the wiki to Confluence migration last night. :-)
I would suggest that this blog entry was posted out of idolatry rather than being posted for its insightful content. I don’t know what anyone’s supposed to get out of this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturally_occurring_retireme...