Yes, this is totally a problem. Also people writing their pin on their card...

Exactly.

To join a startup, you need to know several things you need to know in addition to the usual job stuff - how much finding does the company have (i.e., how long will it last, who is backing it, etc), will I get equity, and how much (usually in exchange for a lower salary because the funding isn't infinite), and how the team is structured.

Don't join a startup that wants you to earn less than elsewhere if they are looking at getting fun rooms, nice desks, top notch offices, etc. Join a startup that can offer you other benefits that other companies can't - working from home (save on commuting costs and time), better/flexible work hours, and so on.

The startup should offer a sizeable portion of the company as equity amongst the team. I don't know what the going rates are, but if n% of the company was given to the initial team then you would be wanting to look at n/10% for a senior dev, n/30% for a junior dev. This would drop as time passes (hires become less 'foundery' - so don't join a startup that's past the initial equity handouts unless they give even more away (and this is worrying in itself). If it's old enough to get more funding, it's not a startup and you should expect standard job benefits.

And, of course, the whole point of equity is to make a real gesture regarding the company being "your startup", beyond words. The vision is important and needs to be sold, but it means nothing without actions. Sadly I think this guy wants the benefits, and the long hours, and the low wages, without any such actions.

Found this...

http://makezine.com/2015/02/02...

And even if not, hopefully the faster and quad-core CPU will be able to respond in a more timely manner?
As they would have had to do a new layout for the SoC, I hope it was another aspect that was fixed in the redesign.

The ARM Cortex A7's in the new Pi have Neon.

But yes, ARMv8 is a significant clean up on old ARM cruft (usually exposing too much of the underlying hardware in the ISA, or design decisions that in the long term weren't as useful as they seemed at the time (like a 4-bit predication field in the ISA)).

It's just that there aren't any $5 ARMv8 SoCs available right now. I'm sure in a year or two they will appear with the A53. Right now, 4 A7s is a massive step up.

What happened to VC5?

Yeah, I was expecting either the Model C, or the Master myself.

I hope that means the Master is still to come. Probably in 2017 as rumoured before. This is more of a "pin compatible SoC upgrade" path.

I doubt it fixes the USB issues, although maybe the additional CPU resources will improve overall USB2 performance to meet the theoretical capability.

I think other boards are better for NAS usage.

Most ARM SoCs advertising high clock speeds are actually advertising max turbo speeds - just because that TV stick is saying it's running at 2GHz doesn't mean it gets there often.

Turbo is a great thing, but it's not for long workloads, it's for "race to sleep" workloads.

This is a $5 SoC, so you've got to expect some reduction in specifications given the rest of the board, and the large amount of support for the ecosystem.

People have said this new Pi is overclockable to 1100MHz too, more seems likely (very early days).

The A20 has half the A7 cores that this new Pi has.

The good thing is that this new Pi will force all the competitors to bump their specs a little where they are weaker. Maybe the next Cubieboard will use an A80.

But having a board where everything just works and is well supported is well worth it when your free time is valuable.

Broadcom have released the register level specs of the VideoCore IV, and an open (ARM space) driver is being worked on.

But tbh the VideoCore IV was designed from the ground up for embedded firmware use like this, it's a full CPU as well as a GPU, and it takes load off of the CPU. However now there are four cores it's less of an issue, and of course it makes the GPU very upgradeable.

Quad-A7 isn't too bad for $35 in my opinion. But the 12 GFLOPS GPU isn't very exciting (I was hoping that the RPi upgrade would also upgrade this aspect).

I suspect that Broadcom have given up on VideoCore development in the face of the competition, and will be licensing GPUs in the future from ARM/Img, etcc.

If you read the article's comments, The Register broke the NDA by releasing the article before the announcement.

As a result they got all the facts wrong, and made you look bad.

Btw, the Neon support in this chip makes it 20x faster at code that makes use of it (multithreaded video processing, for example), which is a nice boost.

I was hoping for native SATA or USB3 or a faster GPU, but it's $35 and the most supported ARM board on the planet...

It's the same in the UK, except chip and pin is the default and has been for around eight? ten? years already. I don't know if the magstripe is really used anymore either.

It's quaint seeing a foreigner (American) try to pay for goods with a card, and have to go through special procedures for the signature style payment.

Yeah, but the process of reducing "body frequency" is rather terminal - however ghosts can indeed walk through walls. Interacting with physical matter is a problem though - poltergeists must be able to change their frequency on demand.

Indeed it is quite a shame that they didn't take the opportunity to show off these capabilities with these very boxy buildings!

However ultimately buildings are going to have straight edges and not many curves, so a capability for curved structures may not be as useful as it first sounds. On the other hand I'm not an architect full of curved wall ideas thwarted by straight wall building practices...

But half the cost and half the time (and not using loads of wood) is certainly useful.