I haven’t had this much fun programming in a long, long time – since the exhilaration of the first project after college. The further in time we go, the more removed the programmers are from the hardware. Consider the number of abstractions, that a typical C# corporate developer works through. CPU/Registers Windows Kernel Windows Drivers Windows API .NET Wrapper for Windows API Probably some other home grown or 3rd party framework Finally code. That’s a lot of layers. If you think of a guy who writes firmware in assembly as a heart surgeon, then the C# coders are...
Recently I’ve been on a tear to scan my old paper photos before they turn into dust. My first attempt has been reasonably successful. I hired a lady to scan photos for me and at the end of the day, it came out to about $0.36 per photo. I paid the lady $10 per hour. The process was as follows: She would scan the 3 photos at a time into Photoshop in the configuration below. The important piece here is to leave space both between the photos and the edges of the scanner and...