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I've found this library to be a great resource for getting implementations of a bunch of simple functions with no strings attached. PDCLib code has made it into

I've found this library to be a great resource for getting implementations of a bunch of simple functions with no strings attached. PDCLib code has made it into most of my toy kernels and the KnightOS libc.

shakna 10y ago
Fantastic work on KnightOS! It has been a constant source of teachers complaining to me at school, because students are hacking away building programs to do all their work for them. I couldn't be happier.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
  That's awesome! You wouldn't believe how much trouble I caused for my teachers in high school, especially the math teachers :)
  - vidarh 10y ago
    You're not a good student if you never cause trouble for your teachers. The problem is it takes a good teacher to distinguish between good trouble indicating an engaged student having fun with the material (e.g. a class mate of mine and I went through a phase of handing in homework in non-latin scripts; to our teachers great credit she tolerated Cyrillic, Etruskan and Sanskrit without the slightest complaint) and bad trouble.
    - shakna 10y ago
      My high school science teacher took it as I was bored, and gave me open-ended research questions to occupy me. e.g. Why is the sky blue during the day, and red at sunset? Though that's much easier to answer today, it taught me some great skills, and how to not be afraid of failure or rejection. I ended up having some great conversations with the professors at my local universities.
      - vidarh 10y ago
        Yes, I was similarly lucky for the most part that when I was "causing trouble" it tended to result in further challenges rather than complaints.
- dom0 10y ago
  > KnightOS That's awesome! Back when I had one of these calculators I wrote tons of TI-BASIC scripts, but never figured the Asm() out (didn't know how to look for the assembler manual or how to use that...). Pretty much the only other thing we had was some app similar to these old Nokia Java games, iirc called Mirage.

shakna 10y ago

Fantastic work on KnightOS! It has been a constant source of teachers complaining to me at school, because students are hacking away building programs to do all their work for them. I couldn't be happier.

Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
That's awesome! You wouldn't believe how much trouble I caused for my teachers in high school, especially the math teachers :)
- vidarh 10y ago
  You're not a good student if you never cause trouble for your teachers. The problem is it takes a good teacher to distinguish between good trouble indicating an engaged student having fun with the material (e.g. a class mate of mine and I went through a phase of handing in homework in non-latin scripts; to our teachers great credit she tolerated Cyrillic, Etruskan and Sanskrit without the slightest complaint) and bad trouble.
  - shakna 10y ago
    My high school science teacher took it as I was bored, and gave me open-ended research questions to occupy me. e.g. Why is the sky blue during the day, and red at sunset? Though that's much easier to answer today, it taught me some great skills, and how to not be afraid of failure or rejection. I ended up having some great conversations with the professors at my local universities.
    - vidarh 10y ago
      Yes, I was similarly lucky for the most part that when I was "causing trouble" it tended to result in further challenges rather than complaints.
dom0 10y ago
> KnightOS That's awesome! Back when I had one of these calculators I wrote tons of TI-BASIC scripts, but never figured the Asm() out (didn't know how to look for the assembler manual or how to use that...). Pretty much the only other thing we had was some app similar to these old Nokia Java games, iirc called Mirage.