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My god, 1000+ pages. What a great submission though. I wonder what kind of things keep such people motivated to write one fuckin' thousand and eighty two pages

My god, 1000+ pages. What a great submission though. I wonder what kind of things keep such people motivated to write one fuckin' thousand and eighty two pages about assembly!? This is nuts.

ianai 8y ago
I don’t think it’s nuts to share such depth of knowledge. I greatly welcome the knowledge, too. I legitimately am wondering what sort of project I could take up that would be “small enough”, only do-able in asm/c, and interesting.
- K2h 8y ago
  wow - impressive. In the intro of the book, yes, its a book - there is a call for proof read (English and Russian) and translators, will accept work no matter how small and credit. now that's cool. when I get a few minutes between meetings i'm going to see if I can find anything to contribute and submit. I absolutely love the tone of the book! what a cool guy.
- jimbokun 8y ago
  Think "nuts" was used as an endearing compliment there. Like "insane" in the sense of "insanely good".
jimbokun 8y ago
"Chapter 1" is over 400 pages. :)
vram22 8y ago
A couple of points come to mind: 1. Assembly language needs more lines of code to achieve the same task than higher level languages, by its very nature. 2. What I call Pascal's Amendment :) - very loosely like claiming the Fifth Amendment (to the US Constitution): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_... https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_386732 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_386732 "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal As a writer, I can corroborate that. In fact, if he "had the time to make it shorter", it implies that he spent even more time to write those 1000+ pages than it would seem on first glance. Plus even more than for the same 1000+ pages if in a higher level language, since assembly is a lot more error-prone.

My god, 1000+ pages. What a great submission though. I wonder what kind of things keep such people motivated to write one fuckin' thousand and eighty two pages about assembly!? This is nuts.

ianai 8y ago

I don’t think it’s nuts to share such depth of knowledge. I greatly welcome the knowledge, too. I legitimately am wondering what sort of project I could take up that would be “small enough”, only do-able in asm/c, and interesting.

K2h 8y ago
wow - impressive. In the intro of the book, yes, its a book - there is a call for proof read (English and Russian) and translators, will accept work no matter how small and credit. now that's cool. when I get a few minutes between meetings i'm going to see if I can find anything to contribute and submit. I absolutely love the tone of the book! what a cool guy.
jimbokun 8y ago
Think "nuts" was used as an endearing compliment there. Like "insane" in the sense of "insanely good".

jimbokun 8y ago

"Chapter 1" is over 400 pages. :)

vram22 8y ago

A couple of points come to mind: 1. Assembly language needs more lines of code to achieve the same task than higher level languages, by its very nature. 2. What I call Pascal's Amendment :) - very loosely like claiming the Fifth Amendment (to the US Constitution): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_... https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_386732 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_386732 "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal As a writer, I can corroborate that. In fact, if he "had the time to make it shorter", it implies that he spent even more time to write those 1000+ pages than it would seem on first glance. Plus even more than for the same 1000+ pages if in a higher level language, since assembly is a lot more error-prone.