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Title seems like a blatant rip-off of the classic article.
by rsc 12y ago
Title seems like a blatant rip-off of the classic article.
- haberman 12y agoHmm, it certainly wasn't my intent to be a rip-off. The "What every computer programmer should know about X" seems to be a somewhat established genre, sort of like "X considered harmful": What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory: http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 While it's true that an article about floating-point already exists, it does seem more aimed at Computer Scientists than Computer Programmers (as the difference in title would indicate). And I link to the existing article in the second paragraph and explain the distinction. But if it's confusing or seen as disrespectful to the original work, I will consider changing the title.
- dang 12y agoI don't think you need to change the title. It seems obviously an homage to the original, and your second paragraph makes clear why you picked it.
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- unwind 12y agoPlease consider changing the title, however subtly. I didn't even realize this was new content, so I didn't click the link. I reference the original pretty frequently (it's a standard answer component for floating point-related questions on Stack Overflow), and thought this was confusing as an addition/alternative to that. I'm sure (still haven't read it!) it's very good with a new article aimed more for programmers, just consider making it somehow more clear that it's a different work. Thanks.
- brazzy 12y agoWell, here's my 5 year old attempt to do exactly the same thing: http://floating-point-gui.de http://floating-point-gui.de
- edwintorok 12y agothere's a colon missing in your URL and its not clickable.
- rurban 12y agoI prefer your version by far over the overly verbose and overly simple new haberman guide. Knuth and Goldberg made fantastic and precise overviews, and there is a need to terse it down for programmers, but not too much, down to ground school level.