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That CPU has one of the worst instruction sets ever: the mnemonics are even worse than intel, which was hereto considered the stupidest up until this point. That's an achievement. They will have to be hidden by compilers because they&#
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So what? What does that have to do with hardware?
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Why should anyone even bother using "Slack" when there is internet relay chat?
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"This board is cool." What exactly is cool about this board?
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"But if it takes a week and working around the quirks of one off the shelf takes an hour, and the resulting program meets the same requirements either way, it's the wrong engineering choice." (Un)fortunately, that's not
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Still no Solaris USB fixes after more than five years of busted / non-working USB pass-through. Good work, great job...
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If the new Supra isn't going to have a TOYOTA engine, what's the point? I might as well buy the BMW M320d station wagon with the most powerful diesel and manual transmission BMW produces and call it a day. Even if I bought an M3 w
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"One of the biggest reasons for this remains that Linux is cheaper than the alternatives." This is such a fallacy considering that RHEL support is exorbitantly expensive and notoriously poor, while SmartOS costs literally the pric
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You've missed my points. All of them. Sadness ensues.
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I had a semester of Java and AWT programming at the university. The professor was really good. My final project got a good grade. But after it was over, I knew I'd never touch Java again: any language where I needed to instantiate thre
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It's slow and bloated. For someone who grew up coding intros and cracking protections in machine code on C=64 and the Amiga, such bloat simply won't fly. It's an abomination. I hate wasting my life away waiting for slow softw
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While I agree with the author's reasons why Python sucks ass, he's wrong about Commodore but thinks that he isn't: "Where's Commodore today? It died out as users abandoned the platform." No. Commodore died beca
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I don't touch anything that runs on CLR or a JVM: waiting for the world to compile is unacceptable. For functional programming, I'll just continue learning ANSI common Lisp which compiles straight to machine code, thank you very m
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"Not all of us can afford to burn $12k." Getting an education is never burning money. I could have made the minimum payments of a couple of hundred dollars per month for the next ten years but I wanted to live free so I mercilessl
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"If I said that a company wants to get employees on the same page for company strategic goals and initiatives, would you think that utter BS?" I work at a very large multinational company. I worked at such companies for roughly tw
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It's not about startup times, just in time compiled code is slow in reality, and no contrived cases, of which there have been many, will change that. There is no profiling in just in time compilation. In order for a JVM to pull that of
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That might be your experience, but mine is exactly the opposite. Besides what you've written sounds like trying to self-justify why one didn't get a degree. We didn't just theorize: my entire advanced C programming class was
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"I feel like folks who are this elitist about a degree being mandatory (regardless of field) are trying to justify their crippling student debt :)" However, feelings aren't facts: I paid the remaining 12,000 USD of my student
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by Annatar 8y ago
And this is news... how?
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It's not the hardware, it's the firmware I'm worried about. This is why firmware shouldn't be considered "trade secret" so that it can always be open to patching and auditing.
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This description of a startup is exactly everything I ever think of when I hear or get offered "the next big opportunity": as an engineer, to me this would be the equivalent of going to a Gulag, 7000 days in Siberia. I cringed the
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Really, though, 99.995% of IT (in my experience at least) doesn't actually require a degree (obviously, since I'm doing it right this very moment without a degree and have been doing so for more than half a decade). It does requi
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That says more about how bad the curriculum is than about them. Still, anyone doing any serious programming has either had to or will need to write such an enqueuing scheduler at least once in their career, because such a solution is really
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Then it's high time to get one, otherwise those people have no business being in the IT industry.
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"Tickets, in the JIRA mindset, are taken on, focused on until complete, and then passed on, never to be seen again. They have a one-way lifecycle: specification; design; development; testing; release. Doesn’t that sound a little … um …
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Enqueuing tasks per resource is a very old concept in computer science; this is nothing new and anyone with a computer science degree should have come out of the university with having written such a task scheduler under their belt.
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Great work and accomplishment, but even better that you are giving Forth some much needed advertising boost: small, light and fast, it's ideal for embedded devices, which is why it has been used for running space ships and powering the
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Your guess is now twice wrong, and the website in question is webshit, not a simulator. It doesn't simulate anything. I've clearly demonstrated in my original post that there is no working system, and I even documented step-by-ste
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I've spent years working on computational fluid dynamics software which can simulate different things. You don't know what you're talking about, insinuating that this AmigaOS lookalike webshit is a simulator, but that's
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No, of course not: I've worked for so many years in finite element analysis / computational fluid dynamics industry, only for a "Hackernews" to tell me that I have no idea what a simulator is. O tempora, o mores...

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