RodgerTheGreat

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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Calling this a computer is rather misleading- it's really a 4-bit adder.
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
There's a pretty serious difference between arguing for reduced abstraction in software (which can be quite reasonable, and is probably more like what the author actually envisions) and arguing for no abstraction in software. The latter c
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
This is ridiculous. Even if you handwave away security concerns of running arbitrary native code fetched from the web as the operating system's problem, you have locked yourself into a single hardware architecture with (presumably) a single
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
There's no reason you can't combine these approaches. Using larger ground-based equipment to move girders and small, flying machines to do things like interior finishing makes a lot of sense.
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Love is a neat game. Steenberg's toolchain for building the game, on the other hand, is incredible: http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/tool_video.html
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Or, from a more jaded perspective, he still wants to be viewed as a "hacker who hasn't sold his soul".
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
If you can only see a computer as a more sophisticated sort of typewriter, this kind of flat dismissal isn't all that surprising.
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
After a brief skim, it reminds me of Processing. ( http://www.processing.org )
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
At some point in your programming career, you should learn an ALGOL-descendant (C, C++, C#, Java, etc), a Lisp-descendant (CL, Scheme, etc), A Prolog-descendant (Prolog itself, maybe SQL as a programming language), A Forth (better yet, read
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
If that was the goal, wouldn't you want to reserve 0x00 as a HALT or some sort of interrupt-firing instruction?
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
If it takes an hour to copy a terabyte of data to a tape, put it in a car, drive to a location and read the tape, you just transported 8796093022208 bits in 3600 seconds, or about 2443359173 bits/second. edit: I always understood the quote
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Physical limits are a major component of latency. Until we figure out a way to transmit information instantly with infinite bandwidth, local storage will always be a significant factor. edit: And given trends in solid-state drives, local st
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
What if you've got a few dozen local variables? Do you want to pass them all as parameters, for every single logical block in your algorithm? I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's interesting to note that in a stack-oriented la
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
My experiences with Blackboard paint a far less flattering picture. An "intuitive" interface is entirely subjective, but I've hardly ever tried to do something new without wandering through confusing, cryptic and downright hidden menus fo
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
This article fails to make a convincing argument for how the Playbook will fare any better than the dozens of "me too" Android tablets already on the market. Why do enterprise customers need tablet devices? What is the advantage to a tablet
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Macintosh programs have always been called "Applications", and "App" is a natural slang contraction of "Application". I'd say we're overthinking this, folks.
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Might be able to peel out the BCD stuff from the 6502 to free up a little additional space and approach communication between cores kinda like the "handshake bus" GreenArrays chips use: http://greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Precisely. Traffic is not caused by human error, Traffic is made worse by the margins of safety required by human error. Take human reflexes and perception out of the equation and you don't eliminate the problem entirely, but you allow for
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
This reminds me a bit of generating constants in BF: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck_constants
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An Introduction to Signal Processing and FFT(fftguru.com)
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
If your goal is doing something practical with the machine, Python is certainly a better choice than BASIC. On the other hand, from an educational standpoint, BASIC shares an important trait with Pascal: It doesn't do much out of the box. I
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Lisp and ML (as in Haskell) are dark magic from the early days of computing that are continually rediscovered. Currently they form an undercurrent, not just of language features but programming philosophy, that is shaping the new and emergi
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
On the other hand, if we could get ahold of a human with a perfect memory, we could easily establish (at least on the basis of orders of magnitude) how much concious-level information can be stored in the brain. This could grant tremendous
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but I feel a little knee-jerk at posts that try to relate anything and everything back to startups. Startups are a recurring theme here and some people are very passionate about them, but it really gets old after
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
I'm not really sure how Python's enforced indentation has anything to do with this. Java does not enforce an indentation style at compile time, but has a very well-established set of coding guidelines originally laid out by Sun that most co
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
This deserves more mention. My initial reaction was something along the lines of "oh, ho-hum, they've figured out how to convert Flash animation into equivalent canvas effects without running an entire flash VM in javascript", but that demo
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
java.util.Random ( http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Rando... )
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
I think this article is a little off-base. Having money and a less than dire need to survive does not automatically stifle innovation. Microsoft has an enormous amount of management overhead and process that grinds brilliant engineers and t
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
It's worth considering that you had to type those BASIC programs yourself. Even if you didn't understand it, you had to look at every line. Compare that to Ctrl-A-Ctrl-C-Ctrl-V.
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by RodgerTheGreat 16y ago
Maybe you could get away with describing it as a "calculator"?

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