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by c3d 3y ago
I specifically addressed some of these topics in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzo7GIoDgAo
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by c3d 3y ago
Author of the project here... Weird to see this generates such a discussion when the project is something like 20 years old, and has been quasi-dead for a while now ;-) An interesting derivative of XL is Tao3D, which shows what you can do w
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Old ideas for an OS from scratch [pdf](grenouillebouillie.files.wordpress.com)
2 points by c3d 3y ago|1 comments
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by c3d 3y ago
A document written for Martin Fink (HP CTO) on how to write an OS from scratch for The Machine, the memristor-based design that ultimately never was.
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Frequent Kernel Panics in macOS Catalina(grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com)
29 points by c3d 7y ago|0 comments
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by c3d 7y ago
I don't know if you are aware of that, but at the time Pascal started emerging, the exact same arguments were presented by foiks used to BASIC that having the ability to add your own "words" to the language would inevitably l
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by c3d 7y ago
I forgot to mention that XLR meant "XL Runtime" and was initially thought of as a back-end for XL2. Then it took a life of its own.
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by c3d 7y ago
I'm not too sure about the dates, but the rough history is this: LX: Langage expérimental (~1992) Ada like with "pragmas" extending the language LX: Langage extensible (1998): Rewrite with documented object-oriented parse tre
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by c3d 7y ago
To be honest, the real issue with LX / XL / Tao3D is that I never ever really "finished" any implementation. By the time things were working, I had new ideas and broke things again. So except for Tao3D, I never really de
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by c3d 7y ago
Well, a starting point would be this: https://github.com/c3d/xl/tree/master/doc . It's not finished, but it gives you a good idea. For Tao3D, you have https://tao3d.sf.net .
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by c3d 7y ago
Disclaimer: Author of the language / web page speaking. This one is hopelessly outdated. See https://github.com/c3d/xl for the current state of things. A bit of history of the language here: https://git
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by c3d 8y ago
I have some hopes that Red Hat has a strong-enough future value for IBM that we end up redefining IBM rather than the other way round. There are precedents, notably the Apple/NeXT merger. Today's Apple is 95% NeXT and 5% old Apple
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Is AI a better basis for a prime directive?(septheory.wordpress.com)
1 points by c3d 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Someone Else's Problem(septheory.wordpress.com)
1 points by c3d 8y ago|0 comments
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Apple Watch faces: still ugly after 3 years(grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com)
1 points by c3d 9y ago|1 comments
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Tbe Alsys Ada commenting style(grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com)
1 points by c3d 9y ago|0 comments
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Mill Computing talks about threading in their CPU(millcomputing.com)
2 points by c3d 9y ago|0 comments
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by c3d 9y ago
I remember reading about Taos in Byte and thinking this was brilliant. It later turned into something called Elate, which in turn morphed into a semi-boring JVM for small systems. I wish we had the source code of the original, though.
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Strange sun phenomenon recorded in Nigeria [video](m.lindaikejisblog.com)
2 points by c3d 9y ago|2 comments
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by c3d 9y ago
I recognize the Alan Kay I met at HP. Very sure of his own genius and quick to snarkily dismiss the genius of others. Case in point: The iPad and iPhone makes kids creative like no other tool has before. Kids know how to use it to text, exc
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by c3d 9y ago
Please quote a part of the Damore original memo where he explained women were inferior (except, maybe, in numbers as far as the computer science field is concerned)?
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by c3d 9y ago
I was confused too by the unnecessary triply inverted double non-negative on steroids.
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by c3d 9y ago
This article barely addresses what really causes trouble in practice, namely non-portable tools. Sed for example has different switches on macos and linux. MinGW is another world. Also check out https://github.com/c3d/b
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by c3d 9y ago
Isn't it depressing that the title says "an 80's computer" because even on HN too few people would know what a ZX Spectrum is? :-)
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by c3d 9y ago
Actually, the .app extension Das sometimes used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS
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by c3d 9y ago
Some things are a metter of taste. That guy prefers wasting space for trackpad buttons, I largely prefer the MacBook Pro larger trackpad with tactile feedback. I also prefer monochrome keyboards. And just yesterday, I was marvelling at the
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by c3d 9y ago
> God is all powerful, can He make a rock so big that He Himself can't lift it? Yes, the human heart for example
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Show HN: 'build', auto-configuration in 1000 line of makefile(github.com)
3 points by c3d 9y ago|0 comments
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Build: A very simple makefile-based build system(github.com)
3 points by c3d 10y ago|0 comments
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by c3d 10y ago
You only need to press alt if you want to change the OS to boot relative to last time. It's a convenient way to bring up a built-in graphical boot menu with Internet boot and system restore capabilities. And a nice Fedora logo on my ma

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